The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-03-30

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arise mos diseases and tendency to
disease.
Yet today so slow has been recogni
tion of the Importance of instruction
in the fur damental principles OF ap-
piled physiology as a means of COM
| plete living, that a thoroughly well
person afte middle life is the eNcep.
ton in any community.
On every side we find cnIcnic com
plant, ply ysical weakness WEAKNESS
and ovcrN helming gloom, which
might hay.. been prevented by proper
timely instructions. 1t was first be.
lieved that disease was displeasure
of God. Education, however. has
taught us II Is due TO our disregard
and ignoruLce Of the laws OF health,
therefore, We have come to the belief
that the civilization Of nCtion may
he measured by It's standard Of
health.
our government has conserved
about everything in our country eX.
cept human health. II conserves the
streams, 1t, lands, its forests, and its
animals. but man, for whom all Of
these things should be conserved, is
neglected OF left for the last con,
sideration.
II Is an inconceivable fact that in
the United States 1900 900 people
are constantly i'll with preyentable
diseases, which means monetary
loss of mil,lcns of dollars annually.
Furthermore. that large percentage
of all OF tlose who die are destroyed
by prevent, BILE diseases.
The important problem which cor
fronts us, therefore, is how this dread
ful and needless loss of llfa and prop.
erty may be- prevented in our coun'
try.
A great health movement Is sweep
ing over the entire world. Hygiene
has repudiated the out.worn doctrine
that mortality Is fatality. and must
exact ye1r after year fixed and in.
evltable sCcrlice 1t aims instead to
set free human life by applying mod,
ern science Science, which has rev.
olutionized every other hel Of human |
endeavor l. at last revoluiioni1ns |
the field of health conservation,
The practice Of medicine, which
for ages has been known a. tho
healing ant Is undergoing a gradual
but radical change This is due 10
the growing realization tha' on ounce
NJ prevention Is worth round Of
cure, and pl ysicians are finding I.uasnlI
FOR practic'ne preventive ~ -
Furthermore. - Z
DDS Of .SnG 0S'or J
- TreyUlrpr meth
z1s"-Vn medicine ere bcirs
'~D~d b the people themselves, as
iu,ss the great vogue today Of
epirg cur of doors. the popularity y
health foods and drinks; the de- !,
md for urcontaminated water sup "
es. certified milk, inspected meat "
A pur, foods generally, .he world r
le movement against alcohol, and |,
, legislation TO correct Wong con. |
ions Of lglor, and to safeguard tn" Is
orer. l.
lpe OF the most satisfying tasHs |
any man or woman today Is 10 /
.e part in this movement toward L
cr idarls Of perfect manhood or
Dur American ideals. dough i'm. =
wing. err, far Inferior % those NJ
eden o. Of ancient Greece, AM 4
n our superior scientific knowledge
. health ideas ought as o matter ~
4. 10 e,csl those OF anv other age.
IN litics have city departments OF
,lth which look after the health OF "
ir respective municipalities. All
tss have state boards Of health n
ich exDSlsr all of their activities
the prevention OF the illness and b
,th of their citizens. Why should s
our national government have a
,artment of public heath, having
its object the ph,sic1l welfare
IFS people and their protection II
m prey,ntable diseases d