Factors Working for Good and for Evil Compared "War produces good effects in rousing a people from sloth and self-indulgence, in producing a better physique in a limited number and in improving to some! extent discipline and morale, But it brings in Its train evils which far outlive the good. trid the saddest part {s that all which it may produce good could quite well be attained without war and without the evils said Dr, J. 1, H. Pater~ son, Superintendent of the Lester Chinese Hospital, in the course of on "War: Its Effect on presented at the weekly meeting in the Foreign -A. on the evening of March War, he said, could be taken as a wholesale upset of the normal stereotyped lines of life, Prepara~ ton for war was an attempt to Tevel out the ruts of peace, and its aftermath was largely concerned with the labour of reforming these Normal physical health was most~ ly a question of food, exercise, rest and freedom from disease, "TS use a well-worn cliche, they all ate too much, During the Great it was found that a regul diminution of food supplies was a real asset to a considerable part of the community, Most of his listen could probably do very well on two good meals 'a day, "In wartime, however, civilians should take as Little exercise as possible, During. and after the Great War one might have expected that there would be plenty of diet troubles in England, but the reverse was actual the case ere were plenty of colonels round, but very few gouty ones,
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