The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-10-30
Hardest for the BlOated
Belly of the Gourmand
To Go Over the Top!

his sermon:
"a person who persists IN gorging
himself while Others are trying 70 save
is traitor 10 his country.
Patty and strikingly put as a message
for food conservation week and to aid
the cause 10 which women Of Detroit
and the whole country are periodically
subscribing.
The heavy eater az this time IS more
than traitor 20 his country N 2
traitor 10 himself and 20 his Creator
stufinp the image to a point that makes
i doubtful whether the Almighty IS wei.
pleased with the liberties that ore taken.
The prosecution Of war calls first Of
all, for MEN.
Food is essential, of course, and so IS
clothing. and so are guns and ammuni-
ton. but the latter are only the tools for
use by MEN whose bodies must be Wei
protected and who must be well shod
and well fed to fight best and win.
We may consider the master strokes
of genius put to developing the nipple
ments Of war to the point of greatest
perfection. but what Of them without
men to direct their force and use them -
the point Of GREATEST EFFICIENCY .
The winning of war depends as much
upon the men who remain al home in
the sustaining industries in the fields
and in all the pursuits related to the de-
velopment Of a nations resources.
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the MAN in these activities far removed
from the scene of the battle, and the man
who stuffs his stomach is a traitor 10
his country, very truly, in that he IS
cheating his country Of the best there Is
in him, because the inevitable result OF
abuse of the stomach must be a weaken
ed body and a sluggish mind.
The gourmand eats himself-he is
consuming his own flesh and bone just
the same as if he sat down to himself
with knife and fork-and he IS traitor
TO himself because he is first Of all dis
loyal to himself.
His offense at this time is more griey-
Gus because he is wasting the effort that
others are spending, both in their own
efforts to conserve in behalf Of their
country and their THINKING for others
In behalf of their country.
The gourmand has not noticed, for in
stance, that the old hollow-backed seats
of the railway car have given place 10
seat backs that fit into hollow backs,
to keep the bodies Of those using them
more to the lines intended when the AMI
NAL, so to speak, was stood upon his
hind legs.
A leading orthopedist of Detroit visit
ed the Offices of company employing
many young women at desk work and
suffering heavy loss thru decreased
efficiency due to frequent necessity for
relief from their work demanded by the
employees.
He told the company the loss could be
prevented and efficiency increased by a
change in the style Of chairs provided
the young women.
The gourmand goes on eating and
stufing while men who are aiming 20 de-
liver the best there is in them are not
only denying themselves food, that
others may have, and to provide theu-
selves with more rugged bodies and
minds more active, but are going So fan
as to have the chairs they use i'm their
offices and in their homes and the bed
they sleep in prescribed for them by the
specialist whose research and whose re-
suits have proven the importance Of
what the gourmand looks upon. Of course.
as a trivial matter because il isn't on the
bin of fare.
The conservation Of food. for which
We aim, calls upon no man to starve him
self or to weaken himself by eating less
than the well-being of his body demands.
1t DOES call upon him to eat no more
than the well-being Of his BODY demands.
because he thereby helps two-himself
and his neighbor who may be unable Ia
provide properly for his own body
But the best part OF this food conser-
walton business is that it means the con-
servation of MEN and the limit of EFFT-
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