Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

WASHINGTON. Mar 3-Govern-
or Faul Y. MyNutt's office of de-
Tense health and welfare services.
known in Washington by those
aeople who kncW of it at all as
CIHWS Will be six months old
come March 3 and this great oc-
gasion may afford fittin' opportuh-
itv to see what it has done and
what IS au about If it hasn't
madr its impact on your life. where
have yoa been Anyway, you're 60
rs to hear more of tn" outfit from
new on, 50 set ODHWS conscious.
There have been some dirty
suspicious that OnHWS was i'll
Simc Ways another office Cf
civilian defense. duplicating
somr of the old OCD boon
doggling. There haCe also been
rumorS that in the OCD re-
crganiY.tion. lot of this
hoondogglinC would be dumped
in the lap of ODHWS and car
rird on from there. Neither of
these accusations is quite cor
reCt
CDHWS like OCD is supposed to
20 a morale building organization
" more accurately to have morale
building rs Cne of its principal
.uncticnS ODHWS considers itself
= purely a Co-ordinating organiZ-
atiCn. Z professional organization
: yOu please, working with pro-
zss~!0ual morale builders to whom
: Ict' the Job Cf working with the
.iVili9n population. OCD aims its
s"o-y5us right 2. ,he civilian pop
Aat!on
PLEASE EXPLAIN
CCD is cleaning house cf a lot
Of ~, volunteer participation stuff
bl;t ir 50 doing is not dumping it
on CCHWS. It has been proposed
- move John B kclly'S physical
ftre>s activities frcm OCD to OD-
EWS. Kelly has been asked to
f.:s-:rv 1hp existence of his rro-
.ram but the last word was that
ne hadn't 50 far delivered the JUS
.ificat.Cl arguments CMayris Chan
e. We, IN his organizationl, so the
matter is still pending. The other
frills Ct CCD will apparently not
be transferred to anyone, but just
quietly pu. out of their misery.
Governor McNutt is still boss of
the shop which operates on bud
get of 55G9C0) from presidential
funds
~. - .lo +C,, ovecutive work
is dcnc bY a couple of others, Char
Les p. Taft in charge of health and
welfare. NJ L. Wilson in charge OF
nutrition. Wilson is also director
+ the extension service in the de-
asa"tmcnt of agriculture. so the act
.xe WC.k is done by Dr. Helen
Mitchell a professional nutritionist
uhc is odt 20 promote the idea
-zat the country can and must eat
its way to victory. Forty per cent
f tho country, she says. doesn't
cat ri-ht and is therefore suffer-
ing from hidden hungea"
The nutrition division of ODHWS
hasn't a large staff and it hasn't
4 large budget. Its job is largely to
coordinate the work of all the
organizatiCls interested in nutri-
..on and spread the word of what
cd nutrition amounts to through
j educational campaigns and telling
i 3thcr communities what any cne
community has done to further the
aass Of right eating.
II TO STATES
7 ~ word is thcoreticdlly spread
5lou2h state nutrition councils.
J., ,D to the state councils to
Sass tho U-gd on to the local COM
munIt!o5 in the state, set up county
" cItY nutrition councils and in
hIs manner get everyone WiSed up
n the food stamp plan, schoo!
.ipcECs. adult educatiCl in nutri-
on and food selection, and so en-.
~ the lowest organization
IovcI this should mean that
someone in every Onmunity
is running nutrition course
to tell the good woman who
does the marketing and bends
over the stove for your family
how to buy and plan meals
50 you'll get the most good out
OF them. IF there is a nutrition
Program under way in your
c,nmunity. this plan is work
ing. If not, yOu are supposed
to start cor planning to the
authorities.
! Some of the local community
! .ro2Iams are worth writing about
/ n S3rinefio!d, Mass. the news
EaEcr5 tock up this nutrition idea
1nd puc i over They started a
ambs.an for hot meals foI the
.2ut sh.t. in the munitions Plants,
in tie result that Red Cross
au'ccn &as opened up Tor the owl