LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27055, 2 June 1953, Page 2

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

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DR. MORTON’S REPORT

Sir, —Dr. Morton’s hospital report is the soundest thing I have read for a long time. Every word of it is truth. Yes, break Nature’s laws and they break us. There are so few "sons of the soil” today. This includes, of course, men engaged in essential outdoor work, such as mining, milling, railway work, etc. The vast majority of males today are employed in the cities in the unessential industries. Compared with the “sons of the soil,” with that manly attitude which enjoys the thrill of some muscular work, they are neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red herring.” Their bodies are not particularly fit. Beware of the lack of an outlet for natural energy, they often rush into marriage before their own growth is completed, which, in the white race, is at the age of 25. And so their imperfected genes—like can only like—perpetuates the same defects.—Yours, etc., M. G. DAVIES. June 1, 1953. (