Show MOTHERS AND BABIES nADIRS t FROM FROiM the beginning of the habitable haM haM- table world mothers and babies have been as long as creation endures endures en en- dures mothers and and babies will wUl be be yet It ft has taken a a. good many hundred hundred hun hun- dred years for us us t to realize that mothers moI mo mo- mothers I and babies between them hold In their hands most of questions ns of the day and that whet we get ready eady to make the world really really really real real- ly safe for these two classes of thi tho population It will be a quite desirable desir able place In which to live We were singularly stupid abou about this for the reasoning is as plan plain and simple as that two and two twi make four fou lA A. happy healthy moth or er usually produces a a happy health baby a 0 happy healthy baby ough ought to and can if It it has ha's half halt 0 a chance grow Into a 0 sound normal child a sound normal child ought to to am and will If it it haS ha half a a. chance grow grot Into an efficient desirable citizen Reverse the reasoning and you s se e that the time ilme to toJ begin to make efficient effi effi- cleat clent and useful men and women 1 i 13 before they are aro l born orn Oliver Wendel Il Il toll tol-I us this a long time Ume agean agoan ago age an ar i other otlie e great t men have said thes the thi wino s mo thing a a. great many times Ye Yet wo are only beginning to get some Bonn idea of the profundity of this truth la Ia tho United States we did no not buher bonier much nuch about mothers and ba ha babIes babies ba- ba bies bier after the twentieth century century century cen cen- tury was well under way Then some few people began begun to get uneasy uneasy uneasy un un- easy about abouL about our losing countless hundreds bun hun of babes babes' every year in the ho hot summer months and began to dIsturb dIs dIs- Curb themselves about the quality o oi of the milk supply and to talk ant an and write a little about the significance of ot a high infant mortality rate Bui Dut most of the things that were done were In the nature of ot h humanitarian h efforts to relieve a present and Intolerable Intolerable erable condition The idea of of oi preventing preventing preventing pre pre- venting unnecessary loss of ot life by preventing Illness was hardly yet tarn porn in the public mind The medieval medieval medieval medie medie- val notion that mothers must enter he the valley of the shadow alone and with little hope still prevailed long longa a itter ter the leading physicians had re- re reduced their maternal deaths to one oner or r two per cent It was not consId- consId consIdered tred ered to be a public disgrace to doom dooma a i i baby to long life blindness from tram even hough though Credos Crede's discovery of the ef- ef of a certain treatment had bad badeen been keen een public proper property y for 40 years We are ae all slow and stupid as well as 8 9 poor miserable sinners But Dut we wean wean can an and do learn Whether we shall protect our mothers and babies from death illness and suf suf- ering by public or private means by national or state agencies they are bound hereafter to be somehow pro- pro acted A return to the ore fa of and stupidity with its hid bid OUI us cruelties and immeasurable suf- suf wrings Is la unthinkable Rather we ball all go on to demand more and better bet bet- ter sr ir conditions for tor those with whom el l 1 the hope of ot the world rent rests rests-mo- mo- mo lers kers and babies babies D D a Inda- Inda pendent |