Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., Monstrous Mother Nature, April 16, 1919

              Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://bit.ly/scripps_mss117
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"The time is out of jOint: 0 curseA spite,
That ever I was 'born to set it righU"
Hamlet was a fool and I am a fool for thinking, each of us, that we ha4 'beell
set such a task. But lIamlet was no IlIQre 8. fool than is every man and 1I'Oma.n now
living and every man and woman who has lived for 10.1 these ma.ny milleniillllS.
Each a.nci everyone of us is constantly 'being made cognisant of conditions
eXisting that are a£:I:'ecting adversely and. dis.eeab~ his nn lite u4 the liftS
of everyboq else aroun4 him.
Then too, we all thiDk we see or know of a 'VIS"1 of remedying ev&"r7 one of
these evil conditions.
Here is a poor man and his family, suffering from poverty and disease. we
feel sure that if SOIreboO¥ and everYDoC!.y had done his or their dutY', the m&u
would not 'be poor, there WOuld be no disease in his family and. theY' would !l9t
sUffer.
All around us yo'tmg ohndren are aying like flies from preventable disease
and accident.
Not less than ten percent, prOoaDly twenty percent s.nd possibly thirty :per­Gent
of the energy and. prodUctivity of' tile working people in this oo'tllltry and
SV9l'y other country is lost utterly on &ooouut Of petty physical ills that mign.t
be prevented if the sufferers lmew Wila.t can easily -De lea.rned in the matter of
J"0teoting their health - acting each one singl.;v to guard hiluself from cli_a.se
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