7 3 es, wg ; = = ee - asting A National Asset Germany Needs Fats Eee |In Raising More Oil Producing Plants, i Much money is being spent and a vast quantity of ink is being spilled Remedy Is Seen e in efforts to improve the quality of livestock and the produce of plant life,| The lack of fats is pressing the Ba alo No i reich hard “Eat less fat’ in the papers the better to serve the demand for a high standard of commodities, but what of the efforts that are being made to raise the physical standard of the is urge: and news reels display aphs showing that 25 per cent more fat is consumed than before the Great War, “Won't you help the four-year plan by keeping your fat consumption down to the 1913 level?” a newsreel voice asks, adding “in that (pr | year you didn’t fare so badly.” In raising more oil - producing plants, the great remedy is seen! Since Hitler came into power, culti-| vation,of grape and golza has grown | ten-fold; but it is not enough, for} even in 1936, 1,700,000 tons of linseed | cake had to be imported. | A “fat research institute” has been formed to examine all possibilities of extracting oil from hitherto neglect-| ed or imperfectly tapped sources. d almost human race to a comparable degree? | and that the people themselves—awakend to a realization of the importance of health, not; only to the individuals themselves but to the nation as an entity? Has the time yet arrived when legislation, expenditures and actions can be pointed to as indicative of the belief that the health and life of a se of a valuable cow? | the country mei Have the governments of v human being are more important than the The answer to such questions is at least open to debate insofar as re- sults are concerned, for the weight of evidence lends strong support to statements that the health of the human race is depreciathg and that national virility, the world ovey, is deteriorating; that the process has been going on for centuries and that so the tide has not turned in the other direction, despite amazing the recent decades. Professor Wallace sa war) | advances in realm of medical science in “For 5,000 years man has been steadily going back physic Professor Tredgold, English specialist on Race Degen- eracy, says: “The race is growing weaker, Its vitality is being sapped by the life we lead and by being wantonly ignorant of hygienic facts available to all” and that “Insanity has increased 400 per cent. in 52 years.” Pro- fessor Jordan of Leeland Stamford says: “We are degenerating.” = | All these and many other outstanding authorities on both sides of the Linseed, poppy seed, tobacco seed, AUiantic are quoted hy Rev. George O. Fallis, in the current issue of | SU™fower seed, all Inds of Ete “Health,” official organ of the Health League of Canada. | even grape stones and coffee grounds, And lest the reader should surmise that these strictures are applicable | Come under consideration. only to the British Isles and the United States Mr. Fallis points out that | Save your coffee grounds!” the out %f 861,605 Canadians examined in war days, 181,220 were discounted | Nazis cry. They contain about 12 to physically at some point and that quite recently only seven per cent. of | 1# Psr cent. oll, good for soap-mak- 150,000 children examined in a Canadian city were perfect in sight, hear | ing, the public is told. ing, teeth and heart action. | So many outstanding authorities are jquoted by Mr. Fallis that he leaves little opportunity for denial that the human race is degenerating physically on this continent as well as on the other.side of the Atlantic. use That progressive continuance of such a condition as these authorities s reveal myst ultimately terminate in extinction there can be little doubt, on Captain of French Liner and in the light of rapidly accelerating knowledge of the human body and Three Chatham doctors, passenge recent discoveries in tWe art of diagnosis and the science of medical treat-| on a French liner making an African | ment, one can only wonder why and how long people will be content to | cruise, performed