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purpose, play an important part in
health conservation. They become
real forces in boys and girls, who
are full of life, wanting to be strong
active, and successful. Such young
people are ready to pay the price of
success in well-directed effort if they
have strong leadership. Let the
parents and teachers see the impor
tance of purposeful living on the
part of young people and endeavor
to guide it to its fullest fruitage. Let
the lessons learned in the selection,
breeding, and care of farm animals
apply in the main in the conserva
tion of people. If the young people
are learning how to grow premium
corn, prize winning cattle, and the
like, why not also emphasize the
ideal boy and girl? In other words,
the knowledge employed in growing
'better crops and healthier animals,
in which so much attention is given
to the prevention and eradication of
disease, may have even more impor
tance in the development of people.
It should cause young people to be
more purposeful and to want to do
right things rather than to yield to
degrading and unhealthful influ
ences. A spirit of thi -kind would
promote the cause of health if it
could be more generally developed
in the public schools.
DISEASE PREVENTION
Most rural diseases result from
causes outlined in this paper. They
do not simply happen in mysterious
ways outside our control. To a very
large extent diseases are due to sinful
living in violation of the laws of
health.
The principal way therefore for
farm people to prevent disease is in
clean living. When this is done in
its fullest measure there can be no
co'ntagious diseases. Proper habits
of work, eating, and elimination
would prevent most other diseases.
It would seem, then, that every one
would.be, on .his guard, trying to pre
vent sickness, rather than to experi
ence disease with its uncertain na
ture. It is to the very great credit of
the medical profession that its mem
bers led In this great movement of
prevention. Certainly it means less
sickness and consequently less prac
tice. Let the parents and teachers
accept their part and responsibility
in making. use of known preventive
measures in the home and school.
It may be said that heredity has
much to do with disease, so it has,
but the cause in such cases is only
a little further back, perhaps, in the
parent. Prevention on the part of
one generation will affect the hered
ity of the next. Viewed in this light;
It is easy to see our health obligation
to future society, and that the stock
or strain of breed of man can be
markedly improved through preven
tion. Just what legislation should
be enacted to prevent the marriage
of unfit persons is not fully agreed.
We face the fact that the union of
feeble-minded persons or of other
degenerates is most destructive to
society. It decreases health and
causes the human stock to run down.
The penitentiary and insane asylums
of our state have many patients
whose criminality and condition of
ill health can be traced back to par
ticular preventable acts that gave
' them preventable disease. We re
fer now to certain diseases easily
avoided, but practically incurable
when contracted. Their spread is
due very largely to immorality, the
control and prevention of which pre
sent the largest conservation prob
lem of this age.
PUNCTUATED
"I am willing," said the candidate,
after he had hit the table a terrible
hTow. with, 'his fist, "tp trust the
people. - , ...
"Gee!" yelled a little man in the
audience. "I wish you'd open a
grocery." Chicago Record-Herald.
The Commoner.
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KKKPIXG CHRISTMAS
IX TIIM HEART
Never too old for ChristmaB
The lights of its laden tree
That dazzle the eyes of the Kiddies
Six
Are fully as bright to me.
Honestly, I was up just as early
Christmas morning as any of the
youngsters and believe mo they
didn't have to be called. I wouldn't
miss the fun of hearing their shouts
and watching them caper about the
Christmas treo for any bed that was
ever prepared for human comfort. I
didn't have any Christmas trees all
my own when I was a lad. Wo
youngsters then had to be content
with the big Christmas tree in the
church a sort of community tree.
But our big city churches havo out
grown that sort of thing moro's tho
pity and there are a lot of children
who never saw a for-sure Christmas
tree. But tluare is going to be a
Christmas tree in one home that 1
know of just as long as tho head of
that household can hustle enough
money to buy one and get a few
candles to light it up. They don't
cost very much; not more than live
or six cigars, or a couple of packages
of tobacco, and the man who would
not forego that much, if necessary, to
make a lively bunch of kiddies happy
well, he wouldn't measure any
where near up to my estimate of a
for-sure man. I haven't had to cut
out the smokes as yet, but I'm ready
to do it any time it is necessary. I've
heard about every great band that
has toured the country during the
last thirty years, but I'll defy any of
them to make as fine music as I heard
about 5 o'clock Christmas morning.
"Where grows the Christmas tree?
The green, deep-rooted Christmas
tree?
By what brave toil in what rich
soil,
Can spring the blooming Christmas
tree?"
Just a week before Christmas the
wires carried the story of the death
of Will Carleton, and when I read the
message my mind turned to his beau
tiful poem, the opening lines of
which are quoted at the head of this
paragraph Tho younger generation
does not know Will Carleton as we
elder men and women do. And In
this tho younger generation is miss
ing something. Will Carleton was a
real poet, for he wrote of heart
things, of the things that touch the
best in the breast of every man and
woman. Forty years ago his name
was a household word in America,
but of late years he has been heard
of but little. Some of his poems will
live as long as the English language.
"Over the Hills to the Poor House,"
"Betsy and I are Out," "Cover Them
Over With Beautiful Flowers," "The
New Church Organ" say, you old
timers, don't these titles call up
pleasant memories of the days gone
bv? I can well remember when his
poem "The New Church Organ,
made' its appearance. It was in the
davs when many a church congrega
tion was rent asunder by the "organ
question." My preacnur law u
longed to the advanced element, and
he wanted the best of music in We
church. But there was opposition In
one Place where he ministered, and
the result was a bitter warfare that
ho couldn't stop. And about that
time Carleton's poem appeared. I
can shut my eyes right now and see
father as he read that poem, chuckl
ing with delight and full of apprecia
tion of its delicious humor. You may
be sure ho took good care to show
these verses to the members who
were "ag'in th organ." 1 committed
that poem to memory then, and I can
repeat it word for word right now.
"They've got a brand new organ,
Sue,
For all their fuss an' search;
They've dono Just aB they said they'd
do,
An fetched it into church.
They're bound th' critter shall bo
seen,
An' on th' preacher's right
They've hoisted up their uow ma
chine In ev'rybody's sight.
They've got a cholrlster an choir,
Ag'in my voice an' vote;
For it was never my desire
To praise th' Lord by note!"
And weren't those little old organs
mighty small things to raise such an
awful row among Christian people?
Dear Will Carleton! Tho news of
your death made us feel a personal
loss, wo elder people of graying hairs.
You played upon our heartstrings in
the dear, dead days. You added to
the sum of human happiness. This
old world is better for your having
lived in it. May brightest flowers
blossom above your grave.
Never too old for Christmas
In all of Its joys I've part.
Though gathering years may burden
I hope to be young at heart.
i :uy guuu inuuu, ur. nun, ui Lin
coln who, by the way, is a banker
and doesn't practice medicine is
something of a philosopher. I often
have occasion to go in and see him,
and after I have succeeded in secur
ing the necessary attention of the
financier I spend a while with the
philosopher. Dr. Hall says the big
gest bore he comes in contact with is
tho man who takes himself too seri
ously. You know such fellows for
ever acting as if tho world rested on
their shoulders, whereas, if they
tried to carry off a school map of
North, America they would crumple
beneath the weight. It's all right to
be serious, of course, at the proper
time. Every now and then I am
serious really. But heaven forbid
that I should ever be so serious that
I couldn't enjoy a good story, rejoice
in meeting a good friend, or get as
much fun as anybody out of a really
funny situation. I know men close
at hand whoso monthly Incomes
would keep my family '.n luxury for
a year, but I ,ouldn't trade places
with them. They aro taking life too
seriously. They are old before their
time. They are obesscd with the idea
that money is the one biff thing in
life. Of course money is a pretty
handy thing to have, all right; and
I've seen the time when a silver
quaTter would have seemed as big
as a wagonwbeel; but there are a
whole let of thiners I'd rather have
than money. Believe me, I've got
a few things right here under my
humble roof that Rockefeller's
wealth couldn't purchase from me.
Bless your souls, good friend: I can't
see how any man could keep from
retaining a youthful heart if his lot is
cast in anything like such a pleas
ant place as- mine.
AT TIMES
Ted "Do you believe that woman
should hold tho reins?"
Ned "it is all right when you
have the girl out In a sleigh."
Judge.
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