The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-06-13
High Time for Us to "Wake
Up" On Vital Matters

= animation to win the war, we haI
been and are today asleep on vita
20 matters that would play a very in
&c portant part in our heroic effort
- make the world a fit place in whic
n to live.
Our absolute disregard of the grea
but preventable, death rate anon
infants; our total ignorance of tn
= laws of health which disQualifies
: large per cent of our adult popula
ton; our seeming indifference to va
rious preventable diseases that ex
act heavy toll annually from mer
and women, our apparent blindness
to millions of dollars worth of food
and property destroyed by pests and
carelessness, are among the great
conservation plan we should adopt.
Are we pound foolish and penny
wise? 1t looks so!
Perhaps in this hour of great ex-
pediency we have not time to cor
rect every evil. 1t should have
been started long ago, but let the
past be forgotten, and there is no
better time than NOW to begin this
great campaign of education. 1t is
certain that the health aud preser-
| walton Of our race, from infancy up,
must be maintained if we are to
conquer present and future battles.
We must increase health efficiency
from Is to well-nigh 100 per cent
to occupy the place in the world
that should be ours. It's nothing
short of crime to let these avoid.
able and allimportant deficiencies |
in our national and personal lives
60 by default.
Men have been making laws
since the foundation of the world
but very few to safeguard the health
of the human race. Stop a moment
and see if this statement isn't cor
rect! It's duty we owe the mother
hood of this country and a righteous
obligation to our nation to see that
the children Of America come into
this world under favorable condi-
lions and surroundings, that they
may have a chance to live and de-
Velop and take their stand among
men and women Education is the
UatchwOrd How many mothers
know how to properly take care of
he child before birth as we'll as af-
erWardS
We spend millions of dollars in
rying to improve our hogs, chickens,
attle and to eradicate the tick, stop
he boil weeviI, prevent blight on
rees, kill the potato bugs and scores
t other things detrimental to stock
nd farm products, and the desired
1formation and remedy is available
t all times, but how much do we
now about or spend TO kill the
erms in the human body, prevent |
ltestinal disorders and the various
Their preventable disorders aud con-
7rve health and life?
Surely the human race deserves
rst consideration Perhaps it is
lken for granted that we as the
lghest type of intelligence should
now these things. But how Our
ook-learning is secured at schools
I'D without we are taught the great
WIS of health and hygiene and the
arlous preventable methods that
'velop from time to time how are |
e TO know?
Our death rate each year IN
merica from preventable diseases
cTime) is very little, if any, less
an the mortality rate among as
any fighters in the allied cause, !.
d yet we look upon war as the
eatest destroyer of man-power in
e world. We are asleep on such -
alters and have been all the time. M
We are of the opinion that the
nerican people would be health,
J, more proficient and altogether
tte1 off if the mothers of our coun-
had been allowed to exercise the tn
hit OF suffrage years ago. The
'ther brings the child into this RI,
rid and therefore is more capable a.,
knowing its conditions and needs snI
an the man who as a rule is al o.
'st a stranger to his child. 1t is ~
tain that if the good women had Oh,
IN allowed to vote less inconsis- th,
It laws would be in force TODAY GO
i there would be q cleaner and 90 &c
re home loving, God fearing and c cn
.erty loving race of people. be
EheV would not stand for a law =
1t asked as a patriotic aud pleas ;or
duty to save wheat for a starv- Ho
world and then allow the brew ~
IS and distiIleries to waste mil cn,
IS of pounds annually; they would ~
nand that the clean, sober man. c c
men of the greatest country on nes s
tn be kept clean and sober bv w.
same laws wherever thew Do W.