The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-15

smallpox. George Eliot is also point. During
her lifetime she often scandazed her friends by
moral conduct in matters which described
after her death the making the post-mortem
animation declared she could have OF her mis-
deeds" by operation!
And it is the ills the flesh which lie at the root
Of insanity For ages the insane looked upon
criminals and punished" having minds
but know that insanity disease head
ache, for which one deserves as little to be punished
The experiment conducted by Buckle at his
hospital for the insane throws flood of light
made his mind that number of his patients
ferng from physiological defects than mental
from these he selected hundred and operated them
Az result ninety recovered the normal use of their
faculties. Truly the flesh is closely knitted
More striking still is the profound influence of bodily
followers have rendered the nestimable service
festation in actions of abnormal body. A friend
mine, eight pentenary chaplain, assured
at least ninety of the criminals institution
where he served the victims defective
They needed medical rather than punishment.
quote Woods Hutchinson, Crime is broadly speaking
largely medical problem" Most of the crimes which
men jailed and executed had their original inception
in defective heredity in vicious early environment in
bad social conditions and in 1T precisely
when the forces low ebb impulses
animal nature, kept down and sight by higher
interests of normal manhood apt rush in upon
the consciousness and endanger, sometimes
said. we have long enough been committing crimes
against criminals; and it is time beginning
see that crime and insanity be eliminated only by
going deep into the physical degeneration
The claims of the flesh imperative to the
economist. Without health there can be no wealth. Ill
ness consumes all and produces nothing Health
to children the chiefest of all economic
nations production other things being equal is in
proportion to its physical stamina generation of weak
lngs sustain a system of produc
ton adequate to feed and clohe and shelter great
people. Money avals nothing when Drawn is lacking
What Bacon says of all along Meth
is the sinews of is trvialy said where
the snews of mems is base and effemnate
failing" And when the working population is over
taken with tuberculosis neurashena and alcoholism
nation is truly failing be com
PEELED to learn that process of manufacture which
physical stamina is uneconomical folly
that nothing is cheap when it human degenera
ton to produce it.
And it is physical deterioration which at the base
of most of the morbid discomfort which ferments
cety especially in the large cities In the long
on the whole, only the healthy is the happy
Disease is to breed unrest Give health and
day. exclaimed Emerson and make the pomp of
emperors ridiculous Nothing is more certain than that
normal society possible only when its members have
normal bodies.
Granting all this have abundant concern
when gather up statistics of our own land
Our high mortality rate is appalling when consider
how much room have about in and how much
air to breathe Think the thousands upon thousands
OF drug stores dotting the land each year. according
to the Governments statistics manufacture twenty
five million of drugs for export alone What our
domestic consumption of nosrums and dopes a
mass of maladies must be suffering from need
such oceans of cure And annually dropping into
society medical than twenty
thousand physicians with their professional brothers
ready at work they make a pretty army
And how suggestive it is that sick enough
nation to needtsuch army! Degenerave and organic
maladies according statistics
to be the increase while hospitals asylums
constantly expanding. And what list accidents we
suffer from 1t is actually computed that needlessly
XIII and lnlure In our industries each many
were killed and'wounded in the RussoJapanese Civil
wars combined In other words accidents and
vocational diseases draining rapidly as if we
were carrying bloody constantly. And how
many there with impaired vitality who have drag
one foot after another shall know There
twenty million Inconsistencies in this land" said
tor to me, and 'al women and nine of are
suffering from constitutions said another very eminent
medical authority in my hearing.
These facts need to give pause. Nothing be
more allacous than to charge such widespread condi
tons the individuals is done; such state of
affairs must be attributable to conditions beyond the
dviduas' control The high tension at which we work
the crowdng together into cities where the air polluted
and the strain severe, the of aduerated
drugs the carelessness of factory managers
quent loss of life and limb the ignorance of the
people regarding the simplest rules health and the
nervous strain and attendant living society
where must compete and struggle every
sy, the water to drink and a place to seep-all
these and many Others into which not time to
are the causes that make for physical degeneration
And when We have physical degeneracy we may expect
all the other follow. Speaking of Rome in such
straits. Matthew Arnold said:
On that hard pagan world disgust
And secret lOathng fell:
Deep WEAKNESS and stated lust
Made human life a hell"
If for millions of population conditions at