Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
Pure Food Advocate Puts Skill in.
Culinary Work in Forefront
of Human Triumphs.
fEATING BIGGEST INDUSTRY
Declares Our Cooks Worst,
Schools on Feeding Pigs,
None on Man.

- POSoto VIGIL Ildl 10 nave painted
the frescoes Of the Vatican" said
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley in his lecture
at the Auditorium Theater. 80
few people see the frescoes, and so
many millions eat poorly cooked
potatoes"
This glorificatton Of good nutrition
and good cooking, giving them first
place in the scheme of human exist
snce. was the theme around which
the lecturer built a discourse that
touched the boundaries Of all hu-
man affairs. ranging from breakfast
foods to tho responsibilities of mil
ElonAires. from conservation Of coal
TO the conservation of men, and all
with epigram and homeiy wisdom
that makes the good doctor a sort of
pure food Ben Franklin.
Shuddsrs Over Death Record.
The advice Of this advocate Of
good food and plenty OF it for every
American Is as wholesome as good
wheat and as well-havored as Ken
tIici0y ham
DR.. Wiley held up the shame of
the fact that the average length Of
life in the United States is but a.
years; the horror Of the truth that
OF every thousand babes born in the
United States, 1877 die before the
age OF one year. He declared that
the community that let's man die
Of a preventable disease IS guilty of
murder He hurled at his auditors
the declaration that Americans are
the worst cooks Of any nation in
the world, but admitted he didn't
know anything about the fine art
of cooking in cannibaI lands.
Building a parody on Mrs. Brown
Ing's lines, DR.. Wiley paid his re-
spects to "millionaires who sit stil
sn easy chairs and damn the general
public for standing up" He said II
was the duty Of millionaires to set
an example Of simple living, and
that they would live longer for #.
Eating Leading Industry.
The very rich are the only peo-
pie" said the lecturer, who can af-
ford to buy shoddy goods in clothing
or furniture OF food. Many Of them,
too, sit in easy chairs because they
have made or sold shoddy goods at
the cost Of the health and lives Of
the poor.
What IS your greatest industry?
It is eating That IS the greatest in
dustry Of every city, town, hamlet.
II you live 10 be so. you have spent
five years in eating, If you have
hetchered as you ought. You have
spent twenty years in getting your
food and preparing II. You have
spent twenty years IN sleep, a nee
essary part Of the process OF nutri-
tion. Forty-five years OF sixty you
have spent in this great industry,
and yet we go into it as an unskilI-
ed labor.
I'VE have schools to teach young
men how to feed cattle and pigs.
Oh, for a school TO teach man feed
eng. We have better food and more
81 IT than we have ever had and no
than we have ever had and no more
more knowledge Of how TO use It.
T could double the wages Of every.
wage-earuer If I could teach him the
principles Of nutrition.
"Big Crops, Vet Thousands starve."
What IS the use OF having pure
food II II is not properly distributed
Last year we had the greatest crops
IN the history Of the country. and
yet thousands are starving. The
Door man does not ask aims, he asks
simple justice. Will you give Il 20
him. or viii you wait for violence
Good nutrition is the best safe
guard against disease; every man Is
entitled 10 good food and plenty Of
f. I do not know how this economic
problem Of distribution viii be solv-
ed. but in some way the producer
and the consumer must be brought
closer together
Then our food mast be better
cooked. We are the worst cooks OF
any nation % .ss= world. The eN-
ouisite art Of cooking is known in
every peasants hut in France. and
IN rural France divorce is absolute
" unknown If we had "a good cook
a, avery family 49, divorce courts
could shut their doors,