TIIE SUNDAY OHEGOSTAX, TOKIXAXD, JANUARY 27, 1918. Strong Mind Above Food and Exercise . s--x Responsible Says Mighty Ram Murti, - p; JF0, Like Napoleon, Declares It Is . jWP Mental Energy . " - America. 7oo MucA," N! " 'Ksrss Say, Basauta Koomar Roy. .1A Jr'V? ??sf .iilU;V ff 'Tl I I hp-lT&J -M. . Ill Vv4 np-A r". Vviv-vAvir.v.y,-.; v-vvv; n. ill n ? r f f-.VJ 'i IK 3T V-i' : nd th And no Mlmal.r. ff-i Wii'.VvAtCSrfVS? ' ' . - - t- .' .t;. : y. y pass the bull in vital endurance even iBM- .tit i feJfe-. - i- fiKbU. ferocuv. fJ-iyj4S''-$ fo)i 3;-' ?' '"'"n.l-V'T ' T I $ There are race o( men, too, who are fj-fyftft H-ii4' S: L V jS?v?tT?T-'' it' :' mostly vegetarian, and they, too, are PV-Vf t vlVi.li.- vJ. ' tJa,'- V 'fctf? ? '; . ,Vv?--a strong and healthy and have unques- J'?t3J f '"n?-"-5 SiS'jV 'if'K''' !-'' f rti.rriii-iVji'.u.Tin'rtrTTy ' '' ' '' '- f' i'," dr tionable power of endurance. The fr'4j$ r2$itVm: JJ'SMZft'Jzf Japanese it home live mostly on rice. h&M tt&sx&m&m -feu i . -';vf Ir J BT BASAITA KOOMAR V.OX. Hindu Author and Traveler. IN INDIA today Jiv the ulronrnt man in the world Ram iiurtl .N'miJil. He has provrd his tuprr hurran strength before huse Hindu and Kuropran audiences and Id India he is Jcrerted as a gml national brro. That is the secret of his trrmendous Xeats of strength. Ram Marti Nsldu Is S feet S Inches tall and weiehs about 21 pounds. Ills chest measurement Is 41 Ini-hes; and It has an expansion of nine Inches. - He can swim for two hours continuously and can run 13 miles at a stretch. As a test of bis Brest strength Ram Kuril has a heavy iron chain passed around his shoulders and the two end of it bound to a heavy poet. He then iowly lifts his shoulders and the chain breaks in two. As another test of his great strength r.am Murti has a gigantic elephant, welching about four tons, enter the ring. A thk-k plank is then placed over aidu's chent and abdomen and the ele jihant gently walks on It and after see siwng for several minutes walks off. Matdu Immediately Jumps to his fee and smilingly greets his audience as unconcernedly as if nothing bad hap pened. One of the most startling exhibitions of Naldu's feats of strength in I is act of "slopping a motor car." By sheer Torce of mental and physical strength be holds back a i:-cylinder autorao bile. At one of Xaidu's exhibitions an Eng lishman, not relyrnx on Naldu's auto mobile, offered bis own car and prom Ised toe strong man a great sum of money and the automobile if he could xiold bark the Machine. Kim Murti promptly accepted the challenge. A strong rope was encircled around hi ralst and tied to the automobile. Then asked the Englishman to drive the machine. AH the power was turned on and Kara Murti was carried several feet, but be merely smiled, for he was simply testing the strength of the rope. Then he made his stand and the fast moving aotomnhMe immediately was checked In Its full motion. The wheels spun around wltb terrific speed, but tne rar itself did not move forward even an inch. Some Americans are apt to Jump to Tne conclusion that this Hindu giant of strength eats nothing but the very best vl chops and steaks, rare game, birds and fresh eggs by the dosen. Well, if ) think so, you are entirely mis taken. .Naidu never eats meat of anv V:n.i. neither fish, not even eggs. He Is purely a vegetarian. In the morning ,iuiu takes a drink made of almond paste, sugar, apices ant cold water. His principal meal, which ha eats t If o clock in the morning, consists of a quarter-pound of boiled rice, vegetable curry, lentil er pea soop. He eats plenty of clarified butter with a'l bis rilshes. He never Oinks tea. coffee or liquor of any kind. He Is very fond of cold water, of wouh fc drinks in abandance. At 4 1. M. Naidu takes his favorite pa-ldlng made of honey, cream, butter and skgar. Along with the podding he kes a drink made of milk, wheat bran, almonds and sugar. After bis performances at nlrht Nsldu lakes a lit tie) rice, vegetable curry and lentil soup, the whole weigh ing not more than a quarter of a (ound. As a boy rum Murti Nsldu was a sickling. The reading of the lives of historical strong men Inspired him to b-eome a phvatcal giant. At first he So is the horse, the rhinoceros, food and how strong; their minds and America that meat is necessary to give bodies. For breakfast the Japanese eats one, two or three bowls of rico, soya bean soup with or without potatoes, beans, cheese and pickles. For lunch he has rice, fish soup, fried fish and cooked vegetables. For dinner he takes rice, baked or raw fish and vegetables. The Japanese in the large cities eat meat once in a while, and in the vil lages almost never. It is generally thought In Europe and heat and endurance to soldiers. This Is purely a mistaken belief. There is scarcely a colder country in the world than Manchuria. And yet the Japanese marched, camped and fought there with 11 their characteristic energy and prowess and mowed down in a whirl ing tornado of death the meat-fed and stalwart Cossacks. Every Japanese soldier carried with him a pound or two of rice and bsana. Ram Murti Naidu, India's Strong Man, Who Lives on Vegetables. took up the Western method of dumb bell and bar exercises, but soon discov ered that his constitution was not suited for that kind of exercise. Con sequently he adopted the Hindu system of ground exercises. Constsnt and regular exercise and bulldog pertinac ity and. above all. his strong mind, turned him from a weakling Into a physical marvel. By personal experi ence be discovered that it was neither fnod aor the form of exercise thst made a man strong, but that It was the mind that developed the muscles. Naidu be believes, as did Napoleon, that It is mental strength, mental energy and control af the mind that make a man strong and that a weak mind ran never expect to develop a strong body. Naidu a life and strength, bear testi mony to his theory. Every day for bout two hours ho practices concen- rstion and meditation and also the different breathing exercises to In crease his power of oxygenation. Naldu's control of bresth and power of concentration help him to localise Is energies In thst psrt of his body where they are most needed. When he snaps a heavy Iron chain, holds a 4-ton lephant on his chest or holds back a i;-C5 Under automobile, be drives by sheer force of mind his power of re sistance o that part of his body where it Is most needed. The life and career of Ram Murti Naidu give a lis direct to the super stition that none can expect to be strong who do not gorge vn meat morning, noon and night. . i more of rice, beans, vegetables, nuts and fruits. This ia today not only a patriotic but it is a personal duty as well, for in this way can everyone In crease his personal magnetism and strength. As a Hindu t feel that you Ameri cans eat too much. From your early childhood yon have been reared on meat, meat and more meat bacon In the morning, lamb chops at lunch and beef steak or chicken at dinner. If you do not eat meat you feel that you have not eaten at all. I coma from a country where plain living and high thinking Is the motto of human life. Our great sages of olden days days as far back as 2000 or 1000 yearn before Christ lived not Americans should eat less meat and j In palaces or luxurious cities, but in cottages by a river, in a forest or on the top of a mountain and ate neither much nor luxurious dishes. Sir Rabln dranath Tagore, whose books of poems are being bought In America like the best-selling- novels. Is a vegetarian. He lives mostly on rice and other vege tables. When you think In the afternoon that you are feeling weak because you could not afford to have lamb chops for lunch, but had plenty of vegetables and beans or rice, you are Just creat ing a mental condition which reacts on the physical. Meat la not abso lutely necessary to make one strong. Look at an elephant. It Is huge, and strong, of course, but it eats no meat. It draws Its nourishment and strength from graas and vegetables, fruits and foliage. The elephant is purely a vege- LEGAL SIDELIGHTS FOR LAWYERS AND LAYMEN By Reyneile . K- Cornish, of the Portland Bar. RATS. . . - Premises rented for use and occupation are presumed to be tenan table. And in case a nuisance renders them untenantable, the lease may in a proper case be broken. Theoretically, a building in fested with rats would come within this ruling, but as a matter of fact the courts are very chary of holding our rodent friends as a good ground for the breaking of the lease. They have even in more than one case, instead of sym pathising with the harassed tenant been inclined to poke fun at him, as in the lengthy opinion'given by Judge Broyles in Lumpkin vs. Trovident Loan So cio! v 15 fin.. Add. 81. which follows: The whole trouble of the "plaintiff in error can be summed up in one worn rats! It is true mat tne eviaence disclosed that the office was badly ventilated, and one witness for the de fendant in error testified that was the cause of the bad odor; but the plaintiff In error himself makes no such com plaint; he puts the bad odors, and the consequent untenantability of his of fice, squarely upon the "unoffending heads' of the rats. There is no contention that the rodents disturbed the office force by unseemly squeaking or squealing, or that they otherwise conducted them selves in any ungentlemanly or unlady like manner, or that they gnawed his furniture; or that they themselves had a bad odor; but the sole contention is that thoy brought in food, presumably from an adjoining restaurant (which was established about a year after the plaintiff in error leased his office), and that this food alone caused the of fensive "odors. "The plaintiff in error, not being an object of charity but a man of consid erable means, strongly objected to hav ing food thus brought in to him from his neighbors, and especially the kind that was furnished, be. not being es pecially fond of "chicken bones,' "fish heads," 'scraps of cheese,' 'tripe, and such like delicacies. "He testified that be disinfected the premises, but all in vain. He set traps, and every day caught scores of rats 'as big as squirrels,' but their ranks were no more diminished by his captures than were the ranks of the allies or the Germans by the. "battles of the Aisne.' No traps, no disinfectants, 'no nothing' could stop the onslaught of these hungry and persistent vermin; they were imbued with the true 'Atlanta spirit,' and continued with undimin ished ardor their kindly meant but mis understood attentions. "Finally, In despair, the plaintiff In error, having no 'Pied Piperi to entire them by the witchery of his music to their destruction in the 'rolling wa ters of the river Weser' (or the Chat tahoochee), cut the Gordian knot by breaking his lease and moving to an other and distinct building. "We do not think that under the law and the evidence, the . landlord can be held responsible for the action of the rats. . . . There is. however, an other plea which the plaintiff in error might have set up by way of recoup-, ment, which would have received our careful and sympathetic consideration. The fear of rats, and even of mice, en tertained by the fair sex, is proverbial, and this court will take judicial cog nisance of the fact that any real es tate office overrun by such vermin would lose all patronage of the ladies, ami would be entirely deprived of the refining and elevating influence of their presence, to say nothing of the more substantial emoluments derived from business dealings with them. "If the plaintiff in error had rested his case on this ground at once solid and eentimental, this court (though all its members are staid and settled mar ried men, but, like all men of intelli gence and discernment, fond of the beautiful) would have diligently sought to find a way to relieve him, if not by the harsh and inflexible rules of law, then by the softer and more pliant one of equity. But the plaintiff in error (possibly through fear of his better half) not having made this plea, the only thing we can do, while affirming the judgment against him, is to render our congratulations upon the fact that at last he has escaped from his too attentive friends (?) the rats." e Will Wilson pay an income "Of course!" you say. ' Well, now, will he? "Let me think," yu begin to hedge. "It seems to me that I remember read ing something about some special pro vision in the act!" Well, now, are you quite sure about that? As a mattar of fact, the qaeatlon of whether the salary of the President of the United States is subject to the income tax appears to be a difficult one. The surcharge act while exempt ing Congressional salaries makes no provision in favor of the President. The Constitution of the United gtates pro vides that thy salary of the President shall not b increased or diminished during his term, and this clause has 'Concluded on Pase 8.)