THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD. Manager.
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PULLING TOGETHER
> FOR HEALTH
(By Louise Strachan, Director,
'Child Health Education, National
Tuberculosis Association).
The lusty town crier on 1937’s
Christmas Seal brings a two-fold
message. One is full of cheer:
that ancient enemy of the human
race is being slowly but steadily
routed; the other is an appeal for
‘‘a long pull, a strong pull, and
a pull all together” to complete
the overthrow of this plague of
mankind.
It is so easy to relax vigilance
when the tide of battle has turn
ed against the enemy. Yet a |
careful reconnaissance reveals
that the sector where youth
stands is still hard pressed; tuber
culosis is still killing more young
people between the ages of 15
and 25 than any other disease.
Heroic tales there are aplenty
about the struggles of youth with
its arch foe. Tuberculin testing;
and X-raying have now taken
their place as accepted routine
procedures in the health exam
ination of college students in our
leading colleges and universities
but there are still far too many
of our young people without this
protection. The case of a young
woman, w hose condition went un
recognized until tuberculosis had
reached an advanced stage, has
so aroused the members of her
college sorority that they have
undertaken an educational cam
paign among their own chapters
to instruct them in the newer
knowledge of the prevention and
control of tuberculosis.
After 14 years of struggle agai
nst the disease this brave fighter
writes: “Life ahead does not
look encouraging but the years in
retrospect are darker still. I have
never, however, abandoned the
thought that 1 may still be well
enough to be useful in some small
way. . . . Most of the history
in my case can be blotted from
the pages of those who now take
the cure because of the over in
creasing vigilance of the medical
profession and the support of an
informed public. These measures
are economy, not only in money,
but economy in lives that have
too many times heretofore been
needlessly wasted. The medical
profession must continue to res
cue unceasingly the young people
threatened with destruction and
an increasingly educated public
must continue to cooperate with
the medical profession for the
battle is only well begun."
Such a waste of young life is
costly and unnecessary. That is
why the call comes each year to
buy Christmas Seals. One of the
activities promoted by the Nation
al Tuberculosis Association and
its affiliated groups is the devel
opment of tuberculosis work in
colleges. This activity is carried
on in cooperation with the Amer
ican Student Health Association
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and its branches all over fne
country. The National Tubercu
lous Association helped to organ
ize and carry through the First
National Conference on College
Hygiene in 1911. v.h ch, ?rro.'g
other things, made specific return
mendations for t^he prevention
: and control of tuberculosis in col
leges.
The Second National Conference
held in December 1936 carried
forward the work of the First
Conference and. in the light of
studies made in the interim be
tween the two Conferences, was
able to define more clearly and
sharply the varied colkge pro
blems identified with tuberculosis
| In similar fashion, the work is
going forward in high schools.
1 Tuberculosis associations, health
departments, sanatoria, and par
ent-teacher organizations are
working in many states with the
school health committees to de
velop adequate programs for high
school students. They include
tuberculin testing, X-raying of
positive reactors and class-room
: instruction in tuberculosis as a
communicable disease.
No one group can ever coinquer
a foe like tuberculosis. The kno
wledge that this disease is pre
ventable and curable, that mod
ern weapons now available can
eradicate the disease if only they
are used, Should arouse every
i citizen and every organized group
concerned with the welfare of its
community to pull together and
achieve the goal that is indeed in
sight, but still afar off.
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LIFE LIKE THIS SHOULD
MERIT SOME REWARD
SEWAiRD—Living off of eagles
and seagulls while marooned on
fox islands to the westward, drag
ged under a fish scow, boat and
all, in Bristol Bay, shipwrecked
three different times—just a few
minor experiences of Fred Eng
wald during his round the world
sailing trips and 35 years exper-:
ience as fisherman and trapper
in Bristol Bay and on the penin
sula.
He was on the island for 10
months and 15 days, leading the
life of Robinson Crusoe, minus
Friday and the goats. Eagles he
found entirely too tough and un
palatable but did very well with
seagulls, he said.
Fished Last Year
The upset in Bristol Bay when
the scow ran over him, proved
too much for his rugged con
stitution, bringing on partial
paralysis of the hand. But in
spite of that and the fact that
he is 64 years of age, he struck
out for familiar fishing grounds
last season. Unable to get a boat;
he managed to get through the
season with stake nets.
Living at the Overland hotel,
the veteran fisherman, unable to
continue his work through age
and physical infirmity, is waiting
word from Juneau that shelter
and well-earned rest at the Pio
neer’s Home is awaiting him.
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