The New Spirit . length of time, and if any danger of contamination was thought to exist,the house was destroyed. The old adage cleanliness is next to Godliness is true. God, in giving thelaws to Moses, gave the laws of personal hygiene, along with the laws of love for God,and worship. Although Moses did not realize that he was teaching hygiene and sani-tation his methods have proved to be wise, and have been modernized so that they arestill affective in various types of disease. Moses has received credit for being the great law-giver, and a great leader; buthe has not received due appreciatio
The New Spirit . length of time, and if any danger of contamination was thought to exist,the house was destroyed. The old adage cleanliness is next to Godliness is true. God, in giving thelaws to Moses, gave the laws of personal hygiene, along with the laws of love for God,and worship. Although Moses did not realize that he was teaching hygiene and sani-tation his methods have proved to be wise, and have been modernized so that they arestill affective in various types of disease. Moses has received credit for being the great law-giver, and a great leader; buthe has not received due appreciation as a great sanitarian. We, thirty-four hundredyears later, are seeing more clearly every year, the good common sense demonstratedin his laws of personal hygiene and general sanitation. Moses was truly a forerunnerof all our modern methods of sanitation and principles of^euthenics, which make it pos-sible for us to live and enjoy the blessings of health and the pleasure of clean environ-ment. SUSIE GRAHAM ESCAR L. BOOTH Itawamba County If ealtlj in Sural Amrrira S3) R. Thomos Wood, Chairman of the committeeon health problems in education and publicinstruction, reported that country childrenare less healthful than city children. The study ofconditions surrounding the education of the childrenof this country results in exposing facts and con-clusions both startling and significant. More than half of the twenty million schoolchildren in the United States are attending ruralschools. Country children attending rural schoolsare less healthy and have more physical defects thanthose of the city school13. And this is true, in gener-al, of all parts of the United States. If rural America is to continue to be a satis-factory nursery of human life for the nation, it mustbe made attractive and healthful. It must provideconditions favorable for the cultivation of the improvement of human health and welfare inrural America is a problem affecting national safetyand prosperity.
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