Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-03
GOOD HEALTH
QUESTION BOX
BY DIR. JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG
HAVE YOU A HEALTH PEDIGREE!


NATURAL living is RS necessary for the
IN physical welfare OF a man as for that
of a dog or horse. but the average mar
takes far better care OF his well-bred ami.
mails than he does of himself
A man who had two young sons and four
full.blooded dogs was asked why he en-
ployed a tutor for his sons and gave the
dogs his personal attention. His reply
was my dogs have pedigree"
A registered Holstein COW sold recently
| for $50, 900 You can buy an unpedigreed
| COW for $50,
A registered Collie dog you can buy for
| $1,000. A mongrel cur may be good ''ordi-
nary" dog. but you would hesitate to pay
a dollar for him.
The significance of pedigree must be at
least as great in man az in COW or a
poodle, and yet how lit e attention is given
TO human breeding.
There are human thoroughbreds and hu-
man mongrels. but no distinction is made
between them.
We have no book in which is recorded
the names OF well born human beings.
We have no fixed standards of quality
in human stock.
IL lS iIIle we u a i"'r VI
pedgreed human beings and ceased to be
satisfied with hit-or-miss mongrel stock.
That is the aim of the eugenics move
ment and the recently organized Eugenics
Registry--to improve the qualities Of the
race and to develop these to their utmost.
Dr.. David Starr Jordan. Of Stanford Uni
versity; Prof. G. b. Davenport. of the
Eugenics Record Office; Luther Burbank.
the plant wizard, and other scientists are
the directors of the Eugencs Registry.
If you have fine boy or girl who has
a decent pedigree. why not have him reg
istered? Is IL not as worth while for
boy to have ped gree as a horse or
poodle dog?
Every man and woman should enlist in
the battle 70" the future good of the race
The first sep Is to take an inventory of
yourself .aEe a stock account Of your
health.
Get an expert to inspect your stomach
size up your liver, test the efficiency of
your kidneys heart and lungs, count your
blood cells. feel your arteries, find your
blood pressure. take your weight and meas
ure your strength.
Find out just what your safety margin
is, and what your bad habits have been
doing to you.
How foolish to say you cannot afford the
money or. the time to do ths
Your vital assets are your most important
possession and II means much more to your
descendants than the money value Of your
estate.
VIII your children care for million II
you hand down TO them tainted blood?
What sort Of health did your parents be-
stow upon you?
Whatever health handicap you have may
be overcome by a determination to live
simple, rational life and give nature
chance. Nature, plus a mans intelligent CO.
operation, is a combination that can work
miracles.
Start at once to live the simple life We
are too much tanned: too sophisticated
Listen to the call of the Wild This
is what It says Get out doors! Escape
from house prisons into the open! Sleep out
by aid of porch. balcony or wide-open win (
dows Eat simple food and chew II well.
Drink eight glasses Of water a day.
Why not join the hundred-year club and
try to live a century?
Begin now Ask the Good Health Ques-
ton Box to help you.