The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-08-17
CAROLYN CEISEL
IN HEALTH TALK
HOLDS INTEREST
Traces Back Great Number
of Insanity and Criminal
Cases Directly to Heredi.
tary Causes.
Hits Liquor Traffic in Caus.
tic DenunciatiOn of Evils
Attending Social, Physical
and Moral Phases.

With clear skies above. the largest
number of campers in its history and
with a big attendance at the main
tent. the Richmond ChautauQua's Sec
ond day opened auspiciously. Sunshine
Hawks conducted his Bible hour, ex-
pounding the twenty-third Psalm by
means Of personal experiences and
with Enthusiastically original COM
ments. He was followed by DR.. Caro-
Ign Geisel, who gave the first OF her
six lessons in health matter on the
subject "The Blot on the Brain or
How Much Is Your Father to Blame"
She swept her audience along with
her while she turned her rapid-fire bat
terry of facts and figures on the en-
trenched vices of society and long
standing conditions that give birth to
degeneracy and disease.
At 2 o'clock Sybil Sanderson Pagan
repeated the hit she made at the last
Chautauqua with her whistling and pi-
ano solos. She was accompanied by
the Teetor boys and followed by P.
Marion Simms, who gave a virile talk
on What Must the Church Do to Be
Saved"
DR.. Geisel is a physician and sur
geon of twenty years experience. In
1895 she was stricken down with hem
orrhages and given up to die. But her
friends sent her to the Battle Creek
Sanitarium where she recovered and
became a convert to the Battle Creek
idea. She is now giving up her life
teaching others the simple methods
| which brought her back to health. She
| devoted the mornings discussion to a
plea for more drastic handling of the
degeneracy which is spreading among
American people.
| Tremendous Drains.
1--WE spend $9O,00O.000 year to care
for the insane" she said. Insanity
has increased five hundred per cent In
the last fifty years. sos 100000 we give
for the care of feeble-minded. Between
every two New Years. days we spend
$3.50, OOO,O to care for criminals, of
which we now have on hand 100000.
| what is it that has created this
great pile of human junk? Well, fifty
two per cent of the insanity, forty per
cent of the epilepsy, fifty per cent of
the criminality and fifty per cent of
the idiocy can all be traced to direct
heredity.
| According to the Mendelian law,
the babes of a father and mother CO.
mingle the traits of the parents but
in the next generation, out of every
four children one is like its grandfath'
er, inc is like its grandmother and the
other two are comingled.
! do you know that in spite of the
| fact that we have statistics covering
almost everything having to do with
hogs and cows, we have not yet built
up bureau of statistics in which is
registered the facts about our human
animals? You ought to see to it, WON
en-, that your baby's birth is register
ed. 1t will mean much to you one of
these days"
Hits Liquor Traffic.
With ten minutes of singing invec-
tive and imprisoned appeals, DR.. Gels
Ell paid her respects to the whiskey
traffic. "Seventy-two per cent of de-
generate people," she cried, must
trace their degeneracy to whiskey.
The great Won Schaefer, with the Ger
man government behind him, spent
eight years in Munich and found, as a
result of his Investigations, that of
every one hundred babies from beer
drinking parents, seventy-two per cent
were defective. Later on, he spent
eighteen months in rock-ribbed, prohi-
bition Maine, having as assistants four
OF the nOSC oUlCl0uC men IN the COun-
try, and he found that, after careful re-
search, Maine gives seventy-one and
one-half sound children out Of every
one hundred. If man wants to go off
by himself and drink and ruin himself,
let him do it. But, in heavens name,
If you call yourself man, don't dare
to ruin any unborn babes with it. If
you must be a drunkard, don't be a
father.
"Of every two babes born, one dies
before it is grown up. Say, If we lost
one-half of all our hogs, wouldn't the
country make how about it? Why are
so many babies lost? One reason Is
that so many defective people become
parents l thank God that you have
Dr. Hurry in Indiana who was brave
enough to get a law passed in 1905
stopping the inter-marrtage Of the I'M
fit. l believe that every man should
| be made to show clean bill OF health
before. marriage. 1t is time we were
stopping this thing of making junk
pile out of our sound children.