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Train body and mind in the healthy way. The State 

 and its taxpayers provide aid for all, and they should 

 not be burdened by degenerates, criminals and ill-doers, 

 when perhaps these persons could be helped to regain their 

 lost power by appropriate treatment in the hands of pro- 

 perly trained, accredited research men and women, who 

 spend their days in hard study and desire to help the af- 

 flicted. It is true, more careful legislation should be had, 

 less law making and opening doors for faddists, and better 

 laws. Surely the enforcement of justice for those who do 

 conform to the rules, to have the right to practice legiti- 

 mate medicine and dentistry, should be through only one 

 portal of registration and so safeguard the commonwealth 

 of the State. There is little doubt that if the criminal ele- 

 ment had been disciplined rightly in early youth, their 

 bodily health attended to from birth, their minds and bodies 

 could be kept in rightful exercise with a proper amount of 

 work and play. They could be taught respect for others, 

 a higher moral code of study and pleasure, and an indi- 

 vidual sharing of learning and labor. The hand of good 

 fellowship would be able to withstand the storms of ego- 

 tism, socialism of the narrow kind, and would prevent 

 labor's interference with the desire to compete with indus- 

 trial advance, for those who strive to become expert in 

 their chosen life work. 



The time to treat a human being for constitutional de- 

 fects is in his infancy and childhood, not after manhood has 

 confirmed his anatomy and physiology in its bad habits.* 

 Today offers many opportunities never even dreamed of, for 

 the rural communities can and do have the motor dentists 

 and nurses. The auto brings the physician, and the various 

 community and state gatherings offer lectures, clinics and 

 schools in all varieties of work. 



Look to your children and don't forget the parents, all 

 who do need attention, and trust to your good faithful 

 family friends, the true doctors. 



•V. A. Latham. "Relation of Oral Hygiene to Man and His Community in It* 

 Widest Application." Oral Hygiene, March, 1921, p. 362. 



