The Detroit times., 1913-04-24
BE COOK
THAN FAMOUS IN
ART SAYS WILEY
Pure Food Advocate Puts Skill
in Culinary Work in Forefront
Of Human Triumphs
EATING BIGGEST INDUSTRY
OF CIVILIZED WORLD
Declares Our Cooks the Worst;
Schools on Feeding Cattle;
None on Feeding Men

NEW York; would rather have
been able to cook q potato we'll than
to have painted the frescoes Of the
Vatican said DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
In q recent Interview. so few people
see the frescoes. and SO many mil
lions eat poorly cooked potatoes.
DR.. Wiley held up the shame Of the
fact that the average length Of life
In the United States IL but forty-four
years; the horror OF the truth that
Of every thousand babes born In the
United States. one hundred and TWEEN
ty.seven die before the age Of one
year.
He declared that the community
that lets . man die Of a preventable
disease II 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 me
art of cooking IN cannibal lands.
Building q parody on Mrs. Brown
ing's lines, DR.. Wiley paid his re-
spects to "milhonaires who sit still
In easy chairs and damn the general
public for standing up" He said It
was the duty of milnonaires to set an
example Of simple living, and that
they would i've longer for 1t.
1.-THE very rich are the only people"
said tho lecturer. who can AFFORD to
buy shOddy goods, in clothing or fur.
niture or food. Many Of them, toO,
sit in easy chains because they have
made or sold shoddy goods at the
cost Of the health and lives of the
poor.
What 10 our greatest industry! It
Ia eating. That IL the greatest indus
try OF every city, town, hamlet. II
you live to be sixty, you have spent
five years In eating. II you have
netchSred as you ought. You have
spent twenty years In getting your
food and preparing II. You have
spent twenty years In sleep, . neces.
ssry part Of the process Of nutrition
Forty-nve years u sixty you have
spent in this great Industry, and 70,
We go into 1t o. unskilled labor.
I'VE have schools to teach young
men how to feed cattle and pigs. Oh
for q school to feed man-feeding. We
have better food and more OF 1t than
we have ever had and no more knowl
edge of how to use 1t.
II could double the wages Of every
wageearner II I could teach him the
principles Of nutrition.
What 10 the use OF having pure
food n 1t II not properly distributed?
Last year We had the greatest crops
In the history of the country. and yet
thousands are starving. The poor man
does not ask aims, hs asks simple
justice Will you give It to him, or
will you walt for violence?
Good nutrition 10 the best safe
guard against disease; every man is
entitled to good food and plenty OF
It. do not know how this economic
problem of distribution will be solved.
but In some way the producer and
tho consumer must be brought closer
together.
"Then our food must be better
cooked. We are the worst cooks Of
any nation Of the world. The ex-
Quisite art Of cooking 10 known In
every peasants hut In France. and
In rural France divorce 10 absolutely
unknown. II We had good cook In
every family the divorce c0srts could
shut their doors.
1--WE known q mother TO- put her
daughter of hve ct the piano to pound
the worries ave hours day for nf-
teen years, until the daughter out Of