The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-05-30

Good People and Beautiful World
All of us become respondent at
times and wonder if life is really
worth while and if people are not
a pretty sorry lot. The best cure
know for such mood is to be found
in Juanita Harrison's recent book.
My Wide, Good, Beautiful World"
Miss Harrison, lady of distinction
and color, worked and jollied and
enjoyed her way around the world
during the worst depression in his
tory. She found life good every
where. She found people friendly
everywhere, whether in Sweden,
Spain or Siberia. To her the world
is beautiful and rightly so.
Another world traveller, a white
crooner lately returned to New
York, said almost the same thing sa
Miss Harrison about the worlds
goodness and beauty. Ninety-nine
out of every one hundred people he
found good. Perhaps neither of
them ever travelled much in Dixie.
But even Dixie, if you don't stay
too long nor ask much, is good.
The worlds beauty and peoples
goodness depends largely on what
kind of person one is oneself. Miss
Harrison is a rare, sensible, gen.
erous personality and the world re-
sponded likewise. One does not al
ways get back what one puts out to
others, but most times if one is
kind and gay the world smiles and
shares alike.
Civilized Diet and Teeth
At the convention of the New
York Dental Society last week, DR..
Weston Price, reporting on a sur
vey of teeth he made last summer
in Africa, said that dental decay
there, especially in the hinterland,
was almost non-existent.
Among five tribes studied, he
found only their traditional, ma
sands examined with carries. These
dentally superior folk he discov-
cred ate only Their traditional, ma
tural, vitamin-rich foods. The ma
tives in the coast towns, living
much out of cans like the Europ-
cans, and drinking hard liquor,
were another story. Among them
one hundred and twenty out of
every thousand had carries. Now,
let us see what the percentage Of
bad teeth is here in this land of
plenty and pastry.
Just as you might expect, ninety
eight out Of every one hundred
Americans need a dentist In a sur
vey in New York City Public
Schools, ninety percent of the chill
dren showed defective teeth. Cross
the Atlantic to Europe and you will
find teeth even worse. What is the
cause of this almost general mouth
ugliness and discomfort? Diet.
DR.. Price says that white nations
place too great an emphasis on en-
ergy foods with the result that
dental decay and degenerative dis
eases are more prevalent.
Energy foods" is just a polite
way Of saying bread" pastry,
Sugar" rice" and potatoes. The
two latter foods have good food
value if eaten whole with husk or
skin and cooked in almost no water
and in the case of potatoes no
more than fifteen minutes. II white
rice is used you are building dis
ease. II potatoes are boiled more
than fifteen minutes in an open
vessel and with a lot Of water, or
OF they are fried, are of no value.
Refined grains and sugar constipate
and hasten you graveyard.
Alcoholics Take Note
In case you drink and have
neuritis look to your diet, too.
Bellevue Hospital, famous rendez-
vous of New York heavy tipplers,
just reported to the American
Medical Association that drinkers
with neuritis had a Vitamdn "B"
deficiency. The diet of most alco-
holics lacks this vitamin, they say.
Patients were fed liver, yeast and
whole grains and the effect was
dramatic. After six days of treat
ment one patient who had been
bed-ridden for months, rose up
and walked. Most folks whether
they drink whiskey, ooco-cola or