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1AT ten billions of dollars are expended annually in the 

 United States for food, clothing, and shelter with greater 

 knowledge and efficiency, better satisfaction could be obtained 

 and one billion dollars saved for higher things. 



AT half a million lives are cut short and five million people 

 are made ill by "preventable" diseases every year with 

 universal knowledge of hygiene and sanitation nearly all deaths 

 and illness from such causes could be prevented. 



"THAT six hundred thousand infants under two years end their 

 1 little span of life yearly, while millions of children fail to 

 reach their best physical development because their mothers 

 and fathers understand not how to care for them in the light 

 of science with more knowledge at least half the number 

 of babies could be saved and the physical standard raised 

 immeasurably. 



AT thousands of homes are wrecked, tens of thousands of 

 lives are ruined, and hundreds of thousands are made unhappy 

 because the home-keepers of our country have no training 

 in the greatest of all professions, the "profession of home- 

 making and motherhood" only through such education can 

 present domestic difficulties be solved and the modern home 

 contribute all that it should to happiness and well being. 



T all must live in some sort of a home that everyone" 

 finds his chief happiness there that character is developed 

 there that no great advance, spiritual or material, is possible 

 which does not begin with the home that the home-makers 

 of America have the making of the nation. 



'"THAT on the breadth and strength of the base depends the 

 1 height of a pinnacle on the home foundation we rear the 

 pinnacle of all that is good in state or individual. 



American School of Home Economics 



