Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1918 — SEEMED TO UPSET THEORY [ARTICLE]

SEEMED TO UPSET THEORY

Meat Eater Had-No Chance at All With Vegetarian Supposed to Ba Meek and Lowly. Many of the things we are quite sure of are probably not true. For instance, one cannot rely upon the theory that the diet controls the man —that the vegetarian Is, by virtue of his diet, meek and docile, white the confirmed and habitual meat eater is a ferocious animal when aroused. Mr. Brandon, in our block. Is a consistent vegetarian—not only Relieves in it, but urges the merits of his system upon his friends. He was ecstatic about the fine, tender spinach he was permitted to enjoy, and made the neighbors weary singing its praise, says a writer in the Seattle Post-Intei-ligencer. Well, yesterday morning when 1 slipped over to pay my meat bill, Mr. Brandon was wrangling with the butcher about his account. It appears there was a cipher too much in his total, or something—it was $lO and Brandon thought it should be sl. Well, anyway, the butcher lost his temper and called Brandon a liar, and you ought to have seen that vegetarian land on the butcher! He banged him first on one side of tbe face and then on the other, slammed him down in a corner and kicked him in the ribs; it looked like he was intending to take the butcher apart when the help interfered. , If a man can work up that sort of action on spinach, radishes and graKam gems, why should anybody buy meat? And another thing, what was the ferocious meat eater doing while the vegetarian was at work on him? Nothing, absolutely nothing! No, indeed; he didn’t even have time to get mobilized. It seems to be plain that this theory of vegetarian docility has got to be revised.