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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
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(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.
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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. Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, to sub-
titute cotton bags for jute bags or
bagging. • . * <
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Fish caught in this country, ac
cording to statistics, amount to 3,-
000,000,000 pounds annually, and
these figures don’t include the big
ones that get away from the home
town fisherman at the summer ife-
sort. - . - . • ' .. . v
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smacking lips. That’s what you’ll hear around
the table when you serve a tender juicy steak
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hit instantly with every member of the family.
And they are always good, too, not just occasion
ally. You can depend on this shop every day
of the year. . . :
We cut meats to suit our customers. Call on us
for the best Beef, Pork, Sausage, Fish, and Oyst
ers in season.
CITY MEAT MARKKET
Phone No. 61 J. L. REYNOLDS, Prop.
Augusta Street McCormick, S. C.
ENJOY INDEPENDENCE
IN YOOR DID AGE
One parent easily and gladly provides for many
children but many children seldom care for one
parent. Anyway, no parent cares to be depend
ent on his children.
Statistics show that eighty-two out of every hun
dred parents are left dependent in old age with
only memories of'the past and fears of the fu
ture. You can easily he among the eighteen
per cent who enjoy independence in old age if
you will prepare for it.
SAVE NOW
Now, in your productive years, if you will save
a regular amount each week or month, you can
attain independence by the time old age is reach
ed. It will surprise you how quickly you can
save $100.00 which soon means $1000.00 and
on up.
We invite you to start your savings account at
this home bank ivhich offers every feature of
safety and service you could expect. . :
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McCormick, S. C.
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