“STARVE THE BRUTES.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20584, 6 December 1928, Page 10

“STARVE THE BRUTES.”

. AfiD HEALTH. SYDNEY DOCTOR’S MAXIMS. . ■ (FapM Oun Own Correspondent.) ■ SYDNEY, November 29. Little’ Dr Arthur, ■ New South Wales’s picturesque Minister for Health, who is as full of high ideals and aphorisms as an egg-jg of meat, and who has advanced more pet subjects and theories than any other politician in. the Mother State, has been putting into women’s heads ideas against which the' married male tribe will probably revolt. , He. pays elderly and middle-aged men . are digging their'gra ves with theiK teeth! <i: My ! Advice to the womenfolk,” ho says, " is not to feed their husbands overmuch, if they want to. keep them, blit rather to starve them.”

- Dr Arthur visualises the time when one. half o! the people will be in hospital, and the other half waiting to take their places. One reason, he' says, is that so many Australians have forgotten to walk; another reason. is that they are eating wrong foods. The little; doctor breaks but in a fresh place every time he speaks. An anthology of *his spee(%es, under the caption, “ The Maxims of a Medico,” would ‘be , interesting. When he is not advising the community to ~ drink less beer and more milk, or to eat more fruit, or to ; take. more care of their teeth, or net’to stand up when they can ,sit down, and not to sit down when they can. lie ’down, he is offering them other advice. In what ho says there is quite a fund of philosophic truth, ,although it is doubtful if Sydney puts his precepts into practice, ’ He says, for example, that ,many Australians have for-gotten-to walk. . This is undeniably <trne ofßydney folk. To see people, and mostly yoqng women -and girls, get in a tram at One stop .and alight two' short stops away, is! a common .spectacle,