Show 1 F in inScho Schools l l lW W ILE Utah t ah is f fortunate r un te in pro provided id t VI an efficient medical survey of t the fife e pupils pupils' in its public s schools h ois s still it might b be well welI f to toi consider b but t not become unduly excited over the rath rather r a alarmist talk made re recently 6 by Iy Dr T T. 01 D. D Wood of Columbia bia university before the n national educational convention rhe The doctor declared declared j in his his' address that 75 per er cent or of the school children of the United States tates have hav physical defects wh which ch are potentially or actually detrimental to health and that while most of these defects are remediable remediable reme reme- diable very few of them are being remedied He Ic also declared that the children of the tue country had been drafted for educational r poses but that the authorities after having drafted them were paying less less' attention to their physical welfare than did the goven government to m n who enlisted d for fOJ the he war var Possibly this is true and yet the situation does n not justify an effort to throw the country into a mental panic over the possibility of the coming generation becoming physically unfit to take u up ui the duties and bear the burdens of citizenship citizenship citi cHi or 01 tl those ose of parenthood There can be no doubt that many of the thc ailments of children are imaginary or those which which- can be corrected by simple household remedies not forgetting the time honored dose of castor oil while many others are those which nature cures as growth proceeds Some of the these e ai ailments ail au- I ments are those which have afflicted childhood since the birth of the race and will continue throughout time tim yet ma man l has has' waxed stronger both physically and mentally Of Ot course cours m medical care carel is essen essential lial in many maJy I instances but this care is being provided in all of the states an arid and communities while greater c care r i is being taken by parents iri iii guarding gua their children against communicable diseases Progress has has' been m made de during the pa past f few years tears in educational affairs including the Hie medical medical medi medi- cal care of children and doubtless it t will will continue con con- tintie without the dissemination of hysterical ut utterances er eit either er in public or pr private |