The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-09
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Mary DOuBnL a 4lblS ldIlp,
 But when she learned the price She sent it back to the butcher shop
 And ate bowl of rice"
 This bit of doggerel epitomizes d part of the campaign now being waged to cut meat out one day in the week.
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 Paul of old, though he had no con- scientious scruples about eating meat sacrificed to idols, was ready to fore 20 1t rather than to be stumbling block to those who thought 1t wrong.
 He said: "If meat make my brother to offend I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend"
 Spoken like a man, and like the Christian he was he was ready to be a vegetarian rather than to use his liberty in a way that would lead the weak into doing something they felt to be evil.
 He was sane enough, however, to so to the bottom of meat eating and dis criminatingly said: Meat commend eth us not to God; for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse."
 'whether, therefore, ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" The new move is not to be a religious, but national fast day in order to conserve food. In do- ing without for country's sake instead of for conscience's sake.
 And so this new economical war propaganda about what shall we eat, or rather not eat, is not vegetarian move, for wheat is also to be taboo one day out of seven.
 We are told by food valuators that: 'Too much meat is as bad for the body as too little. During the digestion of meats, fish and eggs acids are formed. In order to prevent the accumulation of too much of this acid in the sys- tenn 1t Is necessary to eat also fresh vegetab bles and fruits. which have prop critics that neutrali7e the acids formed by the meat. This is one reason why meat and potatoes are usually served together. It is safer to have too lit- tie meat than to eat too little fruit and too few vegetables"
 I started off by saying, Mary bought a little lamb" but the second verse says: Mary bought bowl of rice
 And took 1t home to sup, And while the rice was going down
 Twas also going up"
 If you don't care to give up mutton all at once in favor of rice, you can compromise on curry, which is a high ly favored and pungent sauce used as relish for boiled rice, meats, etc. Curry sauce as a compromise isn't so bad.
 Rice is a grain that's eaten by every civilized people, and 1t takes the place of bread with a large part of the hu- man race.
 The, Chinese like rice better than wheat, and all oriental people esteem 1t the best of foods. That 1t is a good fighting ration was proven by the Jap anese.
 America is the chief corn continent, just as Asia is the chief rice continent, although rice is raised on large scale in this country.
 once took trip through the rice fields of Louisiana. The grain thrives of rivers, in low valleyes. and in flood ed plains. A rice field at sunset Is a sight never to be forgotten (now my friend Max Winkler goes to Louisiana to become a rice farmer). Like wheat, rice is one of the oldest of grains. It is supposed to have originated in In dia; and it was eaten as staple article of food by the Chinese thou sands of years before Christ
 It is said our first seed rice came from Madagascar in 1894, in storm driven ship that landed at Charleston, S. c. The Palmetto State has long been noted as rice state.
 The story goes that the captain of the vessel had sack of unhusked rice and gave it to the governor of South Carolina and he distributed the seed. It is now grown in Georgia, Missis- sippi Alabama. Louisiana and Texas.
 Experts say our American rice is sweeter. larger and better colored than that of Asia. and it commands high CT price. There are as many varieties of rice as of potatoes or apples.
 Frank Carpenter tells us that the rice crop is quite as important to many Asiatic countries as our wheat or corn crop is to us.
 Tn China a large part of the taxes are paid in rice. and in Japan the god of good fortune is a jolly little fat man.. named Daigoku. seated on bags of rice.
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