THE KING’S BUSINESS 967 for the increase of the output of beer was that munition workers and harvest ers demand more beer in the hot weather. Had he cared to inquire into the matter, he could easily have learned that in many places haryesters thrive on a non-intoxicating drink which quenches thirst and feeds, while it requires little sugar in its production. We are well aware that harvesters need to drink freely in hot weather. But we are at war, and the country needs food, and there are better ways of quenching thirst than by drinking beer. None of these considerations, however, move a Government which is afraid of the Trade.” If America would take the ground that she would not send food stuffs to England until they ceased wasting their own food stuffs in the manufacture of Booze, it might bring the British Gdvernment to its senses. But if we were to do that we ought also-to prohibit in the United States the waste of food stuffs in the manufacture of beer, as we have already prohibited it in the matter of the manufacture of distilled liquors. \ The Journal of the American Medical Association of July 14, justly commends the rule for getting the best results from food selection brought forth by the Bureau of Home Economics of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. These rules as given by the Journal of the American Medical Association are as follows: “1. Spend from one-fourth to one-third of your food-money for bread, cereals, macaroni, and rice. 2. Buy at least from a third to half a quart of milk a day for each mem ber of the family. 3. Spend as much for vegetables and fruits together as you do for milk. If you use half a quart of milk for each member of the family, this may not always be possible. Then spend as much for vegetables and fruit as a third of a quart of milk a day would amount to. 4. Spend not more for meat and eggs than for vegetables and fruits. Meat and eggs may be decreased with less harm than any of the other foods mentioned. The amount spent for meat may decrease as the amount spent for milk increases.” Pretty much all our magazines are full of- articles on the question of how to eat and how to feed one’s fam ily in the present time of stringency of food stuffs. Sane Dietetics.
For many years Life has been a mystery that has per- plexed the men of Science and defeated all their at- tempts at analysis and explanation; but at last, Dr. Leonard Thompson Troland of Harvard University
Mystery of Life Explained at Last.
has solved the mystery, or thinks he has. We will let our readers judge for themselves. In an article in the American Naturalist he puts forward what he- calls a “Catalytic Theory of Life.” He writes “In this conception I believe we can find a single, synthetic answer to many, if not all, of the broad, outstanding problems of theoretical biology. It is an answer, moreover, which links these great biological phenomena directly with molecular physics, and perfects the unity not alone of biology, but of the whole system of physical science, by sug-
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