Golden Age, April 17, 1929
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DEATH BY SERUM ROUTE
“PROOF OF THE PUDDING”
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Labor and Economics
Talking Movies Ruining Musicians ............ - LSli
Women Wage-Earners ....... . . 4(;3
Employe Stock Ownership . , . . ...... . , ' = . 463
Social and Education.!i.
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Feminine Confusion in Turkiy , .
French Disregard of Justice ....
Women Stronger than Men ............... 46i
Finance—Commence— 'l’i; a nspodt at ion
South Carolina's Great Dani ............,
An Eight-Thousand-Mile Telephone Call
Judging the World’s Prosperity
Rejuvenating of the lee Industry ...
Fairs and Expositions ......
Political—Domestic and , Foih'.ion
Tur. Fascist Grand Councii. .
Rumania's Stolen Railroad ....
Cruelty in Jugoslavia
Unfair Immigration Regulations
Agriculture and Husbandry
Prisons for Animals . .
Home and 11 cat th
Good Health Dietetic Rui.es .............. 451
Death by the Serum Route
•’The Proof of the Pudding" .............. 463
Travel and Miscellany
A Swedish Colporteur In Alaska
The Poverty or Bombay . ■ . .
Belicion and Philosophy Demons Back Ur Tlimit Doctrines ....
Moke Tiny Sharpshooters ..............
A Warning ............
Bible Questions and Ans writs .............. 478 The Children’s Own Radio Story ............ 479
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Volume X Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, April 17, 1929 Number 250
Good Health Dietetic Rules1
THE knowledge of the chemistry of foods and their effect upon the human body, herein expressed, has been gleaned from the teachings and works of V. G. Rocine, Rocine School of Human Nature Study, 711 Kimball Bldg., Chicago, Ill.
Especial acknowledgment is given to Dr. Ralph Shadduck, of Portland, Oregon, a pupil of Dr. Rocine, for the many dietetic truths learned under his tutelage. Other sources from which the ideas herein expressed have been gleaned are, the naturopathic and dietetic scholars of the world in general, and Dr. Geo. Starr White, M.D., N.D., Dr. Henry Lindlahr, M.D., D.O., and Dr. Geo. Clements, N.D., D.C., in particular.
General Dietetic Health Rules
Pain is a symptom. It is not a disease or a cause of disease. It is a sit-up-right-now-and-begin-to-take-notice warning signal by which Nature tries to warn you that there is something wrong and that unless you do something about it, you are in danger. Sandbagging, paralyzing or suppressing the nerves of feeling which convey the pain message is not a cure. Bell-ans, aspirin, or other drug store or doctor’s kit palliatives accomplish nothing permanent, except harm.
Nausea and vomiting following a meal is not a plea for a “tonic” or a “digestive”, but a plea for rest, a sign that your digestive system has been overtaxed and is out of order, a closed-for-repairs sign. Natural forces of repair and recuperation will take care of your stomach and digestive system when you cease to abuse it. Nature can and will, if you will give her an opportunity. .
Medical practice (and this includes all schools of medicine) is a fruitless routine of palliatives and symptom-tinkering; meddling with senses and functions of the body, all of which leave an aftermath of complications that are worse than the original malady for which the palliatives were given, and all of which complications are far more difficult to eradicate or overcome than the original malady. Every method or measure that is directed at the removal of symptoms rather than the removal of causes is evil.
Disease is an evidence of ignorance, partly on the part of the possessor, largely on the part of those responsible for the teaching of the individual. Of those who give wrong therapeutic or dietetic advice, and by far the worst of these offenders, are the members of the medical profession.
“All the most prevalent and fatal maladies now afflicting the human race are either directly or indirectly traceable to a dietetic origin,” says Dr. Samuel G. Willan.
Dr. Willan is the author of a rather severe indictment of the unthinking portion of the medical doctors, when he says, “Shall we turn to the medical doctor for dietetic advice? Such a course would be absurd; for while the laity usually looks to the doctor, the doctor is usually a dietetic dunce who knows not how to feed himself, who sheds his teeth, his hair and his healthy color quite as young as any of his patients, and is (usually) a confirmed and incurable dyspeptic at thirty-five.” .
How drugs and medicines “cure”: Dr. Richard C. Cabot, M.D., of Boston, is recognized by the medical fraternity as one of the foremost medical men in America today. Health Culture, for March, 1928, page 115, quotes Dr. Cabot as follows : “Typhoid fever has a 10 percent mortality. That means that in ninety cases out of a hundred it cures itself (Nature cures), for we do nothing really curative. Pneumonia has a 25 percent mortality,. That means that seventy-five eases out of every hundred cure themselves. So we c ild go on through the list. One lists about 215 diseases known to medical science, and of these there are eight or nine that we can cure by drugs or surgery.”
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The doctor does not specifically list the “eight or nine” diseases that can be “cured by drugs or surgery”. This leaves at least 206 out of the 215, or 95.8 percent of all diseases, admittedly incurable by drugs or surgery. In the light of those figures, is not the term “medical science” a joke? Aside from a receipted doctor’s bill, what do the possessors of any of those 206 diseases get when they employ a state-recognized representative of “medical science”?
“Man has degenerated—this degeneration due solely to his diet,” says Chas. De Lacy Evans, M.M.D., M.E.S., in his book, How .to Prolong Life.
Every one is on a diet. Some are on a correct diet and are well. Most people are subsisting on an incorrect diet and are ill, and daily growing worse. Can “the science of medicine” cure you of your dietetic shortcomings? Impossible, Natural food: What is natural food? All animals of the wild in their native state subsist on natural food, which is uncooked, unmixed and unseasoned. No other foods can be said to be wholly natural. This is important. Grasp its importance, and you are well on the road to recovery, on the road to better health.
Altered diet: Since the discovery of fire, man has endeavored to nourish his body with cooked food, most of it mixed and highly seasoned. The net result of this altered diet has been altered vital function.
Old age: How “old” is old. age? All animals of the wild of which we have record will live an average of seven (7) times their bone maturity. Man gets his bone maturity at 28 years. If lie lived seven times his bone maturity, as animals do, he would live to seven times 28, or 196 (nearly two hundred) years; yet most men die before they have lived one and one-half times their bone maturity (42 years); three times bone maturity, or 84 years, is considered exceptional. The big difference between what mankind should live and what he does live, is only a part of the terrible price man is paying for his dietetic ignorance. .
Causes of disease: Some diseases are purely mental in origin. Other diseases are mechanical
in origin, as a dislocated bone, a ligament or muscle tension, pressure on nerves from spinal misalignment, etc., a class of diseases calling for the services of a mechano-therapeutist, be it Swedish massage, osteopathy, chiropractic or other form of mechanical treatment. Most diseases are chemical in their origin, from cooked food, wrong combinations of food, foods containing an excess of chemicals not needed or required by the body, foods lacking in the chemicals which the body needs and must have in order to maintain good health, ’
The careful reader will please note that we . have ignored the medical doctor’s chief stock-intrade theory of disease, namely germs.. This . was not an oversight. There are germs; but if they were one-half as deadly as the medical doctor asserts them to be, we should all have been killed by the deadly germs before we had an opportunity to develop the microscope by which germs were discovered. There are infectious diseases. There are no contagious dis-........
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to peritonitis, from, neuralgia to neurasthenia, are the direct .results of cooked food eatrni in too great quantity and in wrong combination, and these and.most ■otlmn;ailments.cambe^^F£medied:;..; only by the removal of the‘underlying causes. This is soniethina’ that may be understood without medical education, and something that . should be taught in m ery grade school. .....
Wild animals eat when, they are hungry, when they can get. it. If ill or indisposed, they will not eat. Man eats by the clock: whether he needs it or not; and'.if ill,Me. keeps on eating.,.If.his whole nature rebels at food, he. “takes a tonic by doctor's orders" and has some espeeialh tempting dishes prepared for his consumption.
“Food is food until fooled with,” says Alfred McCann, whose book, The Science, of Eating, should be in every school library and public library in the land.
Mankind cooks food to gratify taste and appetite. Man should choose food to satisfy his bodily requirements. Grasp the importance of all that is said and implied in those two sentences.
Vegetable life draws its sustenance from inorganic matter, 'Animal life, including man, lives upon organic matter. Nature lias made a wise provision that inorganic matter can not become an integral part of man’s cellular structure. If such were not the case, man would be a solid mass of lime, silicon, iron, gypsum and other inorganic substances from the water he drinks before he is ten years old.
Medicines are in the greater part inorganic, and according to Nature’s wisdom are kept out of man’s cellular structure. If taken internally they clog the blood stream, the arterial walls, the joints, etc., but they can not become a part of the cellular structure.
Cooking is a process of producing chemical and structural changes in food: changing it from organic food into inorganic matter. Nature surrounded every grain of starch with a cellulose coat, intending for you to break down this coat with your teeth, thus mixing it with saliva during the process. Milling and cooking now breaks down this coating, causing chemical and structural changes in the food, detrimental to your health.
Learn to eat and like food as Nature prepares it. This is real food: food that will get you well if you are ill, and, if you are well, will keep you well. Natural foods as prepared by Nature are uncooked, unmixed, and unseasoned (with spices, peppers, ketchups and granulated sugar). There is a seasoning, but it is put there by Nature. When we speak of seasoned food, we mean food that is artificially seasoned.
The cooked diet, to which most people are accustomed, is a diet wrong to begin with. It is wrong, (1) because it is cooked, (2) because it is a wrong combination of food, (3) because it is too heavy with starch, (4) because it is too heavy with protein, (5) because it is too heavily seasoned with condiments, (6) because it is a diet deficient in the life-giving organic mineral salts, or (7) because it is too heavy with sugar.
Begin at once to cut down on the amount of cooked food. Cut down on the sugar; cut down on the starch and protein portion of your meal and substitute a sufficient quantity of fruits and non-starchy vegetables and raw leafy vegetables to satisfy the cravings of appetite. Many of the fruits and vegetables are excellent raw, others have to be cooked (or at least your food habits are such that you think they have to be cooked); but, raw or cooked, substitute them for the cooked, sugared and seasoned starch and protein diet -to which you have been accustomed.
Calories: Pay no attention to any theory of diet which stresses the caloric theory of diet. Experimental dietetics exploded the caloric theory many years ago. Calories have to do with heat measurement. You may rightly measure T.N.T., dynamite or gasoline in terms of calories, but not foods. Of the foods (so called), canned salmon heads the list as highest in caloric content; yet common experience has proven that it requires a wonderful constitution to eat of canned salmon for two successive meals without serious digestive disturbances. Man is an admirably constructed dynamo capable of creating and transmitting vital energy, not an internal combustion engine that must be stoked.
Vitamins: One hears much these days of "vitamins”. No vitamin has ever been seen, examined or chemically isolated. The medical profession in general, certain dietetic cults, and an amazing number’ of manufacturers of devitalized, demineralized and demoralized “foods” all stress the vitamin theory. They have even named them, vitamin “'A”, “B”, “C” and on down the alphabet to the latest one “discovered” when the packing-houses needed a market for its liver, vitamin “F”.
Naturopathic physicians deny the existence of any vitamins. They claim that the things called vitamins are that property (a) which the Yogi speak of as “prana”, or the life-giving element which is found only in uncooked seeds, or (b) which will be found to be the elements which the naturopaths have always spoken of as organic mineral salts. These salts may be found, analyzed, chemically isolated and understood. Some of the foods said to contain vitamins we know contain these organic mineral salts. The claims of others, such as the makers of a well-known brand of soups, another of ketchups, and others who manufacture for sale sterilized package and canned foods will be found upon proper investigation to be without the necessary facts to substantiate their claims.
Food habits: Our food habits are established in youth, at which time the bodily functions are perfect and the growing body is getting its greatest amount of healthful outdoor exercise in the form of play. At that time the food intake must be of sufficient quantity to provide material for the growing body, plus an additional supply to furnish the boundless energy. After the body is grown it does not need so much food. Change your habits and cut down your food intake. Eat’ to supply yoftr lio'dily needs, not to gratify a food habit.
Whole-wheat or whole-grain breads contain most of the mineral elements to be found in the body, and for this reason they are superior to white-flour breads. White-flour breads are poor by reason of the white flour’s having been robbed of most of its elements in the process of milli g and the addition of aluminum, bone dust and white clays and other inorganic matter in the bleaching process.
Danger: If you change from white-flour to whole-grain breads, there is still the danger of eating too much bread in a day. Remember that bread is a starch food, and govern your consumption of it accordingly. Children require a greater quantity of starch foods than do grownups.
When starch is not starch: The body does not handle starch as starch. Before starch may become an integral part of the cellular structure it is changed by the liver and pancreas into a form of sugar. Every one consumes too much starch; which is another way of saying, too much sugar. If in addition to this excess starch consumption, you pile on granulated (or any other) sugar by the spoonful, or consume equal quantities of sugars, disguised as syrups, jellies, jams, pies, cookies, cakes or other “goodies”, you will understand that this excess sugar load requires the expenditure of a great amount of vital energy to get this excess chemically changed into some form of pus so that it may be expelled from the system. Here is one source of “that tired feeling”, as well as of a host of other ills.
Contrast the difference between chewing a stalk of sugar-cane to get sweets and the modern method of crushing the cane with powerful machinery to extract the juice. Contrast the difference between the bodily method of handling this juice and the machine method of boiling down this juice to a syrup, and further to a sugar, and then refining by a process which leaves it in such form that you may shovel it on your food by the scoopful. There is more sugar in one spoonful of the granulated sugar than you could get out of a stomachful of sugar-cane juice, extracted by the natural method of chewing the cane. This difference explains the reason for the remarkable (?) increase in diabetes, Bright’s disease, heart trouble and liver disor-’ders.
Avoid the use of granulated sugar; -do not habitually use commercial syrups, jams or jellies. If you feel that you must use sugar, use brown sugar; and if you use syrups, use maple syrup (see that it is pure and not an imitation) or sorghum or pure cane syrup, or better yet, use honey.
Condiments: Ketchups, chili sauce, pickles, chow-chow, pepper, spices, mustard, etc., all condiments of every kind and nature v’ith the sole exception of a limited amount of table salt are best avoided. They are all designed to make artificial food taste better, and will destroy your appetite for natural foods and increase an appetite that is usually too large to begin with. Avoid the use of all condiments.
The first step in spoiling food is cooking it. The second step in spoiling food is seasoning it with condiments. The third step in spoiling food is mixing a variety of foods at the same meal. .
Vinegar contains acetic acid, an acid harmful to the liver, Vinegar is put on foods to preserve them. You do not eat foods to preserve them: you hope to digest them. Learn to use the juice of lime, lemon or grapefruit as a sour, instead of vinegar. Citrus fruits (limes, lemons, grapefruit, oranges, etc.) are acid but have an alkaline reaction. They are easily digested. Salads which have been seasoned with lemon juice are easily digested, Vinegar foods are never digested.
Children need calcium to build bone and teeth. Grownups should eat sparingly of calcium foods, unless they want to put on weight; then foods containing calcium and potassium help the body to assimilate carbon foods.
The heavier calcium foods are: Whole-grain products, cow’s milk and cheese, halibut and lemons. Goat’s milk is a chlorin food containing calcium and should be used instead of cow’s milk if at all possible.to procure it. Owing to its chemical, make-np and the small size of its fat globules it will digest in twenty minutes as compared with from one to three hours for cow’s milk.
Chlorin foods aid digestion, help to keep the body sweet, and keep down the formation of intestinal gas. The greater number of the nineteen chemical types of mankind are deficient in chlorin. One may eat sodium chlorid (common table salt) by the spoonful and still have body cells starved. for organic chlorin. A heavy chlorin diet is imperative in all cases where one hopes to reduce weight or in dropsical or rheumatic conditions.
Eggs: It is possible to live a healthy and well-fed life without ever eating any meat or eggs; but if eggs are used, let the children have the whole egg. Babies and grownups should never eat the white of the egg. Like oysters, it is too much albumin. Egg yolk contains most of the elements needed by the body in about the right proportion. If it is taken raw, you get all; if cooked, you lose the scarce and valuable element, fluorin. Egg yolk is a wonderful food for invalids and convalescents. When egg yolks are eaten, cut down on the amount of other foods taken.
Protein foods: Children need protein food in abundance. They have tissues to grow. Grownups should be very careful as to the amount of protein foods they use. One is in no danger of getting too little protein, but the danger lies in getting too much. Almost every one is overfed on starch and protein.
Vaccination and serum inoculations are contrary to Nature’s plan and should be avoided. Bead up the informative data on both sides of the serum controversy and do not blindly rely upon the “orthodox versions” to be found in the free medical advice columns of the daily press. Nature made but one provision by which anything may enter the blood stream, by filtering it through living tissue, from the air we breathe, the liquids we drink, the foods we eat and through the skin from air, water, sunlight and electro-magnetic currents. Watch the quantity, quality, composition and combination of the foods you eat and the liquids you drink. Take sunlight and fresh air, as well as water, baths. Sun baths can not be taken through window glass. The nude body must be exposed for ten or fifteen minutes to the direct rays of the sun. Avoid sunburn, for your comfort’s sake.
Natural distilled water is found in all watery fruits, melons and vegetables, in addition to their organic mineral salt content. Make your diet, on the start at least, one-half of melons, fruits and leafy vegetables, and later, as you grow accustomed to a natural diet, you can decrease the amount of cooked foods further, increasing your raw food intake.
Potassium foods make for muscle tone; proper muscle tone in the bowel means proper peristaltic action. Lack of proper peristaltic action
results in the national malady, constipation. Potassium foods are bitter when compared with the tart of magnesium foods, such as oranges and lemons, or the “horseradishy” tang of the sulphur group, such as mustard, cabbage, turnips and radishes. The bitter of hops is potassium. There are over seventy varieties of herb teas all of which contain potassium. Spinach, prunes, sun-dried olives, dandelion and its ed- t ucated brother, the endive, watercress and figs contain potassium. .
If your system is lacking in any certain element or elements, the first effect of a meal containing that element may result in a-feeling of nausea, due to the fact that the absorbing suction of the system for that element is dormant. Potassium, sodium or magnesium foods often affect people adversely at first, but if any of these foods nauseate you, do not discontinue their use. Cut down on the quantity eaten, and soon your system will tolerate them. In fact, you will in time develop a positive liking for those foods. Remember that potassium is a sodium leach, and when such foods are eaten, the sodium supply must be increased.
Oats are the only alkaline cereal we have, and the use of oatmeal and oatmeal breads is advised. Oats contain silicon, which with fluoriu make enamel on the bones and teeth; likewise, finger and toenails. Oats also contain avenin, a wonderful brain and nerve tonic. See directions elsewhere for the preparation of oatwater (to free the avenin). .
Corn is fattening. Cornmeal products may be used in winter by all who wish to add weight, but should be avoided in the hot months. Nonkiln-dried cornmeal is far superior to the kiln-dried variety you usually get at the grocery stores.
Package foods are made to sell, not to eat; . most of them, if not all, are really ashes requiring the addition of too much cream and sugar to make them palatable. When you eat them you are not getting food, but intestinal exercise.
Strong teas and coffees are best avoided.. They are used as stimulants, and all stimulants are best avoided. That “weak” feeling experienced by so many about 11 or 11.30 a.m. is not a weakness due to lack of food, but is the dying out of the “kick” from the morning coffee. Tons of sugar are consumed by the American public in teas and coffee, all of which makes for disease and not for good health.
Cream in coffee makes a combination not beneficial. If you will drink coffee, either drink Sanke or Caffee-Hag or learn to like your coffee weak and black. Lemon is far superior to cream and sugar in tea, if you feel you must drink tea. .
Candies of all kinds are best avoided. Fruit, instead of candy, .should be bought for sweethearts and children. The neutral fruits, raisins, figs and dates, while too heavy with sugar for use in large quantities, are far preferable as a sweet for children and grownups. '
Manganese foods are needed for brain, nerve and muscle coordination. Eat six or eight blanched almonds or their equivalent (in bulk, not number) in English walnuts each day for at least two weeks and then as you feel the need. Use salted blanched almonds. Nuts are best eaten with meals, grated and. sprinkled over salad or other food. Play safe: when nuts are eaten, eat sparingly of other protein foods. Nuts are our heaviest protein food.
To prepare blanched salted almonds: Crack nuts and remove outer hull. Drop in kettle of boiling water; in a few moments the brown inner hull may be slipped off between the thumb and index finger. After the brown hull has been removed, sprinkle liberally with salt and brown off in a medium-hot oven. Never’ eat the brown inner hull of the almond.
Tin-can and package foods are made to sell, not to eat. If compelled by circumstances to use them, be certain to eat some kind of raw foods at the same meal. There is said to be no animal that may be kept alive for thirty days on an exclusive diet of tin-can or package (thoroughly sterilized) foods.
Canned and package goods in general are not foods, but an energy-wasting form of intestinal exercise. Certain of the canned goods, such as canned pineapple, okra, cut beans, beets, spinach, corn and peas, are permissible where fresh are not available. The ‘‘alive” food principle is lost, but certain laxative qualities remain.
Starches must be mixed with the ptyalin of the saliva or digestion is impossible. Proteins are digested by the hydrochloric acid of the stomach. Fats have to reach the small intestine before they may be acted upon by the bile and intestinal juice, by which fat is emulsified and made digestible. Hence it is very important for you to chew and chew your starchy food. Toss a piece of meat (protein) to a dog, and down it goes in one gulp. Toss a piece of bread to the same dog and observe how carefully he will chew it. Many a valuable dietetic tip may be obtained by a careful observation of the dietetic habits of the so-called lower animals.
Fried starch foods: Frying starchy food is a process of coating raw starch with an enamel of fat which keeps the ptyalin of the saliva away from the starch. Fried'starchy foods - pass through the stomach and into the-small-intestine, undigested; there The bile and intestinal r " juices act upon it, emulsifying the fat and leaving the starch with no ptyalin to digest but-in a t .....
temperature of 100 degrees, an-ideal condition for fermentation and the formation of gas. Here is the foundation of many diseased conditions. . The term “fried starchy foods” includes much more than fried rice or fried potatoes. It includes such dietetic abominations as floured and fried meats and fish, fried crullers, croquettes, fried pies, pie crusts, pancakes, waffles, tarts, jelly rolls, and cookies. Almost any form of pastry is a violation of from two to six. elemen- . tai dietetic laws.
Chlorophyl is found in green leafy vegetables and red meats. See to it that your diet contains ample chlorophyl. Vegetarians omit meat from their diets, thus depriving themselves of the source of red chlorophyl (also depriving themselves of the best source of organic chlorin). If you are a vegetarian, do not let youi’ .'diet be : .. mostly cereals, but be sure to have a plentiful supply of green leafy -vegetables. The term “vegetable” includes cereals and roots. Leaf lettuce is superior to head lettuce in chlorophyl content, while head lettuce is higher in iron content.
Overeating: Remember, it is not the stuff you eat, but the foods you digest, that may be of’benefit to you. An ounce-of raw cabbage or spinach properly digested is more beneficial than a pound of undigested and; unassimilated starch, sugar or protein, clogging up the system and overworking and using up vital energy in reducing it to some form of pus for expulsion from the body. It is easy to get matter into the blood stream, difficult to get it out, and dangerous for it to remain in. Cultivate the habit of eating less.
Cocoanut oil oleomargarine is more easily digested than butter. Use it part of the time, if not all the time. Cocoanut contains neurol, a lubricant for brain, nerves, lung lining and bone marrow. Beef fat or butter does not contain neurol. Eat cocoanut meat quite often. Whole nuts that you crack for yourself are superior to the sweetened shredded package varieties commercially available.
Constipation is best corrected by diet. Proteins are constipating and must have potassium, sodium, magnesium or chlorin foods eaten at the same meal. Avoid taking pills, purgatives, laxatives, calomel or salts. See to it that your diet contains ample sodium, potassium, magnesium and chlorin foods. Eat enough “roughage and bulk” foods to insure the proper peristaltic bowel action. Eat enough foods containing liquid (in'their absence drink enough water, up to six glasses daily). Form the habit of going regularly to stool at a regular time, also go when you feel the urge; allow nothing to cause your “putting it off until a more convenient time” and then forgetting being constipated and letting nature take its course. If people tinkered with their heart as they do with their colon, the race would be extinct.
Stimulants, intoxicants, drugs and patent medicines are best avoided. Animals of the wild live upon a proper diet and require no drugs, stimulants, intoxicants, specialists, adjustments or treatments of any kind. If proper diet will do that for wild animals, is it unreasonable to expect that proper diet will do as much for mankind ? ■
Milk is a food, not a beverage. If you use it, eat it: do not drink it.
Bread: Eat sparingly of yeast-raised bread. If used at all let it be at least 24 hours old; 48 would be better. Freshly baked bread is full of gases not healthful: the baking process does not kill all the yeast germs; and these germs, when eaten, start a new fermentation in the stomach and small intestines. Sour milk and soda or baking powder bread is better. For those who desire to reduce weight, diabetics, and those who want to cut down on their carbon consumption, By-Krisp, a manufactured rye “'hardtack style” bread is admirably adapted. It is said to be an unfired product. For sale at first class groceries.
Proper exercise and deep rhythmical breathing are essential. Most people do not breathe deeply enough; see to it that you do. This is just as imperative as plenty of exercise, which is very important. Without proper exercise there can be no proper function. Good health is not accidental: it is a result of proper diet, exercise, breathing, mental attitude, etc. A sunny, cheerful disposition is the logical result of good health. If you do not already possess it, then on your way to the goal of good health cultivate the habit of a sunny, cheerful disposition. It will be a wonderful aid to the processes of digestion and the getting-well process.
Learn to appreciate the value of good health before you lose it. If you have lost your health, by all means seek to regain it. To those who think they are in good health and who may read these lines the advice here given is timely and should be heeded. Do not expect more of flesh and blood (your body) than you do of iron and steel (your car). Most car owners wmuld not think of running their car more than one year without a thorough overhauling, and at all times they exercise a degree of care as to quality of fuel and lubrication used. Care also is given to cleanliness and proper housing. Be as good to your body as you are to your car.
Tonsilectomy: When pus comes from the tonsils most medical men will advise their immediate removal. Using the same logic, when pus comes from the nostrils, why do they not advocate the removal of the nose?
Appendicitis is usually an outgrowth of aggravated constipation. The appendix secretes appendix juice, which is a lubricant for the colon, also a germicide tending to keep down germ life in the colon. Never have a healthy appendix removed by an operation.
In the opinion of the writer, ninety-eight out of every one hundred surgical operations are unnecessary and uncalled for, and should be avoided. Generally, operations are a tinkering with effects rather than an intelligent removal of causes. With the cause left in and the organ removed, the resultant after-effects of adhesions, surgical shock, shattered nerves and the. loss of the organ are generally far worse than the original malady.
Aluminum cooking utensils should be avoided, coffee-pot, teapot, teakettle and all. Also the use of alum baking powder should be avoided because it contains aluminum. More than sixty-two million dollars’ worth of alum baking powder, containing more than sixty thousand tons of aluminum, were sold in 1927.
Every particle of food prepared in aluminum cookingware is poisoned, according to the opinion publicly expressed by a large number of the leading chemists and medical men, including such names as: Dr. Edward S. Wood, of Harvard Medical School, 'Roston, Mass.; Dr. Hal Truman Beans, of Columbia University; Professor R. F. Ruttan, of Montreal, Canada; Andrew Dingwall, Ph.D., chemist, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. Frank C. Gephart, chemist, New York, N. Y.; Florence B. Seibert, Ph.D., University of' Chicago; Dr. Clarence A. Smith, of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.; Lewis V. Heilbaugh, of the University of Michigan; Roe E. Remington, Biological Chemist, North Dakota Agriculture College, Fargo, N. Dak.; Lester C. Himebaugh, biochemist, New York, N. Y.; Max Kahn, Associate in Biological Chemistry, Columbia University; Professor Lewis B. Allen, chemist, Westfield, Mass.; John Allen Killian, Professor of Chemistry, Fordham Medical College, New York; Dr. Harry Gideon Wells, Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago; Dr. Victor C. Meyers, professor in the University of Iowa; Dr. William G. Gies, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University; Dr. Arnold K. Balls, Associate in Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Albert P. Matthews, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cincinnati; W. D. Bigelow, Director of Research, National Canners Association, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Victor C. Vaughn, Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy, University of Michigan; Dr. Frank P. Underhill, professor in Yale University School of Medicine; Dr. Hattie L. Heft, Physiological Chemist, Teachers College, Columbia University ; Dr. J. H. East, President, Electronic Laboratory, Denver, Colo.; Dr. Wm. Koch, Koch Cancer Foundation of America, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. W. A. Dewey, Secretary, Koch Cancer Foundation, Los Angeles, Calif.; Dr. Josef Reed George, Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. Wm. Held, Director of United States Health League, Chicago, Ill.; Dr. Geo. Starr White, M. D., N. D., Los Angeles, Calif.; Dr. J. M. Morgan, 228 Michigan St., Toledo, Ohio; Dr. Chas. B. McFerrin, Publisher, National Health Review, Orlando, Fla.
The above-named persons are a unit upon the opinion that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous. Their experiments and statements are a matter of public record and are available to every one.
We have a great number of scientists today whose opinions are that cancer is caused by the use of aluminum kitchen utensils. Quoting Dr. Dewey, of Los Angeles, Secretary of the Koch Cancer Foundation, “An important interfering metallic agency not heretofore discussed and associated with diet is aluminum. Aluminum is dissolved very readily by distilled water or ordinary water from aluminum utensils and in such quantities as cause interference with recovery. Foods likewise, when cooked in aluminum ware, dissolve out large quantities of aluminum; and for this reason it is necessary to avoid aluminum dishes and utensils in the preparation of food for a cancer patient.”
Aluminum poisoning: If you boil vegetables in aluminum ware you always produce a poison, in the opinion of the scientists and doctors just quoted, the name of the poison being determined, by the kind of food you cook; but any food, acid or alkaline, if cooked in aluminum ware is poisoned; and if it is allowed to stand from one meal to another and then reheated and eaten, the resultant poison is often strongenough to cause serious illness and sometimes death.
Pellagra: If you boil water (or coffee) in an aluminum vessel you produce a poison known as aluminum hydroxid, which attacks the gastric juice of the stomach. “Continued use of aluminum ware produces a pellagric, often. a hemorrhagic condition of the whole intestinal tract, with ulceration of the stomach or duodenum or both.”—Chittenden & Underhill.
A medical doctor’s opinion: “If you are taking aluminum as medicine prescribed by your physician, and, besides, also eat foods prepared in aluminum cookingware, you obviously ingest more than your share of the aluminum drug. If you are not taking aluminum in medical doses under doctor’s orders, but eat food prepared in aluminum -ware, you get the drug whether you need it or not, and the doses you get and the kind of aluminum drug you get are without rhyme or reason, because there is no way of knowing dose or kind of aluminum compound, when you eat several meals a day cooked in aluminum ware carrying all kinds of compounds with it.”—Dr. Wm. S. Held, Director United States Health League.
If you cook eggs in an aluminum dish you produce aluminum phosphate. If you cook salted meats or fish in aluminum ware you produce aluminum chlorid. Harry Gideon Wells, Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago, says: “Aluminum compounds, produced by cooking food in aluminum ware, may pass into the blood stream from any part of the intestinal tract from mouth to anus. When such compounds have passed the wall of the intestine beyond the surface and entered the blood vessels of the intestinal wall, it will come in contact with the red blood corpuscles and cause them to clump up or aggregate. This tendency of the red blood corpuscles to clump up is a serious matter and leads to anemia and the reduction of the number of red blood corpuscles.”
Dr. Chas. T. Betts, of Toledo, Ohio, author of the book, “An Opinion on Aluminum,” says, “The average person, fed on foods prepared in aluminum ware and on breads prepared with alum baking powder, ingests into his system from twelve to fifteen grains of aluminum poison each day.”
Commercial censorship: You do not hear of the dangers of poisoning, from alum baking powder or the use of aluminum cookingware for the commercial reason that most newspapers and. magazines carry advertisements of either the makers or the retailers of alum baking powders and aluminum ware for cooking purposes, and they do not care to give publicity in their news columns of anything which might offend their advertisers. Papers are published as a business proposition, not to safeguard the public health. It is reported that the United States of America is the only one of the civilized nations which permits the sale of alum baking powder. Alum baking powders may readily be recognized, because the words “So-dium-Aluminum-Sulphato" are required by law to be printed somewhere on the label.
Position in which to sleep: Sleep on the right side with the head to the north. Let the left wrist rest in the right hand, with the right elbow on the mattress. This will permit great anatomical freedom for all organs. The reason for sleeping with the head to the north is that the earth’s magnetic currents may parallel the great nerves instead of crossing them, thus soothing the nerves and tending towards restful slumber.
Care of the teeth: Animals in the wild state have no toothbrushes, neither do they have tartar-discolored teeth. They use no prepared (and highly advertised) tooth paste, and they keep their teeth intact for the period of their natural lives. Why I
If you will have your dentist remove all the dead teeth from your mouth, properly fill all the cavities in the live ones and then have them thoroughly cleaned, your mouth will be in fine shape. Then if you will live on a diet composed of raw vegetables and fruits you will discover that your teeth will keep as clean as your dentist left them, without the aid of a tooth brush or tooth paste. You will also discover that cooked meals will add a film to your teeth and acid fruits will take it off. Animals use their teeth to chew with; mankind has grown accustomed to having most of the chewing done by the mill and the cook-stoves. Use your teeth; that is the best rule for keeping them.
When you start on this diet, it is advisable to make the change gradually from your accustomed dietetic habits to the new habits of eating. Raw foods are best; but do not try to live on an exclusively raw food diet right from the start. Grow into the new7 way gradually, thus giving your system a chance to adapt itself to the neiv regimen.
Read and reread and study this diet until you know7 it by heart. Learn all the tables and lists, which are an integral part of this diet. Avoid what you are advised to avoid. Know7 whether or not your food and your food combinations are correct. The more carefully you follow7 the advice and instructions here given, the greater your assurance of vigorous and lasting good health.
Nature is kind to those who do her bidding and obey her laws, but she is relentless in her collection of the debt of pain from all w7ho transgress her law7s, ignorantly or otherwise. She plays no favorites. None escape her. Here, as in the court of man-made law7s, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Nature expects, demands and gets payment. Excuses not accepted. Know7 and obey Nature’s laws, and you can be w7ell.
List of Raw (Unfired) Foods
It is easy to overeat of cooked foods; difficult, if not impossible, to overeat on raw foods as Nature grow7s them. Here is a partial list of raw7 foods:
Milk, non-pasteurized; all fresh and dried fruits; rolled oatmeal; cheese, non-pasteurized; peanuts, not roasted; olives; melons; nuts, all kinds; sauerkraut; lean beefsteak; hamburger steak; dried beef; smoked and dried fish; kippered fish; dehydrated fruits; lettuce, celery, carrots, radishes, turnips, rutabagas, cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, Swiss chard, kale, berries, asparagus, parsley, young okra pods, young spinach, young beet tops and beets, alfalfa, alfalfa flowers, young dandelion leaves, dandelion flowers, pansy blossoms, rori petals, nasturtium leaves or flowers, chrysanthemum flowers, horseradish, avocado, young fern shoots, young green corn or peas.
Tropical fruit butter may be made from any combination of dried fruits desired, except dried peaches with peeling on; usually figs, raisins, and either prunes or dates with the pits removed. Run through a food-chopper and pack in a deep bowl. Use either as a spread for bread or as a fruit dish. Those who are “inclined” to constipation will find this a valuable addition to their daily diet.
Oatmeal as a raw food makes an excellent dish, being alkaline, non-fattening. Serve direct from the package with whole milk (and a small amount of brown sugar if desired). Get the regular rolled oats, not the quick or three-minute kind. It is “filling” strength-giving food and is a far better “roughage food” than bran. Do not give to children under four years of age. Some like to add uncooked raisins to this dish.
Salads need not necessarily be elaborate affairs. Salad dressing may be omitted entirely, or it may be salt only, or salt and lemon juice, or a French dressing of olive oil, lemon juice, and salt; also sour milk and cream may be used as a salad dressing, particularly on shredded cabbage (cold slaw). Mayonnaise, thousand island and other “fussy” dressings are permissible for healthy individuals, but should be avoided by invalids and those desiring to keep down weight.
Magnesium foods: Oranges and the entire citrus family are our best source of magnesium foods. Magnesium acts as an antacid, a cleanser, blood purifier and beautifier. Eat plenty of oranges and grapefruit (in their absence drink the unsweetened juice of at least one lemon daily, diluted with at least a glass of water). Oranges are as necessary for children as milk; more so if you are using tin-canned or pasteurized milk.
Carefully watch your food combination. Consult the tables and charts which are an integral part of this diet when making salads or choosing foods. Learn your tables by heart, so that you will not need to look them up. If you will mix foods, watch your combinations. When mixing salad starches and salad herbs, consider all the mixture as being salad starches and do not eat any acid fruit at that meal.
Your “Avoid” List
'Avoid eating:
Acid fruits with cereals, or at the same meal.
Acid fruits with beans or any member of the legumes.
Acid fruits with salad starches.
Acid fruits with unnatural sweets, roots or melons. Yeast-raised bread. Avoid eating yeast: dangerous. Fried starchy foods. (Fried meats are 0. K.)
Hot biscuits or muffins regularly. 0. K. occasionally. When ill, overtired, angry, worried or despondent. Or drinking anything excessively hot or cold. .
Too much and too often and piecing between meals. Melons with meals. O.K. as a meal or between meals. Nuts between meals. Eat nuts with meals.
Avoid:
White flour and all white-flour products.
Mixing foods of too wide a difference in time required to digest.
Vinegar. Use lemon juice instead.
Strong tea and coffee. Also avoid cocoa. (Most, cocoa is impure.)
Chewing gum. (Wastes the valuable salivary juice.) Sugar on fruit. Eat it as Nature prepared it.
Cream in coffee. Better yet, avoid the coffee.
Alum baking powder. Alum powders are labeled
‘ ‘ Sodium- Aluminum-Phosphate ’
Pancakes, waffles, crullers, fritters, doughnuts, fried pies.
Kiln-dried cornmeal.
Roasted peanuts. 0. K. to eat peanuts raw.
The regular eating of candies and ice cream.
A too heavy protein diet. Do not overeat on anything.
Condiments, such as ketchups, chili sauce, mustard, pepper, etc.
Packinghouse by-products, as chili, bologna, wieners, headcheese.
Immature meats, as veal, squabs, young broilers, etc.
Kidneys, heart, liver, sweetbreads, brains, suet and cracklins.
Cooked tomatoes with macaroni, vermicelli or cheese.
Thickened white-flour gravy. Avoid dumplings and noodles.
Cooked sauerkraut. May be warmed, not cooked; no added meat.
Boiled fresh pork, or boiled fresh beef fat.
Cabbage boiled until it has turned red. Never warm over.
Canned fish, sardines and especially canned salmon.
Canned meats. Eat sparingly if at all of any canned meat or food.
Sulphur-bleached dried fruits. Avoid dried apples unless home dried.
Bread and potatoes at the same meal: either is sufficient starch.
Too heavy a starch diet. It is as bad as too- heavy a protein diet.
Ham hocks and cabbage, wieners and sauerkraut.
Mixing too many dishes at one meal. Keep your menus simple.
Jellies, jams, tarts, conserves, cakes, puddings and pies.
Bananas. You would not think of eating watermelon five weeks before it was ripe.
Commercial syrups, white granulated sugar and candies.
Candied orange, lemon and citron peel.
Pickles. Undigestiblc; are never digested.
Fasting, except on competent dietician’s advice.
Worrying over your diet. Do your best to follow, but do not worry.
How to Combine Foods Properly
A niouodiet is best; but if you will combine foods, follow the tables.
Cereals: Best eaten alone: not to be eaten with acid fruits. .
Oatmeal Barley . Steel-cut oats
Wheat Natural brown Rye
Flaxseed rice
Legumes: Must not be eaten with acid fruits. Legumes are any member of the pea or bean family. (This list refers to dry peas and beans.)
Lima beans Lentils Peanuts (eat raw
Navy beans Peas peanuts only)
Kidney beans
Salad Starches: Not to be eaten with acid fruits.
Artichokes
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Oyster plant
Carrots
Tin nips
Chinese water
Beets
i'oraioes
chestnut
Kohlrabi
Radishes •
Bananas
Sweet potatoes
Parsnips
Matured onions
Rutabagas
Salad Herbs: May be eaten with acid fruits.
Water cress
Cauliflower
Bean sprouts
Beet tops ■
Cabbage
Spinach
Asparagus
Lettuce
Mint
Alfalfa
Celery-cabbage
Hops
Celery
Summer savory
Parsley
String beans
Young onions
Dandelion .
Sugar-cane juice
Salad Flowers A few may be eaten in any salad. Nasturtium, flow- Clover blossoms Dandelion blos-ers or leaves Oxalis - soms
Alfalfa flowers
Rosella buds
Pansy blossoms Rose petals
Acid Fruits: Not to be eaten with unnatural sweets, starches, roots or legumes. May be eaten with nuts oi’ salad herbs.
Apricots
Cucumbers
Persimmons
Berries
Currants
Plums
Cherries
Nectarines
Peaches
Grapes
Pineapples
Apples
Gooseberries
Oranges
Pears
Grapefruit
Neutral Fruits: May be eaten with any food. Raisins Figs Prunes
Dates
Apples and melons are best eaten alone. Melons are best eaten as a meal or between meals. Always peel peaches. Do not eat the inner hull of almonds. If you eat bananas, see that they are well ripened and have dark spots. Chrysanthemum flowers make an excellent groundwork for a salad. Apples or raw cabbage makes a good filling for a salad.
Table of Foods
The following lists are arranged according to time required for digestion:
Half-hour or less: Beef juice (raw), bouillon, raw egg yolk, raw egg white, clear soups, goat’s milk, brown sugar, junket, honey (free from comb).
One hour or less: Apples, if raw, sweet, ripe and mellow; arrowroot, if well cooked; asparagus; raw celery; raw cauliflower; celery, cooked; beef, if lean and lightly cooked; barley, if well cooked; beets, if young and tender; cherries, when ripe, sweet and mellow; cocoa; chocolate, if pure (which is seldom); cornstarch, if well cooked; green sweet corn, which must be well chewed and well mixed with saliva; crackers of the bready kind; cornmeal, if cooked three hours; lettuce; eggs, cooked in any style except baked or fried; cakes; cookies; dates; whole-wheat-flour bread or cereals; hominy, if cooked three hours; figs: raw or cooked carrots or spinach; cabbage, raw, or cooked less than eight minutes; macaroni; maple sugar or syrup; olives; oysters, raw or stewed; raisins; potatoes, if baked or boiled; sago; squash; raw sweet, potatoes; natural brown rice; prunes; tapioca; green peas, if young and tender.
Two hours or less: Artichokes; buckwheat; beans, when young and tender; new fresh bread; capon; chicken; codfish; carp; cream cheese; haddock, halibut, herring, fresh mackerel; lentils; oatmeal, raw, or cooked 20 minutes or more (three or four hours, if cooked only five or ten minutes); parsnips; pancakes; fresh fish in general; turkey; tomatoes; old Irish potatoes (except fried); veal; canned beans; cooked sauerkraut, (one-hour class if eaten raw): okra, if cooked (less time when eaten raw).
Three hours or less: Fat beef; lean beef, if old or fried well-done; cauliflower and cabbage, if cooked long; canned corn; boiled ham; flounder; herring, if salted or smoked; liver; lobster; mutton; oyster plant; sweet potatoes or yams, when cocked; dried or split peas; dried corn; fresh salmon; wild duck or goose.
Four hours or less: Old wild duck or goose; boiled pork; baked beans; fried oysters or shrimp; fried onions; fried pie; meats cooked hard or reheated; fried potatoes; doughnuts; fritters; rutabagas; turnips; mustard greens; all old and woody vegetables.
Five hours or less: Barley bread and whole barley; old shrimp; clams; suet; fried eggs; fried ham; fried crisp pork; mincemeat; fruit puddings; fruit cakes; all rich sauces and dressings.
Never digested class: Bran; apples, when not mellowed by Nature; catsup; cranberries; crisp parts of fried,eggs, meats, pastries; pepper; pickles; vinegar and vinegared foods; pithy cucumbers and radishes; spices; candied citron, lemon peel or orange peel.
Avoid the mixing of protein and starch acids at the same meal. For your convenience here are the principal foods divided into three groups. All of the foods listed in Groups 1 and 3 are acid-forming and have an acid reaction. All the foods listed in Group 2 are non-starehy, semi-starchy, non-acid (alkaline), or semi-acid. Most of them have an alkaline reaction. Strive so to arrange your diet as to keep your blood stream alkaline.
Choose your foods from Groups 1 and 2, or 2 and 3, but NEVER from 1 and 3.
Group 1—The Starches:
Sugar Bananas Tapioca
Bread Commercial syr- Pastries
Rice ups Dried corn
Sago Potatoes
Cereals Macaroni
Group 2—The non-starchy and the semi-starchy
Cottage cheese Asparagus Apples All berries
Celery-cabbage All greens Celery
Carrots
Cabbage Cauliflower Cherries Green corn
Cucumbers
Kohlrabi
Plums
Goat’s milk
Pansies
Limes
cheese
Lemons
Tomatoes
Gelatin
Egg plant
Quinces
Dandelion
Lima beans
Radishes
Alfalfa blossom
Okra .
Raisins
Clover blossom
Melons
Rutabagas
Nasturtiums
Maple syrup
Spinach
Iceland moss
Honey
Sorghum,
Rose petals
Endive
Squash
Grapes
Jell-o
Salsify
Green peppers
Oatmeal
Avocado
Goat’s milk
Oatbread -
Dates
Green beans
Pumpkins
Kale
Grapefruit
Sauerkraut
Prunes
Mulberries
Oranges
Figs .
Huckleberries
■ Pineapples
Parsley
Oleomargarine
Peaches
Green onions
Pears
Group 3—The Protei
Meats
Cow’s milk
Nuts
Eggs
Cow’s milk
Shrimp
Fish
cheese
Clams
Game
Matured onions
Lobsters
Fowl
Matured legumes
Oysters
Rhubarb, sour grapes, sour cherries, sour apples, gooseberries and cranberries are all highly acid, with acid reaction. It is advisable generally to avoid their use. If used, consider them as belonging to Group 1.
The legumes are any member of the pea or bean family. The entire citrus family are acid, with alkaline reaction. . Use them. Raw tomatoes are acid, with alkaline reaction with alkaline foods. Avoid cooked tomatoes and starches, such as tomatoes and macaroni.
Prunes (neutral fruit) are acid with acid reaction ; but owing to their laxative qualities and high potassium content they should be liberally used by all, including those who have rheumatic ailments.
The Fascist Grand Council
THE Fascist Grand Council of Italy will now compile the list of the 400 deputies whom it considers worthy of becoming deputies in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies. This completed and only list of candidates will be placed before a limited number of recognized voters who will then vote “Yes” or “No” on the entire list. Mr.
Mussolini now holds seven of the thirteen offices in the Italian cabinet, including the portfolios of foreign affairs, internal affairs, army, navy, aeronautics, corporations and colonies. It is said that heavy fines, imprisonment and confiscations continue to be the order of the day in Italy. . .
Did You Notice These?
America’s Hundred Wars
UPPOSED generally to have had but six wars, the Army Historical Register shows that there have been more than a hundred in which the United States has engaged. Most of these were with the Indians, who stubbornly wanted to keep the lands which their fathers had tilled.
South Carolina’s Great Dam
OUTH CAROLINA is building a dam which will have a surface area of seventy-six square miles and a shore line 520 miles long. It is located on the Saluda River, just outside of the city of Columbia. The dam will be built and owned by the Lexington Power Company, a part of the Power Trust.
An Eight-Thousand-Mile Telephone Call
N EIGHT-thousand-mile telephone call, from Java to Sweden, was put through the other day without any difficulty at all. The crown princess of Belgium, visiting in Java, wished to know as to the health of her youngster, visiting its grandmother in Sweden, and in a few minutes heard her mother’s voice telling her that the youngster-was 0. K.
In Good Health at 113
C. Tranum, Westernport, Md., enlisted in
• the Civil War at the age of forty-five and is still in good health, sixty-three years after the conflict ended. He knows of 220 grandchildren; and his oldest son, one of 33 children, is ninety years of age. He has numerous greatgreat-grandchildren.
Women Wage-Earners
ONE-FIFTH of all the women in the United States are wage-earners, and one out of every four wage-earning women is married. As a rule women remain at their wage-earning jobs through life. This is shown by the fact that onefifth of them are still in the harness at the age of forty-four.
Feminine Confusion In Turkey
rpURKISH women are said to be confused by their new liberties. Many have even gone insane, while others have suicided. An incidental feature of interest is that the way they now ■wear their veils in turbanlike swathes about bobbed hair makes a far more fetching headgear than any hat the civilized west has yet produced.
Talking Movies Ruining Musicians
French Disregard of Justice
"NTOW that the talking movies have become HpHE French have the guillotine for punish-the rage, they are cutting deeply into the -®- inent of murderers, but when a member of
opportunities for musicians to earn a living. On the first of the year a musician forty years of age attempted suicide because of inability to find work. He explained that he had given most of his life to the study of music and knew no other way to make a living.
Rumania’s Stolen Railroad
ulius Maniu, new prime minister of Rumania, is said to have been surprised when he found that his predecessors had dismantled piecemeal and sold secretly an entire railroad, including tracks, rolling stock and signal system which had cost the Rumanian people four million dollars. The men who did this were the Bratianu gang of millionaires and robbers who have had Rumania in their clutches for a generation, miscalling their plunderbund by the name “Liberal”, so as to mislead those who mistake a word for an idea.
the ancient French nobility, Count de Rayssac, seduced a servant girl and then deliberately murdered the two-year-old child of the union, the jury, carried off by the eloquence of a lawyer, gave the murderer of his own son only ten years in prison.
Employe Stock Ownership
MERICAN corporations up to the number of 315 encourage stock ownership as a means of reducing labor turnover and have sold over a billion dollars’ worth of securities to such employes. The number of employes purchasing is somewhat under one million. Their average holdings are approximately $1,300. In several instances the fluctuations in the stock market have made these stock purchases unprofitable to the employes and created the opposite effect upon their minds from that intended when the sales were made.
Cruelty In Jugoslavia
FIVE years ago Jugoslavia sentenced seventy-two Christians to five years’ imprisonment because of the! refusal to touch military weapons. On the expiration of their sentences they were promptly rearrested and sentenced to ten additional years’ imprisonment. Could anything be more cruel or more completely represent the spirit of the Devil himself?
Judging the World’s Prosperity
T T IS said that the prosperity of any part of the world may be fairly judged by the exports of automobiles passing through the Bush Terminal, in Brooklyn, N. Y. At the moment, shipments of cars to South America are on the increase, while shipments to the South Sea Islands are falling off, owing to the reduced prices being paid for rubber in those parts.
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