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Show A CERTIFICATE OF HEALTH FOR LOVERS Much has been said, much more will be said about Edward Amherst Otl and his famous lecture. "Sour Crapes but all comment would be but n small pan of the splendid sermon ser-mon given last evening by Mr On to a large audience at the Weber academj and real appreciation would be the working out of the splendid ideas advanced. Mr Ott Is a fine- example of the finished platform orator and his reform re-form ideas, based on a study of causes caus-es are well worth taking seriouslv He is a believer In the future, and his plea last niKht was for. the youth and for the thousands jrel unborn. The amateur reformer, he said, is one who knows exactly what to do without thinking and cets mail if good results do not come In a hurry The real reformer thinks, works. never gets mad and looks toward the fu ture. He gave a statistical rerlea of ih-vast ih-vast trend toward criminality, Which Is only too well known to Intelligent people but is rarely brought so close to home In all its vastness "Diseases.' he said, " are unnecessary unneces-sary and In many cases immoral: the Panama canal 7.011c was I hanged from a deadlv swamp to I place of healthful health-ful habitation In six months' lime bv Uncle Sam with a system of sanitation." sanita-tion." He mentioned th ( hanging of sev eral uie8 In various parts of the couniry from diseased communities to places of healthful abode. The rem edy he gave was to elect to the city council a scientist - a man who knows something and a few gentlemen In answer to the general question, "Why do the teachers of today turn out so few good scholars''" he said that the narents should furnish them I better material to uork on. Only about 400 geniuses havo graced the earth since the beginning of time Geniuses cannot be made. schools cannot make scholars, they can only teach Ihe children to appreciate 1 tie ! work6 of genius, whether it he in art. music. or or In any other phase of lire In his plea for better homes, Mr Ott gave an exposition of the subject sub-ject of heredity thai slaa most con-vlnclng, con-vlnclng, In illustrating he said that there had been l.-'"n criminals traced to one family: on the other hand he traced the ifS of -generations of! great musicians, actors, philosophers.: scientists and other leaders of m.n. I The marriage question Is the great j question of today and children should know th's subject well Under pres i ent laws any one can get married, and there is necessity for a change A ninety day public announcement of an engagement should be necessary. Every Ev-ery birth should he registered and every marriage, all records to be ke.pt in one place, so that when a man an 1 plies for a license his record can be investigated certificate of normal health should also he required nnd the Contracting parties should be properly educated for a wedding "Life Is not an accident or a Joke," he said. In his closing plea "We cannot can-not change our parents but we can change our environment, dail if nec-esaary nec-esaary and resolve to keep one generation gen-eration clean " 1 |