PULIC OPINION

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21036, 12 February 1940, Page 9

PULIC OPINION

As expressed by correspondents whose letters are welcome, but for whose views we have no responsibility. Correspondents are requested to write in ink. It is essential that anonymous writers enclose their proper names as a guarantee of good faith. Unless this 2*ule is complied with, their letters will not appear. RECRUITING CAMPAIGN (To the Editor) Sir,—Granted the Medium Battery are a fine body of men, but can you tell me why the returned soldiers were not given pride of place in last night’s recruiting parade? Was it because the returned soldiers did not have uniforms? The returned soldiers have done their share for our country and show they are still willing to defend their homeland by the ready response that they made to join the National Military Reserve. The recruiting posters ask the recruits to remember the spirit of Anzac. But after last night’s parade it seems that the spirit of Anzac is relegated to the background. I think in military parades for recruiting purposes it would be a gracious act on the part of the authorities to give the returned men the respect due to them.—l am, etc., RETURNED SOLDIER’S WIFE. Hamilton, February 10. EPIDEMIC PREPARATION (To the Editor) Sir, —I noticed in the Times of February 9 that the Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, in a communication to the Waikato Hospital j Board, stated the necessity for hos- j pital boards to provide accommoda- j tion for an epidemic if one should arise. It is not accommodation we need. The most urgent need is to educate the people to eat healthily, i By eating healthily I mean to eat the protective foods, Nature’s (God’s) foods, in the way of fresh fruit and vegetables, to rely as much as possible on raw foods instead of eating the denatured devitalised dead foods in the form of white flour, white | sugar and polished rice, and reverting to the cooking of foods, which is so universal today. There is no need for epidemics, or for that matter, sickness of any kind, including the operations so prevalent today. Disease is man’s ov.ei making, the cause of which is breaking Nature’s laws in right feeding. “What a man soweth, also shall he reap.” So I would say, “Don’t provide accommodation for epidemics; educate the people to right feeding.”—l am, etc., 1

ONE WHO KNOWS. Hamilton, February 10.