The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-17
Suggestions to
Conserve HIealth


 Suggestions to
 Conserve HealGh
 A LTHOUGH much has been writ &A ten by men of science about the question of food and health and the necessity of conservatism this coun- try is vet far from realizing the gravity of the food situation. Theo- retically every intelligent person un- derstands the relation of crops to everyday business, but comparatively few practice the economies that would make for a saving on large scale. A very instructive and animating address pertaining to the cost of llv- ing, including dietetic suggestions that would help to solve some present day problems, was that delivered re- gently by Dr. Scale Harris before the Mississippi State Medical association and published in The Age-Herald of last Sunday. After quoting from J. Ogden Arnour's appeal to the physi- clans stressing the belief that "food shortage without precedent confronts the United States and that unless there is a change for the better the coming winter will see prohibitive high prices and consequent suffering for lack of food" he says that the farm CTS of the south, as in other sections of the country, are responding to President Wilson's call, and that never before have such varied food crops | been planted, but that in spite of this I fact there is great danger of actual suffering from the want of food, even in our own country, because of the shortage of the 1916 crops, and food experts have reduced the visible sup ply to very low point. Perhaps the most serious danger lies in the scarcity of meats and other proteins. 1 Dr. Harris is an authority on hos pital work and dietetics in Europe. He spent sometime in Berlin and Vienna, where he had the opportunity of observing living conditions among the Germans and Austrians. He was impressed by the fact that the middle and upper classes, and the laborers and peasants to less extent in those countries, "overeat enormously, which, with their habits of excessive beer and coffee drinking, caused a prodigious amount of stomach, liver, heart and kidney diseases among them. The well known predilection of the Ger mans to overeating, particularly of 
 meats and other proteins, probably accounts for their high death rate over fifty"
 After discussing ignorance regard ing food, Dr. Harris says that now for the first time the agitation that has resulted from fear of food shortage may, in the end, make for the good of the human race.
 Food conservationists and the United States department of agricul- ture would do we'll to have Dr. Harris interesting and informing discussion : printed in pamphlet form and circu- : lated broadcast throughout the coun- try. Everybody would read what he says and many would profit by it. 5 In yesterdays Age-Herald typograph , ical error made the location of one O Alabama's regimental headquarters in correct. Mail for any of the guards 5 men should be directed to their regi. mental headquarters as follows.
 Commanding officer, First Regiment Mobile, Ala.
 . Commanding officer Second Regiment Fairgrounds, Birmingham. Ala.
 Commanding officer, Fourth Regiment Montgomery. Ala.
 s Commanding officer, First Cavalry Reg I iment, Anniston, Ala.
 The ambulance company is in Birming U ham and the hospital company in Mont !. gomery.
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 If the colored brother who goes eas has an idea. that he will be put on 2 merchantmen to run the submarine block ]. ade. he will think twice before leavin, f the land of the possum and the water D melon.