Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-25
0STEOPATHST TO
CONTINUE WAR
ON HIGHHEELS
WOmen's Clubs Interested
Speaker Says Children's
Diseases Unnecessary.
SWEETS STUNT GROWTH
Special TO The Times.


Osteopathic Association opened here to-
day for a convention Of one week with
more than one thusard delegates present
Mayor Fitzgerald OF Cleveland delivered
the address Of welcome. DR.. Hugh W.
Conklin OF Battle Creek. Mich. secretary
of the Michigan State board Of registra-
ton In osteopathy, and ex-president Of
the American osteOpathic Association,
responded.
Dr.. William E. Waldo OF Seattle Wash,
president of the American Osteopathic
Association, in his presidential address,
said:
The national osteopathic campaign of
education against the wearing of high
heels by women should be continued. 1t
has met with favorable response by most
Of the wOmens clubs throughout the
country, including the y. W. c. A.
The Osteopathic profession is op-
posed to the Owen bill because it creates
a national department of health with a
secretary in the Presidents Cabinet. The
American people demand as large a vote
in saying what system of healing they
shall choose in case of distress. as in
religious matters, and will not tolerate
the Governments forcing one system of
healing on them.
we are opposed to the Kenyon Fess
bill because it goes even further and,
like the Owen bill, creates State medicine
and gives TO one school of healing a
monopoly. Monopoly has been found to
be injurious in the business field and
has had to be curbed. Monopoly in ths
healing art viii be found to be even more
Irksome.
House Bill No. 1856, introduced by
Mr.. Towner. Is equally pernicious. All
Of these bills show the tendency of the
American eeople to pass laws TO do for
them what they want and ought to do
for themselves, but they do not want to
do it. We need more education and less
legislation in the United States, and ii
is M TO US as protectors of the public
health to teach the people how TO live"
DAINTIEs ARE
DANGEROUS.
Traditions Of medical science were
thrown to the winds when Dr. E. o.
Jones of Evanston. Ill. declared that
children's diseases are entirely unueces-
sary. Correction Of diet and elimination
will prevent these so-caIIed diseases, said
Or. Jones.
1T is much safer to be an American
soldier on the firing line in France than
an American child at home" declared the
speaker. IF you hate your child, cram
him with dainties-"
''The very latest up-to- the minute re-
searches by the worlds greatest biolo-
gists prove that sickness is caused by the
absorption of poisons from dead cells
not by germs" said the speaker. Germs
are present because they feed on dead
cells, but the germs themselves are no;
seHI -,V,f
in millions Of people who have no disease
but whose resistance is so high that the
germs perish because they are killed by
the living cells and have no dead cells TO
thrive upon. The body is immune TO
germs whe nit is free from decompOsi-
ton.
When Just out OF infancy many chill
dren are allowed to eat meats and sugar
and too much syrup. They are eaten en-
tireiy too freely and the remainder Of the
diet may consist of bread, butter, cereal
and potatoes. Such eating habits fail tC
make the child develop normally. and We
have become 50 accustomed to see children
whose physical development IS distinctly
below par that as a rule parents do not
feel a sense Of guilt for a condition in
their children which is wholly the result
of ignorance or Indifference. The outcome
OF their failure TO meet their obligations
is a lifelong tragedy for their offspring
Ignorance of man-made laws does not
excuse any one; how much less should
ignorance OF natural laws excuse parents
II is high time that every mother should
know as much about feeding her family
as the thousands Of successful farmers
know about feeding live stock. The ma
jority Of mothers are giving a large
amount Of thought and time as well as Ia
Dor to solving the problems OF dressing
themselves and children attractively
while leaving their physical development
entirely 70 chance.
1T is true that growth and apparent
health may take place on a diet Of cereals
white -four potatoes. and meat, but only
those diets that contain one or both pro-
tective foods (that is, milk and leafy
vegetables have ever maintained animals
in state Of nutrition which promotes VI
gor and sustains longevity.
GOAT MILK
SUPERIOR TO cows
During the first year Of a child's life
milk is sufficient with fruit juice for one
peal During the second year allow the
child TO eat all the fruit It will take with
a relish without any sugar on it befOre
or after its regulation meal of milk Thu
milk Of a good goat is far superior to
that Of a COW, being the nearest to
mothers milk and containing a very
small amount Of germs as compared with
cows milk. When starch eating begins
which should not be until the last part Of
the second year. let it be always whole
grain flours for those give the vitamines
which are so essential to keep up the body
resistance. Remember that uncoOked
foods contain the vitamines, therefor
supply the raw fruits and vegetables If
abundance.
"Chndren's diseases, including the
eruptive fevers. are caused by inter
rupted elimination from overeating
Fermentation is at the foundation Of all
disease, for we known that fermentation
causes acidity and acidity is the avenue
through which disease enters or begins
If we kept our systems normally aka
line, We would never be i'll and never
have Infections 1fSaqSas Food tbot doac