The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-05-02
MRS. SCHUYLER
SAYS
By Josephine Schupley
Calvin Service)
Chinese Found Wisest

NHihtsc VtiStSt
William Wolfe, New Yorker, who
has crooned his way around the
globe, returned recently to his
home town and reported that in his
more than 100000 miles of travel
in thirty-four different countries,
he found the Chinese the most Gull
tivated of all peoples.
The Chinese, he said, teach re-
spect for their parents and empha-
size that if you do not learn while
young there is no hope for you
when you are old.
The longevity of China seems
primarily due to the stabilizing
unit of their family life. 1t is the
fashion in America nowadays to be-
little the family, to ridicule par
entail respect and to deny that
obedience and discipline is neces-
sary in the home. Lack of discipline
will create finer relationships with
in the family, it is argued by the
modernists. This is merely a reac-
ton from the crude patriarchy of
forty years ago when the father
was like God and the mother but
zero. Between these two extremes,
the children naturally became
browbeaten and neurotic. But our
new method of letting the child run
wild is as faulty as the old. An
cient nations like the Chinese have
acquired a reasonable blending of
patriarchy and matriarchy. The,
woman who raises a family there
has a powerful position in the COM
munity. Discipline is maintained by
both parents and fashions a strong
wall of security around the young
ones.
Diet Fountain of Youth
If You did not believe it before.
let the recent $4,000 Rockefeller
grant to study the effect of diet on
age convince you that there is
much to the idea that food is some
thing that needs to be studied be-
fore it is eaten.
OF late years, many observations
of animals and humans have led to
the belief that there is a vast field
for study in dietetics. Numerous
investigations support the theory
that the characteristics of youth
can be retained in the animal body
by special diets. The life span in
animals was found by Cornell nu-
tritionists to be greatly increased
by a diet low in calories. One male
rat lived the equivalent to $50 years
for a man, retaining it's silky hair
and general activity.
This will be bad news for all
those old fashioned dietitians who
learned to count their calories and
to believe them the basis of diet.
The modern food chemists stress
vitamins, not calories. If you take
care of the proper amount Of vita
Minis the calories take care OF
themselves.
Millers, bakers, candy makers,
sugar refiners and cereal manufac-
turers whose only talking point has
been the high caloric content OF
their products, will probably move
heaven and earth to prevent the
result of these experiments being
widely circulated.
Know Your Enemies
Vance Muse, Texan, in a recent
Senate investigation Of John Henry
Kirby's Southern committee to up
hold the Constitution admitted he
was responsible for distributing
thousands Of pictures showing Mrs.
Roosevelt in the company Of color
ed folk.
No one, Of course, will be sur
prised by anything a Southern
politician will do to get votes. But
one is rather amazed to discover
that the money for this disgusting
venture came from Northern mill
lionairesl Yes, now please take
note that the contributors to this
attack upon our constitutional
rights were no less than John j.
Raskob Pierre DUPONT, ogden
Mills, Frank B. Kellogg, gas and
electric, and newspaper men. Do
not support your enemies.
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