216 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



riages with better blood. Your children 

 will either die out or drop to the laboring 

 class. That is why the country plow-boy, in 

 life's contests and races, always outstrips 

 in the end the city boy with his greater ad- 

 vantages. He has the stomach, the kidneys, 

 the brain and the stamina to stand up under 

 the struggle of every-day life. 



The country boy from shirt-sleeved an- 

 cestry is free from hereditary Cancer, 

 Bright 's Disease and the social vices; so 

 make farmers of some of our boys. Take 

 them away from city life. No society can 

 long endure the ravages of these diseases. 

 The alarming increase of Cancer is due to 

 a doubling up of a bodily weakness sus- 

 ceptible to it. In 1915, we consumed 75,000,- 

 000 pounds of drugs, in addition to patent 

 medicines. "Weakened constitutions have 

 forced America to become a nation of Drug 

 Fiends. 



EECORDS OF DEATH. 

 As a Director of a Cemetery Corpora- 

 ation, I have watched with an eager eye, 

 for twenty years, our Interment Books, 



