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PREVENT LIFE-WASTE— UPBUILD NATIONAL VITALITY
Directors Hon. William H. Taft Henry H. Bowman Francis R. Cooley Robert W. de Forest Irving Fisher Eugene Lyman Fisk Harold A. Ley Elmer E. Rittenhouse Charles H. Sabin Frank A. Vanderlip HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT Chairman, Board of Directors ELMER E. RITTENHOUSE President GEN. W. C. GORGAS Consultant, Sanitation PROF. IRVING FISHER Chairman, Hygiene Reference Board EUGENE L. FISK, M.D. Director of Hygiene HAROLD A. LEY Vice-president and Treasurer JAMES D. LENNEHAN Secretary

The Institute was established by a group of scientists, publicists, and business men, who desired to provide a self-supporting central institution of national scope devoted to the science of disease prevention—a responsible and authoritative source from which the public might draw knowledge and inspiration in the great war of civilization against needless sickness and premature death.