The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-09-21
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
(BY GRAEME O'GERAN.)

| Henry Moy, high school scholar OF
last year, has moved to Gary, Indiana,
where he is attending school.
Supt. p. J. Zimmers has kindly con-
sented to turn over the management
of lecture course which had been
formerly under high school supervis-
ion, to the Boys Club.
Albert Abel called on us last Thurs
day afternoon.
Football this season will surely be a
great success, as the boys are very in
terested in practice. The first game
will possibly come off September 30.
Prof Stangel won some splendid ath-
letic feats during his college career.
Edwin Reichert took in the state
fair at Milwaukee, last Wednesday and
Thursday.
An athletic meeting was held last
Friday, presided over by President
Martin Morrisey. The following offic-
ers were elected: President, Leo Bar
telme: Vice-president, Leo Murphy:
Treasurer, Ed. Fried; Secretary, f.
Chloupek.
Walter Koehler, 1911 graduate,
put in his appearance at school Friday,
on visit.
DR.. Max Staehle, health officer, has
been appointed medical Inspector for
the public schools by the board of edu-
cation.
Emil Schmidtman was Monday Wis
itor.
The Manitou staff is hard at work on
the first number of volume two, which
will be off the press Friday, October
l3.
Miss Ora Fetzer, high school stud
ent, attended the marriage of her
brother Bernard Fetzer at Maple
Grove.
DR.. Harvey Dee Brown lectured to
us in the Park school gymnasiom, Tues
day afternoon, on the subject of pre-
venting tuberculosis.
In opening DR.. Brown stated that
consumption is as old as the pyramids,
prevelant among cattle as well as hum
anity.
The battle against tuberculosis open
ed in Germany in 1882 and within the
period OF about thirty years the fatal
ity has been reduced fifty per cent.
And that it was thought that within
another thirty years, if the fight is
kept up as it has been, that the tuber-
culosis germ will be wiped out in that
country. The preventive idea then
crossed the channel to England and
much good done in the city of London.
The French then became interested in
the moral battle" The French had
believed the disease germs to estab-
lish themselves in the human system
in childhood and thus develop as the
child grew, but the idea is said to be
groundless.
Thus the, theatre of the war moved
on until about a decade ago the spirit
of the United States was aroused and
the really only thorough work has been
done within the last three years.
DR.. Brown said that the fight was
being carried on by street talks, lee
lures, lantern and stereoptican exhibi-
tions. The Christmas seal, said the
doctor, was the present means of rev.
enue. -
The State Anti-Tuberculosis society
works in conjunction with the Univer-
sity extension bureau to destroy the
"White Plague"
DR.. Brown made the statement that
one person died Of tuberculosis every
half minute somewhere in the world,
and that Manitowoc and Sawyer coun-
ties recorded the highest number of
deaths annually in the state. He said
that for every 10000 inhabitants from
twenty to twenty-eight die from the
| disease annually. In closing DR.. Brown
stated that tuberculosis is not heredi-
tary but contagious, and that fresh air
and sunshine are the best and most
sure means of preventing the develop
ment of the "White Plague" DR..
Browns talk was highly interesting
and instructive. He gave an illustrat-
ed lecture in the evening in the High
school assembly.