South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-03
BY Discovery of Early Tenden-
CieS Toward Disease, Much
Suffering May Be Avoided
Among Adults, He Says.
URGES TEACHERS TO
KEEP REGULAR HOURS
Says Instructors Should Guard
Own Health in Order to Put
Best Efforts Into Work
Convention Is Closed.
e q fltting climax for the conyen-

As fitting climax for the conven-
ton OF the Northern Indiana Teach
ers' association which closed at noon
today, after being in session for three
days, two addresses were delivered
both on subjects particularly vital to
the interests Of the instructors and
the welfare Of public school education
in general. DR.. 6. p. Mcpherson, dean
OF the school Of medicine OF the uni
versity OF Indiana, and DR.. VI. 3. Hill
legas. Of Teachers college OF COlum-
bia university. were the principal
speakers at the final meeting.
More than 2,2OO teachers of the
counties of northern Indiana regist-
cred at the convention during the
three days it was in operation This
was almost 500 more than attended
the Indianapolis convention last year
ard the officers Of the association are
highly pleased with the unpTecedent-
ed success Of the meeting.
DR.. Emerson spoke first Saturday,
saying in part:
Diseases in childhood are many
times not apparent and can be located
only after q rigid examination by a
physician And again many times
these diseases are not dangerous. But
If allowed to 90 on they develop until
some chronic illness results. and the
adult finds himself with weak kid
neys. organic heart trouble. or some
other malady which has reached the
incurable stage.
There is no incurable disease at
prevent. but therD IS an incurable
stage And it is negligence in caring
for the trivial ailments in childhood
or what at that time seem trivial from
which the serious disorders arise. If
YOU teachers will look out more care
fully for the health OF the children,
we will reduce the number of adults
I'm the hospitals by one half. Early
prevention will eradicate these troubles
which appear in later life.
Should Attack Disease Early.
These diseases must be attacked at
their source. They have been devel-
oping 50 or 40 years before they be-
come serious and until the chronic
stages are reached there has been
scarcely an outward symptom. Ii Is
necessary. therefore, to take some
measures TO protect the children. Dis
eases, YOU know. are not serious IN
proportion to the pain they cause, but
10 the injury that results in later years.
children are particularly suscept-
ible 10 disease. They are exposed on
every hand and their bodies are often
not strong enough TO throw of the
germs Take for instance, the typhus
germ. The danger of typhoid fever
lies not in the child who has contract
ed the disease He is safe at home
under medical care. The greatest
danger lies in the so-called carriers.
which are nothing more than children
who have recovered and returned 70
school, but who carry the germs IN
the throat and nostrils. A child who
has had typhoid fever should not be
allowed 10 return 20 the class room
until ne has had two rigid eNamina-
lions to determine whether he Is en-
tirely free from the germs. This IS
likewise the case in dtphtherla, con
sumption and many other contagious
diseases
''To eradicate such dangers / be
lfeve that all city schools should have
inspectors and school nurses THESE
men and women should not be mere
practitioners and trained nurses who
have only the ordinary amount of
fraining. but should be professional
doctors aud nurses who have had a
special amount OF training in looking
for fust such troubles. The problem
of the city which is expanding its
school system and installing school
inspectors is TO get doctors and nurses
who have been properly trained IN
this one special line.
Urges Teachers TO bc Careful.
Again T would help the school
Teacher. They are the guardians of
7he children of the nation and as such
should take proper care or tnem-
selves. They should ut all times pay
1,roper attention 20 their own health.
Il do not believe that any school teach
cr has any moral right 10 attend sum-
yner school instead of having a vaca-
zion For the ovcrworked teacher
soon comes 90 TIE stage whore she
teaches the class instead OF the indi-
>fduals. who command distinct atten-
rfon 4 teacher should come always
ro the class room with fresh mind,
ready 20 solve the individual prob
lems which the children In her class
room demand. Teachers should live
regular lives and should not be COM
DellCd TO work on Saturdays or late
Friday evenings. They owe II 10 tnem-
selves TO see that they lead regular
lives for habits OF regularity are great
-lpbuilders in the human system To
Toe efficient a teacher must have good
health. and she should take care or II
even IS she looks after the health OF
pupils in the class room"
The address by Dr. Hilegas on the
'.Schoolman's Interest in the Use OF
Scales and standards for Measuring
school Achievement" was particular
iy interesting from the layman'S
standpoint. The speaker IS the pio-
neer IN the movement FOR the stand
ardizing OF grading and measuring
work in public schools. He has made
a deep study Of the subject and is
probably the best known authority on
the topic I'm the country.
No Standard OF Grading
There IS not one solitary estab-
tagbed educational method" declared