Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-16
TO Be
COOK Than BE
FAMED IN ART
SAYS PURE FOOD EXPERT
Or. Wiley Gives Views on
Matter


well then to have painted the f. ascoes
of the Vatican said Dr. Harvey w.
Wiley in his lecture at the Auditors m
Theater. so few people see the f es-
Goes, and so many millions eat poorly
cooked potatoes"
This glorification OF good nutri.. on
and good cooking, giving them fl st
place in the scheme of human exist
enCe, wa" the theme around which the
lecturer built discourse that touched
the boundaries of all human affairs,
ranging from breakfast foods to the
responsibilities of millionaires, from
conservation of coal to the conservA
ton of men, and all with epigram AMI
homely wisdom that makes the good
doctor a sort of pure feed Ben Frank
lin.
The advice of the advocate of good
food and plenty of it for every Amec-
lean is as wholesome as good wheat
and as well-fiavored as Kentucky 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 babies born in the Unitel
States, 1877 die before the age of one
year. He declared that the commun-
ity that lets man die of prevent
able disease is guilty of murder He
hurled at his auditors the declaration
that Americans are thc worst cooks of
any nation in the world, but admitted
he didn't know anything about the fine
art of cooking in cannibal lands.
Building a parody on Mrs. Brown
ing's lines, DR.. Wiley paid his respects
to "millionaires who sit still in easy
chairs and damn the general public
for standing up" He said it was the
duty of millionaires to set an example
Of simple living, and that they would
live longer for it.
THE very rich are the only people.
said the lecturer, who can afford to
buy shoddy goods in clothing or furni-
ture or food. Many of them, too, sit
in easy chair because they have made
CIR sold shoddy goods at he cost of the
health and lives of the poor.
What is your greatest industry? I,
is casting. That is the greatest indus
try of every city, town, hamlet. If yo'.
live to be 60, you have spent five
years in eating, if you have fietchernd
as you ought You have spent twenty
years in getting your food and prepar-
ing it. You have spent twenty years
in sleep, a necessary part of the pro-
cess OF nutrition. Forty-fve years oil
sixty you have spent in this great in
dustry, and yet we go into it as an I'M
skilled labor.
I'VE have schools to teach young
men how to feed cattle and pigs, Oh,
for school to teach marketing. We
have better food and more of it than
we have ever had and no more knowl-
edge, of how to use it.
Il could double the wages of every
wage-eaIner if / could teach him the
principles of nutrition.
What is the use of having pure food
il it is not properly distributed? Lar
year we had the greatest crops in the
history of the country. and yet thoua-
ands are starving. The poor man does
not ask aims, hezasks simple Justice.
Will you give 1t to him, or will you
wait for violence?
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Good nutrition is the best safeguard
against disease; every man is entitled
to good food and plenty of 1t. do not
know how this economic problem If
distribution will be solved, but in
some way the producer and the con-
sumner must be brought closer To-
gether.
Then our food must be better COOK
ed. We are the worst cooks of any ma
ton OF the world. The exquisite ar