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Show H WHEN SHALL WE APPLY A REMEDY? 1 The government will make extended inquiry as, to why linn- H dreds pf thousands of babies born in this country never emerge B from infancy. Doubtless there will be ascertained that for the H most part these little ones arc the victims of abject poverty. Hf Settlement workers in the big cities declare that two-thirds of m the baby deaths is due to lack of nourishment. In other words, pov- H erty brings death to the homes of the very poor. H No country of the wonderful resources of the United States HB should long tolerate death by starvation being an affliction of any 1 great number of its people babies or grown-ups. Insufficient L nourishment, which paves the way for disease and death, is nothing Hj less than death by starvation. Hj I Is it not about time for us, as a great nation, to begin to do B I what Germany and England arc doing for the unemployed, the old B j I and infirm and for every workingman'a family, in an effort to do H J away with that extreme poverty which causes children to come into Kjjji the world with little bodies pinched and that consigns the old to H ' the potter's field? |