THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
ing the children against the disease while they are well,
thereby saving untold suffering.
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon. Please address all communications to
Ruthyn Turney, Manager.
LOCAL
JAS. H. McGREGOR
SUBSCRIPTION
Miss Skipton is off duty on sick leave.
Charley Morgan returned from Spokane on Satur
day evening.
Superintendent
Indian children to the number of 37,730 are now
attending district and public schools.
50 Cts PER ANNUM
Misses Eakin and Judd were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Downie at The Club last Sunday.
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NO DIPHTHERIA IN OREGON BY 1930
The Oregon State Board of Health at its annual
meeting in Salem, Tuesday, January 11th, adopted
this slogan and placed itself on record favoring an in
tensive campaign for the eradication of diphtheria.
The highest authorities on public health administration
are agreed that diphtheria can be practically made to
disappear by a simple and harmless procedure. Science
has developed an agent which will protect susceptible
persons, especially the young, against diphtheria.
Diphtheria is an important cause of death in the
State of Oregon, especially in its attack on children.
In 1926 there were 931 cases with 60 deaths from diph
theria, while in 1025 there were 1370 cases and 101
deaths.
In the effort to eradicate diphtheria by the end of
1930 it will be necessary to immunize, or protect, every
susceptible child in the state.
Diphtheria is a scourge which has a most insidious
onset and one of the most fatal in consequence.
Among the leading causes for the prevalence of
diphtheria in this state are the following:
1. The presence in the state of a large number of
susceptible individuals, especially young children.
2. The presence in schools of “carriers” of the
diphtheria germ.
3. Neglect by parents or guardians to obtain ex
pert attention for children in the early stage of this
disease.
4. Failure to report some cases of diphtheria with a
resultant disregard of proper quarantine regulations.
5. Failure to diagnose and to treat the disease
with sufficient doses of the specific remedy.
The old way was to wait until the child had diph
theria and then make a desperate effort to save its
life. Diphtheria antitoxin as a curative measure has
reduced the number of deaths from this disease about
one-half. Diphtheria antitoxin was used and still is
used to cure this disease. But we also have at our
command a substance called toxin-antitoxin which
will protect susceptible children against diphtheria.
The newer way is to prevent diphtheria by immuniz
Mr. Fisher has disposed of his five-passenger Essex
car and is now driving a coupe of the same make.
In spite of the snow and cold of the past week every
department of our school functioned normally. Not
so bad, eh?
The students of the school will regret to learn of the
death of Wallace Hatch on Jan. 18. Wallace was a
member of the Sophomore Class.
Last week on Wednesday evening, we had the first
snow of the winter, and it was pretty cold, too, for
this part of the world. However, our young people
reveled in it.
Kind thoughts attend the student details of garden
ers and farmers for volunteering to haul wood to the
power house during the recent cold snap with its at
tendant fuel oil shortage. We can almost say “bless
the boys.”
Ice skates were at a premium during a part of last
week. Some of our students who owned ice skates
had waited here for two years for sufficient ice to skate.
It seems really true that “everything comes to him
who waits”—if he waits long enough.
The girls’ details changed on Monday. This is al
ways a time of anxiety for all. The instructors in the
various departments speak well of their last details and
are hopeful that the new details will do as well as their
predecessors in the departments in which they are
now placed.
The senior boys had last Sunday evening’s chapel
exercises in charge and Jack Abraham acted as chair
man on this occasion. The boys had secured as speaker
of the evening Mr. Ronald Glover, a prominent attor
ney of Salem. It has seldom been our pleasure to
listen to a talk of greater interest or of better advice.
The topic for discussion was “Things We Know That
Are Unseen, ’ ’ and was most ably handled. In addition
to the address of Mr. Glover the orchestra played
“Devotion” by Mackie-Beyer, Raymond Haldane sang
“By the Side of the Road” by Weeks, Clifford Mc
Leod gave a recitation and a septet of boys sang
“Spanish Moon” by Johnson.