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The Roman Capitol to
the Capitol at
Washington
For the soul of ltaly to-day the
Capitol at Washington has be
come e beacon light. A Roman
garland wreathes the bust dedi
cated to the hero whom free
men cali the glorious Knight of
Humanity. It is a garland pure
as the branch of lilac offered by
a poet on the bier of Lincoln. It
is sacred as the ever-flowering
bough "with heart-shaped leaves
of rich green". It seems as
though in this Aprii of passion
and tempest there re-echos the
cry of that Aprii, tense with joy
and anguish:
O Captami iVly Captai»! Kise up
and hear the beiis;
Rise up for you the iiag is
flung !
Now the group of stara on the
banner of the great Republic ha*
become a constellation of the
Spring ; like the Pleiades ; a pro
pitious sign to sailors, armed and
unarmed alike; a spiritual token
for ali nations fighting a right
eous war. I give the salute oi
ltaly, of the Roman Capitol to
the Capitol at Washington; a
salute to the people of the Union,
who now confimi and seal the
pledge that liberty shall be pre
served.
To ltaly alone of the allieti
nations the possibility was open
of avoiding war and remaining a
passive spectator. ltaly took up
arms gladly, less for the recon
quest of her heritage than for
the salvation of ali the tliings
which symbolize the grandeur of
freedom. She armed herself, as
to-day the American nation is ;
arming herself, for the sake of
an ideai. The spontaneous act
consummated by the people of
Ceorge Washington is a glorious
sacrifice on behalf of the hopes
of ali mankind.
America has achieved a new
birth. She has molded for herself
a new lieart. This is the miracle
wrought by a righteus war, the
miracle that unexpectedly to day
we of ltaly see performed beyond
an ocean dishonored by assassins
and thieves.
"Our war is not destructive; it
is creative. With ali manner of
atrocities, ali manner of shame
ful acts, the barbarian has striv
en to destroy the idea which,
until this struggle began, man
had of man. The barbarian mul
tiplied on the innocent infamous
outrages inspired by hate, al
ternating senile impudence, and
brutal stupidity. The barbarian
ground heroism to earth, cast
down the airy oathedrals where
congregated the aspirations of
the eternai soul, burned the seats
of wisdom decked with the
flowers of ali the arts, distorted
the lineaments of Christ, tore off
the garments of the Virgin.
Now once again we begin to
have hope of the nobility of man.
Love's face is radiant, though its
eyes are moist with tears, for
never was love so much beloved.
Love overflows on ali the world
like a brook in May. Our hearts
are not large enough to gather it
and to hold it. The people of Lin
coln, springing to their feet to
defend the eternai spirit of man
to-day increase immeasurably
this sum of love opposed to fury,
the fury of the barbarian.
"Ah, Liberty! Let others des
pair of thee. I will never despair
of thee" ! once cried your rugged
poet. In this hope your nation
arises to-day in the North,
South, EJast, West —to offer
your strength, proclaiming our
eause to be the noblest cause for
which men have ever fought. ;
You were an enormous and ob
tuse mass of riches and power ;j
now you are transfigured into
ardent, active spirituality. The
roll of your drums drowns out
the last wail of eowardice,
Aprii 15 is the anniversary of
Lincoln's death. From his se
pulchre there issue again the
noble words which fell from his
lips at Gettysburg, on soil sanct
: ified by the blood of brave men.
• Ali your States North, South,
i East, West hear them. I say
■ to you that "this nation, under
: God, shall have a new birth of
: freedom."
Gabriele d'Annunzio
FOOD MATERIALS AND
HOME ECONOMICS
The new Diet Menu, with its
underlying mystery of Calorie
Values, is a major topic which
has been crowded out in these
days of hurrying circumstances.
Yet now, with the urge of im
pending crisis upon us, there is
the need to profit by the tragic
lesson taught by belligerent Eu
rope. In the minds of many the
matter of food production and
distribution does not present a
problem as serious as that of the
conservatimi of food supplies.
Further, there seems to be the
growing demand for a working
knowledge of the actual relation
! ship between the requirement of
the body and food material.
There is tohe ned to know, not
only the weight but the vo
lume of food sufficient to fur
nish a definite amount of energy,
With an intuition of impend
ing need, the New York Life Ex
tension Institute has been be
forehand with a panacea in the
form of an exemplary twenty
five cent diet, which in any
event, war or otherwise, shall
take care of ali the economie as
well as the gastronomie troubles
in the Pandora box.
And by the way The Insti
tute has up its sleeve schemes
for many social improvements.
As is well known, it has for its
high aim the prevention of ali
ills, incluidng that worst of ali,
and, so far, most incurable of ali
diseases, poverty. This is a
pretty large order, but it is back
ed up by such names as ex-Pre
sident Taft; Irving Fisher, Ph.
D., Professor of Politicai Econo
my, Yale University; David
Starr Jordan, Chancellor of Le
land Stanford Junior University
of Naples, and many others
famed for Philanthrophy, Socio
logy, and Science.
Whatever other conclusions
may be arrived at, the Institute's
most recent experiment serves to
emphasize again that profound
est of ali faets "up the stream
is causality", and down the
stream is well, speaking con
cretely ,the direful effect of the
baker's having left hot biscuits
for break-fast. Briefly, the Insti
tutes thesis is Knowledge is
Power. Therefore, heal ali ills
by way of Knowledge. Unlock ali
information tied up in scientific
literature and translate it into
household terms.
In the Diet Menu, the Insti
tute has endeavored to live up to
its creed by evolving menus with
in the reach of ali which are at
once palatable and wholesome ;
effective energy producers; a
means of preventing the million
aire from passing off this mortai
coil by way of the gastronomie
sea, and above ali a stab at exist
ing dietetic customs, characteriz
ed by their useless waste.
Wether ex-President Taf-,
the illustrious chairman of the
Institute, was secured for the
high position chiefly to serve as
an illustration of what the am
bitious might hope for on a
twentyfive cent diet is a matter
of conjecture not necessarily
conclusive, but happily suggest
ive. Be this as it may, the Insti
tute, after seriously debating the
fact that many millions of people
are compelled to live daily on a
twenty-five cent diet without the
knowledge of how to get the best
values out of it, took upon itself
the task of demonstration.
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It began its experiment on a
group of New York Rookies, that
afterward carne to be known as
the Diet Squad. The Squad was
put on the twenty-five cent menu
and regularly exercised. The ge
neral public expected the Rookies
to grow low in spirit and less
juicy day by day. However, at
the end of a limited period, they
enierged from the test happy,
serene, eighteen pounds to the
good, and absolutely converted
to the belief that other forms of
wickdness ai'e almost righteous
compared with waste in foods.
It was not the purpose of the
Institute to insist 011 a twenty
five cent diet, however much the
ultimate benefit to rich and poor,
but rather to suggest how a sort
of basic diet, or formula, might
be used for building and suggest
ing other diets more in keeping
with the constitution and finan
cial status of the individuai.
Needless to say, ali this amaz
ing altruism was accepted with
more than a grain of suspicion.
However, it was a timely hint.
In an hour much less i/'itical
than this did we not have the
serious arising of one author to
inforni us how best we might
live on twenty-four hours a day ?
The need to know how to live on
twenty-five cents a day, may yet
be taken even more seriously.
Now it is a well known fact
that science, after positing its
conclusions, has a heartless habit
of scurrying on to new fields of
investigation. Hers to pioneer,
not necessarily to disseminate
knowledge. But the new Science
is not content merely to rend the
veil guarding the mysteries from
profane eyes, it also considers
ways and means of putting its
conclusions to work. The Insti
tute, therefore, called together
numeroup prominent individuals
from ali fields of endeavor to
discuss the value of the disco
very and the means of populariz
ing it.
It was a various band that as
aombled at the Diet Kitcheu and
sat down to test a sample menu
of requisite calories. There were
writers, sociologists, medicai
men, and physic.'tl edueators; life
iusurance men and health com
missioners and there was a
joet.
It was a decidedly exemplary
meal, mainly tane and pacifist,
with here and there a dish to
suggest the needful thrill, yet
nothing to cali forth ire or fire.
At the end of the repast it was
made clear that those who had
come to scoff, would be expected
to remain if not to p r ay, at
least to testify.
Ihé discussion was led by the
medicai director 01' the Institute.
He said, in subitanee, that a.s the
world over a menu was the quest,
of ali, the Life Extension Insti
tute had arrived at the goal by
discovering one which would be
applicable for every known com
bination ; for old and for young,
for sick and well, for the happy
and the unhappy, from the un
comfortably rich to the uncom
fortably poor. It realized, how
ever, that if there is anything
the people squirm at, it is inter
ference with their right to live
to eat. It, therefore, availed it
self of its prerogative in calling
for expert opinion as to the value
of the menus and the most ef
fective ways of imparting them.
Many and various suggestions
Educational Institu
tions, such as churches, colleges
and schools were the favored
means. The difficulty with these
was at once seen. The benefit
could not be immediate, since
only the young might thereby
profit.
The Poet arose. "Why not
rely, as indeed the world always
had, on woman; the wives and
mothers in the homes?
Then the contention began.
The King of the Life Insurance
men stood up. He was a sophist.
To him life had ceased to be
either revelation or delight.
"Woman humph! The average
motherise is impossibile. She is
lazy and incompetent." He was
perfectly Strindbergian in his at
titude toward women. The Poet
remonstrated. "Woman, in any
sphere, is ao being not of one,
but a hundred souls. One good
wife equips a man with a whole
spiritual harem. She is mother;
she is sweetheart, she is friend.
Whenever her loved ones were
concerned he trusted her to dif
ferentiate a calory from a bean
or a bug. Since the day Ève had
handed the first raw Skookum
to Adam, woman had been busy
making over this sanie fruit into
various delectable, profitahle,
and nutritious love sauces for
the table, thereby fairly driving
medicai mento other occupa
tions. Yes clearly the burden
might be safely added to wo- 1
man's shoulders."
The argument then shifted to
the value of the diet itself. The
Director explained that scien
tists were wont to consider bodi
ly needs in terms of calories and
proteids. The first being a unit
of strength, or heat measure
ment; the latter such foods as
make for growth and repair of
the body. The lay mind, of
course, approaches the subject in
terms of bread and butter, meat
and eggs. Happily there are
those who bave translated these
food values into chart forms con
venient for kitchen use. He
suggested that, in the face of the
constantly increasing high cost
of living, there was a growing.
disposition to emphasiee the 1
cheaper carbohydrates, in the
form of cerlals, rather than the
more expensive fresh vegetables,
meat, eggs, and oil, the prices of
which were almost prohibitive. !
The Sociologist arose in affir
mation. He cited the doggedly
self-approving Scot as having
contributed largely to civiliza
tion and ali on porage. He refer-,
red to many notable peoples who
had made even greater contribu-1
tions on other celebrated brands
of Force. Et,y,cr j(£ly remarkable
are the Italians. Had they not
evolved a Leonardo da Vinci, a
Raphael, a D'Annunzio, and last
but not least, had not the music
of the world been comered by
Caruso and ali on spaghetti.
The Financeer was dubious.
Feeling a cavity in his rotund
stomach, empty oi' its usua)
image of good red steak, he said
that from the craddle up he had
been encouraged to know and to
demand what was good. Here !
the Psychologist frowned him
down. He thought to develop
brain-power people must eat
more brain food. "Nonsense", in
sisted the Director of Physical
Education, "Brain-food, so-call
ed, develops not brainy men, but
fat-heads. The man who tries to
feed himself into strenght, will
acquire only a storehouse for
food and accumulate fat. Food
suplies the material for energy.
Its what we do that makes us
what we are. For instance, fish
has always been considered ;
brain-food, but if the brain is not
exercised, ali the fish in the At
lantic will not increase its size or
force." The Personal Hygiene
Professor supported the Physical
Educator by showing statistics
that proved the rich were swift
ly coming to eat their pie with
tears. Here the Sclerotic Finan
ceer moved uneasily and breath
ed hard. This was the psycholo
gical moment for the Social
Service Representative. He said
impressively that he had a vision
of the poor coming to renounce
their dreams of higher gluttony,
and he saw himself guiding them
to their high duty on cheese and
macaroni.
And this, while enthusiasm
ran high, the Director from the
Life Extension Institute closed
the debate by remarking that
the Institute was not a mucker.
It attempts to warn the people
of their high responsibility, and
with plain common sense to lay
before them the tremendous ne
cessity not only of avoiding
| waste, but of conserving and
| heightening the energy of so
ciety.
Bianche Wylie Welzmiller
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