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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 TUBERCULOSIS—ITS PREVENTION AND CURE For years afterward she sailed on all sorts of mis sions. In 1830 she was to have been broken up and sold. Then it was that Oliver Holmes cried out, “Aye, thing to use is paper and then burn it. Consumptives tear her tattered ensign down!” And urged that should use spit cups that can be burned. Every person we “give her to the god of storms.” The whole should follow these rules, for they are for the protec country was aroused. Her life was spared. tion of all, and the person who spits carelessly, even Many a midshipman in the Naval Academy received though he be free from disease, licenses the tubercular his training on her historic old decks. Among them person to do the same. is one who needs no introduction, George Dewey, hero One should be careful in the matter of expectorating of Manila Bay. at all times and places, for your lungs may be infected. Again, in 1878, she sailed the blue waters on a You may have consumption and not know it. These peaceful mission to the Paris Exposition. That was germs are scattered by shoes, dusty air, espacially in an anxious passage, for her old timbers creaked and groaned and she leaked in many places. She arrived houses, the mouth, and flies. Swat the fly. home safely and was taken to Boston to celebrate her Build up the body. Breath fresh air night and day. 100th birthday in 1897. Get the maximum amount of sunlight into the house, She is rotting away now. Slowly falling to pieces and spend a part of each day out in it. Eat good plain beside the dock. At the present rate the day is not food, slowly. Drink pure water and milk and plenty far off when there will be nothing left of the old ship that has served us so nobly. The flag she first carried of it. Eat one green vegetable everyday. Go to bed had fifteen stripes, one for each State. That flag now early and rest for at least eight hours. Keep clean, counts its States with forty-eight stars. “Old Iron walk upright and be cheerful. It is said with shoul sides” played an important part in the building of our ders thrown back and taking three deep breaths in great nation. She stands today as a living symbol of the open air every day you will never die of consump American freedom of the seas. The navy department has been authorized by Con tion. gress to restore this fine old ship, but was granted no It has never been proved that germs will cause appropriation, although Congress authorized the harm to a perfectly healthy body. A healthy body Secretary of the Navy to accept all donations for that does not lend itself to infection. A body saturated with purpose. Last October a campaign was started to raise the the virus of one disease easily falls a prey to any other required amount. A large part of this sum has been kind of infection. Our bodies should be kept strong in collected by the school children of America that their order to throw off these tubercular germs. How is old favorite might live. our body weakened? It is weakened by living in BIRTH REGISTRATION impure air, overheated houses, lack of sunlight, un There is hardly a relation of life, social, legal or wholesome food, lack of exercise, late hours, neglect economic, in which evidence furnished by accurate of colds, tonsils and adenoids, careless personal habits, registration of births may not prove of the greatest stooped shoulders, swallowing mucus, and unclean value, not only to the individual but to the public at liness, especially of the teeth. large. It is not only an act of civilization to register A good citizen is first a well citizen. Let us keep birth certificates, but good business, for they are used our bodies well and healthy. Be a good citizen, and in many practical ways. Travel abroad and immigra tion require certificates of birth. remember that “Health is Wealth.” Previous to 1903, when the State Board was estab lished, there was no law in Oregon requiring the filing “OLD IRONSIDES” of birth certificates, although it had been done to a The following interesting article was written by limited extent in the City of Portland since the late seventies. In the first few years following the passage one of our seventh grade pupils, Louis Orr: of the law registration both in Portland and through The old frigate, Constitution, or as she is more out the State was very incomplete, but by 1910 the commonly called, “Old Ironsides,” is probably the system had become well established except in remote most famous warship in the United States Navy. sections of the State, and there the loss in registration She was launched October 21, 1797, and was the flag was slight. In 1915 the Model Law for registration of vital sta ship of our Mediterranean Squadron in the war with tistics was adopted and that is the law under which we Tripoli. work. Under the 1903 law the County was the unit of During the war of 1812 “Old Ironsides” came into primary registration, with the health officer as regis her own again. It would be unfair to say that she trar, while under the Model Law there are over two won the war of 1812, but she bore the brunt of the hundred and fifty arbitrarily established local registra fighting, captured more than half of the British guns tion districts, each in charge of a local registrar. Ore gon was admitted to the U. S. Registration Area taken, and set a mark for other navies to respect. less than two years after the passage of the Model Law, That is a record worth preserving. entering on the first test with a very high percent. (Continued from page 1)
