Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-18


An army of two million, to be known
as The American Health Guard, having
for it's object the upbuilding of a more
efficient nation, physically as we'll as
mentally, is the plan outlined in con-
nection with an appeal ito the Ameri-
can People" now being issued by Pres
ident E. E. Rittenhouse of the Life
Extension Institute recently organized
by prominent men, including EXPIRES
ident William H. Taft, General w. C.
Gorgas, Professor Irving Fisher, Rob
ert W. de Forest, Frank a Vanderlip,
Charles H. Sabin and H. A. Ley.
No fees are required to join this new
army of national defense" according
to the enlistment cards sent out from
the New York headquarters at 25 West
45th Street. 1t aims to stimulate pub
lie interest Gin every wisely designed
movement to prevent life-waste and
upbuild national vitality"
Duties After Enlistment.
To enlist in this newest army of de-
Tense one merely pledges That will,
in SO far as my circumstances and OPP
portunities will permit, make an earn
est effort to do these things:
1. To inform myself upon the sub
ject of personal, community and house
hold Hygiene, and to myself obey the
laws CT health.
2. To encourage the practice of in
dividuals having periodic health exam
nations to upbuild physical efficiency
and to detect disease in time to check
or cure it.
8. To give support and encourage
ment, and to urge my friends to do the
same, to the public health service and
officials who are laboring to protect
the most precious asset of the nation.
4. To encourage schools, churches,
social and civic bodies and employers
to give as a patriotic duty all consist
ent help in stimulating public interest
in and in spreading knowledge of the
rapidly advancing science of health
and life conservation.
s.. To cooperate with an advise the
Life Extension Institute in it's purpose
to reduce life-waste and to guard and
strengthen the vitality and vigor of
our race"
To POpularize Health Work.
During the recent years there has
been an experimentally growth of pop
ular sentiment in favor of the conser-
walton of health and life," says Presi-
dent Rittenhouse who initiated the
new organization. "The National
Health Guard will give the average cit
izen an opportunity to give his moral
support and encouragement to this
health uplift movement at the cost of
very slight effort and without charges
or fees for membership. Every friend
of the movement is urged to distribute
the enlistment cards and to secure re-
cruits.
THE urgent need of upbuilding Am
erican vitality is especially emphasiz-
ed just now by the conflict in Europe,
where modern methods of warfare
have made the most extraordinary de-
mands upon the strength and endur-
ance of both soldiers and non-comoat-
ants. This lesson is of special import
ance when we consider certain evil
dences of apparent decline in the pow
er of our young, as well as older people
to resist chronic disease.
But whether it is declining or not,
American vitality should be strength
ened to meet the constant increasing
strain due to our strenuous and
changing civilization. Surely, If our
nation is to endure by the sword, we
will need strong hands to WELD it; and
II we are to have 'warless' nation. it