The Falls City tribune., 1910-08-12
HOME TRAINING.
Instruction That Will Tend To Pre-
vent the Inception of Race
Destroying Diseases.
CBy Prof. VIM. McKeever.)

the medical inspection II eXamlna-
ton that is now being made the rule
in some of the large cities. Two
means of guarding the well-being of
society and the race are thus sub
served.
When the exact physical eondi-
ton of the children is known they
can be SO treated medically as to
obyiate mental inefficieney and moral
deterioration. Many cases of tru-
ancy, delinquency, and crime are now
apparently traceable to remediable
but neglected physical defects.
The presence of many r~ace-deter-
iorating diseases and malformations
of a chronic character will thus be
detected, so that their victims may
have all the sympathetic treatment
their cases call for and yet not be
permitted to propagate their kind.
2. Encourage the dissemination of
literature intended to instruct the
public in regard to the prevention of
tuberculosis. School committees, and
others in a position to do SO, will
find it feasible to issue to parents
and teachers a small pamphlet contain
ing simple but effective means of
achieving the end just named. The
campaign of education now being car
ried on in form of a tuberculosis eX-
hibit is a most commendable move
ment. Let all unite in extending its
influences.
3. The uses of alcohol, tobacco,
and other stimulents, narcotics and
irritants are to be regarded as more
or less serious to the well-being of
the race, ever if we admit that the
appetite for none of them is inherit
ed. Alcoholism is being gradually
out of the United States. 1t cannot
endure the higher tests of our civ
~ilization. In some states teachers
are required to instruct pupils in re-
gard to the hurtful nature of alcohol
stimulants. Such laws should be
made general.
There is coming a time when the
tobacco using practice must pass a
y1-4 &c ,{,1it,1 a~l fitnnGr n1Cn
yield its place. This is today the
most general and the most overmaste
ing of all radical habits. So strong
it is, in the case of thousands of men,
: that it's demands for satisfaction take
Nrecedence over the demands OF he
FAMILY for bread. That the tobacco
using habit is highly destructive to
the mental, moral and physical eff
cheney of boys has been proved be-
yond question. That it, in its net re-
suits, is beneficial to men has not
yet beer ShoWn. That the enorm-
Gus amount of capital and labor and
land now devoted to the tobacco in
dustry might better be devoted to the
production of bread for the hungry
millions seems to admit of no
room for debate.
To prevent boys and youths from
beginning the use of alcohol and
tobacco is a comparatively easy mat
ter, provided known methods be ap-
piled. To break up the fully acquired
habits of such use is, in most cases,
a practical impossibility. Therefore,
it is strongly recommended that all
interested persons exert their efforts
in behalf of prevention. Furnish par
ents and teachers with detailed meth
DDS of i~nstructing and training the
young to abstain from the foregoing
evils and the race will soon reap the
reward.
4. Statistics show that the disease
resulting from the ~perversion OF sex
are very prevalent. Debilitated bod
les, permanently impaired health
and disrupted homes, to say nothing
of the destructive effects upon Off
spring, follow in the wake of such
d~epravity. If parents and teachers
take a little trouble to procure the
proper literature and inform them
selves they can accomplish much by
way of overcoming the so-called "sin
of society and thus help to free the
race from a great blight. The evil
sex habits that overmaster and ever
lastingly ruin the lives of thousands
of young men and young women are
almost wholly a result of ignorance
and neglect in respect to training.
Prevention of morbid sexual habits is
comparatively easy in the ordinary
case if a little intelligent instruction
be begun early and carefully kept
up. On the other hand, when once
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