Others’ Points of View

Northland Age, Volume IX, Issue 60, 7 May 1940, Page 1

Others’ Points of View

The “Age” is in no way identified with opinions expressed by Correspondents SALT Sir.—A note in your valued columns on salt was perfectly correct, yet altogether misleading I feel sure. For, while salt is as you say a necessity, nature has provided all we (and the calves) need in our food. An excess of salt is a veritable poison and should be so labelled ! I have an old homospathic book on salt, and I quite agree with its statement that it is the most powerful drug we possess. I speak from personal experience as well as from treating disease. You will smile and ask : How is it that I and most of the rest of us are not poisoned ? I reply that you are ! You get used to its effect just as you do to alcohol or tobacco and could do to most poisons. It is only in a few cases that poisons are cumulative, the body is wonderfully made and can put up with much ill usage, compensating mechanisms being set in motion. But it brings about pain and disease in many cases, and in all shortens life an comfort by throwing unnecessary strain on our internal works

worns. Some will say that without salt they could not eat their bread, butter, porridge, potatoes or eggs. The answer to that “conclusive” statement is very simple : If you really can’t fancy your food without salt, go without food for two or three days, and you will be surprised to find w.ial a relish will accompany good whe’esome unpoisoned food ! It is just merely a bad habit like whisky drinking, which like all habits gets hold of one and needs breaking. The sugar habit is another good example : Some folk think it necessary in their tea (on the principle that the two poisons will counteract each other—for sugar is none too good either). Other folk can’t touch their tea if you put sugar in by mistake. So it is evidently merely a question of taste and that is dependent on custom and habit, in the case of sugar and salt, due to our dear mothers in our infancy and childhood—God bless their silly heads! Why were they not taught better at school. Yours, etc., E. S. DUKES. YOUTH MARCHES ON Sir.—As an overtone to tie war news is the repeated reference by this or that statesman to the new world order, which one and all assume must follow the war—the only alternative being the blackout of civilisation.

What form or shape this will take, o: in what manner it is to be brought in, is left to the individual imagination. But not a new world order, so much as a new order of men, is what is wanted. The machinery of civilisation is gaining in perfection, but “the matter with the world is the folks that live in it.” “Youth Marches On,” a film of some twenty minutes duration, gives the skeleton idea of what is needed to bring in the New Era. Yours, etc., CHRISTABEL MATTHEWS. - - :v -