The Forrest City Times And Herald

LOSS OF POOR EYESIGHT

An organization called the Sight Conservation Council has been formed to wage a campaign for better eyesight. It will work to avert the serious educational and physical losses due to defective vision.

Even if people never have extremely serious eye trouble, defective eyesight is a considerable handicap. It causes headaches and other forms of fatigue, and lessens anyone's capacity for work. A person thus suffering from lowered vitality as the result of overstrain of the delicate nerves of the eye, is in poor condition for any kind of activity.

Children are particularly apt to suffer from this cause without realizing just what the trouble is. Their eyes get tired quickly and they can not study with any earnestness. They fall behind in school, and conclude that it is no use to try to keep up with their classes. Children who are thus backward are more apt to get into rebellious ways, and they may acquire lawless habits that will have serious results. If their eyes had been properly treated at the start, they would have been able to work with so much better spirit that they could have maintained a better position in their school.

There are said to be 25,000,000 people at work in this country who suffer from defective eyes. In the great majority of cases the difficulty is not serious and could be cured by correct fitting of spectacles or glasses.

It is peculiarly hazardous when young people who need to wear spectacles are allowed to go year after year without them. Their eye troubles may become greatly aggravated, threatening sometimes entire loss of vision, when by prompt attention their defects could be arrested from becoming more serious.

Children's eyes should be examined while they are in school, and parents earnestly urged to provide proper treatment.