Show HOW BIRTH WAS established ESTABLISH EC EE colfa birthday was recorded thui the age of the human being became known dr cressy L wllbur wilbur ebler chief st clan of the bureau of census la in wash ington tells a 0 story taken from court records which according to the wo mans home companion fairly the national attitude toward vital sta farmer II adley he be said of rn in dlana diana on dying left his valuable farm in trust to his unthrifty son to become the property of his grand daugh ter on her twenty first birthday the girl had fiad bern told the date ol 01 her birth and when her bar twenty firs anniversary as she supposed came around she claimed her inheritance but her father refused to sur surrender rende the farm asserting that s ehe e wai wag only nineteen the dispute was taken into court the family bible was appealed to but tho the page tor for births and deaths was blank the father had bad rendered no report to the town authorities the fam lly ily doctor was dead finally a neighbor remembered that a certain cow touch prized vy by the grandfather had given birth to a calf on the very day when the girl was born and he could swear to it perhaps the court opined opened the grandfather had bad recorded the birth ot at the calf the old farm book carefully preserved in the family strong box sustained tho the judges theory all the circumstances ot of the birth were fully recorded A and nd thus the birthday of the human being was at length established talk about the registration ot of births in the united states I 1 exclaims dr wllbur wilbur why wha tor for riot not much more than one halt half of the total population la Is there a fairly accurate registration of 0 deaths to say nothing of births ol of which we wa have nowhere in the country reliable or complete Jn information formation and many of at the states aro are so little concerned med about human life that they the make no more account of the deaths of their citizens than of the trees they burn to make clearings |