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Tom O’Neill, 1st Grade Ronald Brososky, 2d grade
JohnFytel, 3d grade Wm. Ilumpheries, 4th grado Lyle Morris, Oth grade
Bruce Morris, Oth grade . \ Frank Morris, 10th grade
Initialed Items Are Written By Elementary Pupils; All Others Ate By High School Pupils.
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Editorials
Heal6k Needs
Health day is to teach us about health. Health keeps us
happy and busy.
Elat good food such as fruit, vegetables and milk. Sleep
from 10 to 12 hours. If it is cold wear woolen clothing. It it
is hot wear cotton. Play from two to three hours a day in the
open air.
Doctors keep us healthy by vaccination, telling us how to
keep away from sickness and how to keep healthy.
We should thank the many people who have made us
healthy.—Billy.
Hcaklt Needs In AIasIca
We are lucky to live in Alaska because there aren’t any
crowds to spread diseases and there are plenty of wide open
spaces and good fresh air.
Out to the Westward the people aren’t so lucky. For hun
dreds of miles there aren’t any doctors or hospitals Most of
the Indians have tuberculosis, and they do not know what to do
about it. The white men gave them most of their health
troubles so we should give them more health education and doc
tors instead of filling them with whiskey.—Lyle.
Disease Germs
Germs travel through the air and water. They get inside
of you through the nose, mouth and cuts in the skin. They di
vide and multiply. They produce poison which causes disease.
But they are killed by the white corpuscles. Vaccination
makes the body fight the germs. Eat good food and drink lots
of water. That will make more corpuscles, both red and white,
and your body will fight disease.—Billy.
Story I cf s
Adventures of a TaotkbrusL
By Wm. Humpheries
I am a toothbrush. I used to live in a store. Finally I w i,s
taken away. I cleaned Wm. Humpheries’ teeth. I scrubbed
and scrubbed until they were white and shining. I dkl that
every day. Pretty soon, when the germs saw me coming they
ran for their lives.
Next—and last—regular issue of the Star, Monday, May 16. *
Books
WHAT ABOUT ALCOHOL?
by Emil Bogen, M. D., and Leh
mann W. S. Hisey —This-book is
written so that anybody can un
derstand it, and it has many
drawings to make it plain. Here
are some of the things it says:
People shouldn’t drink alcohol
because the body uses up a lot
of energy trying to burn it up.
Sometimes the doctors give a
person who has a high tempera
ture a sponge bath with alcohol.
But it isn’t good for a person to
drink.
It makes a person get tired
quickly because the body has to
work so hard to burn it up
When a person is drinking he
gets nervous. Even a very little
bit makes a person slower and
can cause a terrible accident.
When ie>ple drink they think
they are nice and warm when
they aren’t. It makes the skin
hot when the inside of the body
is really cold. Drinkers often
take off their hats and coats in
cold weather and.die of pneu
monia.
People who drink usually do
it more and more all the time.
When they drink a lot they ei
ther land in the hospital, jaii,
insane asylum or poor house.
People spend more money on
liquor than on education, cloth
ing, food or homes.
Some poor people d rink to for
get their troubles. They speud
t.U their money on drink trying
to forget they don’t have enough
money for food.
Sometimes we see articles in
newspapers about very old peo
ple who do a lot of drinking and
Jive tlirough it. These people
are like men who bite dogs. We
hear about so few of them that
they make good news.
The book should be read by
everyone. It is a very impor
tant subject, especially in Alas
ka. Lyjje Morris
Wit & Wisdom
We are not going to have any
jokes about liquor because there
isn’t anything funny about the
stuff.
Warning Signs
Of Tuberculosis
(National Tuberculosis Assn.)
Tuberculosis doesn't hurt.
That is the reason people don’t
go to the doctor in time. The
germs that cause tuberculosis
may “eat” large holes in your
lungs and still you wouldn’t
PEEL it Often the danger sig
nals are nob blamed on tuber
culosis but on other troubles like
a cold, asthma, sinus infection
or bronchitis Sometimes dis
tinct signs of tuberculosis are
entirely absent, making it diffl
cult even for the physician to
find out what is wrong. For
tunately he has modern aids to
day such as the tuberculin test
and the X-ray to help him dis
cover the disease.
Heed the signals of tuberculo
sis. They may be false alarms
but only the doctor can decide
These are the common danger
signals:
TOO EASILY TIRED
Are you tired all the time*
without any known cause? Do
you fag out quickly after ordi
nary work or play? The cause
of it may be trifling--or it may
tuberculosis.
LOSS OF WEIGHT
Are you losing weight without
any apparent cause? It may be a
sign of approaching tuberculosis.
INDIGESTION
Is your appetites getting poor?
Do you sit down at the table ’
and after a few bites discover
that you don't care to eat? Don’t
discount these symptoms for—
they may mean tuberculosis.
COUGH THAT HANGS ON
Have you been coughing for
several weeks? Is your throat,
husky? Have you a “cold” that
will not clear up? This, too,
may be something harmless—or
it may be tuberculosis.
OTHER SIGNALS
Any blood from the mouth
should be a signal to see your
doctur Pleurisy or pain in the
chest is another signal.
None of these is a sure sign.
Don’t live in doubt—let the doc
tor decide. « ,