Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Teaching Right Living. [ARTICLE]

Teaching Right Living.

This is an age when the necessity of education is strongly emphasized. The whole foundation of preventive medicine, •of the anti-tuberculosis work, of the social service departments of the hospital, is the education of the public in regard to the laws of health. There can be little doubt that : not money, nor even the lack of money, is the root of all evil, but the lack of knowledge of right living in the broadest sense of the words. Ignorance of physical right living is the cause of most of the illness and bodily misery in the world, while Ignorance, of moral right living Is largely to blame for the wickedness of the world. Bad physical condition, however, and the ignorance that causes it, have more to do with poverty and crime than most people realize.- Squalid surroundings, due largely to lack of knowledge of proper living conditions, and accompanied most likely by decreased vitality or outright ill health, arfeprobably often the primary cause of the drunkenness that brings ruin upon so many families. The great problem of today is to teach the masses how to lire a healthful life in the circumstances in which they find -themselves.—Dietetic Gazette.