Montana labor news., 1938-04-14
KEEP YOUR BODY
CLEAN IN AND OUT

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Each day brings its measure of
gladness to one, of sadness to an
other. Men have visioned and
planned Utopias where only glad
ness would prevail; yet even in this
mad world so much of the sadness
occasioned by i'll health and pre-
mature death is self-imposed. Lack
of knowledge contributes in a large
degree to this d~eplorable situation;
lack of self-control is another factor
of Importance; most sad of all, we
find a large sector of humanity with
out the means to carry out the
knowledge were it available to them.
Confronted by the spectre of pow
erty, the health educator is obvious
ly helpless; he can only proceed to
disseminate knowledge with the
hope that the adequate means for
using that knowledge will soon be
shared by all through the efforts of
those qualified to lead the fight
against outrageous inequality. And
he can heap such ridicule on self
indulgence that high-minded people
will forever shun it. Thus can he
hope to bring about much gladness
where there was sadness before.
No day passes but that somewhere
a paper reports: ''The well-known
Mr.. Good died suddenly of a heart
attack this morning. He had just
celebrated his 54th birthday y;
or, Mrs Blank suffered a stroke
last night and passed away early
today. She was A years old and
apparently in good health up to the
time of her passing"
But was death for Mr.. Good Sud
dem? Was the good woman well
up to the time of sudden death?
Because life terminated abruptly,
the casual-minded are ready to be-
lieve that the result had no suffi-
cient cause. But nature does not
work that way. AS a matter of fact,
Mr.. Good had started on the road
toward premature death many years
before, perhaps in infancy, and the
apparent health of Mrs. Blank was
but an outer camouflage. The subtle
poisons of administration had been
slowly weaving themselves through
their bodies; years of incorrect liv-
ing, resulting in the retention of
acid waste matter to be absorbed
into the bloodstream and pollute it,
at last eliminated in death without
warning, in these particular in
stances. Death, of course, is not
always sudden; sometimes it is the
finale to many years of prolonged
suffering. But, as the famous sur-
geon, DR.. George w. Grille, of Cleve-
land, has said, '"There is no natural
death-all deaths from so-called
natural auses are merely the end
point of a progressive acid satura-
ton"
DR.. Rasmus Alsaker, information
ally known physician, lecturer, and
health teacher, has said, Growing
old is largely due to allowing the
body to grow foul and filthy within.
1t is almost a comedy to watch men
and women give the outer surface
of the skin most scrupulous care.
But they allow their bowels, a very
important structure, to be so foul
and filthy that absorption of a little
of their contents, poisons the blood.
With a clean skin, they permit ac-
emulation of filthy masses in the
Joints, the muscles, the nerves, the
walls of the arteries, the surfaces of
the mucous membranes, and the
cavities of the head-they allow
filth and poisons to gather in any
portion of the body where fllth ana
poison can cling. That is why they
are diseased, and grow old and de-
crepit; that is why they lose their
good judgment; that is why they
lose their physical agility and their
mental dexterity. Let it be known
that internal filth and disease are
one and the same thing" 9
Nature has provided mar with a
very wonderful body; she has pro-
vided, too, the elements necessary
for a long and healthy life. Disease
is of mans own making; everything
in nature is antipathetic to disease
for when disease enters the body
nature uses all her forces to oust
the intruder. Premature death anc
disease during life constitute the
price we pay for living contrary tc
nature. 1t is the price of ignorance
lack OF self-control, and lack o.
mean with which to carry ou'
knowledge. OF the p~otentialities fol