Excerpt from Good Neighbors: A Study in Vocational and Community Hygiene Every year, too, sees the advent of two million young voters, youths and maidens. Who have attained their ccv eted majority and who are legally, if in no other respect, ready for the vote. How well are these young workers and citizens per pared for their tasks of labor and of democracy? Four million American school children are handicap ped by mouth breathing, caused by tonsils and adenoids. Five million have trouble with their eyes. Eight out of every ten have seriously defective teeth. One million have something wrong with their ears. Two million have flat feet or crooked spines. One in every three is under weight, undernourished, or malnourished. How can these children do good work with such poor bodily tools? As to preparation for citizenship, - f or real community service, - how many of our young folks are given any actual training at all? And yet the success of any civilization must rest upon the health of its workers as individuals and as commun ity members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.