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6 - r~ C ? 2H Vital Facts Abe "Too much of a good thing?" It's a perfect definition of a popular sport: taking vitamins on the theory of the more the merrier. Or the healthier. It just doesn't work that way. No doubt about it, vitamins are indispensable to all of us. But vitamins hv */ themselves can't guarantee good nutrition. Their job is to coordinate the body's utilization of nutrition derived from other materials. There are, in fact, distinct limits to the amount of vitamin intake that can benefit anybody. According to the American Medical Association's Council on Foods and Nutrition, as little as 1,800 units of vitamin D taken daily for several months decreases appetite, reduces the body's ability to retain certain minerals, and slows growth. "Vitamin A, taken in excess of 50,000 units rlailv pan loa/4 trv vtwtAj , VMI1 1VUU WW OV, V V.1 c disorders of the nervous Yoi/r United Fui Each year your gift to your United Fund does many things to help many people. It is used locally, nationally and throughout the world. This year part of your donation is being spent through the USO and the Red Cross, in Viet Nam. If you have a son or a friend in tV?o coririnD trnii non Vvn " WW* T *w, j uu van uc sure your gift is making off duty time more pleasant for him. USO CLUBS Your dollar is helping to run 11 USO clubs in Viet Nam, where, in addition to seeing Hollywood stars perform, American troops can get milk shakes, read, play games, listen to the jukef N When you give the United Way you give to uso United Serrice Organization* v v The '.sis emi/MM] iut Vitamins system, bones, and other tissues." Healthy persons receiving adequate diets have no need of additional vitamins, except women during pregnancy and for a short time thereafter. Of course many people don't receive an adequate diet. And nobody is healthy all the time. But that eets us into th** question of individuals or groups and their particular needs ? a question for doctors or other experts, not patients or laymen, to decide. The money spent on unnecessary vitamin supplements by Americans each year would feed whole nations of people or our own countrymen who really need it. Worse than mere money waste can be the effects of overzealous promotion, such a the broad implication by one TV ad vertiser that your infant's diet isn't terribly important so long as he gets plenty of a certain brand of vitamins. rid Dollars Help box or develop pictures in the club darkroom. The USO now sends out 70 entertainment units all over the world wherever our troops are stationed and maintains 36 clubs overseas providing healthy, recreation activities to all branches of the military. RED CROSS The Red Cross also helps our men in Viet Nam. One of its many benefits to the military is the providing of emergency assistance to servicemen who must unexpectedly return home because of an emergency. Red Cross expedites swift travel of any serviceman going home and provides for travel expenses. When you give the United Way you give to ^Thc Salvation Army y United Fund THE ClOTHMAKER (F ff I " t jj High In The Sky ? Lydia 1 a fresh coat of blue gloss painl directly across Peachtree Stre stood on the present Cloth W A merican Servicemei CONTINUOUS RELIEF Congress has designated ] Red Cross as the national i volunteer agency to pro- ' vide disaster relief. The i agency receives more than 85 per cent of its contributions through United ] Funds. But your dollar is not just travelling far from i home tn he useful Most nf it is staying right in our own community. REHABILITATION CENTERS Your dollar is running rehabilitation centers where people are helped to overcome their handicaps, whether physical or mental, and become responsive, contributing members of i \ When you give the United Way you give to ^Red Cross ^ *-V T-M * y Lfrwe Helps jo \F ? m r I \/ ^ Plants' water tank received t recently. The tank located et from the Plant formerly arehouse site. n In Viet Nam the community. You are helping a little boy, almost deaf, to identify sounds. Through proper guidance, education and a hearing aid he is now on his way toward growing to be a normally adjusted adult. You are also helping a '? :i u: rz?i luuuiy which is iniuing 11 difficult to meet all its obligations and handle its problems. Through local relief this family is being rjuietly, discreetly, helped. Your contribution is also helping provide character building programs through youth agencies such as the "Y", Scouts, Camp Fires and similar community organizations. r~ " n When you give the United Way you give to Young Men's ^ Christian Association ^ rn TT I u j o neip ut SEPTEMBER 17, 1968 There Is Gold la "Them Thar Hills" Is there "gold in them thar hills?" That query, couched in countless other languages and accents, has had a large share in shaping the progress of the world. The desire for the precious metal, burning like a fever in men's veins, led them to far places. And with them went their languages, their cultures. The Spaniards, seeking gold in South America and Mexico in the fifteenth century, drastically and permanently influenced the culture of those regions. California, a remote outpost, was populated almost overnight with many venturesome prospectors following the 1849 gold strike. And the colonization of Australia began following the discovery of large nuggets there in 1851. Most of the 50,000 tons of gold produced between 1492 and 1942 can be accounted for. About one-half is held by the various govprnmpnts in tbn form r?f bullion or coins. Jewelry and other craftwork have claimed one-third of the supply. But where is the remainder? Adventurous persons seeking sudden wealth, and noting that gold mines and nugget-bearing streams grow fewer and fewer, might look for the remaining portion of th^ world's gold supply, since its iifV?r?r?fvoK/-\i t 4- r-? i c \yiiv;i?;auuuia is jiicacunj unknown. And then, there are the other planets . . . The search for the yellow metal, so prized that in earlier days it attained a religious significance, assisted the development of the world. But it was another kind of gold, truly precious and truly sacred, which made living in the world endurable. This is the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." / \ When you give the United Way you give to ^Camp Fire Girls ^ hers