The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-22
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS
William P. Cutler, M. D.


 I'll bet this is a new one on you. I, was one on me, and yet come to think of it. it shows that we Americans are leaders
 The professions used to include law, medicine and theology but these days there are many professions. Now just what is food counselor Don't think Pm going to give any elab- crate or scientific dope on dietetics. I've got two reasons for not doing so. In the first place, plead ignorance, and in the next it would bore you.
 
 Oh, I've read lot about food values and balanced rations for man and beast, but to tell you the truth I thought a calorie was merely the name of a Enew fashioned 1reless heater and that carbo- hydrates was the name of a new break fast food.
 If you don't know any more than I know about the subject, and I find it out, l can talk learnedly about problems, etc, but I'm too wise to put it in writ ing. for some wise guy would be sure to write to the paper and show me up.
 I was once made general manager of a stove works. I didn't know that cook stoves were made in separate pieces I thought they grew or were molded all at once. That's how green I was. |
 When visitors used to visit the plant ] and. wanted to be carried through it, always asked if it was their first visit to a stove foundry. If they said it was, | then I went with them and explained l all about the intricacies of stove making, but if any of them knew about it and had come to get on to new methods, I owned up that I was bluffing and turned them | over to practical man. l Well, Dr. Cutler is not bluffing. He is a real, sure enough food expert. Eating 1 has always been pleasant pastime of 1 mine, but never knew man could talk so fascinatingly about feeding pigs and 1 calves, and horses and other animals as 1 to make my mouth water until I had a l long talk with him.
 1 I kept hearing about men coming to ! Alabama and buying frames and ship 1 ping them out west. I didn't know they | cattle. Yet they were (By the way, Sid Lee, Josh Odom and Henry Badham are doing this and keeping them at home and fattening them).
 You never can tell what a man can l talk interestingly about. Yet nearly | everyone has a speciality that he can en- thuse you with, if you get him going.
 Dr. Cutters hobby is foods. A great many of us are also fond of eating, but we do not eat scientifically. We are mere epicures, and merely let our appe- tite follow it's choice.
 None of us stop to get at the true | food value of an egg. We spend our l time in deciding, whether we want it boiled, scrambled fried cd poached. Who an egg is water? Some say the only way to get enough of the fluid into some l old topers is to feed them high on eggs. l
 l A quarter of century ago I bought a scientific treatise on foods I kept 1t | for years without reading it. A few | months ago I opened it. I ate 1t up, 1 only to find that I was still hungry for more food news-of men.
 But the more I read the less I seemed | to krow. got wool-gathered with scien- tific terms and began to lose weight In correct.
 And I just fell back on my taste and let it guide me and am picking up flesh. Now, don't get the idea that I'm throw | ing off on dietetics I'm not. I think 1t good thing to know and am glad folks are becoming experts in feeding. l know one thing. It pays to be food counselor for pr. Cutler gets handsome retainer from some of the big food manu- expenses when called in to pass on the food value of any new product. l Here IS a chance TUT DrlSHl, young men. l Law. medicine and theology are all over- worked, but food counselors are as scarce 1 as hen teeth.
 | I'm glad that Dr. Cutler Is friend of the south. He says the agricultural pos abilities in Alabama are so great that .he is tempted to buy an S0-acre farm in the alfalfa region and go into the stock business.
 What he told me could be done with 10 cows 10 hogs and 10 brood mares almost persuaded me to quit journalism and get into the stock raising game. I hope the directors of the fair can arrange with this wide-awake food coun- selor to visit the fair this fall and give practical talks on what can be done by anyone who will use up-to-date methods. Dr. Cutler is an evangel of Alabama s resources and I doubt not but he will be the means of starting many western I farmers down our way. ] c3uuhzxnMxAoan<M