Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
GREATER AMERICANS
WILL Be WARS PRODUCT
Such Is View OF DIR. Wiley, Head of
Bureau OF Food, Sanitation
and Health.
STRONGER RACE is PROMISED
Peace and Luxury Impair Racial Eff
ficiency, Willie War, Hardship,
Hard Living and Constant Strug-
glo Develop II.


glo Develop II.
WASHINGTON. July 2o.-A new race
OF supermcn In the United States and
decadent undcrnourishcd. dcteri-
Grating race OF Interiors In the lands
of the central powers. This Is what
DIR. Harvey Wiley, head OF the Bureau
OF Food. Sanitation and Health. sees
as the chief biological and psychology
zeal result Of the war.
Here are his conclusions. as given
In an exclusive Interview to-day:
The greater the stress under which
race is produced. providing 1t Is
properly nourished during the process.
the stronger the race, Peace and lux
ury impair racial efficiency. War and
hardship. hard living and constant
struggle develop it,
When the war shall be over with
America and her allies victorious. we
will see n greater America than we
have dreamed Of II cannot help bu,
be,
"a race that viii go into a death
struggle with no plan OF material gain.
lighting daily at the battle front for
an ideal. and at home deprivinE Itself
OF the material luxurics. must show
spiritual growth. It's millions Of SOL
d!ers facing tho hardsLips of trench
life and enduring the toll and effort
Of the trench life will come back
hardened and stronger TO endure.
Acquired traits and tendencies OF
the parents are not transmissibe TO
offspring. That Is law of nature.
Disabled soldiers who have Lost an
arm or a leg. when they have recovered
their health. transmit no weakness to
their children. nor will sufferers from
she'll shock who may later become
parents give life to weakened chill
dren.
BET~rE2 FATHERS TO COME
OUT OF GREAT STRUGGLE
Men returning physically we'll and
strong from the war. where they have
been fed nourishing foods and have
lived an inviEorating outdoor life. will
be better fathers TO better children
And AT home here we arc making
better mothers. When the war indus
tries board ruled that corsc: making
vas not a necessary industry and re-
fused the corset makers priorities on
steel. It took a step for better woman
hood and better motherhood. ard when
II set its face against French hceled
shoes. Il made another advance
Our change in diet as result OF
the war has improved the race at
home. We were eating too much In
volume. too many In variety and too
rich in quality. We are eating less
fewer and simpler now. We will be n
stronger race as result. And the
present diet has greater nutr!tive
value.
America needed 10 take up notch
or two In her belt. Maybe she will
n To- hraa IN
ave before she wins this war. II we
have to save enough here to feed our
allies. but Il won't hurt her.
The stomach liz funny machine.
Mothers start N with their children
and let them stun themselves Gorging
expands the stomach. After 1t has
been enlarged, IL takes a larger guam
THY OF food to give the feeling OF SUI
hcency that the average human wants
after n meal
IF the children had not been al
lowed TO stretch their s,omachs early
they would have gone through life eat
Ing much less. ard getting he needed
nourishment from, it,
AMERICANS ARE EATING
LESS AND SIMPLER FOODS
I'VE are eating less now. and the
children of to-day when they get to
rnanhOo0 VIII require less. lhcn we
ae eating simpler and more nutritive
foods.
Tho substitution OF victory bread
for wheat bread will mean much to
the nation. 1t is better dietetically
and hygienically. II has more of the
life essentials needed by the body, the
essential mineral salts and vitamines.
Maybe the taste is not quite so good.
but as we learn the proper mixing
OF the substitutes with the wheat -four.
we can make it just as palatable as
the wheat bread ever was.
1T would be a crime for America to
slip back into her riot of high living
and high eating after the war Is over.
After we have won health through the
voluntary sacrifice let us treasure it
as the great jewel won in the war"
Opposed to DR.. Wiley's wonderful
canvas OF the future American is the
picture OF undernourished Germany
"Undernourished and starving Ger
mans Will produce weakly children"
says DR.. Wiley. land as the children
grow without sufficient milk and food
stufs. they become weakly adults. In
turn producing another generation OF
weakly offspring. The future Of the
race OF the central empires is not
bright. They have heritage of weak
ness and inferiority to overcome"