When tragedy strikes in an American city with a disastrous hotel fire.
We are shocked and horrified before this blaze was extinguished.
Fifty two people had lost their lives. Among the dead.
Where else for the Hilton The honest. Audience is lost the inspiration and blazer.
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machinist industry lost the productive power of a skilled workman.
JAYNE EDWARDS housewife a family lost a mother's care and affection.
These people lost their lives and the world lost their skill their artistry
and their services fires
and other catastrophes are dramatic events which attract wide attention
but we ignore the less spectacular but continuous wastage
and erosion of our population every day we are tragically wasting our human
resources by failure to provide for a healthful and effective living.
Wastage of human resources occurs at all.
Age levels but infancy is an especially hazardous period in a single year.
The United States has recorded over sixty thousand infant deaths in the first month
of life in the next eleven months of life over forty thousand more infant deaths.
Adding the number of stillbirths would bring the figure to over one hundred
and eighty thousand these infant deaths could be cut in half if the available
health and medical knowledge bearing on infant
and prenatal care were widely applied.
Next to infancy childhood is the most hazardous period of life in these years.
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These dangers caused by far the greatest number of deaths in the childhood years.
Accidents like this that kill
and cripple thousands of children every year are caused by carelessness
and inadequate safety precautions they are almost all preventable.
And so are diseases like pneumonia and influenza.
Which also take a heavy toll in sickness and death among this age group.
Most of these losses do could be avoided by early use of preventive measures
and better medical care than some various diseases which attack
growing children
and hamper their normal development their childhood is robbed of happiness
and blighted by physical disasters.
Even though children may escape by accident or disease.
They may be neglected maltreated are subjected to conditions
that stunt their bodies and work their personalities.
After the childhood years with their attending hazards boys
and girls face the transition to adolescence.
This is a period of rapid physical growth and social adjustment.
It is also an important time for education for citizenship.
For family life and for useful
and personally satisfying work yet many use especially in rural areas where schools
are often poor
or are denied the opportunity for essential education in cities they leave
school for dead end jobs that allow for little mental and vocational growth.
They fail to get the training necessary for more productive work.
Many spend their time in unhealthy surroundings
that fostered juvenile delinquency especially among those who have had an unhappy
childhood.
This is an inexcusable waste of our most valuable resource
that might get the records of our juvenile courts all plainly show how widespread
is this tragic waste of youth this wastage could be prevented by more adequate
provision for the basic needs of youth.
Just as there are many hazards to mental and social development of youth.
There are also many hazards to their health these hazards often go
unrecognized even by use itself.
At this time energy is expended variety of sports and social activities.
But in spite of youthful and vitality.
We already have hidden handicaps heart ailments for example far too many use do not
receive adequate medical care and health supervision.
The neglect of Health in childhood
and youth was in a large measure responsible for the conditions revealed by
selective service examinations for World War two.
About two thirds of our available manpower of military age were fit to fight the
other one third was rejected or later discharged for.
Are nervous and mental disorders muscular
and skeletal defects than Ariel disease hernia
heart diseases Ear Nose and Throat disorders.
Poor eyes tuberculosis and other causes
and these were the findings with a group of men at the most vigorous time of life.
The middle years of life should be the most productive years on farm in Milton
factory. Yet many are not at work because of accidents illness
and occupational disease millions of productive hours are lost reducing income for
workers and their families and reducing production for society.
Many are unable to work because of chronic illnesses such as tuberculosis which
blight so many adult lives at their most productive period
many chronic illnesses of this type come from bows NG poverty
and lack of health care
and protection these adverse conditions dangerous as they are for the men who work
in the mills
and factories threaten even more the health of women in the home.
Medical science has great reduced the dangers to mothers
but wider application of medical knowledge on prenatal
and obstacle care is necessary if we are to give adequate protection to all our
families while the energies and skills.
The nation's people are its vital resources.
Often they are wasted by unemployment
and involuntary idleness this not only deprives society of services
but also robs workers of income needed for their families
and undermines their self-confidence.
Further wastage of skills
and energies takes place in old age in the years to the continuing waste of life
and vitality present a serious problem.
Many old people are victims of accidents that cripple or chronic diseases
that bring handicaps impairments and on happiness.
Still others vainly seek work because of their need for an income
and their desire to be useful with no work to do
and no recognize place
or real interest in living the aged often spend their last years in bitterness
and happiness.
Many men and women at all a Jews are confined in institutions in reformatories
and in prisons in these ways to a large part of our population is being wasted.
Temporarily or permanently in custody.
They are cut off from normal social and economic life.
Others are in institutions for a mental defectives
and in state hospitals for mental disorders the number of such cases is increasing
and we must add to the drug addicts who waste their own powers
and the resources of society.
Finally there is war the most tragic waste of all the twenty million
killed by war from one thousand nine hundred forty one to one thousand nine hundred
forty five fifty million like these disabled.
Uncounted millions of the world up rooted in displaced this wastage of the world's
human resources by war need not occur again one of the most cherished documents of
our democracy proclaims the in Alien of all rights of all man to life liberty
and the pursuit of happiness. What a challenge to every one of us too.