Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-10-22

mere is only one absolute 1000.
That food has been furnished by
Nature-a substance brought into be-
ing by natural process and exist
ing for food purposes only. Isn't it
true that if Ponce de Leon, who
searched America for the fountain
of youth, had turned his attention to
his own back yard he would have
come as near to the great fountain
as any place that he could have
found.
Tint food is milk and isn't it true
that all diets today are being built
around bread and milk?
When mother insisted, as we be-
gan our farming together, that I
must provide quart of milk day
for every child in our family she,
of course, was asserting the fact that
milk is the fountain of youth and
that she knew it was one food which
would help us to get the one thing
most sought after by man-that of
course is good health.
Milk, the most sensitive, most deli
cate, most perishable and most east
ly contaminated of all our foods,
may be produced on a farm miles
away from the city's humdrum,
hauled in a can to the nearest sta
ton, picked up by truck or train,
delivered to a milk distributor in the
city, pasteurized, cooled, bottled, and
left at your friends back door the
next morning, cold and ready for
making a perfect job of supplying a
balanced diet for those growing
youngsters of his.
Just about all are being urged to
eat an apple day, an orange day
and prune a day. If you are one
of those and depend upon your milk
man delivering this truest of natures
foods to your door, if you'll let him
bring just quart for each member
of your family you'll be helping
those girls to become as good look
ing young women as it is possible
for them to be; helping your boys to
be the best students, and the best
baseball and football players in their
gang; helping the mother OF your
family to provide the meals that will
satisfy and yet be economical, and
you will be getting the best food
needed to keep you fit for your job.
Watch Your Posterity
Now that farm prices are good and
YOUR standard of living may be
somewhat raised as compared with
the standard you had to maintain
during the past few years, let me
urge all of you not to go in debt
during times of prosperity.
During two of the years of reti-
nancing by the Federal Land Banks,
I was one of those who visited doz-
ems, YES hundreds of farms ready to
be foreclosed due to debts and mort
cages placed on the farm in the late
twenties when money was easy to
borrow and farm produce sold for
profitable prices.
The age of machinery is making
possible shorter working hours on
the farm which means a new leisure
for recreation, neighborliness, social
life, community life, and genuine Gull
ture through music, beauty, litera-
ture and travel and along with these
come the opportunity for spending
foolish spending, the kind of spend
ing which, in great many cases,
results in borrowing on the home,
the farm or livestock in order to
meet the necessary operating ex-
penses and have a few dollars to
carry along when the children insist
that you go with them to town now
that tobacco, cotton, butterfat, or
wool is selling better than it has for
number of years.
Social Deterioration is Apparent
The whole world is being made
over and made over almost sudden
ly. There is problem before us;
a problem to see that our cultural,