School children of Alaska are required
to take the following test on tuberculo
sis. The children in Moose Pass school
are too young to be well-informed about
the dread disease but answered many of
the questions correctly. The test is
printed in the Miner because grown-ups
may be interested in learning just how
much they know or do not know about tu
berculosis. The correct answers are on
the last page*
1 - Tuberculosis can be inherited?
Yes.No.
2 - Tuberculosis can be cured?
Yes.No.
3 - There is a special serum to prevent
Yes.No.tuberculosis?
4 - Tuberculosis is most frequent in the
age group*
1-14.
15-35.
36-50..
Over 50
5 - A positive reaction to a tuberculin
test meansj
..You have active tuberculosis
........You do not have tuberculosis
..You have tuberculosis germs
in your body.
6 - Tuberculin testing in Alaska schools
is financed byt
.The Federal Government
..The Territorial Government
.The Sale of Christmas Seals
..All three combined
7 - An X-ray of the chest tells the doc
tor!
..You have flat feet
.If tuberculosis germs have dam
aged the lungs
......You have tonsilitis
8 - Which is the most important in re
covering from tuberculosis:
......Outdoor exercise
.Rest in bed
.Hot, dry climate
.Diet of milk and eggs
9 - Tuberculosis is caught most commonly
..Getting your feet wet byx
......Sleeping with the windows open
......Contact with an active case of
tuberculosis
10 - Which of the following diseases
caused the greatest number of
deaths in Alaska last yeari
• ...•••Cancer ......Measles
......Tuberculosis.*.•• •Pneumonia
Mrs, Roycroft has had a letter from
Mrs. Bill Estes» written on shipboard,whc
is en route to the States with her child*
ren, the women and children of the base
being evacuated from Kodiak as well as at
the post at Anchorage.
M. M. Hhompson is expected to arrive
from Jonesville to join Mrs. Thompson in
spending Christmas with Mrs. Leora Roycroft.
Mrs. Thompson was contemplating a trip to
the States but has decided to remain in
Alaska.___—
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0 OUR FRIENDS AT MOOSE PASS -
HOPE ~ LA'.VING - AND ALL ALONG THE
HIGHWAY...
;£\ mong our assets we like to count
the only one that money cannot buy
your good will*
And so at this Holiday Season
we extend to you -
The best of wishes for the coming
year.
SEWARD
ALaSKA
L
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joying Thompson of Ketchikan was the
first Alaska man to die in this World War.
He was an ensign in the U. S. navy and was
killed in the raid on Pearl Harbor.
Charles D. Davis of Hope was the second
Alaskan to be slain in this war. He had
- been in the navy for several years and was
a member of the crew of the battleship
Arizona, the only battleship sunk curing
the Pearl Harbor air raid.
Yesterday the Japs captured the Ameri
can liner, President Harrison, on the high
seas. The liner was en route to the
Orient.
One thousand Japs were able to capture
the marine garrison on Wake Island yester
day. The defenders foiled their repeated
air assaults for more than a week. In this
engagement the Japs lost one cruiser, one
destroyer and four planes.
Four prominent Japanese Americans were
interned in the States yesterday when they
had been proven guilty of subversive ac
tivity.
Time for the United States to take a
leaf from Stalin's book and stand Fifth
columnists against a wall and shoot them
dead instead of feeding and lodging them
at the taxpayers' expense. War can't be
conducted humanely. Far from it.