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Show 1 1 Why We Decors Can't Keep Off the Progressive Platform By DR. WOODS HUTCHINSON Dr. Woods Hutchinson hus probably done more to destroy the ' germs o ignorance regarding hygiene than any other -writer of the I day. lie actively entered the medical campaign some twenty-five I years ago ne is the author of numberless urticles on health, among which may he named "Play as an Education," Instinct and Health," "'Preventable Diseases." "The Conquest of Consumption." "Exercise and Health," "Wc and Our Children" and "A Hand-Book Hand-Book of Health." Dr. Hutchinson needs no introduction as a platform speaker on these same topics. He is a fellow of the American Academy Acad-emy of Medicine and a member of the Association of American Naturalists. Vhy We Doctoro Can't Koep Off the Progressive Platform. First, lecture it embodies exactly a hat vro 'nave liccn hoping and dream -mc r.nd praing for fo eai3. Second, r-ocause U brings Into practical politics poli-tics a clufci of questions and issues which for tho first time the man in ho street and tin woman In tho homo iro rnally interested in and can understand un-derstand and -which may even come Tlthln the lutcIHreneo of politicians It i.t a grwit relief after this per-tic-tual chatter backward and forward und milling round and round on nues-tlons. nues-tlons. upon ulilch no one ever could '; proved wrong, like Uip currcnev and the tariff and tije rights or the Ntntct. The nev rcuaon Is that lhj iilat'urm rtall e's riKht down to tao rlKht-s1 and health and liappmeaa of i.ien. wpmen and children That I v.hftt rovornments are roally (or, hut no one would guess it-by the way that . 'Iipv haie;t)Cn. ad v,Inistered the last half century ' I Wo hnv MooikJ -that hoatih If - nlv .it jnoilior'pftin for eftleieney 1 In anaIonas In a mJn. atiil lliat ' 1 iioperl fefdlnK nnd nlnjins and e . 'ns tho hnMian nlachlnc. wc can n-1 rr.-vq 0nr woiUIub: cajiacit afl n na on-al lnl ".n per Cnt Tho whoo urden of ho irrrat wnr'd'v rnni-r.- ,r Hvplone'. which lal'lv n n Was ngton was rood progressiva 'Ipntrino It was made up of nol merelv health -TlcorP and p'-ofcsslonal annltarlans ut the prealnst scientists of the "or!d. lahora'ovy workers in hlolosrv nnd hncteriology and chemistry, and tho messago of them all In thoir nd-lresacs nd-lresacs was. ,rWhat is the use of our having dlncocred all these things about protecting human health and Increasing human efficiency nnd hap-ninc-SB unless o are allowed to put them into practice upon the whole people7 Until wo can make our dic-covcrles dic-covcrles useful to the mass of pur follow-,. we shall feel that wc have failed." fail-ed." It Is a pitiful thing to have to ?ay In suclr a wonderfully rich and prosperous prosper-ous country, but l la woll within the truth that from 23 to 10 per coin f ull of our children do not really get enough to cut In the sense of a rich adequate ration to grow up on Thuy ret enough food, hut thev do not g"t tho rl?ht kind of food meat an-l butter but-ter and pugar and eggs and cram Pnrt of this Is due to Ignorance or misunderstanding ot what h needed In children's diets, the accused worship 1 if starch and cereals hlch has slain -nore. Innocents than n thousand mo-loclrs, mo-loclrs, but a good deal U due to the nlain.and diaagreenblo fact that 10 per cent, "of .tho children of this coun try havo- to be brought up on an in come of lea"? than 500 a year lor in" whole family, and CO per cent on le-- than $750 What that spells in this era of high coat of llvlny needs 110 soothsayer to interpret n."i per con of the wealth of the country In th idle hands of 5 pel rent of out people,1 and 05 per cent ijT the workers wil.i les-, than 10 iti cmt or the wcal'h . j go aionud y.roo& Uieia- It lookij to plain nnpracllcdl (Icctorr; and ci-n-Usts as If n board Of egualUKtlort nat called for. This 1st not Soclallam it is sanltar) science and. comtno) Mii?e. ' Thp proteellpn of child, latjor, thf etij.llrsjung of . nitniiaupi vvae fop vsoiuc'ti no 'h.t 1'0. ,-ft" e 4"1 - live vkhole-.cuoeb .lrl ha);l v.ithOiU huig remptod In - wa'that uo"omuii In a communNv callina Itself 00 Mixed ouftht to 'p ti-mi'td aif .ill r -rl of the same great piog'-am. The eight-hour eight-hour daj is nou domanded on phsi3-iogtcal phsi3-iogtcal and biological grounds by phi -slcians and sanitarians everywhere J::st as emphatically as It has been b the labor unions ny man or woman wom-an uho works more than that numbc. of hours out ot tho twenty-four la steadily piling up in his ay3tem deadly dead-ly fatigue pobons, the accumulation of which slowly but Inevitably bring him to the scrap-heap before 45 yeai1 of age. Child and woman labor and long hours arc real race suicIJo |