Why Man of To-day 
Is Only 50 Per Cent. Efficient 
By WALTER GRIFFITH 
I F one were to form an opinion from the num¬ 
ber of helpful, inspiring and informing arti¬ 
cles one sees in the public press and maga¬ 
zines, the purpose of which is to increase our effi¬ 
ciency, he must believe that the entire American 
Nation is striving for such an end— 
And this is so. 
The American Man because the race is swifter 
every clay: competition is keener and the stronger 
the man the greater his capacity to win. The 
stronger the man the stronger his will and brain, 
and the greater his ability to match wits and win. 
The greater his confidence in himself the greater 
the confidence of other people in him: the keener 
his wit and the clearer his brain. 
The American Woman because she must be 
competent to rear and manage the family and 
home, and take all the thought and responsibility 
from the shoulders of the man whose present- 
day business burdens are all that he can carry. 
Now what are we doing to secure that effi¬ 
ciency? Much mentally, some of us much physi¬ 
cally, but what is the trouble? 
We are not really efficient more than half the 
time. Half the time blue and worried—all the 
time nervous—some of the time really incapaci¬ 
tated by illness. 
There is a reason for this—a practical reason, 
one that has been known to physicians for quite a 
period and will be known to the entire World ere 
long. 
That reason is that the human system does not, 
and will not, rid itself of all the waste which it 
accumulates under our present mode of living. No 
matter how regular we are, the food we eat and 
the sedentary lives we live (even though we do 
get some exercise) make it impossible; just as im¬ 
possible as it is for the grate of a stove to rid 
itself of clinkers. 
And the waste does to us exactly what the 
clinkers do to the stove; make the fire burn low 
and inefficiently until enough clinkers have accu¬ 
mulated, and then prevent its burning at all. 
It has been our habit, after this waste has re¬ 
duced our efficiency about 75 per cent., to drug 
ourselves; or after we have become 100 per cent, 
inefficient through illness, to still further attempt 
to rid ourselves of it in the same way—by drug- 
ging. 
If a clock is not cleaned once in a while it clogs 
up and stops; the same way with an engine be¬ 
cause of the residue which it, itself, accumulates. 
To clean the clock, you would not put acid on the 
parts, though you could probably find one that 
would do the work, nor to clean the engine would 
you force a cleaner through it that would injure 
its parts; yet that is the process you employ when 
you drug the system to rid it of waste. 
You would clean your clock and engine with a 
harmless cleanser that Nature has provided, and 
you can do exactly the same for yourself as I will 
demonstrate before I conclude. 
The reason that a physician’s first step-in ill¬ 
ness is to purge the system :s that no medicine can 
take effect nor can the system work properly 
while the colon (large intestine) is clogged up. 
If the colon were not clogged up the chances are 
10 to 1 that you would not have been ill at all 
It may take some time for the clogging process 
to reach the stage where it produces real illness 
but, no matter how long it takes, while it is going 
on the functions are not working so as to keep us 
up to “concert pitch.” Our livers are sluggish, 
we are dull and heavy—slight or severe headaches 
come on—our sleep does not rest us—in short, we 
are about 50 per cent, efficient. 
And if this condition progresses to where real 
illness develops, it is impossible to tell what form 
that illness will take, because— 
The blood is constantly circulating through the 
colon and, taking up by absorption the poisons in 
the waste which it contains, it distributes them 
throughout the system and weakens it so that we 
are subject to whatever disease is most prevalent. 
The nature of the illness depends on our own 
little weaknesses and what we are the least able 
to resist. 
These facts are all scientifically correct in every 
particular, and it has often surprised me that 
they are not more generally known and appreci¬ 
ated. All we have to do is to consider the treat¬ 
ment that we have received in illness to realize 
fully how it developed, and the methods used to 
remove it. 
So you see that not only is accumulated waste 
directly and constantly pulling down our efficiency 
by making our blood poor and our intellect dull— 
our spirits low and our ambitions weak, but it is 
responsible through its weakening and infecting 
processes for a list of illnesses that if catalogued 
here would seem almost unbelievable. 
It is the direct and immediate cause of that 
very expensive and dangerous complaint—appen¬ 
dicitis. 
If we can successfully eliminate the waste all 
our functions work properly and in accord— 
there are no poisons being taken up by the blood, 
so it is pure and imparts strength to every part of 
the body instead of weakness—there is nothing to 
clog up the system and make us bilious, dull and 
nervously fearful. 
With everything working in perfect accord and 
without obstruction, our brains are clear, our en¬ 
tire physical being is competent to respond quick¬ 
ly to every requirement, and we are 100 per cent, 
efficient. 
Now this waste that I speak of cannot be thor¬ 
oughly removed by drugs, but even if it could the 
effect of these drugs on the functions is very un¬ 
natural, and if continued becomes a periodical 
necessity. 
Note the opinions on drugging of two most 
eminent physicians: 
Prof. Alonzo Clark. M. D., of the New York 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, says: “All 
of our curative agents are poisons, and as a con¬ 
sequence, every dose diminishes the patient’s 
vitality.” 
Prof. Joseph M. Smith, M. D., of the same 
school, says: “All medicines which enter the cir¬ 
culation poison the blood in the same manner as 
do the poisons that produce disease.” 
Now, the internal organism can be kept as sweet 
and pure and clean as the external and by the 
same natural, sane method—bathing. By the 
proper system warm water can be introduced so 
that the colon is perfectly cleansed and kept pure. 
There is no violence in this process—it seems 
to be just as normal and natural as washing one’s 
hands. 
Physicians are taking it up more widely and 
generally every day, and it seems as though every¬ 
one should be informed thoroughly on a practice 
which, though so rational and simple, is revolu¬ 
tionary in its accomplishments. 
This is rather a delicate subject to write of ex¬ 
haustively in the public press, but Chas. A. 
Tyrrell, M. D., has prepared an interesting trea¬ 
tise on “Why Man of Today Is Only 50 per cent. 
Efficient,” which treats the subject very exhaus¬ 
tively, and which he will send without cost to any 
one adressing him at 134 West 65th Street, New 
York, and mentioning that they have read this 
article in Forest and Stream. 
Personally, I am enthusiastic on Internal Bath¬ 
ing because I have seen what it has done in illness 
as well as in health, and I believe that every per¬ 
son who wishes to keep in as near a perfect con¬ 
dition as is humanly possible should at least be 
informed on this subject; he will also probably 
learn something about himself which he has never 
known through reading the little book to which 
I refer. 
