Show FIRST DUTY OF CIVIC HEADS TO GUARD HEALTH ily hit DI t J af M chairman co council uric 11 on mouth ily g iene new jemey state dental soel society ety itis HIS a foregone conclusion that organized community efforts will bo be more effective in protecting the health of the people than will individual efforts one need go no further to prove this point than to cite the decrease of diphtheria and tuberculosis cases to show the efficacy of veil avell directed health programs we should have more public health projects which have as their objective the improvement of 0 dental conditions dit ditl editions ions wherever intensive dental programs have been instituted there has been a marked improvement in dental conditions macon ga cleveland ohio peoria III and many other communities have shown that coI consistent stent efforts will help children to have normally functioning teeth too often authorities take the attitude that dental disease Is beyond their control others take the position that they have not sufficient funds to carry on a dental program however it Is clear that spending anoney money Is controlled by individual concepts one town will spend thousands of dollars for fourth of july celebia eions or many thousands of dollars for useless jobs or buy high priced cars for public officials but will cut down the health budget an editorial comment of a new jersey newspaper reported that during the depression the average decrease of school budgets was more than 20 per cent while the decrease in other municipal government departments was only 2 per cent when public recognize that health Is the most indispensable factor in our lives when they realize that health expenditures should come first rather than last i I 1 am certain that a great teal deal more will be accomplished alls ed in promoting the health 0 of our citizenry |