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Show :: CONTRIBUTED :: OI K RESPONSIBILITIES AS A CITIZEN Every person should have a normal nor-mal birthright, and if we are blessed bles-sed with this wonderful heritage, let us appr2ciate it and take care of it. If not for our own benefit, let's do so for the benefit of the generation genera-tion that comes after us. A person who has inherited a normal body has certainly been blessed, because this is the most wonderful gift that a person per-son can have bestowed- upon him. ; A person who has not inherited normal body conditions has not a chance in life at all. It stands to reason rea-son that a woman or a man who has inherited some defect has not as favorable fav-orable a chance to make good, in fact there are very few people in this case who do. What is a normal birthright? It : an inheritance that makes it possible for a person to say fully, "I am physically phy-sically and mentally fit for my place in God's plans. By this I mean that anyone who has been born with a normal birthright, born free from a weak mind or a weak heart or a deformed de-formed body. We are responsible for the birthright birth-right of our children, so let us try ' and give our children a birthright equal to our own, if not better. An old saying is, that the boys and girls of today are the men and women wom-en of tomorrow. We find this saying to be true, so lets teach the boys and girls to do what is right, so that they can be he men and! women we would like them to be, and bring children into the world like the world is wanting children that help in building up the world, and not cMldren that help tear it down. The biggest problem for the benefit bene-fit of the next generation is in the . se'ection of mates. A normal man who marries an abnormal woman is just the same as a criminal, because he is robbing the future generation of the greatest thing in life. For instance in-stance the story of the Jukes family The man married twice; Margaret, the mother of criminals being the first wife. In seventy-five years the progeny of the original generation has cost New York over a million and a quarter dollars, besides giving over to the care of the prisons and asylums considerably over a hundred feeble-minded alcholic imortal or criminal persons. His second wife was a normal woman and she gave to the world great men and women, who became leaders andi who helped in building up the world. The first wife was not to blame for the many generations of feeblemindedness1 feeble-mindedness1 and criminals which have descended from her, because she did not know the crime she was committing, but the man was a criminal, crim-inal, because he robbed the generation genera-tion after him of a birthright equal to his own, because he married a woman whom he knew was unfit. People that are abnormal in any way should not be allowed to marry, not even in their own class. By this, I mean that they should not be allowed al-lowed into other abnormal families. If the government would make a law forbidding these people to marry, mar-ry, and would force that law, it would not be long until there would be comparatively few abnormal people peo-ple left in the world and1 the government govern-ment would be greatly rewarded for Its work. In selecting a mate, a person that has some bodily defect should be careful and not select a mate that i weak in the same way, but they should marry into a family that is extra strong in that particular point, j so that it can be strengthened in the inheritance of the next generation. Some folks know that they are doing wrong, but do not care, and if someone tries to correct them and show them that it is wrong, they get angry and say, "It's nobody's business bus-iness what I do so long as I pay the price." But they do not pay the price; the next generation are the ones that pay the price. Xot only should people be care-; ful in selecting a mate, but theyj should take care of the body and live j up to the standard of health If it is', in a normal condition, and: if not they should take care of it to the stan-i dard. They should keep their body clean and their hair combed and neat. Xot only should we see to it that our own body is kpt clean, but our duty Is to see that everyone els" does the same. If people don't do these thinps it lowers the standard of their social group, and they are j not fit for the place in which they , live. In the Gettysburg addrpss. Lincoln Lin-coln said that all men were created equal, but all men are not created equal. A normal person and an abnormal ab-normal person do not have the same chances in life, because the abnormal abnor-mal person has only one road in life to take, while the normal peron has two roads these being the right and the wrong roads. The right road is a hard climb, so, therefore, many people take the wrong road because it is a down-hill pull and an easy road to take. But most of these people land in prisons or have been executed for some crime that they have committed. Let's not take the wrong road in life just because it is a down-hill pull and we do not have to work to reach the end of it. Let's take the right road the road to success and climb to the very top. The right road Is very hard for some people, but let's dream about taking the right road and thing about it continually and in time it will become easy for us and we will be doing this, not only for our own benefit, but for the benefit of the whole world, because we are helping to build up the world. Every person is responsible for all these things to become a citizen. |