The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-11-12


bies. The hall is fitted up as walt
ing room with health posters on the
walls and health literature for dlstrl-
button to all who are interested. The
room on the right is an emergency
hospital fitted up with five beds ana
crib for the very small patients.
And at the back is the nurses private
office, which, is also the operating
room, fitted with a real operating Ia
BILE and a dentists chair.
Weighing and measuring chlloren
of school and pre-school age was one
of the first things undertaken at the
center. Children who were under
sized and under-weight were ADVISED
as to their diet, and so eager were
they to gain the pounds and inches
that would make them normal that
they readily consented to SUBSTITUTE
milk for the coffee and tea they were
accustomed to drink.
Miss Harry next turned her atten-
tion to the care of the teeth. AT her
request, dentist came over the noun
tains from Franklin and stayed Tor
ten days and was busy for every min
ute of that time, finding several serl-
GUS cases of pyorrhoea among fifteen
and sixteen year old children. MISS
Harrv's dental clinic will be respon-
sible for saving these teeth. Later
an eye, ear, nose and throat speclallst
followed the dentist and number
of operations for tonsils and adeno1ds
were performed at the Health Center
the patients and their mothers being
kent overnight in the emergency hos
nital. Both clinics will be more OF
less regular matter from now on.
In addition to her work at the healsl
center, Miss Harry has done visiting
nursing all over the mountains, some
times walking four or five miles tc
: see one patient. One woman, the
, mother of ten children, who has not
been out of bed for several years, has
already been taken to Charlotte for
4 serious operation, Miss Harry accom-
= panying her on the journey as she
l had never been on the train before
r But the value Of a Red. Cross pub
I lie health nurse is not limited to re
!, mote rural communities, as the fol
4 lowing extracts from a report made
v by woman of Athens, Ga, who In
v terested herself in the work OF TIT
t Red Cross nurse employed by tn
a Clarke County Chapter will show. TIL
!. renort which was published in thu
the southern DIVISION hau total mem
bership of 162,8O7. Judging by the
way in which children are enrolling
this year, the 192O-21 membership will
go we'll beyond 100000
The purpose of the Junior Red
Cross and it's activities could not be
better explained than by James N.
Rule, national director OF the Junior
Red Cross. He says:
1.-THE Junior Red Cross is the child
hood of America modified through the
schools-public, parochial and private
for the purpose of intoxicating ideals
and habits of service among children
the world over, with the idea that the
men and women of tomorrow will, as
: a result of this childhood practice,
, think in terms of service to others;
, for the purpose not merely OF training
. in citizenship for the future, but OF
. making unselfish, useful young cltl-
zens today; for the purpose OF 1nstllI-
, ing respect and obedience to the law
of the land, and for the purpose OF
y transmitting America to succeeding
! generations cleaner, healthier and
I happier than it was found. =
:. "The requirement for membership
is solely one of service. There is no
4 Individual membership fee. The use
i fulness of Junior Red Cross aux1l'
a iary in alternating want and suffering
. among children at home and abroad
. depends on the initiative and enter
= prise of the classroom group and the
! teacher, the latter being the auxiliary
q leader
Everything done is by cooperative
!. effort of teacher and class, whether II
a be in raising money by some entertain
, ment or industry; the making OF gar
3 ments, furniture, toys, scrapbooks' OF
. in a community betterment activity
=. Training in Citizenship Through SerV
q ice and Happy Childhood the World
. Over are slogans of the Junior Rec
= Cross which broadly characterize it,
mission.
., Formed in 1917 to help win the
= war, the Junior Red Cross, with mem
q bership of 1O,OeO,00O, produced IL
- twenty months $15,OOO,OOO worth o
i useful articles for American soldiers
i sailors, marines and war stricken
n nennle of other lands. But in th1!