get pregnant, and if we remove all the vitamin E from their diet, will abort every time on the 13th day. One of the reasons why we have so much sterility in our young women is no doubt because 80% of the food they eat has had all the life taken from it. The store bought corn meal is a worthless food. It has been degerminated. This is said to improve the keeping quality. It does, it keeps the weevils out. It also keeps me out. If a sack of meal is not good enough for a weevil, I doubt if it is good enough for a man. I tell all patients that they should never buy any food that has been enriched or has had a vitamin added. If the food is so sorry to start with, that synthetic chemical vitamins have to be added, then it is not worth their money. This removes about ninety percent of the breakfast foods. They are no good. If they were, the bugs would get into them in the flimsy pasteboard boxes they come in, setting around the dirty warehouses. Fifty per cent of the calories that the average American eats comes from three things; white flour, white sugar, and hydrogenated fats; that is, the compound shortenings and oleomargarine. Not one of these then, in my opinion is fit to eat. Oleomargarine has been fortified with 15,000 units of Vitamin A. That is one reason I think that it is no good. Butter does not have to be forti- GRADE A RAW MILK We drink raw milk at our house. The best meats are the internal all the time and the land is getting poorer. The very best of natural vitamin A & D is from the liver of the Cod, a salt water fish. Wild game is extra good because usually he eats natural food grown on fertile soil. We have not started using commercial fertilizer out in the woods as yet, for some strange reason. Neither do we have to use poison sprays like D. D. T., in the woods. I believe that when we plant a seed in a piece of poor land and then surround it with N. K. P., we get a plant that is diseased. This plant puts on diseased fruit, and the good Lord in his wisdom, sends the bugs to destroy it. This is nature's law of the survival of the fittest. But one "scientific" application of D. D. T. kills the bug, and then what do we do? We eat the diseased fruit plus the D. D. T. No wonder we are all sick. FRESH VEGETABLES we eat is dead, and we have to put this condiment on it to get it down. What is worse than a hot dog bun that is 24 hours old, cold and no mustard or pickle on it. Really, it was no good in the beginning! The fruit we eat is not too good unless it is tree ripened and in season, but the oranges, grapefruit and bananas are all pulled off the tree before they get ripe. Why? They are pulled green so that they can be shipped and stored and sold for a profit. I believe that America's brain could devise methods to distribute fresh vegetables and fruits to the people profitably. Modern highways and refrigerated trucks could answer the problem. Of all the sweets, honey is the best. That is, provided it is wild honey. Some of the commercial beekeepers now feed the bees simple syrup made from white sugar and then add synthetic flavoring. Then they boast about how scientific and how smart they are. They can give you honey any flavor you like, but the honey is no good. Wild honey is the best. Natural food grown on fertile soil, eaten fresh is the answer to the nutritional cause of disease. Science is no longer science when it attempts to violate God's natural Law. H NEW OUTLOOK The Humanist Outlook THE EXPANSION of classic and humanistic studies in the United States would be warmly welcome in the free countries of Europe, which can all claim a living humanistic tradition. Though many of the effects of such an expansion would not be immediately perceptible, it would no doubt strengthen from the outset the cultural ties and affinities between the United States and its European partners, would deepen their mutual understanding, and would assist them greatly in defending together free culture. Countries such as Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, as well as my own, where classic learning has always been the basis of education, will feel that an American more receptive to the humanistic outlook would broaden the basis of her kinship with Europe by sharing the same cultural treasures and the same scale of spiritual values. However great the moral prestige of America, this would enhance it in the cultural field. My personal impression is that now would be the time for the Americans who believe in the benefits to be derived from classic and humanistic studies to initiate a drive for their expansion. Of course, today's trend is towards technical curricula, and some may be inclined to consider classic and humanistic studies as an intellectual luxury, not indispensable to material welfare. But "man shall not live by bread alone." In the present period of prosperity it should not be difficult, in this country, to give an increased measure of moral and financial support to humanities and liberal arts. In the history of the Western World, thinkers, political philosophers, or leaders holding the initiative in the field of ideas, were nurtured in the humanistic tradition, which has been the backbone of European education and the source of European renaissances. The publicly proclaimed aim of American foreign policy is the advancement of peace, freedom, and prosperity in the world. Those fundamental purposes of democracy can be effectively promoted when they are more than political aims and become a way of life. Such a way of life will be fully attained, I believe, only when we can reach a steadier contact with the sources of human learning than we have today. Ambassador A. G. Politis of Greece, at The University of Pittsburg. NEW OUTLOOK Beyond Tribalism Professor of World Religions and Church History, HUMAN FELLOWSHIP is not constructed like a building, piece by piece, one story upon another. But genuine human fellowship across tribal and religious lines does emerge when definite steps are taken by human beings to understand and remove some of the obstacles to spiritual unity. Since Occidentals have been the persons who, in the past several centuries, have committed the most serious offences against Oriental peoples, we of the West cannot work too speedily at our joint task of coming to an understanding of the subtle obstacles that stand in the way of a wider fellowship of peoples in our world. It has become increasingly apparent as research in the healing sciences and clinical field has proceeded, that each person tends to create his own personal problems by the way in which he creates and maintains his life space. What is this life space? It is the environment (both outer and inner at one and the same time) which each of us creates out of his total sur Floyd Ross roundings. We do not make our surroundings but we do make our environment. This environment or life space, is created by each of us as we invest situations, events and other persons with the meanings that make them either problematic to us or mutually creative and productive. As has become quite evident in psychotherapy, each person who has created life problems, tries to resolve these problems by the same assumptions and patterns of conduct and feeling that created them in the first place. This perpetuates the difficulties; one is captured in the "neurotic round" or rat race. These difficulties (with all their neurotic symptoms) will continue unless and until the person redefines his life space, thus escaping from a self-defeating repetitive process. What is the life space of many social, religious and cultural groups in our world today? Is it not often too narrowly defined, felt and conceived? In many groups-churches included the working rule seems to have been to make them safe for conformity. This grows out of lack of continuing self-criticism. Too much stress has been placed on confessions of faith, and too little emphasis on understanding the dynamics of faith. The Christian churches, along with other groups, have too often confused universality with exclusiveness. Or, universality is defined as inclusiveness on our terms. So long as the West refuses to free itself from undue clinging to the particularities of its history, its ideas, its religions, the West will be unable to make a creative gesture toward the Orient with its millions of Hindus, Buddhists and humanists. It is as unrealistic to call for the "Christianization of Japan" as it would be to ask for the "Hinduization of America." Beneath all the particularities of our histories there are, we can assume, certain basic human needs seeking actualization. Modern man, as he becomes more mature will cling less and less tenaciously to his tribal history and focus more and more clearly upon universal human history. It is not our differences which are at the root of our troubles but our inability to see that all differences are rooted in something much more fundamental. It was Jacob Boehme who said, many years ago: "A Christian is of no sect: he can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any." Bhagavan Das has expressed the same idea in different words: "To be able to recognize the dearest of friends only if he is clothed in one dress and no other, is not to know the Friend at all, but only the dress." For many persons today, their life space is so cramped, they cling anxiously to the dress and refuse to recognize the friend when he wears another garb. Neither our religions nor our philosophies have been catholic in fact or in attitude. We of the West still have many lessons to learn about the meaning of scientific and religious humility. It is an occasion for hope when a Jesuit priest, Father Gathier, can write after many years spent in India: "The Hindus could ask us whether we too have not something to learn from the millenial wisdom of India. Without hesitation I would answer we have much to learn. . . Hinduism invites us before all to interiorization, to the welcoming of thought on the Self. It hopes to find the final truth not in books, but in ourselves. Is there not a lesson for us in this by placing the emphasis on personal experience, Hinduism is without doubt an imperious invitation to avoid regimentation of thought... Properly understood NEW OUTLOOK |