Show i L 4 I Fundamental I Ih h of 11 tJ j j n 1 I i f t 4 4 I 4 4 I t 4 4 t J 4 t 1 Dy ALBERT S. S GRAY M. M D. D 1 Copyright 1914 by b A. A A S. S Cray Gry FOOD AND DELINQUENTS Under a n rec recent nt dato date an Associated Press dispatch credits Charles C. C D. D I Hilles Ies formerly private secretary to President Taft now president of ot the Now New York Juvenile asylum in Dobbs Ferry Ferr with wih the discovery that bad teeth make bad boys What is the cause o of bad teeth in children under fifteen years of age ageT It Is universally admitted that tat the tho fundamental tal cause of tho the early erly decay of childrens children's teeth is anemia a lack of sufficient building material during the tho lack growing period Obviously a of brick and mortar will result In an Imperfect building and the tho same lack of material must roust result resul In an Imperfect imperfect Imper imper- bod body Mr Hi is not the discoverer ot of this truth but hut none tho the less he is entitled entitled en en- titled to great credit for recognizing and taking steps to combat a n dangerous condition that many foreign foreign for for- eign governments are making strenuOus strenuous strenuous ous efforts to overcome In the parliamentary debate on fi free c meals March 27 27 1905 Sir William Anson then British parliamentary secretary sec see to the board of education replying replYing replying re re- re- re plying to Kler Kier Hardie and William Wil V Wl- Wl liam lam Crooks Crooke admitted that in the day industrial schools where the children had three meals a day he found Cound them bright and Intelligent and being developed de do de eloped physically and mentally In a I satisfactory way Although the children children chil chit dren lived at home the regular and wholesome supply of ot food was so potent potent po po- po tent a factor that their condition was ws WIS thoroughly satisfactory Wilson Bruce following other witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses before the Scottish commission in pointing out the startling superiority superior superior- ity of Industrial school children added that If I we fed and clothed the elementary elementary elementary elemen elemen- tary school children as suitably we should make a new race of them The commissioners noted this contrast contrast contrast con con- between the nourished ill elementary elementary ele ele- do- do school children of respectable parents and well well developed developed Industrial school children of or those thosa who have altogether altogether al a together failed In their duty The rho countess of Warwick writing in A Nations Nation's Youth says What a afine afine fine moral have we here Be De a bad parent or confess yourself unable to control your own children and they will wl be attached to an industrial school given three meals meale a day largely large ly Iy at the expense of the ratepayers and they will become bright and Intelligent In boys boy developed physically and mentally In a satisfactory way This touches upon and brings sharply sharp ly Iy to tho the front the whole subject of ot sophisticated foods around which a commercial battle bate royal is at present raging in this country In no field of ot knowledge Is there so BO general a lack Si J ef l' l oa ou nae- nae don on orT experience as In the fundamental one of ot food Eating has become an art which has hasto hasto hasto to be learned by man man and unfortunately unfortunately the subject Is considered so unImportant unimportant unimportant un un- important that quite generally our foods are selected on the statement of persons vh whoso e only Interest Is In the profit to be derived rived from the manufacture manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture and sale of the commodity and then after the purchase In this slipshod manner it Is too frequently turned over to some Incompetent kitchen drudge to be prepared for eat eat- ing In order that an Intelligent ent choice of proper diet may be he made made It is ab absolutely ab necessary that we should possess pos pos- sess ess ess a certain smattering of scientific knowledge This does not consist hi hithe In Inthe inthe the memorizing of a few terms sumi sum sum- i to enable us to babble about carI carbohydrates carbohydrates car car- I proteins s and fats of ot calo calories calories eala ries res and of ot balanced rations but to nave Ilave a thorough understanding of the eal meaning of the closing paragraph if the fourth article artcle of of this series s which t we here hero again repeat for em- em The now prevailing standard J t r food values which measures the I eat nt units produced from foods and Ignores all al other elements ind nd ld fa factors tors Is not only woefully made made- in the light of modern science ut constitutes a grave menace to the tho to the morals to the sanity ind md to the tho life le of ot any people The chief season reason for tor the improve improve- Improve nent In inmates of well governed and industrial 1 schools over he rate of development shown by under home conditions un- un lies In the fact that food is bought In bulk and ad largely largel on the hone hone-foo L il that is IB ta to iny ay tho the whole e bought cooked and served rather than the tho themore more expensive ex ex- pensive refined processed matter mater Of Ot course we are as assured by experts that the food is improved and made mad more digestible by bY bYth th the elaborates elaborate process through which it is passed but any successful successful raiser ot of cattle ctet hogs hogl chickens pigeons dogs or cats 4 can can tell toll of ot disastrous results following follow follow- ing lug tho the feeding of any of these animals animals ani ani- mals male for any material period of ot time And hu humanity humanity hu- hu on refined food matter manity still waits alts the coming of some somo Moses toses to free It from the bondage o o othe 0 tho the of ot universal law to which all aU living things are subject |