ur practical question is,
therefore, not "What shall I eat, how many hours shall I sleep, what
shall I wear," but "How can I manage to get into an environment among
living and working conditions where the people I live with and want to
please, those who influence me and are influenced by me, make healthy
living easy and natural?"

7. _Because the problems of health have to do principally with
environment,--home, street, school, business,--it is worth while trying
to relate hygiene instruction to industry and government, to preach
health from the standpoint of industrial and national efficiency rather
than of individual well-being._ Since healthful living requires the
cooeperation of all persons in a household, in a group, or in a
community, we must find some working programme that will make it easy
for all the members of the group to observe health standards. A city
government that spends taxes inefficiently can produce more sickness,
wretchedness, incapacity in one year than pamphlets on health can
offset in a generation. Failure to enforce health laws is a more
serious menace to health and morals than drunkenness or tobacco cancer.
Unclean streets, unclean dairies, unclean, overcrowded tenements can do
more harm than alcohol and tobacco because they can breed an appetite
that craves stimulants and drugs. Others have taught how the body acts,
what we ought to eat, how we should live. We are concerned here not
with repeating the laws of health, but with a consideration of the
mechanism that will make it possible for us so to work together that we
can observe those laws.

CHAPTER II

SEVEN HEALTH MOTIVES AND SEVEN CATCHWORDS

In making a health programme as in making a boat, a garden, or a
baseball team, the first step is to look about and see what material
there is to work with. A baseball team will fail miserably unless the
captain places each man where he can play best. Gardening is profitless
when the gardener does not know the habits of plants and the
possibilities of different kinds of soil. So in planning a health
programme we must study our materials and use each where it will fit
best. The materials of first importance to a health programme in
civilized countries are men; for men working together can control water
sources, drainage, and ventilation, or else move away to surroundings
better suited to healthful living. Therefore the first concern of the
leader in a health crusade is the human kind he