The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-03-01
GERMAN MILITARY
DIET FOR 5 MONTHS

InH IIHIUn Ills
taken from a Bridgeport Connecticut
dailv paper of recent issue. The Df
Hermann Guessing referred to was
located at Paradise Valley for sew
oral wears. and sent the paper tC
County Physician Mangan:
AFTER having voluntarily adopted
the diet that is compulsory for Ger
man citizens. during five months DIT
Herman Guessing of 1867 East Main
street is re~cuperating.
From July / to December 1, Dr.
Dnessing confined himself to those
articles of food, and those mount
Of each kind of food, which the milf
tarv authorities in Germany allow the
civilian population. He lost elght
pounds.
cont of curiosity said DR.. Dues
sing because of the many reports
from Germany and the statements
that the people are starving l de-
cided to superintendent on my pa
tents. but on myself. l arrived at
the conclusion that they are not starV-
ing. but they are pretty badly OFF.
Mr. diet every week for five months
consisted. besides vegetables, pud-
dings. cereals. of one-half pound OF
meat a week, one-half pound of bread
or pastry daily, four pounds and a
half of potatoes a week, two ounces
of butter a week. two eggs in three
weeks. and no sugar, no milk.
"In the month of September, none
of the civilians OF Germany was al
lowed meat. The purpose was to con-
serve the supply. l tried the meatless
diet also for thirty days. | felt so
faint in December and l received so
many calls that, to prevent a possible
breakdown. / resumed my regular
diet.
81 have had to draw in my belt
considerably, having lost eight pounds.
People tell me l am not looking so
well as before the dieting, but am
rapidly recovering"
DR.. Guessing has been twenty-four
years in Bridgeport. During that time
he has written more than 10000 pre-
scriptions, attending 1000 cases of
measles, 500 of scarlet fever and 400
of diphtheria. He attended $4,000 diff
ferent children in that time, among
them 5000 infants, which is a remark
able record.
DR.. Guessing has been asked by
many persons to state his views on
America and Germany, on the world
war, and on other topics.
II find much that is good and a
little that is not to be commended in
America" said DR.. Guessing. 81 have
lived twenty-four years here and
twenty-four a in Germany. so my
knowledge of the two countries is
about equal. I do not wish TO offend,
and I trust that any criticism | might
make will be received in the spirit in
which it is given.
"I find that the greatest trouble
with America is that it makes too
many laws. Every winter there are
10000 new laws promulgated to re-
strict the American publicc. Think
of it,
'"Too much law is not good. The
country is in danger of too many laws.
To Americans I say: Guard your lib
erty with a warm heart, or in twenty
years the country will be worse than
Prussia for its people. Your Free
Land of Liberty will become a
Chained Land of Slavery
1.-THE latest attempt to force unwel-
come law on the people is the COM
pulsory military service law that IS
being advocated. Then there is the
compulsory registration proposal.
Pretty soon it will be that a mar
can't leave his home to walk to the
corner but he must stop on the way
and say to himself, Let me see! /
wonder if l am breaking any law
"The real freedom is in the Far
West. Out there it is the unwritten
law that it is a mans right to protect
himself, his kin, or his property"