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16. Have change of occupation. 



17. Take frequent and short holidays. 



18. Limit your ambitions. 



19. Keep your temper. 



SIR JAMES SAWYER. 



2. Write to Dr. Irving Fisher, of Yale University, asking the 

 address of your state secretary of the American Health League. 

 Ask his aid in forming a local league. 



3. Form a local league in your school. Model your plat- 

 form something after the following : 



I AM A MEMBER OF THE 



American Hfealtlj Heague 



T TENCE. I believe in fresh air, sunshine, moderate eating of pure 

 ^ food, kind words, radiant cheer, and beautiful thoughts. 

 I believe in assisting in every way possible to spread the idea of 

 public health, both in governmental and in personal functions 

 thereby prolonging life, increasing human endeavor, and making easy 

 the pursuit of happiness. 



Ben La Bree, Jr., Ohio Secretary of the League. 



4. On the basis that at any one moment there are at least 

 3,000,000 people in the United States seriously ill, half of 

 which illness is preventable, will you write a letter to your 

 Congressman, urging the establishment of a United States 

 Bureau of Health ? Study the following reasons and rewrite 

 them in your own language : 



To stop the spread of typhoid fever through drinking sewage-polluted 

 water of interstate streams. 



To enforce adequate quarantine regulations, so as to keep out of the 

 country plague and other similar pestilences. 



To supervise interstate common carriers, in so far as without such 

 supervision they prove a menace to the health of the traveling public. 



