tries. In other words, a lot of folks
apparently believe that state so-1
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cialism or totalitarianism would
be more efficient and more desir
able than freedom of opportunity i
and freedom of the individual.
How mistaken they are !
England Will Cut
Size Of Army
(By Jack Smith)
LONDON, (/P)—A highly placed
government source said today Bri
tain would cut her armed forces |
below the strength originally con
templated in Prime Minister Att
lee’s economic crisis program.
The cuts, whose exact extent
has not been determined, will not
mean any new “revision of strate
gic concepts,” he added.
Attlee originally proposed to re
duce the British forces to 1,007,000
by the end of March. 1948, to re
duce government expenses and
free men for civilian labor. The
forces now total 1.300,000.
MRS. MANDEVILLE HEADS
TUBERCULOSIS SURVEY
Mrs. Paul Mandeville, who has
been appointed general chairman
for the Tuberculosis Survey now
under wav has called for a gen
eral meeting of interested persons
at the City Hall on Thursday eve
ning at 8:00. Several people have
been contacted, as many as pos
sible. Anyone interested in assist
ing in the project, so important
to Nome, is invited to attend, says
Mrs. Mandeville.
FRANK BINGHAM LEAVES
FOR WASHINGTON. D. C.
Frank Bingham, U. S. District
Attorney left yesterday by plane
to attend a conference of U. S. at
torneys to be held in Washington,'
D. C., September 15 and 16.
Baby Girl Holds-up
Apt. Hold-up
NEW YORK, t/P>—'There was a
slight holdup during a holdup in
a Central Park West apartment
late Monday, while one of a rob
ber pair squeezed an orange to
quiet 11-month-old Susan Antoin
ette Fayle.
Lt. Comdr, Eddie Fayle of
South Hampstead, Long Island,
had taken his wife and daughter
to visit his mother, Mrs. Mercedes
Fayle. The latter was not at the
door to welcome them for the rea
son that she was tied hand an i
foot in a storage closet. Ins ead,
they found two robbers.
The baby’s hungry cries at this
juncture moved the robbers to ac
tion. While one remained to guard
the Fayles, the other went tc the
kitchen, squeezed an orange and
fed the baby. Then they trussed
the commander and put him in the
closet with his mother, tied his wife
to a chair with the baby in her
lap, and left with $500 in cash and
jewelry, police said.
CHESTER MILLIGAN
HERE ON BUSINESS
Chester Milligan made a trip to
Nome yesterday from Council
where he is having a busy sum
mer operating his dredge.
BERTHA BJORNSTAD BACK
FROM STATES VACATION
Bertha Bjornstad, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Bjornstad. re
turned from a trip to the States in
time to enter school where she
will be a senior this year. This
popular young lady treated her
self to this trip made possible by
her own savings earned while at
tending school. While Outside see
ing the sights she met and visited
many former Nome friends and is
glad to be home again.
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Facts About
Tuberculosis
_
Tuberculosis may be called a
young woman’s disease. For some
unknown reason more young wo
men than young men die from it. i
After 30, however, tuberculosis1
kills more men than women.
The magic eye of medicine, the
x-ray, is* one sure way of deter
mining whether the germ of tu
berculosis is setting un its deadly
work within the body. There usu
ally are no outward signs of the
disease in its early stages.
“Education of the people and,
through them, of the state, is the
first and greatest need in the pre
vention of tuberculosis,” said Dr.
Edward L. Trudeau who estab
lished the first sanatorium for the
tuberculous at Saranac Lake in
1885.
Approximately a quarter of a
million persons in the United
States have tuberculosis and do
not know it. So the spread of the
disease continues.
Tuberculosis has been a health
problem for hundreds of years.
Hippocrates wrote of the “wasting
sickness” in the fifth century, B.
C. Before that, as recent evidence
shows, the early Egyptians were
sufferers from tuberculosis.
The ultimate eradication of tu
berculosis will depend more upon
finding persons with early dis
ease than it will depend upon at
tempts at controlling the disease
by treating active cases.
The tuberculosis germs die in
a few minutes in boiling water
and in a few hours in sunlight and
fresh air.
Early diagnosis of tuberculosis
is good economy. To keep an early
case in a sanatorium for a few
months may cost a few hundred
dollars. To keep an advanced case
for several years may cost many
thousands of dollars.
Tuberculosis doesn’t care who
you are, nor what you are. It at
tacks young and old, poor and
rich. Help find early tuberculosis!
Tuberculosis is a highly com
municable disease. Every person
who has tuberculosis has caught it
from someone else.
The tubercle bacilli, the germs
that cause tuberculosis, are taken
into the body through the nose or
the mouth. Tuberculosis cannot be
inherited. The germs are passed
from one person to another.
Tuberculosis seldom strikes a
sharp blow in the beginning. It
usually creeps up like a thief from
behind. The disease can be in an
advanced stage before any symp
toms appear.
An early case of tuberculosis
can be cured in a few months at
the cost of a few hundred dollars.
Advanced cases frequently require
years of treatment at the cost of
thousands of dollars, and then of
ten the fight for health is lost. Tu
berculosis can be found early by
the chest x-ray.
There is no drug available for
the treatment of tuberculosis. We
must depend upon the natural
forces of the body, lending them
whatever aid is possible by pro
viding sufficenj physical rest,
mental peace and improved nutri
tion.
Crooked Teeth
And Orthodontia
One of the frequent tragedies of
childhood is a facial disfigurement
that brings ridicule on the child
which may cause untold mental
suffering and can have lasting ef
fects.
The unpleasing facial contou: ;
that bring unhappiness to the
child may be caused by the pres
ence of crooked teetli. It is not
necessary for children to go
through life burdened in this way.
A dental science — orthodontia —
can remake the face and help the
child regain self-confidence.
Orthodontia is the science of
straightening teeth. However,
teeth cannot be moved around in
the manner that one moves fence
posts. They must be moved slow
ly, carefully and scientifically in
order to avoid injury to the bone
that support them. Orthodontia
consists of training teeth to grow
into proper position before they
are firmly fixed.
This is done through the use of
intricate, semiflexible, but sturdy
appliances which exert a steady
pressure on the teeth for the time
necessary for the treatment, some
j times several years. Diet, heredity,
t glandular action, and many other
f factors must be considered by the
orthodontist.
Improper diet, inherited diffi
culties, mouth breathing, thumb
and finger sucking and tongue and
lip biting can result in tooth ir
regularities. To avoid them, par
ents should constantly be on guard
against nervous habits and care
fully supervise the child’s diet.
Neglect and premature loss of the
baby teeth and early loss of the
first permanent molar teeth fre
quently cause malocclusion. In or
der to correct the physical causes,
the family physician should be
consulted.
Orthodontia has been remark
ably successful in restoring faces
to normal contours and removing
the dangers attendant on mis
placement of the teeth, including
pyorrhea, inadequate mastication,
and early decay. But the earlier
the child is taken to the orthodon
tist, the better is the chance for
success.
The Territorial Department of
Health or. your local dentist will
be glad to answer any questions
relating to this article.
'An educational service of the
American Dental Association*.
Starlings at the Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania zoo seem to have a
preference for waltz music. One
family which built their nest in
[ the park loud-speaker were ob
I served to be unruffled when soft
strains of a waltz were broadcast,
but left in great agitation when
' the stirring marches of John Philip
Sousa were played, and returned
: only after the speaker had been
1 shut off.
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