Did ever social reformers have so good or so easy
an oppor- tunity of doing immediate good wholesale ? There are no difficulties in the way. If the State, hand in hand with the local education authorities, would provide, say, one half-pint per head per day to children of school age (making sure that the milk was Grade A and free from tuberculosis) we should produce a greatly improved national physique and, what is equally important, a much higher level of intelligence in the children, for the effect of the milk on brain was as remark- able as on growth. The duty and opportunity are so obvious that the whole world should envy our Ministries of Health and Education ; and the names of Hilton Young and Donald Maclean have a world-wide celebrity, as the two reformers who made Britain an Al nation !
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