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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941 Eleanor Roosevelt NUTRITION INFORMATION A little after five one afternoon, on our picnic grounds at Hyde Park, representatives of various organi sations in the county gathered to discuss with state representatives what had been accomplished in spreading nutrition / information. Miss Ruth Wheeler of Vassar col lege, who had been made chairman by the Cornell university grdtip, which is in charge of this work in the state, has been ill, and so the work is not completely organized. I felt a good deal was accom plished for they named a radio and publicity chairman and talked over methods of getting information to the people of our county. A home demonstration agent is being sent by the Emergency Home Demon stration committee to a group of counties, including Dutchess, and our county agent, Mr. Shepherd, called a meeting at which women were named to take charge of the arrangements for the agent’s work. This seems to me very impor tant, because she can help us to ac complish things which are now be ing asked of the women of the United States of America. First we may see that our schools are used as demonstration centers for child feeding. •'That means that ev ery available source of supply must be tapped for food to be used daily. • * * BACK IN WASHINGTON We reached Washington, D. C., from Hyde Park in time for lunch the next day and the visitors began to arrive at once. I clid have a little time to talk over one or two impor tant family things with the Presi dent before he was again engulfed in government affairs. At 4:40, I went to the airport with Jimmie and Rommie, who were starting for the West coast and wait ed to meet my daughter, who was coming in from Seattle, Wash., to attend Mayor LaGuardia’s meeting on civilian volunteer participation in defense. Anna was about twenty minutes late, which meant that a gentleman who was waiting to hand me a gift for the President sent by the mayor of an English city, had to wait for nearly twenty minutes. However, he was very kind about it. After wards, Dr. Frederick Douglas Pat terson, the president of Tuskegee institute, came to tell me how well the training of the flying cadets is progressing there, and that Tuske gee is being named as a recreation al area for Negro men on leave from Fort Benning. The crown princess of Norway and her party left to return to Massa chusetts on an evening train. Our only other dinner guests were Dr. Floyd Reeves of the American Youth commission, and Dr. James Header of Russell Sage college. * * • \ PRESIDENT’S MEMORY Four of us sat on the south portico of the White House one night having dinner; the President, our daughter, Anna; our cousin, Mon roe D. Robinson; and I. Mr. Rob inson had just returned from Peru and was telling the President of his impressions. He thinks Peru is one of the most interesting countries he has ever visited and cannot wait to return. Mr. Robinson has made some real friends and feels that they like him just as much as he likes them. In the midst of his talk, my hus band, in a very quiet way, said: “Have you ever happened to see an old book which has an illustration of a Peruvian Indian playing golf? They played golf in Peru years be fore they played it in Scotland. To all intents and purposes it was the same game except that instead of having to end up in a little tin cup, they had to hit a very small stick.’’ Monroe’s face was a study. He had hardly expected to be told something about Peru, especially something which he felt might even be news to some of his Peruvian friends! Then my husband went on to explain that in college, he had bought the books every year for the Fly Club and Pudding Club li braries. For the Fly club, he had concentrated on books of old travel, and among them had found this particular book, which he consid ered the most interesting and which furnished the basis of some of his knowledge of Peru. What wouldn’t I give to have as retentive a memory as the Presi dent has, and at the same time al ways to be able to reach back into my mind and pick out the par ticular thing applicable to the con versation of the moment. Hours afterwards I can sometimes re member something which would have been very valuable, if it had only come to me when I was actu ally talking. • • • LA GUARDIA GROUP The next day was given up en tirely to the meeting held in the White House by Mayor LaGuardia’s committee. Five members have been named from every corps area and represent all the different in terests in our national life. After lunch, the details were taken up and I hope that every member of the committee will go home knowing what the first steps in this program actually mean in the way of work. The future alone can tell how it will develop. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for August 10 / Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JAMES TEACHES CONSISTENT CHRISTIAN LIVING LESSON TEXT—James 1:17-22; 2:14-17; 4:13-17; 5:12. GOLDEN TEXT—Pure religion and un defiled before God and the Father is this. To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.—James 1:27. Spiritually minded but very prac tical was James, an outstanding leader in the Church (Gal. 2:9; Acts 15) and the brother of our Lord. His epistle speaks little about Christ, but it reflects more of His teachings than any of the other epistles. It parallels the sermon on the mount and in that way, as well as other ways, greatly resembles the teach ings of Jesus. It is a straightfor ward discussion of practical Chris tian living. There is so much inconsistency among Christians in their daily walk that nothing could be more needed than a careful study of the exhorta tions of James. I. Be Doers of the Word—Not Hearers Only (1:17-22). Knowing God’s will is important, but it amounts to little except to bring condemnation upon us, unless we do it. It is good to hear with swift apprehension, but there is no point in talking about what we have heard unless we practice it. God is the “giver of every good and perfect gift’’ (that’s literally and wonderfully true). He has not withheld one blessing, even to the giving of His Son, who was sent down from heaven to redeem us. His very goodness should prompt us to lay aside everything which dishonors His name. Wrath (v. 20), all uncleanness of speech or thought, pride (v. 21)—all these must go, and will go, as we permit the Word to take root (be “engrafted”) in our hearts and lives. Note that it is not enough to read the Word, or even to memorize it. It must take root and grow in our life. II. Believe—But Do Not Forget to Work (2:14-17). Saved by faith? Yes, we are, and in no other way; but the man who says he has faith in Christ will in evitably show the results of that faith in his life. James is not in any way contradict ing the teaching of Paul’s epistles re garding justification by faith, but is clearly stating what must be true, “that a faith which does not result in works, i. e., in a manifestation of a true Christian life, externally and visibly, is not the kind of faith commanded by God, and constantly revealed in the New Testament as the only instrument for the appro priation of the redemption that is in Jesus Christ our Lord. There is no such thing as real, genuine, vital, living, Christian faith, except it has its fruits in the works of faith” (Wil bur M. Smith). How that faith will show itself in the practical dealings of daily life is graphically presented in verses 15 and 16. Pious talk has always been very cheap, and it certainly accomplishes nothing. Real Chris tianity works. HI. Trust—But Do Not Boast of Tomorrow (4:13-17). There is a strange religious atti tude which talks about faith as though it were something of which to boast, which encourages people not only to believe, but actually to presume. There is a radical differ ence between faith and presump tion. All Christians are subject to the temptation of talking about being “strangers and pilgrims” (Heb. 11: 13) in this earth, and then planning their lives and their business as though everything will continue as it is through all eternity. It is right to plan, but every day we should plan subject to God’s will, always realizing that this may be the day when we shall be called into His presence to give an account of the deeds done in the flesh. Every hour of life should find us ready to meet the Lord, and with all in readiness, so that our going may leave behind a clear testimony of faith in God, and of consistent Christian living. IV. Be Honest—Without the Need of an Oath (5:12). A Christian should never need to give an oath in the ordinary affairs of daily life. His life should be so transparently honest and consistent ly aboveboard that his word (“yea, yea, or nay, nay”) will be “as good as his bond.” The Jews were accustomed to use formulas for oaths such as those mentioned in Matthew 5:33-37. They would have felt much at heme in our day when there is so much dishonesty that people are constant ly calling on God to witness to their truthfulness. Those who have least to do with Him and the worst rec ords for dishonesty are most prone to thus seek to bolster their word. What a striking contrast is the simple “yes” or “no” of the true Christian. Let us make our word always good, because it is the ex pression of the integrity of our lives. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) S usanna foster, the 16- year-old who sings C above high C, has appeared in two pic tures, is being co-starred for the first time in Paramount’s “Glamour Boy.” Jackie Cooper is her leading man, and thrilled her half to death recently when he came on the set with a huge box for her. It was a present, said he. The box contained a set-chair— you know, one of those special chairs with a canvas back-rest that stars always have, with their names painted across the back. Susanna took one look at it and burst into tears. Her name had been spelled wrong! Not until a sign-painter had fixed it did she really feel like a star. Joan Blondell and Binnie Barnes discovered a new way of reducing; in “Three Girls About Town” they had to drag Walter Soderling around— from one room to another, through hallways and down fire escapes. Each girl promptly lost five pounds, and it seemed likely that they’d be mere shadows by the time the picture was finished. Fur thermore, the loss of weight began to show on the film. So the director, Sam Bischoff, had a dummy head made, with a face like Soderling’s; now the girls are dummy-dragging. * It does seem as if the young peo ple of Hungary would be too much upset at the moment to think of forming a fan club. But one Joseph Hamor wrote to Virginia Weidler recently, from Budapest, to tell her a Virginia Weidler club had been formed. The members wear badges bearing her picture, and are obliged to learn English. Virginia’s hono rary president. * Corp. James Stewart showed his family around the Metro lot thfe oth er day; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart and their daughters, Mary and Virginia, visited the sets of “Honky-Tonk” and “Smilin’ Through” and had a chat with Clark Gable. * Laraine Day has been going on and on as Nurse Mary in the Kil dare series—the latest is “Dr. Kil dare’s Wedding Day”—but she has the most important role of her ca reer in “The New York Story,” with Edward G. Robinson, Edward Ar nold and Marsha Hnnt. RKO Radio received a nice com munication not long ago; it was a letter from Maj. Gen. E. S. Adams, adjutant general of the United States army, saying that “Para chute Battalion” is “the most satis factory army picture produced to date.” * i Remember “Ruggles of Red Gap,” in which * Charles Laughton recited the Gettys burg address so ef fectively that he’s been in demand to do it ever since? It’s been re-issued, which is good news for everybody who missed this hilari ous comedy the first time out, as well as for those who want to see it twice. % Charles In Warner Bros.’ Laughton “The Maltese Falcon” Humphrey Bogart plays his first detective role —sort of a relief ftom gangsters. So he can play love scenes. He has one with Mary Astor that was a change for both of them; gangsters can’t have true loves, under the producers’ code, and as for Mary, she said that the last time she’d been really kissed was in “The Prisoner of Zenda.” Speaking of the beautiful Miss As tor, she certainly stacked up laurels for herself in “The Great Lie,” playing opposite Bette Davis. If you want to realize what excellent char acter portrayals the girls gave, see the picture on a double bill with one of those phony B pictures that Holly wood turns out. ate Those who loathe the commercials mixed into their radio programs will hail with delight the announcement that the FFC has granted a permit to Muzak Inc., to build a station in New York that will carry abso lutely no advertising. * ODDS AND ENDS—Margaret Lind- say's signed to appear in four more of Columbia's Ellery Queen pictures . . . Victor McLaglen ended his personal ap pearance tour because "The Marines Are Ready" was ready . . . Jack Benny will make "The Widow Wouldn't Weep" for Warners when he returns from his vacation in September . . . Richard Travis, cast op posite Bette Davis in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," owes his big chance to her recommendation after seeing his test . . . Boh Hope's bad sunburn held up "Louisiana Purchase" . . . ZaSu Pitts will flutter her hands in RKO's "Week End for Three" . . . Ginger Rogers will play a sec retary again in "Self-Made Cinderella." Joan Blondell T OOKS like applique doesn’t it? •*—' But it’s just easy cross stitch cleverly used and set off by other quick stitchery. Put these varied motifs on many linens. Tranquil Mind Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.— Bishop Hall. FEET canbHt heat Give feet wings of coolness. Sprinkle Mexican Heat Powder in shoes. Relieves tiredness. Little cost. Lots of comfort. We Are One Of a truth, men are mystically united; a mystic bond of brother hood makes all men one.—Carlyle. Pattern 7004 contains a transfer pattern of 30 motifs ranging from 6»i by 5 inches to Hi by 1% inches; materials needed; il lustrations of stitches. To obtain this pat tern, send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Av«. New York Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pat tern No Name Address Over the Channel The English channel has been conquered by a score of swim mers, bicycled across by a man on a paddle machine and walked across by another on water skis, reports Collier’s. Once it was even raced across by two sporting gen tlemen, one in a casket and the other in a washtub. Use of Facts Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which Wtmirs LARGEST SELLER M\ AT tot W SUOSEPH ASPIRIN Wise Prayer A healthy mind in a healthy body is 4 thing to be prayed for. INDIGESTION what Doctors do for It Doctors know that gas trapped in the stomach or gullet may act like a hair-trigger on the heart. They set gas free with the fastest-acting medicines known — the fastest act like the medicines in Bell-ans Tablets. Try Bell-ans today. If the FIRST DOSE doesn’t prove Bell-ans better, return bottle to us and receive DOUBLE: money back. 25c. at all drug stores. Taking Note He listens to good purpose who takes note.—Dante. That’s Discontent Discontent is seldom satisfied with plenty. only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a phi losopher.—Buckie. ttyou at home, use Pjj^ginWHAy/^ AH'* J r *AST*' HEALTH How to Get It and How to Keep It If the reading of this article teaches you only this one lesson about your own body it may be worth more than miiUnna of dollars to you; (or of what use Is money wif health, or after you are dead? The lesson is this:—‘Keep system pore and you may have health and strength to gain and enjoy happiness, success and length of years/* But you may ask:— How Can I Keep My System Fare? That is not a hard question to an- causes bilious indigestion, 00 com mon In hot climates. Nature’s Danger Signals When the bile becomes stagnant in your gall-bladder and is dammed back into your liver instead of flow ing freely into your bowels, you, sooner or later, begin to feel some of the following symptoms:—Your breath may become unpleasant (hal itosis), your tongue coated, a bad taste in your mouth, your coffee (and tobacco) lose their natural flavor, your food does not agree with you; you may have heart bum, gas, or fluttering around the heart, dizziness and of kee; How Does the Liver Purify? Physicians tell us that the liver destroys, or renders harm less, poisons such as uric acid and other toxic waste matter mat is normally formed in the tissues, and also prevents the formation of poisons in the NOSE MOUTH GALL-DUCT, , STOMACH CALL’ BLADDER, UVEA meals, is stored up in the gall bladder, but after each meal is S tired out into the intestines. te bile is purgative and in directly antiseptic or prophy lactic. In health it is your bile that makes your bowels act regularly and freely every day, —it is Nature’s Purgative. It Is your bile that keeps your bowels pure, clean and free from excessive fermentation (gas) and putrefaction. Re member that putrefactive germs do not thrive where there is fresh bile and there can therefore be no fermenta tion to cause gas, nor putre faction to produce poisons, or toxines. Also, as bile is Nature’s purgative, there can be no constipa tion if the bile is flowing naturally and freely from the gall-bladder into the bowels after each meal. But when the bile becomes stag nant your bowels stop acting regu larly and the contents become a breeding bed for the germs of fer mentation (gas) and putrefaction. These poisons, (called toxines), are gradually absorbed into your blood and if the quantity be more than the liver can destroy, may circulate all over your body, poisoning, irritating or inflaming your brain and nerves, your muscles and Joints, your heart, skin, kidneys, and every vital organ of your body. Your doctor calls this “Intestinal toxaemia,” and tells you that your system is “toxic,” or, if mild, “bilious.” Functions of Gall-Bladder In 24 hours your liver manufac tures about 3 to 4 teacupsful of bile, which flows through millions of min ute canals, or ducts, uniting to make a large tube which empties into the gall-bladder, as creeks and rivulets unite to form a river that flows into a lake. Your gall-bladder Is a hollow muscle that serves the double pur pose of a reservoir and a pump. Its functions are similar to those of the urinary bladder. About three hours after eating, when the food is pass ing from the stomach into the intes tines, your gall-bladder should begin its contractions, thus pumping the bile into the small intestine where it is mixed with your food. Bile is also an essential digestive fluid, aiding in the digestion and absorption of fats and oils. Its absence inevitably ASCENDING COLON ' APPENDIX- SMALL intestine transverse COLON SMALL INTESTINE DESCENDING COLON RECTUM Study the above drawing for a few minutes. Notice particularly how the bile flows from the liver Into and out of the gall-bladder and thence Into the small Intestine which It enters at a point Just below the stomach. A cut-off valve prevents the return of the bile from the intestine Into the gall-bladder. The gall-bladder Is the pump for the bile, acting like the bulb of an atomizer. or blind spell; you may be troubled with belching or frequent passages of gas from the bowels; the gas “bal loons” your bowels and presses so hard on the kidneys that it gives you pain in the small of your back over your kidneys, making you think you have kidney trouble; at night the gas in your bowels presses upon your bladder making you get up frequent ly, thus breaking into your sleep. In the morning you are tired in stead of refreshed. Gradually your health Is injured. Your complexion becomes sallow or bilious; dark rings may appear under your eyes, you may feel lazy, dull and irritable or blue and melancholic. You may have frequent colds (catarrh) or dull headache; your bowels stop their free, full and natural action; you have constipation, gas, putrefaction and self-poisoning or “Intestinal tox aemia,” as the doctors call it. This group of symptoms is referred to. in the South, as “Torpid Liver,” but apparently a better expression might be Torpid Bile Flow. NOTE:—If the above symptoms are very mild, they are called bilious; If severe, "toxic." Some may be oC nervous reflex origin. How to Make the Bile Flow But when the bile stops flowing freely, how can we help Nature start it again? The answer is: Take Calo- tabs at bedtime and drink water freely the next day.* This formula is designed to increase the force and frequency of contraction of the gall bladder and the upper intestine (duodenum), thus promoting the ex pulsion of bile from the gall-bladder and bile ducts into the small intes tine and thence through and out of the bowels. When you take Calo- tabs you know 1 that you have taken what the doctors call a cholagogue or bile expelling medicine. It cleans you out thoroughly. Every inch of your twenty-five foot canal. Including your stomach, small intestine and large intestine or colon is thoroughly cleared and washed dean and pure, and you can see and feel the bue in the stools. (Bile causes a slight burn ing sensation and a bright yellow or greenish yellow color.) Next morn ing your system feels purified and refreshed and you are feeling fine, with a hearty appetite for breakfast. Eat what you wish and go about your work, or pleasure. •NOTE—If the stagnation of blla Is caused by the pressure of a tumor upon the gall duct, or by a/ permanently Impacted gaU- stone, only a surgical operation can remove the cause. But the common cause of stagnation of bile Is the accumulation of catar rhal mucus in the gall-bladder or gall-duct This mucus may be expelled by Cal o tabs. The mucus Is caused by engorgement of the liver, usually the result of over- indulgence in highly seasoned foods, or stimulating drinks. Calotabs help to relieve this ea*> gorgement. —— ■ ■ ■ 4 Formula and Action of Calotabs The formula of Calotabs Is designed to make calomel taking a pleasure, to obviate the necessity of following it with a dose of Epsom Salts, and thus make it just as pleasant and safe as any other purga tive. Calotabs are composed of a thoroughly purified and re-, fined calomel combined with assistants and correctives. The calomel acts as a “cholagogue” or bfle-expeller; is diuretic to toe Kidneys; and antiseptic (prophy- latic) to toe bowels, discouraj ' toe growth of putrefactive bact and gas formation. The assistants act like salts, washing the calomel out of toe system, preventing its accumulation and any danger of salivation. The correctives settle toe stomach and bowels, preventing nausea, sickening and griping ef fects. Calotabs (and water) there fore, give you toe combined effects of calomel and salts without toe nausea, sickening and griping effects. When You Need Calotabs Unwholesome foods and drinks, or over-indulgence in good foods and beverages, especially meats, alcohol, coffee, tea and tobacco, cause en gorgement of toe liver with stagna tion of bile, and Intestinal toxaemia. Colds with their toxines, bring about a similar toxic condition. Hot sum mer weather, dverwork, mental strain, irregular habits, and lack of sleep tend to make toe system toxic. Whenever you need a thorough cleansing of toe food canal, as in colds, constipation, bilious indiges tion, sick headache, engorgement of the liver and its allied organs, the stomach and kidneys, you will And Calotabs a most dependable and ef fective eliminant. Millions of Calo tabs have been used annually for twenty years. You need have no fear of using them as directed. Calotabs are quite economical— only 25 cents jor the family package; 10 cents for toe trial package, at your druggist’s. (Advertisement.)