Weekly journal-miner., 1911-05-10

WEEKLY JOURNAL-MINER,
 the prodigaI son, who left his father s j heunteOus board to feed on the husks
 that were thrown to the swine.
 Do not misunderstood me, madam,
 am not denying to woman the right
 to take part in community affairs out
 side her home. What I am contend
 ing Is. that woman s first, greatest and
 most aiienable right is the right to
 preside over a home. This right, like
 all other community privileges, carries
 with it a responsibility which is
 equally binding on her-the responsi-
 bility of devOting her first and best
 efforts to making that home a place
 of comfort and joy. Whatever time
 IS left she is at perfect liberty to de
 vote to outside interests of less i'm
 portance, provided they do not blunt
 those finer feminine sensibilities so
 necessary to true nome life: but she
 Is never at liberty to devote to these
 interests time or energy which her
 home needs
 The great crucial need of our times
 is not to purify our politics or to i'm l prove our business methods, import
 ant though these matters are. but it . is to strengthen and broaden the in
 huence of the home. In community welfare. as in other affairs of life, it
 k the proverbial ounce of prevention that iS of importance Our town. in 1 common with every other town in the country. needs more and better homes. ! It ;s in the quiet, unObstrusive intiu- ence for good wielded in the home, by the wives and mothers of our cOun- try. that this and every other com munity must principally depend for the real uplifting of the municipality. the state and the nation. The Mon ] day Club of Prescott should wield a mighty influence in our town towards fostering and extending the influence of nome life.
 Having considered somewhat in de- tail the foundation stone of eOmmu- nity welfare. let Us take a nasty glance at a very few of the pieces of complicated superstrueture which scores of generations have slowly builded on this foundation. In doing
 SO we shall refer specifically to these | Following the life history of the | individual. we find the boy. at the | age of six or seven years, coming un- i der the influence of the second form | of civil gOvernment-tne school. In general. our Prescott schools. both public and private, are of such marked excellence as tO merit only 1 the highest praise. The very thor
 ough and painstaking work of the off
 eers and teachers of st. JOseph's Acad- 1 emy and of the public schools of 1 Prescott places these institutions on . par with. if not on a higher plane. than schools of similar grade in any
 other town or state in America. There is only one particular in
 which our Prescott schools are not i so well equipped as those of some 1 of the large cities of the United . States. and that is in the matter of the systematic medical examinations of
 all pupils. at stated intervals.
 Tn Boston. New York and many
 other cities this systematic examina- ton and re-examinatiOn of school chil- dren every year of their school life ] is being carried on with marked sue . A
 system is kept showing the physical condition of the pupil from the time of entrance in the primary grade until he graduates or leaves school; and these cards give one a very cor rect picture of the growth and phy- sical development of the child from year tO year.
 Remember. there is wide differ ence between medical inspection of schools and medical examination of school children. The former is a very cursorv looking over of school chil- dren, school buildings and school surroundings for the purpose of de- tecting and isOlating communicable disease The latter. on the other hand. is a regular systematic exam ination of all school children at stated intervals. to detect. and when pOssi- ble remove. physica. defects which leave a child liable to contract con tagious disease. and otherwise render nm unfit to perform the best class Cf school work The one attempts to prevent disease by removing the soil for contagiOn. the other only to con trOl disease when it has developed. For instance, medical inspection Of schools would detect eases of scarlet fever attending the classes; while medical examination would detect
 diseased throats and endeavOr to have them cured and so render the child less liable to contract this dis: ease.
 It has been said "apart from the advantage to the community of To- eating its health problems. physical examination is due every child. No matter where his schooling or at wnose expense, every child has the right to advance as fast as his own powers will permit. without hind rance from his own or his play mates defects. He has the right to learn that simplifed breathing is more necessary than simplifed spell ing. that nose plus adenoids makes baekwardness, that a decayed tooth multiplied by ten gives malnutri =