The Calumet news., 1912-05-28
DR.. GEISfl ASKS
FOR new METHODS
NO PLACE WHERE GIsLS CAN
LEARN A5oUT A woMAN's
slNEss.

That there is blot on the human
brain, that We are bringing up ON
children To 40 into Il human junl
heap. institutions fer the insane)
that we spend millions year e
keep I'D these Institutions and thar
\ conditions may be bettered only by
education. legislation and co-opera
( ton were the assertions of Or. caro-
! lyn Geisel when she addressed the
women Of Pontiac's literary. clubs al
/ the Congregational church SUNDAY
evening. Dr. Geisel is 10 visit Calu-
met tomorrow and in consequence her
remarks at Pontiac are OF local inter-
est. She said in part:
In the past three decades We have
doubled our population but We have
had quantity instead of quality. Dur
ing the past 80 years there has been
an Increase OF 800 per cent among the
insane ana 300 per cent among the
feeble minded. yet we are proud OF our
country and make ourselves heard
across the big. old ocean while as a
matter OF fact our American eagle Is
screeching of degenerating nation
Fifty per cent Of our feeble minded
are feeble minded because their par
ents were feeble minded and the 9TH
er per cent We make ont of perfectly
good stun. one OF the most efficient
ways By which we manufacture hui
man junk is with wet goods "
BY chart Or. Geisel showed the
effects OF alcohol upon the human
brain. "Forty-five per cent of the in
sane are insane because their fathers
We're drunkards," she said. "There
are laws and rules To help in the rails
ing OF swine we are not half as wise
as the men who are engaged in that
business. We need better men. we
need TO make laws and have them
enforced. There is hardly another
country in the world that makes laws
FOR the run of making them.
The boys are smoking now just the
same as they were before the anti
cigarette law was passed. They are
smoking those little white coffin nails
and running their nervous system.
a great deal of this mischief
comes because we don't know. One
way out is to study raising human be-
ings Men have studied raising pigs
from 300 pound pib i'm 1900 to LOO
pound pig in 1911 and permit me to
say / thought that was going some.
The man raising pigs does it system
atically.
THE average height of men in the
standing army of tile world has had
10 be lowered from five feet six inches
IN 1883 to five feet i'm 1901. We arc
looking to the conservation OF our
country but what is the use of that IL
We do not conserve our human be,
ings? Last year we spent 90 millions
taking care of the blind, nine out of
every 10 blind babies are blind be-
cause Of one disease, the result of
wild oats sowing. Education and a
little law would help. See to il when
a man marries that he has no trans
Irissable disease.
when ! was first asked If ! wanted
the ballot / said, no, indeed, I have
enough 10 do now, but I have changed
my mind and now | want the ballot
to protect the product of the home,
The business Of women is raising men
and we haven't been tending ITO busi-
ness. There is not a place where
woman can be taught that occupation.
We have domestic science i'm our
schools but the course takes the most
time teaching our daughters how to
make angel food and fudge.
I'VE need education and legislation
but what we need most is co-opera-
ton We must watch the food sup
ply and cooperate that it may be
pure. AS human family we are not
up TO our highest and best. We must
work together 10 bring TO our state
glorious sons and beautiful daugh-
ters"