The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1913-01-27
STANDING OFF FATHER TIME

sions 20 even farther: The remedy
Tor alcoholism" he tersely states at
Ger keen analysis. lis TO be tounC
II. vegetarianism" And Just hecaus.,
"i It's importance in connection with
he use of alcohol. and the great
role the latter plays in hardening"
the arteries. stress must he laid OF.
he necessity of avoiding meat-eat-
ING entirely or as much as POSSIBLE,
2fter the age of forty.
Man is not naturally. or certainly
not necessarily. meat-eater any
more than is his cousin the monkey.
The fact that man has two teeth
on each Jaw adapted for tearing
flesh to shreds proves nothing to
the contrary. But" as NJ. Ieclercu
OF the French Academy says. man
5 the King OF creation. and by re.
turn 10 atavsm and original savas
cry of which the struggles between
the peoples of the earth are still a
strange but real vestiee. he delights
N er&ies of the flesh Not satisfied
With borrowing protection and cover.
Ing from his inferior brothers. the
ever animals. man. having used III
The wool then eats the sheen. and
always knows. at the banquet of
Nature, how to keep in reserve a
sharp tooth for his only match. his
fellow man" This may be sentiment
But sentiment aside, and on purely
scientific grounds. a vegetarian reg.
linen must be recommended and in
sisted upon. ii one wishes to enter
The old-age Marathon with any pros
poets OF winning. An interesting
point in this connection is the corr
/ parative cost of various diets. On 4
scientific basis of right living the
comparative cost is as follows:
IN all meat diet ---................... $500
\ sentiment diet 1o5
\ vegetarian diet. with milk
anu eggs Observation-Disclosures. 80
exclusive frult diet ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 13a
f Exclusive vegetable diet In
I'll above figures are not drawn
from the spasmodic attempts of club
Women's soclals In their endeavors
10 demonstrate the low cost" of
living, but are taken rather from
an international average cost Of
food-stuffs, with their scientific
food values. 1t may be added also
hat the conclusions as regards the
importance and advantages of a
vegetarian diet are not here adyo-
. Gated as result of the hit-or-miss
statements of poetic foodcranks and
f vegetarians; they are the result OF
personal study and experiment. bacn-
! cd by the conclusions OF the highest
/ scientific experts of France anr
+ Germany
+ But man may avoid alcohol he
/ may turn vegetarian he may be abso-
/ iutely free from all suspicion of that
monster blithely termed Social"
/ Disease-a and still not be saved for the
efficiency OF a ripe and joyful old
/ age, For that reason we must hurry
bad thing. by the way-to a cor
slderation of the one great factor
( which is constantly operative iii
/ bringing all of us nearer the unnvit-
/ ing threshold of Father Time. Thai
/ factor is the portion of the large in
! 1estines which lies in the vicinity Of
/ that dangerous neighbor. the ap
1 pendix
An animal lives long in proportion
/ to the length of its large intestine
/ To put the matter diagrammatically
and not literally. so to speak. a.,
animals length OF life is in inverse
! proportion to the length of its large
/ intestine. In other words. and TO:
purposes of illustration. it may b.
/ said that an animal with double
/ length intestine lives just half as
! long as 1t would with an intestine
/ just half the length of the one II is
unfortunate enough to possess Mar
! is no exception. But this of itsels
would be OF no Importance whatever
II its bearing on the subject of LONE
| life. 1t is the germ of old age"
/ harbored in this intestine, which
really counts That is the kernel of
/ the whole problem
Now that we have arrived this
| far ii must be said at the risk OF
! committing an Irish bull" thai
] there is no germ of old age, or AT
least no such germ has been spot
| ted" by the microscope as being the
one particular offender But, and
this much is certain-there is 2
group of flora" or germs, which
infest the large intestine of man
and other animals. These were form
erly considered innocent and harm
less. though it is now known thar
they manufacture poison which
/ becoming absorbed by the blood
stream and acting on the body-tis-
sues for a long period of time In,
creases the "fibrous" tissue OF the
arteries. 'hardens" the fibrous It's
sue of various organs, and hines
on either premature or so-called
natural old age Bearing this fact in
/ mind II will he readily uudarsfocd