Milford chronicle., 1935-04-05
The DeLaware State
Health Council

victims of selfishness resulting from
the sale Of improper food and fake
medicine.
Human Body A Big Machine
/ No one can look at huge mod
ern printing press in operation tur-
ming out thousands of newspapers
per hour without marveling at the
wonderful machine. Yet that ma
chine is a simple child's toy compar-
ed with the human body. We look in
upon q big telephone exchange and
wonder at the intricate and compli-
Gated meehanisms which make It
possible for us to converse with
each other over long distances, yet
I it is simplicity itself as compared
with that human telephone system
that makes Thought as wen as
transmits It. It takes men Of genius
to make such machines and devices.
It takes men Of knowledge and skill
to operate them. But man is always
greater than the thing he makes. He
is always greater than the thing he
runs. The purpose of all this work
in health is to teach people about
this marvellous piece of machinery
with which each one has been pro-
vided, and to teach them how to
take care of it and to run it eff
GENTLY. An ignorant workman may
innOcently put an intricate bit of
machinery out of commission, so
may an ignorant man, innOcently
but alike needlessly, impair the
working of his own body. It is Of
course impossible for the ordinary
individual to know enough to do
more than to keep his body in rum
ming order. If something out of the
ordinary gets the matter with it, he
must call in the specialist, the phys
ician or the surgeon to get It right
again, or to take such steps as to
make It possible for Mother Nature
TO set it right again. Event to know
when to call the specialist is a bit
of most valuable health education.
In the 105th Psalm, David tells
briefly the wonderful story of the
Hebrews. Their leaving Egypt he
describes as follows: HE brought
them forth also with silver and gold:
and there was not one feeble person
among their tribes" When one
thinks that there were between two
and three million of these people as
they eneamped around Mt. Sinai, one
cannot help being impressed with
the sanitary arrangements which
made such a condition possible with
such a host of people in the process
OF migration. One of the very inter-
esting things about this migration
was the sanitary rules and regula-
tions as found in the Books of Lev
iticus and Deuteronomy, In order to
give them force they we're given the
divine sanc.ion-they were the laws
of God, Himself. We have no Moses
at present to lay down sanitary
laws, but we have a whole host Of
leaders In the realm of health who
make available to us the health
knowledge of the ages Ours is but
the privilege and the duty TO use
this knowledge.
On the special badge adopted some
years ago by the Delaware Inter-
scholastic Association as an evil
dence of ability to perform certain
physical feats there appears this
motto; "Sanitas Suprema.S To re-
gard health as the supreme cOnsid-
GRAFTON is to give it its proper place
in modern life. The ancients set up
as their aim Of education ~mens
sana IN cOrpOre sanO"-a sound
mind in a sound body If happiness
is Worthwhile aim Of life, which
we believe. and IL to serve Is the
means to that end. then we too can
do no better than set for ourselves
the ancient goal and work TO make
health supreme,