Show Health and H Happiness If any any community is ever to suc suc- succeed suc- suc succeed succeed go forward take its place it must have a healthy and happy people Americas America's proud proudest cst boast is our children Americas America's greatest asset is our children and andI yet yearly early our children are arc neglect neglect- neglected I ed denied what is rightfully their he heritage and rights Many are arc forI for- for I ced to drop out Others suffer pre pre- premature premature pre premature mature deaths because cause we do not help them to obtain and maintain good health the same fervor that we insist they learn the three Rs R's I Therefore it becomes the business of f the school the school chool whose officials officials and teachers have gone one on record rec- rec record rec record ord before the National Education as association association association as agreeing that first and nn foremost of the schools school's prime ob- ob objectives ob objectives must be to teach and in- in inculcate inculcate in inculcate in children the desire to be healthy i The majority of teaching rearing training and md caring for children seems to be relegated to the schools the class room teacher the greatest influence and inspiration in inthe inthe inthe the average childs child's life of anyone save mother and dad Then come those agencies agencies which support and indorse the work of the schools which cooperate and aid the school program in every way for way forwell well do we realize that the destiny of our nation dep depends nd on on our ur c chil- chil il- il dren dren our uny i ix ed ed to understand right from wrong to be useful to serve and work to love and appreciate ones one's fellow fellowman fellowman fellowman man to be healthy morally and spiritually upright These agencies are the mothers I dubs clubs and teacher rent associations service and civic clubs community I centers health and social organizations the th church chur-ch and hospitals all hospitals thees are obligated to help in in every possible way to give to every child the right and privilege e which is is his that of being healthy useful andi and I Among Among t the h e variOUs various activities 0 of f the county health unit of great reat Im j importance im is the care caro of childrens children's children s i teeth Many parents do not realize that decayed teeth may shorten the lives of their thair children that a primary focus is often found in the mouth and teeth which caUses causs diseases of the heart lungs kidneys and muscles causes also extreme nervousness showing as indigestion inflammations inflammations inflammations of the nerve terminals and I I i lf I i nerve trunks mation of or anI an I impairment of the special senses such such as sight smell and hearing We are finding that the proper den den- den den- dental dental tal tai care cars and attention s an ly I ly necessary part of all health programs pro pro- programs pro programs grams rams for the prevention or 01 cure of disease Cold facts and figures have shown us the prevalence of defective and diseased teeth and gums in school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children and we now know this con con- condition interferes with a childs child's health at a n time when hen he most needs his health It retards his mental an and physical ability to learn earn to be adept adept I to play and to enjoy life The loss of time from school and studies due to defective teeth not only handicaps a child but presen presents s a ser serious serious ious economic problem as well I If a child misses from three to five weeks from school or is forced through sickness tO to attend irregular irregular- irregularly ly the possibilities are lie he will miss his grade that year This entails a financial consideration for this child has to be schooled again in the same samo grade This is expense for the tax tax- taxpayers taxpayers tax taxpayers payers the th parents the state slaw I I Far worse than this it materially helps psychologically to impress the school child with the fact he is a failure a head block thit th t he cannot learn rn irn and make his grade as tie tf t e oth- oth other other oth other er children can and my the pathetic tragedies this causes in later life all because of sickness and time lost ost from school in which dental dent ills play playa a paramount part Dr Gleason would be gl glad 1 to spend all his time in the care of chil ITens ITen's teeth but in the short time he has for this work he has put in the past year ear 1125 fillings and ex- ex extracted extracted ex extracted teeth The value of this is not so much in the work done but butth th the mental effect effect on on the child and the lesson inculcated of the th benefit of sound teeth This coming week we start our m- m annual an annual nual drive against diphtheria Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday morning the we will be beat beat beat at Stoker school where pre school pre pr schoolchildren children may be brought for treat treaty treatment treatment ment meat There is not the slightest danger or br pain in this treatment a ab b hypodermic injection once a week for three weeks and will in nearly every case protect the child for lor life The school school pre child is most susceptible Ito to the disease and if every child was wa immunized at six months or one year of age diphtheria would soon be a athing athing athing thing of the past How would you feel if you saw your child in its I the result of f this disease knowing it was your own fault and carelessness in not having it protect protect- protect protect-I protected protected ed l Do not wait until the cl child is older DO IT NOW Davis County Health Unit I This fall we offered a flag to the thes s second cond grade room in the county which had the best percentage o of sound teeth It was won Von by Mrs Adams room at the Layton school Of 28 pupils but two had any j defee-j defective defective tive teeth A remarkable thing about this room is the large larg number i of children who bring Ting a bottle of If milk with their lunch I I I I I I i i |