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forced upou them. It takes time. We ueed oJily think of measures to limit 

 the use of alcohol and tobacco. If there is no public sentiment in a com- 

 munity laws are not enforced, and a law that is not enforced is worse 

 than none at all. Many are skeptical about the present generation but 

 expect much from the coming one. Perliaps the matter is largely in the 

 hands of the school teachers, and since the Academy is made up mainly of 

 men who instruct the teachers it comes back to the Academy. 



In concluding I may say that we have a Federal Department of Agri- 

 culture which gives attention to plants and weeds, to animals and pest? 

 and parasites of all kinds, but it neglects the farmer himself and his chil- 

 dren. We need a Federal Department of Public Health, a Department 

 which will study the needs of the people and give them information re- 

 garding health and ill health and disease just as the Agriculture Depart- 

 ment now gives inf(n-mntion about animals and plants.^ 



^A resolution endorsing the establishment of a National Department of Public 

 Health was passed iinanimouslj'. 



