The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-03-23
LITTLE LEFT Us TO EAT
IF YOU WOULD POISON YOUR
SELF EAT ALMOST ANYTHING.
Man Connected With Government
Says Wheat Bread and Other sta
ple Articles of Diet Are Fatal.

pie Articles of Diet Are Fatai'
What can a person eat with SAFETY
anyhow? o.,,
A man connected with the govern
ment in Washington has written
hook weighing at least half pound
tn nroye that white wheat bread !
almost as fatal as poison. W hed
1our would be all right for food, III
asserts. if the wheat berry "eI'
ground whole, outside shell ana al
but flour made of the wheat perr.
"denatured" by first husking its Goa
off is responsible for nearly all th'
infant mortality and many OF the ols
eases of the grown-ups.
The same with rice and corn. 1h'
wav corn is ground nowadays makes
if dangerous as food, he says.
Soup? Never eat soup, anothel
food reformer advises US; it is mos
Potatoes? Too much starch, the
food faddists tell us. Beware OF po-
tatoes. .he
And corn, on the cob and in the
can. 1t ought really be labeled az
"poison," it has caused so many cases
of pellagra.
Beef? Shun it as you would pes
thence. II helps to cause bright's dis
ease and rheumatism.
We have read all this with more
or less patience. Some of us nave
taken these fulmlnatiOns against our
fayorite foods seriously, and NAH
starved ourselves as result.
But now comes the last straw. "A
food sharp in the East has written a
scathing denunciation of smoked nam
and bacon. He declares that they are
little better than slow poisons. lie
warns you, in all solemnity, never 10
let a morsel of smoked ham or bacon
pass your lips if you wish to keep
we'll and live long.
Why, this country was pioneered
and settled on a diet of smoked nam
and bacon. And the most stalWart
husbandmen the world ever knew are
filling the farms of America on the
same diet
Danish the smoke house from the
American farm and you will take
away it's chief source of sustenance
and strength and destroy the most
toothsome, health-giving morsel on
the natlOndl LdUI6.
The freedom of the United States
was won with ham and bacon as
much as with powder and ball. His
tory tells us that the principal ration
of the revolutionary army when It
had meat at all was bacon. The arm
les of the civil war lived and fought
largely on ham and bacon and salt
pork.
The first pioneers who came out
from the settlements of the East to
the plains and forested hills OF the
West lived on bacon and johnnycake
on the journey. Bacon and greens,
bacon and hominy were the stan OF
life of the early settlers Of all TINS
western country
When Daniel Boone started on
horseback from Kentucky to Missouri
he chucked a side of bacon into one
saddlebag and a sack of corn meal
into the other to balance the load.
The backbone of every "grubstaKe
and prospector, of every voyager, OF
every pioneer who blazed the way
into the new West was bacon and a
irving pan went along with it.
Fried bacon, brown and crisp;
ham and eggs, sizzling in the pan;
boiled ham hook and cabbage-are
these things to go? Not If all the
learned doctors on earth denounced
them. Not even if they were forbid
den by law. We stand on our const1-
tutional rights as American citizens!