PREVENTABLE DISEASE AND DEATH.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 11

PREVENTABLE DISEASE AND DEATH.

(Extracts from an address delivered by Hon. Samuel Mauger on Hospital Sunday.) “If an animal is unfit for life we destroy it as swiftly and as painlessly as possible. If it is a human being, we tend it with every care, and it is quite right that we should—nurses, doctors, all that is good. The bad, the folly, the crime, is in the fact that we allow it to become a parent if it so desires.” “So long as our mentally deficient, our debauchees, and our drunkards are permitted to become parents, we all are perpetrating a against society, and an unutterable cruelty to the unborn.” “We have in this country a number of feeble-minded and deficient persons, who well deserve our pitv. They are not bad enough for the madhouse; they are not good enough for parentage. These we ought to do our very best for, and look after them as well as possible till they die. But they ought not to be allowed to spread dis ease or propagate their species.”

THE TEST. The test of a man is the fight that he makes, The grit that he daily show s; The way that he stands on his feet and takes Fate’s numerous bumps and blows. A coward can smile when there’s naught to fear. When nothing his progress bars, But it takes a man to stand up and ( beer While some other fellow stars. It isn’t the victory after all, But the fight that .1 brother makes ; The man who, driven against the wall, Stands up erect and takes The blows of fate with his head hHd high, Bleeding, and bruised, and pale. Is the man who’ll win in tin* by and . For lie isn’t afraid to fail. ) It’s the bumps you get, and the jol:s you get. And the sho< ks th.»t your courage stands. The hours of sorrow and vain regret. The prize that escapes vour hands, That test your mettle and prove your worth: It isn't the blows vou deal, But the blows you take on the good old earth, That shows if your stuff is real.