WORLD THREATENED WITH INSANITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2354, 12 November 1921, Page 4

WORLD THREATENED WITH INSANITY.

AN AMERICAN PREDICTION.

The world is sloAvly going mad. If the denizens of the earth do not reverse their mode of liA’ing within 300 years we will all be lunatics. It is just half as safe to live in the United States as in half-civilised India, because of murders. The intellectuality of the human race is deteriorating at an alarming rate. Smoking is killing more people every day than are killed annually by murder and accidents. The imprisoned business man passes • out (Aventy years sooner on an average than the farmer, Avho is not caged. These cheerful glooms based upon scientific data, figures, and statistics come from an interview - Avitli Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, superintendent of Battle Creek Sanitorium. There is one chance left for civilisation to survive, according to Dr. Kellogg, and that is to live the simple life. Here are some of his rules: —

“Taboo tobacco in all forms. “Go to bed the day before you get

up. “Live in the open like a gorilla. Do your Avork under the trees instead of behind doors and opaque walls. Follow the brooks. Watch the squirrels in their gambols, and learn the song of the bird. v “Fix up a sleeping porch or balcony, and so take an outing all-night long and every night, and don’t move inside Avhen frost comes. Outdoor sleeping is the best life-pre-server knoAvn.

“Live on the ‘fat of the land.’ Forget breakfast foods and culinary delicacies. Find your bill of fare largely in the garden —peaches, apples, grapes, plums, and pears, lettuce, green corn, celery, potatoes, greens, tomatoes, melons, nuts, and all the rest of the luxuries which Mother Earth supplies.” A national bureau of health is also needed to correlate all the forces which are noAV at work in the direction of spreading the propaganda of biologic living, which spells health, comfort, and long life. We must study our habits of life and eliminate injurious practices. As Chittenden of Yale has shown v,s, we must cut down our protein that is, Ave must discard meat and eggs if Ave expect to live to a ripe old age. We must chew our food better, as Horace Fletcher has taught us. In short, we must return to the natural, simple, Avliolesome life from which the race has departed if avc hope to escape race degeneracy, and eventually race extinction. f Seneca wrote nearly 200*1 years ago, “Man does not die, be kills himself.” Dr. Kellogg has seen his ideas expand and multiply, until today, almost impossible to believe, the punv, delicate hoy avlio at the age of 17 had a definite tubercular tendency, has groAvn into ilie sturdy, active man of 70, directing large affairs.

For fifty years Dr. Kellogg liaMept in the open aii—not. merely in a Avell-ventilnted room, or in an enclosed sleeping porch, but in the actual open —often Avnking up of a winter morning to find his sleeping bag covered Avitli snow. For fifty-five years lie has lived on grains, fruits, and vegetables two meals a day. The doctor lias not a wrinkle on bis skin.