Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-28
CANNIBAL SPEECH
SHOCKS VEGETARIANS
RADICAL THEORY DENOUNCED
AS RIDICULOUS
Man Would Eat Man Alive If Idea
Were Put into Practice,
Says DR.. Eustace
Miles

IONOONB June 81 nC 0l1llCllSAA
made by DR.. f. Gowland Hopkins il
an address on Biological Chemistry
at the Royal institution, that in con
suming his own kind the cannibal wa
"eating exactly the right kind of stuff,
he sent a shudder through the ranks o
the vegetarians. DR.. Hopkins baset
his statement on the assumption tina
a cannibal, by eating his own kind
obtained just the right quality ant
quantity of proteid.
When Mr.. Eustace Miles had re
covered from the shock of being re
quested to give an opinion on thu
subject he denounced DR.. Hopkins
theories as ridiculous.
Mans body" said the noted vege
tartan. contains not only proteid, bu
also the waste products-the result o
bodily and mental work and worn-ou
tissues.
when a man eats flesh food of an!
kind he adds to his body these aciC
waste products, which are hard to ge
rid of without abundant exercise.
admit, however, that the Gambia
probably gets healthy exercise by chas
ing his victims"
As Mr. Miles warmed to his subjec
he became positively ghoulish.
when an animal dies its arteries
are emptied and it's blood becomes
dark and unhealthy. If DIR. Hopkins
idea were carried out scientifically thei
man should eat live man. But even ;
live man does not contain proteid il
such a concentrated form as a Par
mesan cheese.
An Appalling Prediction
'It is just possible, but improved
that the proteid of human flesh nigh
be better for man than other proteids
but l would not care to advocate thu
theory. The prospect of the unem
ployed being let loose on certain mem
bers of the city corporation would b.
appalling"
A correspondent has written some al
legged interviews with celebrities on th'
question of whom they would like tt
eat with view to publishing sor
of who's who in the cannibal world.
Mr. McKenna, first lord of the ad
miralty, was the first to be approached
He spoke with remarkable candor.
"I should like to devour Mr.. Carlyol
Bellairs in the form of stew he said
"but l have been so busy eating m!
own words in the house of common
lately that 1 am now suffering from
acute Indigestion"
Miss Christabel Pankhurst was in
clined to be a little peevish.
MIR. Asquith? Certainly not" sh
snapped. Il would not do him tn
honor of singing him out as a tabl
delicacy. / should make him mer
ingredient in a cabinet pudding"
Bernard Shaw, who was masticatinI
the core of a green apple, remarke'
between munches that he had neve
made an "obvious retort" in his life.
"That is one of the secrets of m!
greatness" he said. otherwise ant
If I were not a vegetarian from birth
I might have mentioned the Censor o
TOI Il
will content myself with wishing tha
the majority of critics who write col
umns about my plays could be boile'
and then stuffed with chestnuts The,
will appreciate my meaning. But
would not guarantee to eat them"
A Royal Proofreader
Fleet street now recognizes the prin
cess of Whales as a "corrector of tn
press" Her royal highness recent.
visited the offices of a well-known pub
fishing firm, and was keenly interested
in inspecting the sheets of one of thet
publications, which were shown to he
as they came straight from the print
ing machines. She was the first to de
tect that there was an error on one o
the pages, which had escaped the no
tice of the editorial staff, and pointed
This out to those in attendance on her
orders were at once given for thi
necessary alteration 10 be made' ana
though considerable expenditure
was involved in the process, a new
plate was cast. her royal highness in
cidentally receiving an insight int
the expeditions methods of the exper
hands entrusted with this importan
work
The war now raging in England
over the proposal to increase the
whisky duty is a very mild reproduc-
ton Of the storm that arose in the
country early in the eighteenth cen
tury, when the government imposed a
duty of So a gallon, besides heavily
taxing the retail dealers. Legislators
of those days were eager to check the
consumption of whisky in the interests
of temperance. Alas, for their fond
hopes! The trade became absolutely
Improbable except to the unscrupu
lous and the criminal classes, who be
gan smuggling on the largest scale
to such an extent, indeed, and with
such violence that the revenue officers