The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-06

brighter the lives of others and to
prove by their example that education
properly applied. mean living the
helpful life
/ think 1t NAV be clearly seen that
this college, through her alumnae, has
o herself approved. a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed" The
harvest which the State is 20 reap for
her investment here has only just
begun The a IS our heritage. the
present our opportunity" The doc
trines formulated in theory and an
nouecd and mad practical by our be-
loved founder can not but be a source
OF power for good through the active
exertlons of this alumnus body. What
service may we render to our State
and college in the future?
Our first work is to complete raising
the McIver Loan Fund. We have
something like $4,000 pledged and
this should be collected while we I'M
dertake an active campaign for secur-
ing additional pledges. "A narrow road
may have after all the widest horizon
II only 1t leads over the heights" We
must not lay our armor down until
this fund has reached dignffied and
adequate proportions. Let it not be
said Of this association. The noun
tain was in labor, and brought forth
a mouse While it is true tina if we
TACK unity Of aim We may suffer from
dissipation Of energy, yet it occurs to
me that along with our work for the
loan fund, there is q service we may
undertake for the State that will re-
quire not money but work on our
part. l refer to the inauguration of
an active campaign for regular and
compulsory school medical examina-
ton and A glance at what
is being discovered as to physical
handicapS of children is enough to
make of US veritable crusaders for the
removal of these in our own State.
There are enlarged tonsilS and de-
noids, the removal of which is a trIf-
ling operation, but if flowed to re-
main give liability to tonsilitis and
dpththera, results n defective hearing
as we'll as breathing. and stunts the
growth of body and brain, cOnsinginS
the child to the army Of dull and deli
cate children. Defective eysight is
even more common than defective
nearing. 1t destroys the nervous sys-
tenn and results in general weakness
Of mind and body. A Boston eye ex-
pert declares Il have seen a number
If mentally defective and feeble
minded children take rapid strides In
mental development after a proper COZ
rection of their eye defects"
A crooked tooth sounds unimpOrtant
but experience has Shown that in 6
child. through impaired digestion. i
may completely disarrange It's bodily
metnal aud moral dew lpment.
In this country, Chicago took tn
lead along these lines, when it was &C.
~cidentally discovered during an cpl
demic of scarlet fever and pithhterie
that a considerable majority Of thu
children were the victims of variou!
physical defects, which called for IN
mediate correction. New York CIT,
took up the idea the next year, ant
of her $4,000 school children, 10000,
had defective eysight, more than tina
humble had bad or rookie teeth. over
10000 were suffering from seriou:
nose INC throat troubles, and SO or
down the list. but nearly all were
cured by simple operation or treat
ment. Much badness" in children ha.
been found to be a disease resulting
from neglected physical defects. 0
fifty boys in the New York truan
school. thirty-three were found to bs
suffering from adenoids, and sdxteer
from enlarged tOnSllS.
In addition to all these ailments, tht
south has the hookworm to fight. I
is regrettable hat it has become pop
ular for some misguided humorists o.
the press and others where, to pour
ridicule upon this disease, to discount
existence. But seeing is believing, anC
for all that it is among us, not only II
the homes OF the poor, but in those o.
the well-to-do. and even the wealthy
Since the time in which the memory
Of man runneth not to the contrary, l
has been the inalienabIe right of thu
southern plantation child, from tht
mansion to the howell, to discard shoe:
during the hot months. and the mos
aristocratic Of parents had not The
heartlessness to deny us his pleasure
And so the disease found Judgment
We should feel no humiliation that Il
where, but rather should shame over
whelm us if we a no steps to wipe
it out.
One OF our thoroughly interested
teachers from the class Of 1910, tells
me: 1--WE had a good nance to study
the sub-normal child, because the ad
vanced first grade is the dumping of
ground-the grade made up Of left
overs. I have looked at every throai
in my room, and l can not recall q
single one that is perfectly normal