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...Reader A.R. Heldt astonishes me when he says in his letter [Nov. 13] that all members of Jim Thorpe's generation were raised on "organic" foods. Was the widespread use of white sugar and bleached white flour organic? And did the people of Jim Thorpe's time have year-round access to fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fruit juices...
...Does Mr. Heldt remember the days (not too long ago) when the bulk of our population lived on farms and in rural areas? At the end of the long winter our systems were so loaded with the effects of white sugar, starch and saturated fat that a spring tonic of sulfur and molasses was considered advisable, if not mandatory. The all-out consumption of doughnuts, fritters, dumplings, cake, pie and white-sugar candy, was that organic...
...Heldt's criticism in your Letters column of "organic" foods as insufficient to make Jim Thorpe able to compete with athletes of today: Mr. Heldt, as is usual with the non-Indian, has treed the wrong bark. While everyone knows of the wonderful increase in health, height, weight, etc., of the average "white" because of his "chemically raised foodstuffs," little mention is made of the fact that the Anishinabe (Chippewa) was 6 ft. tall in 1700. The French called us "Sauters" among other names, meaning "Jumpers," for our ancestors went "bounding" through the forest and the short Frenchmen could...
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...last, one day in 1954, Heldt got a passport. The night before his departure for Italy, he made the rounds of his Kneipen to say goodbye, later wrote from Ischia that he wondered whether he would ever see his old haunts again. He never did. At Ischia, after a bibulous evening with his friends, he died in his sleep at the age of 49. The end was so peaceful that Werner Gilles cried out in a mixture of grief and envy: "He stole the death I had planned for myself...