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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940 Find New Gauge for Child Nutrition « Legion Mothers to Combat Parachutists Chart and Graph System Is Applied to Problem in Latest Method. CLEVELAND.—Development of a radically new method of measuring child nutrition here is believed to have ended years of search by phy sicians for an accurate yardstick of nutrition. The method, outlined by Dr. Nor man C. Wetzel, associate professor of pediatrics at Western Reserve university, is based on the direct study of 2,023 Cleveland school chil dren and records of more than 4,000,000 children during the last 100 years. The system involves the use of a “grid” or chart into which any child can be fitted. Preliminary application of the chart indicated that 15 of every 100 local school children either are in adequately nourished or are in need of comprehensive medical examina tion. The record was believed com parable to that existing generally in the United States. System Easily Applied. Dr. Wetzel said that, unlike all previous systems, it has proved both accurate and easily applied. Re said that it offered an answer to the serious problem of selecting the city’s malnourished children, a problem which thwarted health of ficers seeking to prove the effects of Cleveland’s relief crisis on child health. He pointed out that most systems have been either too elaborate for practical use or have failed to al low for the extent to which a par ticular child can depart from aver age physical characteristics and still be nourished properly and in good health. He said the feature of the system is the “grid” by which the child’s “nutritional grade” is established. It was designed specifically to be applied by such workers as school nurses, requires very little time for each child, and necessitates only a minimum amount of calculation. The chart utilizes the child’s height and weight to determine the physical type with which he should be classed and then the child is fitted into the “grid” according to his physical and nutritional state, such as over-nourished, stocky, good, fair, borderline or poor. Plotted 2,000 Children. Dr. Wetzel, who has published a number of previous papers on child physical development, plotted near ly 2,000 children studied at Harvard university also and examined all important records of the sort in calibrating the graph. Students Set Up Fund For 1st Classmate Father DURHAM, N. H.—Eleven seniors taking the mechanical engineering course at the University of New Hampshire each have contributed $5 to a fund to be awarded to the “mechanical engineering graduate who first becomes the father of a living child.” Rules of the “1940 Baby Fluid” stipulate that the marriage must take place after graduation and the child must not be born before St. Patrick’s day, 1941. He pointed out that previously even the judgment of “the most ex perienced examiners” has been found to “vary conspicuously” in diagnosing malnutrition. “No single method nor any com bination of methods,” he said, ’’how ever elaborate or expensive, has been universally recognized as reli able or consistently trustworthy aid to the examiner in rendering judg ment upon the physical condition of the individual child or a group of children.” The new system, he explained, promised to identify those children whose health is sub-par because of inadequate nutrition or other causes so that they may receive thox-ough medical inspection. Dr. Wetzel headed a special group established to work out nutritional measurements at the suggestion of Dr. Henry J. Gerstenberger, profes sor of pediatrics, who is head of a committee of pediatricians serving Mayor Harold H. Burton’s advisory committee on nutrition. A million mothers, equipped with guns by July 1, to combat para chutists, is the aim of the National Legion of Mothers of America, says Mrs. E. Johnson, New York regional director of that body. She is shown second from the right. Mrs. Charlotte Young, a member, appears pointing a rifle. ✓^ThorntonW Burcfess • THE ENGLISH SPARROW MAKES A MISTAKE An Independent spirit is ■ thing to highly prize. But too much Independence is an evil in disguise. TF THERE is one thing above an- 1 other on which Bully the English Sparrow prides himself it is his in dependence. He says so. He is for ever talking about it. He says that the way to get on in this world is to look out for yourself and never mind anyone else; let them look out for themselves. Of course, that is one of the oldest and most mis- Kaaa.MM fa *r “Better keep away from there,” said a sharp voice. taken ideas in the world, but Bully hasn’t learned it yet in spite of the fact that what he calls independence is forever getting him into trouble. To begin with it had made an enemy for him of everybody who lived in the Old Orchard. There was not one who would so much as speak to him. But he didn’t care. Not he! He dearly loves to fight, does Bully, and so without any rea son whatever, except to show his in dependence and how fearless he is, he would attack his neighbors with out any warning and then laugh at them when they flew away. He called them cowards. He hasn’t to this day learned, and wouldn’t be lieve if he was told, that the cow ard, the real coward, is he who fights without cause. So he went about through the Old Orchard mak ing things very uncomfortable for all his neighbors until at last one day he made a mistake. It was this way: He had been wan dering through the Old Orchard with nothing to do but try to bully whom ever he met, when at last he came to the far corner, where Johnny and Polly Chuck live. In the very tree under which they have made their house he discovered a nest different from any nest which he had ever seen before. In his usual bold way he started over to look at it. “Better keep away from there 1” said a sharp voice. Bully looked up to see a trim-look ing gentleman with a white waist coat sitting on a branch of the old apple tree. He was larger than Bully, but not nearly as large as Welcome Robin or Goldie the Ori ole, both of whom he had whipped that very morning. At least he thought he had whipped them, though the truth is they simply had refused to fight. “I could whip that fellow with my wings tied,” thought Bully and went right on. “I told you you had better keep away from there!” said the trim- looking gentleman with the white waistcoat. “Who’ll make me?” demanded Bully. ’ “1 will!” retorted the other. “Let’s see you do it!” retorted Bully. The words were hardly out of his mouth when something hit him and knocked him sprawling. Before he could quite get his breath it seemed to him that the air was full of sharp bills. When he tried to strike back there was no one there. It was too much for Bully, and he turned tail English Town Loses Almost All Its Men KENT.—War has drained the village of Eynsford (Kent) of its male population. Virtually all its young men and 80 per cent of its bachelors have answered the call and Eynsford has become a col ony of women. The church has lost its choir, the weekly dances have been can celed for lack of partners, and the girls’ only recreation is making bandages and knitting for the army. and flew away. But as he flew he was knocked down again and lost several feathers. So it went for quite a distance back through the Old Orchard, Bully trying his very best to get away and this trim gen tleman with the white waistcoat knocking him down and pulling out feathers until Bully’s coat was a sight. It was with something like a sob of relief that at last he found himself free. “I guess I made a mistake,” said Bully to Mrs. Bully as he explained how he had got his clothes so badly torn. He was right. He had made a mistake. He had tried to bully Scrapper the Kingbird, who is a famous fighter. C T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. Minote Make-Ups il By V.V. F.D.R. Confers With Advisory Defense Commission President Roosevelt conferring with his newly created advisory defense commission on plans to gear in dustry for a $4,000,000,000 national defense program. Left to right, Ralph Budd (Burlington); Ed R. Stet- tinius Jr. (U. S. Steel); William S. Knudsen (General Motors); Miss Harriet Elliott, (Nor. Car. Univ.); Leon Henderson (Securities Com.); Chester C. Davis, (Fed. Res. Bd.); William H. McReynoIds, (Administrative As sist. to Pres. Roosevelt). Sidney Hillman, Pres. Amal. Clothing Workers, was not present. “TAON’T cut your cuticle” is a warning that many of us ig nore because rough edges are a temptation to use the manicure scis sors. Treat the cuticle with oil, soak your fingertips in soapy water and push back the manicure with a towel. The dead skin gradually comes off. Have patience! (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Device Permits Color Photo of Inside of Body WASHINGTON. — A device for making color pictures of the inside of the human body was announced by three Atlanta physicians. Dr. Edgar G. Ballenger, Dr. Har old P. McDonald and Dr. Reese C. Coleman reported in the Southern Surgeon, a medical journal, that they had adapted a miniature color camera to a cystoscope, one of the four types of telescopes used to ex plore inside the body, and had made photographs of the bladder’s inte rior. Surgeons here declared that the camera also might be adapted to instruments used to examine the in terior of the head, lungs and stom ach. With these instruments, it is pos sible to peer into the body cavities through a series of lenses arranged in a flexible tube which has a tiny electric light bulb on the end. It is also possible to perform delicate operations with long instruments that are thrust through the tube and manipulated with the aid of the light. STREAMLINED TENNESSEE SCHOOL HAS MANY ADVANTAGES DYERSBURG, TENN.—A far cry from the little red schoolhouse is the new $307,000 Dyersburg high school —complete with photo-electric cells, inter-room communications, hospi tal clinic and everything else educa tors and scientists have dreamed of for years. The 46-room building is construct ed in the latest style, with sound proof ceilings in classrooms, corri dors and the library, glass bricks on the stairways to give light, and a 750-seat auditorium, comparable with the best theaters anywhere in the nation’s major cities. To save students from running back and forth with notes from the main office a radio system has been provided. Through it the principal can speak to any classroom and can even tune in to see what lesson is being taught—or if the students are throwing books around or tearing up the streamlined desks. “Elec tric eyes” control lighting in the li brary. The departments for domestic science and manual training are fully equipped. There is a model apartment, complete in every re spect, seven individual kitchens with built-in sinks and stoves, and a clinic consisting of two rooms with standard hospital beds and medical equipment. The library will accom modate 300 pupils at a time and the adjoining music room is sound proofed. The school, three stories high, is constructed of reinforced concrete with a white brick exterior. It pro vides ample and comfortable ac commodations for 1,000 students. Even the interior painting carries out the ultra-modem note of the all-important streamlined architect ural style. Brackart’s Washington Digest Universal Military Training Plan Will Encounter Stiff Opposition Government Owned Monopoly to Control Trade in Surplus Products of North and South America Also Faces Serious Consideration by Congress and Public. Cool, Airy Outfit For Outdoor Play L ET’S play out in the summer sunshine, in an air-conditioned pinafore, with panties for propri ety and a bonnet to keep the sun out of our eyes! All three, in 8721, have frills in just the right places. All three are completely comfort able, and cute as dimpled elbow. William Bruckart By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.—It begins to ap pear that President Roosevelt again has put his head out as a target for political pot shots. Indeed, the re action thus far to his proposals for univer sal military training for all youths in the United States and his plan to create a gigantic government owned monopoly to buy all surplus prod ucts in North and South America bid fair to develop as much, or more, heat than did Mr. Roose velt’s program for packing the Supreme court of the United States two years ago. Tremendous opposition has sprung up to each of these plans, but the opposition comes from different quarters and for different reasons. As far as my survey has gone, of course, there are many duplications among opponents, but it must be said that the fundamental objection to each comes from a different base. Reasons for the two proposals, as stated by those who are working with Mr. Roosevelt on the plans, are to be found wholly in the fear that Hitler’s legions—armies and “fifth column” workers—will invade the Western hemisphere, sooner or later. Whether this fear is wholly genuine or partly political, I cannot say; yet that fear is being used to the utmost to force acceptance by congress and the general public of a two-part program to meet the ex pected invasion that is thus far just a mirage. The program, of course, comes from the wave of hysteria which has been allowed to develop, or has been openly promoted for political purposes. There is thus far no clear cut pro gram on universal service. Gen erally speaking, it provides for the training of youth of 18 for one year. It is not entirely a training on the drill field or in camp. It includes training in work “behind the front.” That is to say, men must be trained in airplane factories, in handling planes on the air fields, in gun fac tories, powder factories, bridge building, transportation and general automotive work and a thousand other lines of service, each of which must contribute active and complete collaboration when the boys with the guns and bombs are out in front of the enemy. Both Girls and Boys Might Be Included That is the general thought. There are those in the administration, how ever, who would go much further. They would make universal military training emb.ace both boys and girls. They would train the girls of 18 or 19 years to fit into a great war auxiliary—equipped to make uniforms and medical supplies and produce and pack the proper foods and that sort of thing. And this group within the President’s official family would have all of those boys and girls do this work and do it with almost no compensation, ex cept their own food and clothes In other words, if the extremes are attained in this direction, it would mean adoption practically of the methods employed by Hitler, Mus solini and Stalin in the training for military service. Of course, the congress will nev er agree to such a thing as that. There would be a public revolt against any such program, but I relate these details because they ac tually are being discussed by men in key positions in the President’s cabinet. I doubt also that congress can be driven into adoption of any military service program of a compulsory character. There are dangers in a world so upset as ours is of this day. No one can dispute that. On the other hand, congress has voted some six or seven billion dollars to be spent for defense preparation, and unless that is wasted, as some 20-odd billions have been wasted in recent years, there ought to be some worthwhile defense structure result from use of that money. The pres ent defense program, as it stands today, provides a regular army of 400,000 men—the largest peacetime army in our history. A navy of fight ing ships which will be the largest fleet in all history will be construct ed from these funds. Airplanes by the thousands are provided for in the general defense program. POT SHOTS President Roosevelt’s proposals for universal military training for all U. S. youths and the adminis tration’s plan to create a govern ment-owned monopoly to buy all surplus products in the Western hemisphere, are due for a real po litical storm, in the opinion of William Bruckart, Washington correspondent. He thinks they will develop as much “heat” as the Supreme court “packing” issue. From a political standpoint, the President has taken a long chance. That is more apparent as each day passes. United States Is Not Looking For Any ‘Military Trouble It is to be remembered, first, thai the United States and its peoples are not a military nation, not a na tion looking for trouble. In anoth er phase, it is to be remembered that there are some 2,000,000 fellows who got their feet stuck in French mud and who fought off French cooties as well as German attacks. They are scattered throughout the United States. I know of few of those fellows who ever want to see any more of war. They are saying so with great freedom. They have convinced their friends and neigh bors and the families. So, from a general philosophy of peace and the word-of-mouth expressions of experi ence, it strikes me that universal military service will not get very far now—unless the entire New Deal political machine can be used to run over the opposition as Hitler’s armies overran France. In another way, I think Mr. Roose velt made a big political mistake by sponsoring universal military service for use when the nation is not at war. It builds up a Republi can opposition and supplies that opposition with an added type of criticism to be used in the forth coming presidential campaign. And from what I hear, the Republicans are going to use it! Now, concerning the great monop oly for handling all surplus prod ucts of the Western hemisphere: The idea behind this gigantic car tel—government-owned and directed —the dream that is proposed to be made into a reality—is that there is as much danger of German infiltra tion through business as through armed forces. Moreover, it is held that with Hitler and his gang domi nating Europe, they will dictate trade. That is to say. Hitler’s Nazis not only will determine who will sell to those peoples under his steel boot, but they will decide the terms at which the products will be sold. The school of thought behind the monopoly plan contends that such a control of international markets will mean wrecking North and South American trade. Contention Holds That Hitler Will Influence All Trade Further, it is contended that small, or even great, corporations in North and South America will find themselves so thoroughly brow beaten- by the Hitler tactics that they will yield to whatever methods the Nazis desire to employ. All of which, they say, will mean that Nazi agents will be all over the place, speaking their pieces and pro moting their propaganda. So, comes then the plan for a giant corporation that would absorb all of the products of the Western world. This corporation, in the minds of the dreamers, would be so power ful that it could tell Hitler and his gang where to get off. The com pany on this side of the Atlantic could say to Hitler’s representatives, in effect, we will trade with you, but you will not take advantage of us; we are too big. If you don’t trade with us, you get nothing over here. All of which sounds swell. It sounds like hard boiled stuff. But it will not worh, and no really sane person believes it will work. In ad dition, it has all of the elements of danger that can be crowded into the meaning of the word “regimen tation.” Ihe pinafore has pockets for trim- •ning and for trophies. Take a look, mothers, at the pinafore spread out in the little sketch, and you’ll see how absurd- y easy it is to make, and that’s a good thing because this play trio s so attractive and practical that you’ll want your little girl to have :hree or four made just like this, ffingham, percale, gabardine and ihambray are sturdy, sunfast cot- ions for this. Step-by-step sew :hart included in pattern. Pattern No. 8721 is designed for sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 3 requires 3% yards of 35-inch ma terial for the ensemble; 4% yards ruffling. Send order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. Room 1324 211 W. Wacker Dr. Chicago Enclose 15 cents in coins for Pattern No.... Size Name Address INDIGESTION may affect the Heart Gas trapped in the stomach or gullet may act like a hair-trigger on the heart. At the first sign ct distress smart men and women depend on Bell-aus Tablets to set gas free. No laxative but made of the fastest- acting medicines known for acid indigestion. If the FIRST DOSE doesn’t prove Bell-ana better return bottle to us and receive DOUBLE Money Back. 26c. Game Animals Foresters estimate game ani mals totaling 1,600,000 are roam- ng the national forests. Deer are the most plentiful but all species except mountain sheep, moose, and grizzly bears have increased rapidly in numbers since 1924. The first reason it will not work is because there is not the chance of a snowball in the nether regions that all of the South American nations i will join. Unless it embraces ev erything, it will flop of its own weight. And if all of the South Americans do come, where is a guaranty that they will stay in? They have jumped the traces so many times that there is little faith to be placed in their agreements. Another reason is that if such a corporation attempts to take all of the surplus, there must be control of production, complete and final con trol of production of food and fiber and materials of every known kind. If there is no such control, the cor poration will find itself shortly own ing an accumulation of several years’ output, and more coming in because the world can and does pro duce more than it uses in a great many years. I might ask also for all persons to stand who think that production con trol could be enforced in Mexico or Brazil or the Argentine or most any other nation in the vast reaches of South or Central America. I might j suggest further that if the Hitler market, as envisioned by the dream boys, is going to be the only mar ket, he might be just smart enough to say: “Okey, boys, hold your stuff. I will get along without it!” And what a lovely situation that would be! These two items will furnish much lively congressional debate. Undiscov< ed Emerson said: “A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet oeen discovered!” .WANTED! WOMEN. r 38 to 52 yn. old, who are restless, moody, nervous, fear hot flashes, dizzy spells, to take Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. 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