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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C.
What Well-Dressed Woman Farmer Will Wear
New uniform of the Women’s Land army and the Victory Farm volun
teers is modelled by Loretta Lepseka, U. of Wisconsin coed. During the
summer she helps her father operate their 200-acre farm.
This year more than 50,000 women and girls will be needed in Wis
consin for harvesting and other seasonal work. Such jobs as weeding
carrots, detasseling corn, picking cherries and strawberries require
large numbers of workers for relatively short periods. Many other
states have similar needs for emergency help.
Despite Strain of War, Health
Of Nation Is Remarkably Good
Surgeon General Reports
On Achievements, Outlines
Plan for More Medical Care
T'\ ESPITE the strains of three
years of wartime living and
working, and an increasing short
age of physicians, psychiatrists,
nurses and hospital facilities, the
physical and mental health of
America’s civilians shows no indi
cation of a serious decline, the Of
fice of War Information reports, on
the basis of data furnished by the
Public Health service, the War Man
power commission, the bureau of
the census and the war and navy
departments.
Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon gen
eral cf the Public Health service,
sums up the current status of civ
ilian health in the United States as
follows:
“At the present time there are no
indications that the war has had se
rious effects upon the health of the
nation. We do know, hbwever, that
our lines against disease are light
ly held. Shortages of health and
medical manpower, together with
shifting of the population, leaves
us vulnerable to a breakthrough
on many fronts.
A survey of the nation’s health pic
ture disclosed the following favor
able facts:
The estimated national rate of
deaths from all causes in 1944 was
10.6 per 1,000 population as com
pared with 10.9 in 1943. Infant mor
tality also continued downward, at
39.2 per 1,000 live births, compared
with 40.1 in 1943. Stillbirths dropped
a few points too. Life expectancy
of infants is now about 65 years.
The campaign against venereal
disease has become increasingly ef
fective. During the last 18 months,
penicillin has cured 96 per cent of
the gonorrhea cases in which it was
used. Some cases of infectious
syphillis yielded to penicillin also.
Fear that returning veterans
from the Pacific islands would
bring back new diseases has large
ly been dispelled. Such ailments as
filariasis constitute no real threat to
civilian health, army and navy
doctors declare.
The'Debit Side.
On the debit side of the nation’s
health balance sheet are these facts:
First, an increasingly serious short
age of doctors, dentists, psychi
atrists and nurses. This situation
will probably not be relieved until
both Germany and Japan have been
defeated.
Lack of psychiatrists is espe
cially serious, in view of the num
ber of veterans who will be suffer
ing from the shock of war expe
riences in the years to come. Many
civilians too have become at least
temporarily deranged by strain and
worry. It has long been known that
approximately two-thirds of the ill
ness encountered in general medi
cal practice is essentially neuro-
psychiatric in origin, and that half
of the patients in hospitals at any
one time are there because of seri
ous mental disorders. Indeed, it
may be safely predicted that in any
group of 15-year-olds, 1 out of every
22 will some day be committed to
a mental institution.
Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis)
and meningococcus meningitis
(cerebro-spinal fever) reached epi
demic proportions in the United
States during 1944. The poliomyeli
tis epidemic in 1944 was the
largest in the United States since
1916. There was a total of 19,268
reported cases. A total of 16,059
cases of meningococcus meningitis
occurred in 1944, as compared with
19,974 cases in 1943, which was the
highest recorded figure.
Reports from a group of selected
industries indicate increased ab
sences of workers due to sickness.
Respiratory diseases accounted for
most of the absenteeism. The male
frequency rate of illness (138.1 per
1,000 workers for 1943) was the
highest recorded annual rate for the
last 10 years. The female rate of
illness (204.1 per 1,000) was like
wise the highest recorded rate since
1934.
Lack of adequate sanitary instal
lations continues in many com
munities. Sanitation in many rural
parts of the country remains at a
low level. About 40 per cent of the
counties in the United States still
lack full-time local public health
service.
Postwar Health Plans.
Dr. Parran has advocated a post
war program to insure adequate
health services for every person
in the United States. Important fea
tures of the program follow:
(1) Financing costs of medical
care through taxation, health insur
ance, or both.
(2) Construction and equitable dis
tribution of hospitals and health
centers in adequate numbers
throughout the country.
(3) Expansion of professional
education to ensure an adequate
supply of health and medical per
sonnel.
(4) Providing full-time health de
partments throughout the country,
plus addition of such services as
public health nursing, children’s
dentistry, mental hygiene and nutri
tion.
(5) Continued support of public
and private research in the medical
sciences.
(6) Improvement of present defi
ciencies in the nation’s sanitary
facilities through construction of
public water supplies, sewerage sys
tems and milk pasteurization plants.
In the first 10 years after the war
there will be a need i. " 166,000 new
beds in general hospitals, 191,000
beds for mental hospitals and 60,000
beds for tuberculosis institutions, Dr.
Parran believes. These would entail
an expenditure of almost $2,000,000,-
By NANCY PEPPER
CAMPUS CHEESECAKE
Are you putting your best foot for
ward with the new footwear fads?
Who wants to dance with the dolly
with the hole in her stocking, any
way?
Black Magic—For lucky gals who
still have a shoe coupon to squan
der, how’s about those new black
suede loafers? They're definitely a
fad for the feet—much more excit
ing than the familiar brown leath
ers. Also, we might add, much more
perishable!
High Finance—You used to be
content to stick silver pennies in
your loafers. Noth
ing will do now
but dimes! Infla
tion is what we
call it.
Midriff Socks —
Here’s what the
able grables are
doing with their
old three-quarter
length socks. They
cut the tops off a
little above the ankles, edge them
in upholstery fringe and wear them
around the calf of the leg. Sort of
two-piece effect. Kinda weird, too.
Class Conscious — The newest
place to embroider your graduating
year numbers is on your white
socks.
Beils for Belles — Tie little tinkle
bells around your ankles. That’s one
way of attracting attention between
classes.
JABBERWOCKY AND JIVE
We’re just starting to get reports
about your new expressive expres
sions and your latest slanguage in
ventions. Try these out between
classes and see where they’ll get
you.
Don’t Moon, Goon—Stop dreaming
or hurry up.
Hashing—gossiping. •
Fugitive from a faucet—a drip.
Junior Mess—A drippy gaL
Giraffing—Necking.
Very Varga—Good figure (applied
to girls with drape shapes).
Will you swing low in my chariot?
—Will you dance with me?
Questions and Answers.
"Are you kidding?”
“No, I’m Nancy,” (or whatever
your name happens to be.)
*
“Feel like a coke?”
“Yes, thanks.”
"Well, you don’t look like one.”
TRIXIE TEEN S^YS
Do you act as if your house were on fire
when your date arrives? Before he barely
gets a loot over the threshold do you say,
“Where are we going tonight?” “There’s
a good show at the Bijou.” Do you rush
him past your parents as if either he or
they hud the measles? Relax, chum, and
take it easy. It's for him to suggest going
out—not you. Dust off that old southern
hospitality and you'll find that plenty of
good times begin—at home.
Minutd Malm- lljas
By GABRIELLB
Be sleek and trim on your job, but
be elegant for your playtime hours
and sparkle for all you are worth!
There’s an efficient makeup for day
and an elegant for night!
Ledger Syndicate.—WNU Features.
000. There will be a particularly
urgent need in rural areas for the
construction of small, well-equipped
hospitals and health centers.
With modern transportation, pa
tients from rural hospitals could
be sent when necessary to larger
district hospitals, fully equipped to
render all kinds of service. The
base hospitals, in turn, would circu
late new medical knowledge and
skills to every institution it serves.
In the base hospital would be medi
cal and nursing schools, specialists
in all branches of medicine, and
research projects designed to find
new and better methods of diagnosis
and treatment.
Public health nursing, clinics for
infants and expectant mothers, diag
nosis and treatment of venereal dis
ease patients would be made fully
available throughout the country. In
addition, bedside nursing — par
ticularly in rural areas — tubercu
losis programs, dental clinics for
children, nutrition services and men
tal hygiene programs should be in
cluded, Dr. Parran said.
Every state should provide indus
trial hygiene service, and within
states each major industrial area
should have a regional industrial
hygiene unit, instead of relying, as
at present, on industrial hygiene
programs that operate for the most
part on federal funds and with in
adequate staff.
Increased government funds for
research would be made available
to scientific institutions as part of
the postwar national health pro
gram. Future progress in national
health, Dr. Parran pointed out, de
pends heavily upon the discovery
of better methods to cure diseases
such as cancer, heart disease and
arthritis. A preventive for the com
mon cold would save more than 30,-
000,000 days now lost annually by
the nation’s industrial workers,
officials said.
Pretty Gift Layette
For the New Baby
Toast to Good Health . . . Raw Vegetables!
(See Recipes Below)
Vitamins for Health
So These Are South Sea Island f Crickets f !
When Mother Earth is bountiful in
her output, there’s no gdod reason
for stinting on mineral and vitamin-
rich protective foods.
This is the time to plan meals main
ly of vegetables, first, from neces
sity because ra
tioned foods are
high in point val
ue and scarce;
and secondly, be
cause we should
try to build ujffour
health as much'
as possible to reap personal and
community benefits.
Vitamin A.
No one should lack for this famil
iar vitamin that comes at the be
ginning of the alphabet because it is
easily obtained in dairy foods, car
rots, greens, liver, butter, apricots,
prunes and tomatoes. It is especial
ly essential for growth and the main
tenance of normal resistance to in
fection.
Vitamin Bl.
If the children or adult members
of the family show signs of losing
their appetite, check into these
sources for vitamin Bl or thiamin:
dried beans and peas, lean pork,
whole grain cereals, yeast, milk,
cauliflower, chicken, peanuts and
egg yolk. In addition to being nec
essary to maintain appetite, this vi
tamin aids in growth and helps
maintain the normal function of the
digestive organs and nervous sys
tem.
Vitamin C.
One of our basic nutrition rules
definitely states that we should eat
at least one citrus fruit a day. We
need this fruit for assuring enough
vitamin C for well-nourished gums
and teeth as well as to maintain
normal bone structure, the normal
strength of capillary walls and the
prevention of scurvy. You’ll find it
plentiful in oranges, lemons, grape
fruit, pineapples, strawberries, to
matoes, raw cabbage and greens,
liver, green pepper and peas.
Vitamin D.
Vitamin D has to do exclusively
with bone and teeth building—sound
bones, strong
teeth and the pre
vention of rick
ets. Vitamin D is
as hard to find as
vitamin A is easy.
Its sources are
few: fish liver
oils (cod, hali
but), fortified milk and erf m, egg
yolks and liver. If your oses of
these foods are small, then get a
big dose of sunshine—that’s vitamin
D, too.
Vitamin G.
This vitamin, also called ribofla
vin, is found in many of the same
Fearsome giant insects sent back from a Pacific island by Lt. Col.
John Gardiner, a medical officer, fascinate Mildred Abbe, zoology
student at Hunter college, N. Y. C. The ugly creatures have tough
brown skins and powerful muscle systems. The larger one is 7 inches
long. These “crickets” or whatever they are (they have not yet been
classified accurately) are “very common” on the island where he is
stationed, Colonel Gardiner reports.
Tavern Checks Hats
For Owners at War
CHICAGO. — In a north side
tavern 328 hats are waiting for
their owners to come home from
war.
The for-the-duration hat check
ing began early in 1942 when Sgt.
Reid Ratcliffe, now in France,
left his three brothers to manage
the Ranger Inn. He hung up his
hat and put on his G.I. headgear.
TELEFACT
FAMILY INCOME
LESS THAN *1.000
H.000 TO *1.999
*2.000 TO *2.999
*3.000 OK MORE
1 &&«««, sw
l 12.2 DAYS PER PERSON
7.5 DAYS PER PERSON
6.^ DAYS PER PERSON
| 6 7 DAYS PER PERSON
INCOME AND
DISABLING
ILLNESS, U.S.
Rocky Trail in Burma
Puts Shoes on the Dogs
MYITKYINA, BURMA.—A num
ber of jungle-trained dogs of the K-9
corps with the United States Mars
Task force were evacuated by air
because the rocky mountain trails
on the force’s long 200-mile march
into northern Burma cut their feet.
Sgt. Clifton Holland of Ross, Tex
as, fitted the remaining dogs with
soft leather shoes which the K-Nin-
ers wear dutifully but unenthusi
astically.
Lynn Says:
Handy Hints: To keep food warm
when serving and eating, make
certain both serving dishes and
plates are as hot as possible.
Place a teaspoon of salt in wa
ter in which eggs are cooked. This
helps prevent shells from crack
ing.
Serve asparagus as a main dish
by topping with cream sauce and
hard-cooked eggs, sliced and
dusted with paprika.
Use only slow ovens (225-250 de
grees) for baking fruit whips.
Young spring'rhubarb does not
have to be peeled when baking
for pies, canning or making
sauces and puddings.
For a delicious pudding topping,
mix two tablespoons of orange
marmalade into one cup whipped
cream.
To save time in making fruity
desserts, add sugar or honey to
fruit or berries (strawberries,
raspberries, rhubarb, etc.) ar.d
place in a shallow baking dish.
In place of pie crust or biscuit
topping use a crumbling of flour,
sugar, a little butter and cin
namon.
Lynn Chambers’
Point-Saving Menu
Vegetable Platter:
Com au Gratin
Spinach Nests with Poached Eggs
Shredded Beets Lima Beans
Hot Biscuits with Honey
♦Ambrosia Salad
Raisin Drop Cookies Beverage
•Recipe given.
A PRETTY and easy-to-make
layette for the family favor
ite. This six piece set for a new
baby can be for a little girl or
boy—and will make a wonderful
gift. Use dainty lace for trimming
and embroider flowers on the
. dress and bib.
| To obtain complete patterns for the Six
i Piece Layette (dress, petticoat, sacque
I and bonnet, dressing gown and bib) (Pat
tern No. 5859) send 16 cents in coin, your
; name, address and the pattern number.
SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK
530 South Wells St. Chicago.
Enclose 16 cents for Pattern.
No
Name
Address-
foods as vitamin Bl. In addition
to the part it plays in normal nu
trition, it is also essential to growth,
cell respiration, and good nervous
health.
Vitamin P-P.
Most of us are more familiar with
nicotinic acid, which is just another
name for this vitamin. You’ll get
your share if you eat lean meats
and liver, salmon, wheat germ,
yeast, tomatoes, greens and but
termilk. It’s responsible for good,
clear healthy skin and the normal
functioning of the gastro-intestinal
tract.
Now, how do we go about getting
all these vitamins into our diet?
We will have to include foods from
each of the groups mentioned daily.
This is especially important with the
B and C vitamins because they
cannot be stored in the body as is
vitamin A.
The following recipes will give you
good health as well as good eating.
If vegetables are eaten raw, they
are more valuable:
Tomato Stuffed Salad.
(Serves 4)
4 medium-sized tomatoes
3 ounces cream cheese
2 tablespoons green onion, chopped
H cup green peppers, chopped
Vi medium-sized cucumber, chopped
3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
V4 cup salad dressing
Peel tomatoes. Cut slices from
top and scoop out centers. Sprinkle
with salt; invert to chill. Blend
cream cheese with enough cream to
soften. Line tomato cups with this
mixture. Combine remaining ingre
dients; fill tomato cups. Chill thor
oughly. Serve with additional salad
dressing in lettuce cups.
Jellied Perfection Salad.
(Serves 6)
1 tablespoon unflavored gelatin
*4 cup cold water
1)4 cups hot water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup diced cucumber
Vi cup sliced green onions
Vi cup sliced radishes
1 cup chopped celery
Soften gelatin in cold water. Dis
solve in hot wa
ter. Add lemon
juice, vinegar and
salt. Chill until
partially set; add
remaining ingre
dients. Chill until
firm. Serve on
crisp lettuce with
mayonhaise.
Cabbage Pepper Slaw.
(Serves 6)
4 cups finely shredded cabbage
Vi cup chopped green pepper
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon white pepper
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon celery seed
2 tablespoons tarragon vinegar
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Vi cup salad dressing
Combine vegetables, salt, pepper,
sugar and celery seed. Combine
vinegar, mustard and salad dress
ing. Add to vegetables and mix
thoroughly.
•Ambrosia Salad.
(Serves 4 to 6)
2 bananas, sliced
44 cup diced orange
Vi cup seedless grapes
Vi cup chopped dates
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Vi cup moist coconut, grated
Combine fruits; sprinkle with
lemon juice; chill. Add creamy
mayonnaise dressing which has been
blended with sour cream. Serve on
crisp lettuce and garnish with coco
nut.
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SNAPPY FACTS
WPB ha* plan* undar way for
expansion of facilitias fa pro
duce 1,500,000 more truck
and bus tires every three
months for military and es
sential civilian use. Total
production by next Decem
ber is expected to reach a
rate of 6,700,000 a quarter.
There are 1,450,000 rubber-
tired tractors on American
farms, many of which are
now obsolete. It has been
estimated that thoro will bo
mora than 3,000,000 rubber-
tired tractors aa farms with
in tan yaars after the war.
The first known whooled vehicles
were used In Babylonia about
3000 B.C
Iintm m peace
BFGoodrich
F, Rsr in rubber
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