The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-26

ignorance Of Dur people. Take for
Instance an epidemic Of typhoid fever.
That is simply an outgrowth Of un-
cleanliness There Is not "a decent
town but VIII be ashamed of an epi-
demic OF typhoid fever, for IT is oc-
casioned only by internal ndecency. ]
have been in towns where they have
not had case of typhoid fever for
years whyg Because at the head
Of their city government they elected
a man of science, and on their cltS
council they placed men who were
gentlemen. It's too late in the world's
history to simply preach to be good.
We must know what to do. fnefh-
cheney gets you Tito more trouble than
anything else We arc coming to ths
happiost age in cur history simply be-
cause we have learned to take an
ounce of prevention instead of pound
Of cure The way to Judge a town
cr community Is To see whether its
tllcys arc clean. Look up and down
the alleys, and If they're clean, the
mayors a gentleman. And If there's
q woman's club in town that's worth
anything, the groceries will be cleen
why / think, by aud by wen even
begin to educate our children scien-
tincaly. oh, Of course we aren't cN.
pccted to take much interest in our
own children. ! sec YOU smile a.
that but have como To say 1t seri-
ously No, we farm our babies out
tC the sunday schools for religion an
to the teachers for education. We put
good systems, good books. good teach
org into our schOo,s ana then we wen
der why we don't turn out moTe
gcniuses. We have over 1000. 600
preachers in our country ana So we
say. why don't we have more saints
Once in i while you lind PROCESSING
christian in chafsc ur large factory
and then we say, Why don't his in
nuencc count for murc| Why? Why
because they Know him They worl:
with him day after day and become
thoroughly acquainted with him. Why
Is it thai we don't have greater re-
suits i'm all these departments of lifS!
MS because We don't lay the right
foundation.
American Home Failure.
There Is one organization that we
are not Keeping up, ana that is the
home Why arc we failures? BE-
,ausc we arc not good animals. We
rrr., live right We take too mu,h
dope. We are nation of drug llcnds.
Last year over S1OO,OOO.O 900 was spent
IN patcnf medicines in our country.
have examined the antecedeuts of
those 400 seniuscs and found that
they all came from the kind of fam
les We would expect them to come
from" MIR. OFT then cited number
on instances IN which hcIedity had
produced the great artists. musicians
and sen GLARS OF cur world. "Mcndeis-
schn. Bach. Mcyerbchr all sprans
from musical families, even as the
Lees wcre always a family Of fighters
tr,,o,,I,,v s'ud,ru,iu.. Co,utrv
All thc dabaurhrry or a bum,, ,
,.,ro c,r,.. r,.on, i,s Gas, Ma MN
r,or ra,lod in his business cnrccr nm
u no CAUGHT his n,stimc rho ycIln,y
,trool. ah,,vs In "a man when bc sc,,,s
XII ~, m. mis,,kc ,yo mako i'm oiir
,sovsrnm.,t r. ybon wc hermit o,.
ia,,. 40 FAN t,t,, ,b, hands a. mon vii,
rro ,r,norni Ycu'ye cot to ngbt ey-
orv inah or tho way to kecn "A com
rnunity clean. Do YOU know. there,
trc preIehcc don't like. and that'
one VINO iSt klll-1"N' ne thlnks every
time he sees man ENJOYING himself
he is goipg to INC bad why J never
faw y man 50 very Tar wrong II ne haI
Joy Of clean nature IN MS NE
eve used to think schools werc q
place 90 mako people over I'm. That Is
not right Schcois Of that kind arc
The ones that urn out your poor law
y,rs. AMI youg quack doctors. rae
fault thcr" lies with the teacher. Tn
mcanest thing IN the world IN the ed.
uoatloual line, think. Is for teacher
10 encourage "a boy or girl t. work