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Thursday, October 2, 1930 McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCVR'flCR, Soul* Curoltum. By E. V. McCollum, Ph.D., Sc.D. Professor of Bio-Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Univcrsi’y. Author of "The A*ewer Knowledge of yutrition," etc. T HERE is one type cf war which neither disarmament nor naval limitation treaties will ever aiYcct. Its battles are numberless and are fought daily in the nation’s dining rcoms by conscientious mothers seeking to make their children •eat needed portions of spinach or other leafy vegetables. This type of war deserves serious consideration. Its efleets, while neither immediate nor fatal, are important to the future <vf the race. For they concern the physical and mental health of our children. And this kind of war must cease. No child should ever be disciplined at mealtime because ol the unfavorable effect on digestion. Urging the child to cm something it does net like produces a run of unpleasant emotion, which has an equally bad effect. Psychologists and physicians are all agreed upon this point. Few adults have escaped the ex perience of suffering from a digest ive upset as the result of an emo tional crisis at mealtime. Fcsr, pain and anger interfere both with the secretion of digestive juices jand with the mechanical function ing of the digestive tract. The speaker who frequent^ pauses to take a sip of water is moistening- his • mouth because it tools dry. It is dry because’ he is not at ease before his audience, especially if he is conscious that bis debate, sermon, oration or lec ture is not going greatly to his credit. Under such conditions, the salivary glands do not produce much, if any, saliva. The stomach and other digestive glands also are alffcted in a comparable manner. Fox digestion cannot proceed until the proper secretions are poured out. Discipline Is Harmful ft is thus apparent that discipline at mealtime is not only ineffective hut harmful. • The most that should he done to cultivate a liking for necessary foods is to ask the child to taste these foods when they happen to be served to others. It should bo explained that the foods In question are good for people, and that the child will later like them. Thus no offense is given and no artificial distaste aroused. Pronounced changes in tastes will often be brought about by this method in tho course of a few months. But if the child is made unhappy by being compelled to eat a food which it does not like, the distaste for that particular food may become intensified rather than overcome later bi life. ..P’Tien the proper amounts of milk, egg.* and meats ard given to children the vitamin content of their diet is pretty well «afe- guarded. This is especially 'true if yellow vegetables such as car rots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., are included for their high vitamin A content. When the leafy vege tables are disliked,. the cellulose content of the food may well be provided by including in the menus sufficient whole cereal foods to furnish indigestible cellulose. Whole wheart and rice furnish cel lulose In more satisfactory forms C. V. McCollum for the diet of children than do either corn or oats. Of these grains, the cellulose of rice is the softest and least Irritating. Prevents Bad Habits If taken in sufficient amounts, the cellulose from these sources will serve admirably to promote dismissal of waste products with rufficient promptness to insure a hygienic condition of the colon. This will prevent the formation -of bad habits which may eventually injure the large intestine in ways illustrated by the enormous num bers of persons in middle or later life who have subsisted too largely upon refined foods. Parents of today have a greater opportunity than ever before to serve their children bji* helping them to lay the foundation for long and healthy lives. Our control over the physical basis of success in life is far more effective than ever before in human history. We know what the body requires for no'xnal mftrition and where the chemical substances necessary to a complete diet are to be found. Mothers, and especially Ameri can mothers, are taking advantage of this opportunitv. They are ap plying the established facta of the modern science of nutrition to tho feeding of their families. As an evidence of this, some future his torian well may write of rickets aod scurvy as children's diseases happily long forgotten. la de scribing their eradication he will point to the popularization of triads as a national characteristic, of Americans, acquired during the second and third decades of the twentieth century. lie will almost certainly mention, as a result of this, the heightened resistance to certain infections, the prevention of goiter, and the increase in size and sturdiness of the first genera tion which had tho good fortune to profit by the new discoveries about foods. Vast Improvement In Diet He will not fail to emphasize the perfection of processes in the can ning industry. A part of the race’s physical gain he will trace to tliis, because it made possible a vast improvement in the Na tion’s diet through the colder months of the year, by providing In wholesome condition a wider variety of foods than -were ever before available to mankind in any part of the world. This promotion of healchlul vigor ho will contrast with the widespread illness of the past, and the need for “Spring medicines," “blood purifiers," and “Spring tonics” which were taken by nearly everyone a generation ago. But knowledge of the modern science of foods is one thing and its application to the needs of children quite another. Every modern mother must therefore combine her knowledge of diet etics with some of the tact of a seasoned diplomat. With this equipment she should succeed in making her children eat sufficient quantities of all the kinds of foods necessary to health. Leafy Vccetables Valuable The leafy vegetables are of spo* cial value in furnishing indigest ible material which serves as an intestinal regulator and promotes elimination. And this problem of intestinal hygiene is especially im portant now when so many of our foods are highly refined and con tain little or no cellulose. Milk, meat or eggs are all so completely digestible that they leave little residues in the colon and hence are constipating. As a first step, however, in the improvement of children’s diet, the dining room wars must cease. They are quite as fruitless as any other wars. If a child is properly managed it will eventually acquire the dietary habits and likings nor mal to adults. 7 It will appreciate the flavors of everything it should eat. And this ideal condition can never be reached through force, but only through tact and diplo macy. Little Talk On Thrift * - (By S. W. Straus, President Ameri can Society for Thrift.) RESOURCES BACK OF INDI VIDUAL BASIS OF TRUE VJfc PROSPERITY c. " ■ “It would seem to me that the best advice anyone could give to the ■ American people today would be to tell them to spend money freely. It is the free spending of money by the public that brings prosperity.” This is a portion of a letter re cently received by this writer. No doubt the opinion here expressed is shared by many. " It is obvious, of course, that when people generally are not spending money, less money is in circulation. It is also just as true that over spending by the people brings about conditions of inflation and economic unsoundness. Nothing is ever gained economically by peo ple buying things they do not need. Nothing is ever gained economical ly by people refraining from buying what they should have and can af ford. It should be quite apparant that the widespread spending of money for things people do not need or cannot afford represents economic waste. Such conditions, therefore, cannot rightly be called the basis of prosperity. Manifestly the pros perity of a nation must rest on the purchasing power of the people. When people resources back of them, they are individually pros perous and are able to buy what they need but if they are-contin ually spending money for • things, they do not need and cannot af- fcird^-indulgi^g fofcJtfWteful habits they can not permanently pros per. At the same time we must not overlook the fact that the stand ard of living of the American Peo ple is steadily improving. The bare necessitities of life are not enough. We have our rightful conveniences, our comforts, our small luxuries. In this way we are developing new industries and furnishing employment for more people and more capital. All of this is within the meaning of true Am erican progress and true American thrift. For America never goes backwards. One of the chief values of thrift is that it develops judgment in the administration of .one’s personal affairs. And this judgment must be used by us at the present time in deciding the proper balance to be maintained betwen spending and saving. We should not culti vate habits of miserliness, neither should we spend beyond our means. We must not be unmindful of the fact that we are dealing with prob lems of the future as well as the present. No man has a right to pauperize himself today and jeop ardize his future economic inde pendence under any circumstances or for any reason whatever. “Habit is second nature," said Montaigne, while a great English man, Lord Wellington, went even further and said, “Habit . is ten times nature." There is an old proverb to the effect that it is “a thousand times easier to contract a new habit than to get rid of an old one.” The philosophers of the ages have given us observations as to the power and influence of habits and no one, we believe, will doubt the expediency, of cultivating good habits and shunning those that are bad. . We aU can follow the good advice of St, Augustine that “hab its if not resisted j soon become necessity.” What has all this to do with thrift? It has very much to do with it because those who set out to prac tice thrift have already won half the battle against bad habits. There is no surer way of devel oping a system of life that is up building and progressive than by practicing thrift. If you are thirfty you are not wasting your time in idleness nor your money in dissip ation. You are not doing things that are tearing down your health. On the contrary you are spending your money, your time and your energies along lines that will be to your best interests. But good practices must not be just of the hour or of the day. They must be systematic, habitual and permanent to be of real value. The saving of one dollar in itself does not amount to much. What really counts is the saving of one dollar regularly every month, every week or every day. It is the regularity of the practice not the amount involved that is helpful. Learn to cultivate thrift, not for the mere saving of money, but as a habit that shall stabilize your en tire system of living. X- Rats are particular about food served to them in traps. Bread or doughnuts should be fresh, as rats will usually ignore t hem H even a little stale. Raw or cooked meats, bacon, fish, apples, melons, toma toes, carrots, and nut meats also are good baits. Cheese is an ex cellent bait for mice but is gener ally not attractive to rats. Use fresh baits and change them daily. A variety of baits used in succes sive traps gives better results than only one kind of bait. Baits are sometimes made more attractive to rats by sprinkling rolled oats, corn meal, or powdered milk light 4 - ly over, the trap. - .*• . ' Weather Instrument An Aid To Aviation I Keeping pace with the develop ment of aviation in providing the very essential weather information required, the United States Weath er Bureau recently developed an electrical instrument for indicat ing indoors the direction from which the wind blows. This equip ment supplements an older device for indicating in like manner the wind velocity, so that in a few moments an observer indoors can know both the direction and veloc ity of the wind at the time. This direction indicator consists of four small automobile lamps arranged in the form of a square with the north lamp at the top, mounted on a board attached to the wall in the office. Electric, current is obtained from a small transformer and the indicator con nected by six wires to a contacting wind vane bearing and vane at the top of a pipe support high enough to place the vane out of reach of objectionable wind turbulence. The contacting device is so arrang ed that with the closing of the electrical circuit the north lamp is lighted when the wind is coming from any point from west-north- west to east-northeast; similarly the east lamp from north^north- east to south-southeast, and the other two cardinal directions like wise. This overlapping in the con tacting mechanism makes possible the indication of directions to eight points of the compass. The contacting wind vane bear ing was designed by B. C. Kadel, chief of the instrument division of the Weather Bureau, and it is be ing used extensively and increas ingly at the numerous stations along .the airways, where frequent weather observations are required. This is one of the many contribu tions of the Weather Bureau to make flying safer. IXX Connecticut For est Fire Loss Great est Since 1922 Forest fires were more destruc tive in Connecticut this year than at any other time since 1922, ac cording to State forestry reports received by the United States De partment of Agriculture, which show that of 27 fires devastating 1,000 acres or more in the last nine years, 8 have taken place this year. In 1922, 12 fires swept 26,000 acres in Connecticut. This year, 18,000 acres of forest were destroy ed by the eight large fires. The fires, crossing the boundaries, burned even greater aggregate acreage in the three surrounding States of New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. It is noteworthy that in nine years all these big fires started in midspring. Twenty-two of the 27 occurred between April 24 and May 8. Six of this year’s big fires start ed Sunday, May 4. The high haz ard period this year lasted from April 28 to May 7, with continual fires, abnormally low humidity, and high winds. New England States have suffer ed severely from forest fires this season. One destructive fire broke out in Nashua, N. H., and spread into the forest. Another started when a passenger airplane crashed into a tree. Last year there were 3,952 forest fires reported in New England and New York. Of these, 1,410, or over 35 per cent, were attributed to smokers and 548, or nearly 14 per cent, to burners of debris. The area burned over in protected districts, which cover practically all the for est areas, totaled 64,430 acres, ac cording to the Forest Service, Unit ed States Department of Agricul ture. Complete reports have not been received for the current sea son. X More than a quarter of a million bales of raw -cotton go into the manufacture of cotton bags each year in the United States. Most of these are used in the wholesale i grocery trade. There is a large opportunity, says the U. S. 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