The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-27
1--WE EAT TOO MUCH, J"
ARGUES DR., HURTY.
Health Authority Tells the
Methodist Brotherhood TO
Check Appetite.
RUIN OF RACE AHEAD
Prevention of Disease and In
sanity Better Than Hos
pitals and Asylums.

American STOCK Is OeseneEatInS from
wrong habits OF living. and Will. if the
present rate continues. become eN-
tinct within lew generations, was
the declaration made oy DR.. ]. y.
Hurty, secretary of the state board of
health, 10 an audience at the First
Methodist church last evening
We are headed for an iceberg he
said. Unless we change our course.
disaster awaits US. Degenerauve NAL
aides are constantly increasing. Can
Ger. heart failure, diabetes. Brights
disease and insanity are maNing rapid
strides. We must wave the red Ian
| tern. Society is bound for collision
with natures unalterable laws"
Arguing that as Des Cartes long
ago said, hygiene and public santa
tion can save the race. he said that
the krst and essential step In gaining
control of these conditions is vital
statistics.
Want Health Records.
Vital statistics is a form of human
bookkeeping. 1t is more important
that we have complete record OF
| the human beings in Indiana than that
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of the collars and cents IN the state
| We can't tell what is destroying us or
ever know how far we nave succeeded
toward eradicating IL unless we have
definite and accurate data 10 go by.
These old folks about us are help
! less. Nothing can save the gray
| heads. They are probably beyond re
call. But we can save the children.
o we must save the babies. That
| is the hope of the race-good breed
| ing of first-class human stock. / be-
| lioye in segregating the detectives to
prevent their reproduction. Our char
ity at present is only half charity.
and unless it goes farther will do
more harm in the long run than good.
Six Thousand Insane Persons.
Just think! We have six thousand
insane in our Indiana hospitals. Dur
/ ing the past twenty-five years we have
increased their average length of life
| eight years. and that means all told
900 years of insane life. You see!
| Our charity is merely pinng up the
| burdens on our shoulders. Some day
those shoulders will break under the
burden we ourselves have created.
| 'Of course. we must take good care
of these people: that goes without
saying. but we must not depend on
cure. All, that's the root OF the whole
matter"
! When he came to his favorite theme
of preventive medicine, the doctor
grew more tense and earnest. Lis
ten." he said. leaning forward and jab
bling the facts into his hearers with
short, quick jerks of his fist Listen
This attempt to cure these diseases
is the most insane thing society is
trying to do. 1t is insane, foolish
silly And these so-called practical
business men who advocate more hos
pitfalls. more asylums, more idiot in
stitutions. more cure. cure, curt, are
utopian and short sighted. Why won't
they spend a tithe as much on preven
ton, Instead of sending a lot o
blockheads to the state Legislature u
pass laws on things about which they
understand nothing, why don't they
have experts who are we'll informed
make their laws
We Eat Too Much.
We are a foolish people. We ca
ourselves sick; we drink ourselve:
into the grave: with our gruttony. oul
stuff1ng. our ignoring Of natures laws
we are preparing ourselves for the
wrathe that is TO come. not on the
other side Of the grave-it won't wal
that long-but on this.
One of our biggest problems. anC
ane about which scarcely anybod!
. takes the trouble 10 give a thought
is how to eliminate the unfit. Its owl
= excrement is a deadly poison to ever!
= living organism; and the unfit, the in
, competent to live, the detectives arr
) society's excreta and society IL de
= stroying itself by its own poisons
| Let US not try TO stop II by curint
the condition only, let us set 10 worl
. at prevention and avoid repetition o
these conditions in the future"
Wants TubercuIin Test
Asked by a Palladium reporter wha
; he thought about the tuberculin test
| he said: "It is very essential tina
we take that precaution against los
| of our babies. Compulsory bottlini
is a good thing too: ought TO be dom
I by all means No restaurant shoult
be permitted to sell milk as a bever
, age, except in small bottles. Thi
think of dipping milk is filthy an'
, spreads disease"
The Methodist Brotherhood, befor'
, which DR.. Hurry appeared, will dis
. continue its meetings during Decem
Der and January on account Of tn
r Honeywell revival. but has secures
the Rev Dr. Barnes of Fostoria. o
TO give a lecture on The Rainbow
Farm" at the meeting on Wednesday
, February 25.