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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Op+imum Diet
Definition
PuzzIer to All
Us a Lille More Than
Adequate Meal
BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING

BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING
7 Asst WINTER DR.. A. J. Carl
- son, professor OF physiology
at the University Of Chicago.
startled an audience Of medical
students and scientists by say
ing. in the midst of all the dis
cussion about improving the ma
tional nutrition:
Nobody on earth knows what
an optimum diet Is"
Startling. because everybody
has been talking as IL IL were
generally agreed exactly what
the optimum human diet is.
What is the definition OF an
optimum diet? Well, IT Is a
little more than an adequate
diet. The medical dictionary de-
fines optimum thus:
1.-THE temperature or other
conditions ut which vital pro-
cesses are carried on with the
greatest activity"
So an optimum diet Is the diet
with which the vital processes
are carried on with the greatest
activity.
An adequate diet maintains
health.
Thus you can keep healthy
rats UP to 80 generations in
more than average activity and
fertility on a diet which con-
sists OF one-sixth whole dried
milk and five-sixths Of ground
whole wheat.
INCREASE the proportion OF
i dried milk to onesfhird and
there is a marked improvement
in nutrition and positive health.
Growth is more rapid and
efficient, death rates are lower,
the period of the prime Of life
Is increased and fertility Is
greater. :.
But as you keep adding food
elements a place il reached
where obesity and sluggishness
appears, initiative and activity
decrease.
Somewhere in between Is the
theoretical "optimum diet"
We know in a general way
what it is, but the scientific
mind likes exact definition in
mathematical terms and that we
cannot give for the optimum
diet.
A group OF San Francisco
dentists whom we quoted re-
Gently, Drs. Collins, Jensen and
Beck, in the course Of their ex-
perimental work sent oft a
QUESTIONABLE to a number OF
tnutritionists, psychologists and
clinicians trying TO find out
what the definitions and speci-
fications OF an optinum diet are.
A LARGE number refused TO
"A attempt a definition, saying
that on account Of the incorn-
pleteness of the present knowl-
edge of nutritional requirements
a specific answer could not be
written.
One research worker said:
eff human beings were - uni
form In familial and inheritance
characters As colony Of rats,
an optimum diet could be re-
iiably appraised. But they are
not.
THE optimum diet Of the Es-
kimo IL quite unlike that Of the
Negro In the bayous Of Louisi-
ana.
Zone may And . myriad Of
varying tastes and digestive ca
pacities which affect the utiliza-
ton Of diet"
In GENERAL. as I say, we
Il know that a human being
must have at least so grams OF
protein daily, from 1000 10 5000
calories depending on his &C.
tivity, and vitamins and miner
ais.
So much milk, eggs. meat.
grains, cereals. fruits and vege-
tables are the basic products
which contain these chemical
elements.
But how much OF the caloric
intake should be supplied by
carbohydrate, or fat. or pro-
TEN. we do not know.
Can you safely reduce the
carbohydrate intake for the
sake of the teeth?
The exact answer Is unknown.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
You Don't Spot EN-, You Pray for EN-
BY MERvYN lie ROY
Motion Picture Director

A BOUT 300 years ago man by the name OF
IA Gilileo evolved some theories about the
stars which upset all the pre-conceived notions
OF the day. His friends warned him to retract
his statements lest his life be dangered, and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

For the Inside News" Of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column In the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

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1900 Misses and Women's Sweaters, Blousss
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Walter WincheU

During Mr.. WincheIPs absence his column
will be conducted by guest coiumnists.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12

"f
and down the
highways a r e
huge still mills
gigantic aircraft
factories, Goa!
a n d bauxite
mines, t e x t il e
mills, in which
machines a n d
men work around
the clock.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
los More Nurses
Needed ByArmy

WASHINGTON, - (ANP) An
urgent appeal for los coloreo
nurses to be assigned to Fort Hau-
chuca, and Tuskegee has been is
sued by the army nurse corps, Mrs.
Isabelle W. Baker, recruiting sec
rotary for the Red Cross, ANNOUNCE
ed last week.
Thirty have volunteered SO far.
Needed at Tuskegee for the new
training center, are 80 nurses. Fort
Hauchuca will require As.
The nurses are being recruited
or solicited from the Red Cross
First reserve, and in writing them,
Miss Mary Beard, director of the
American Red Cross Nursing Serv-
ice, said:
This is the chance you have
been waiting for We hope you will
comply with the request and are
counting on your willingness to
serve. The army has every right
to expect members of the Red Cross
First reserve to service the time of
war at all possible to do So"
Army nurses receive $50 a month
and maintenance, including medical
and dental care, plus retirement
and other benefits. In the army, a
nurse enters with the rank of sec
ond lieutenant.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
Charge Peonage
Tomato Farm
u. S. Agencies
Reported Making
Full Probe

SALISBURY, Md.-(ANP) some
so Negroes, employed at Philips
brothers tomato farm here, are
working under conditions "verging
On peonage," it was charged last
week by Harry Roger, Clio repre-
sentative. Roger, who alleged that
colored workers are picking to-
matoes on the Phillips farm for
such low wages they are unable to
pay transportation back home
said federal agencies are making
"full investigation"
Attention was attracted to the
farm when Eugene Hardy declared
he had worked so hours, suppos-
edly at 40 cents an hour, yet drew
only Sc cents. According to Hardy's
story, when he protested, he was
told SIS had been deducted for bus
fare, but received nc explanation
as to what happened to the re-
naming S1444.
The CIO representative. who al
so is national representative for
the United Cannery, Agricultural
Packing and Allied Workers, Saio
after he uncovered facts in the
case he conferred with officials Of
the department. of justice, the
Farm Security agency and the
United States Employment serv-
ice
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
Zook Suit With Drape Shape
Definitely Out For Duration

breviated top coats, with the bulg-
ing shoulders and the fancy pock-
cts and flaps and stuff, all COM
bine to give Uncle Sam material
headache, what with the shortage
OF wool being what it is and cold
weather demanding more clothes
in face of the fuel shortage, etc.
And Just at this particular time,
the costumes are growing more
and more fantastic, each designer
striving to Guido his competitor
by including all of the required rect
pleats, but with additions as yet
unnamed.
And don't think the wearing of
these hideous creations is confined
entirely TO the brethern-heck no.
White have adopted them and even
in staid government offices, the
drabneSS of the situation frequent
ly Is broken by rugged individ-
ualist who Grapes himself in con-
coction Of his own design.
All Of this is very distressing TO
the WPB which declares tailors
who insist on manufacturing the
fantastic creations are subject to a
fine of $4,000. What a price for a
zook suit
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
Allied Victory Offers Only
HopeForRace> Say Teachers
Express Alarm
Over Rabid Actions
Of Southerners

LOUISVILLE, Ky (SNS)- The
Special Planning Conference OF OF
ficials of Negro state, regional ana
professional organizations, held
here at the Madison Street
Junior High School for two days
under the auspices of The Ameri-
can Teachers Association, in for-
NAL resolution at the closing as
serted it's deep concern that the
Allied cause should emerge VIC
torious.
The principles of freedom and de-
mocracy for which the Allied forces
fight, as contrasted with the ideas
of racial oppression and economic
Imperialism basic in the AXIS 1de-
ology. make the Allied cause this
last and best hope" OF the Negro
people.
The deep concern and apprecla-
ton of these issues, led this rep
resentative group OF Negro edu-
Gators to view almost with herror
the efforts and sentiments OF those
who, in this dire hour OF national
peril activity stand against the full
and unrestricted employment OF
Negroes in war industry This
short-sighted refusal to use need
ed labor resource 80. at time
when Germany has exhausted the
labor resources of enemy Poles,
Czechs, French and Danes and is
now importing Negroes from Cen
trail Africa to help the German
war effort and when the japanese
are busily re-equipping shipyards
and .munition factories in China,
the Philippines and Burp2a to add
joyfully to their labor recources
there ~. seemed to this group to
be so unreasonable as to border
on stupidity and even treaehery.
Certainly no German, Italian or
Japanese propaganda could wish
for a happier success than to keep
Is million willing Negro laborers
from adding their fullest measure
to the war production in Ameri-
ca Aside from all considerations of
Democracy and Equality" this
group expressed the opinion that
our united efforts need to be
brought against the Geman- Jap
anese Aryans if they are to be de-
feated and if America is to emerge
from this conflict as a first class,
not second sales, power. ii
Victory in the current war, said
these educators, depends -. and
let us not foget it 49,. on ideas
as well as on armed conquest. The
interest of the American Majority
both for today and for tomorrow
lies in q continuous and accelerated
progress toward the achievement
of the American ideal -. equal
opportunity for all without diff
ferentials based on economic cir
cumstance or the section of the
country in which they reside or
sex or race.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12

In beginning his interesting and
absorbing speech, Mr.. Robinson
stressed that America was con-
glomeration Of peoples Of diverse
origins, a country founded on the
principle Of the equality Of man. 1t
was this same America, he stat
ed, which was fighting life
struggle with axis power dedicated
to the myth of race superiority
Unlike many white Americans. il
was averred, the Negro was not
bound by blood to any of the OPP
posing countries any any act Of in
justice done the Negro helped that
much to further the aims of the
megalomaniacs.
To Illustrate the loyalty Of the
American Negroes at times when
the country's security was at stake,
the speaker cited the valor CT
Crispus Attucks, of the intrepid
Negro troops in the Civil war, anc
at San Juan Hill in the Spanish
hailC1ICdIl wal, LII JiIC MChlCdll
war, and in World War I. En-
phasis was laid ON the fact that
there has never been an instance OF
a Negro engaging in sabotage or
in subversive activity.
The all-important Double-V Pro-
gram and its several ramifications
were mentioned in order to present
the facts Of the case as they stood
1t was Mr.. Robinson's belief that
the exemplary action of both Dorie
Miller and Joe Louis brought the
problem of discrimination in the
armed forces to head
HAD the armies of democracy
had their way" the young attor-
ney pointed out, ''they would have
caused the gerat manpower and
skill now being utilized at the
Great Lakes Naval Training sta
ton and at the airfield in Tuskegee
to be stagnant.
In concluding his speech, the
first since his recent appointment
by Attorney General Bushnell. Mr..
Robinson warned his audience OF
racial prejudice by saying: IT it
is done unto the least of your
brethren, it is done unto you"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
WANT TO BE LUCKY

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
You Can Get One
If You're Able To
Pay $4,000 Fine

WASHINGTON, d. ca N p
"A song made them popular, long
after they had won the affection OF
hordes of followers, and just now
the general public is getting ''zook
suit conscious. So much so that
the WPB is slightly worried over
the fantastic connections which
are beginning to gain strong favor
among our jitterbug population.
And so the government steps
in and wonders what can be done
about regulating these freak Gre
ations, since they use more ma
terial than an ordinary suit con-
tains.
These taght cuffs around the
ankles which gradually or sud-
denly burgeon out into balloon like
affairs when they hit the wearers'
knees and then continue On up
past his normal waist to a point
some three or four inches below
his chm or what they call pants
or trousers; to say nil Of the long
flowing coats, resembling alb
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12

O1NL oLoo1n4
Amid all of this activity, tile
hustle and hustle, one universally
gloomy fact stands out in bold re-
lief The Negro worker is still not
being used, nor is he being train
ed, glowing reports coming from
DR., Robert Weaver's office and
the Presidents Committee on Fair
Employment Practices to the con-
trary.
True, there is here and there
token acceptance of Executive Or
der 1902, but the overall picture is
still long, long way from being
bright.
Here is one thing that both
North and South to all out
ward appearances have agreed
upon. The same sense of frus-
tratiOn is felt by the Negro
standing idle on the street cor
ners of Atlanta as felt by
the masses of jObless Chicago
Negroes.
Perhaps it is even greater in Chi
cago, for while Atlanta has but
comparatively few war industries,
Chicago's mighty factories sing a
booming symphony in steel. Only a
negligible few black voices are allow
ed to join in the chorus. The pat
tern of exclusion is the same in
both Atlanta and Chicago. Black
men must not be given jobs if
there is a man with a white face
available and even then none must
be allowed to work with tools. Still
unshattered is the insidious tradi-
ton that black men must be the
last hired, the first fired.
PROMISES NOT KEPT
It is clearly evident to even the
most casual observer that the de-
animation of many industrailists
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
Inc OlODe lrOttcr Bv Cliff Maekay

have a source of So week COOKS
and maids, are downright hostile
to the idea.
Many thousands, we were told,
work in the huge Sefyel refrlgera-
tor plant at Evansville, Indiana,
which now turns out munitions. NO
Negroes were hired before the
plants conversion to war industry
and none work there now.
Idle GROUPS INCREASE
The story is told by the street
corners and newspaper help want
ed ads. The gangs that used to
hang around drugstores in white
neighborhoods have virtually dis
appeared; in Negro neighborhoods
their number has increased. The
classified advertising Of jobs has
increased, but a careful perusal
of these ads shows that they are
for the most part for white on
w." The rare occasions when COL
ored workers are sought, they are
wanted either to do loW-paid sea-
sonal farm work, or for domestic
| service.
The fact that the field of even
these so-called traditional Negro
occupations is slowly being in
yaded was shown in the puzzling
sight of workers constructing
mammoth super highway leading
| from Lafayette to indianapolis,
Thousands of men, truck drivers,
cement finishers, sandmen, con-
crete mixers, even just plain ditch
diggers were working. All were
white. Not black face to be seen
anywhere.
GOOD ENOUGH TO FIGHT
But on reaching Indianapolis,
YOU see thousands of black faces,
their owners standing idle on street
corners. Hundreds of young Negro
boys in uniform stroll up and down
the main thoroughfare, home on
their last furlough before going
| over: good enough to fight and die
for country, but not quite good
enough to work for it.
Mr.. McNutt, as director of the
nations labor supply, could choose
no better place than his native In
diana to start cracking down on
the Wasteful and demoralizing la
Dor practices that are pestiferous
disease blocking what could be q
healthy war production effort.
After that ne would do well to
move Southwark to Tennessee,
Georgia, Texas, Florida and yes,
even Governor Dixon's Alabama, to
do some long overdue missionary
work.
It takes no Gallup poll to see that
Negro residents of these states are
not at all happy about the situa-
ton and are rapidly losing what
little hope they once held that
something really effective would be
done to improve their economical
J ly-depressed condition.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
Dixon Against Dropping
Poll Tax For Soldiers

MONTGOMERY, Ala-lANP) Gov. Frank Little Leopard
opposition
Brooks which would allow
TO elections without paying pail tax
Gov Thomas Dixon the batting
novelist THE
Ciansnan egowhte relations
south.
kilograms Alabama
The poll tax exemptions decided by
the legislature Alabama Intrusion by
the ultimate control by
government elections be
permitted"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-09-12
Still A Depressing Picture

and far too many unionists that
Negroes must not be allowed to
perform skilled work has not been
lessened the least bit by the ex-
igencies of war.
Even some of those COM
panies who had been cited be-
fore the COFEP at Birming-
ham, still stubbOrnIy cling to
their hide-b bound color exclu-
sion policy. The huge Vultee
Aircraft plant at Nashville hir-
ing several thousands of work.
,ers, despite a promise of its Of
ficials at Birmingham to altar
its employment practices, has
taken no steps thus far to do
SO. Negro employment is still
limited to jobs as porters, jani-
tors and maids. Badly as these
sIxills are needed no Negro
mechanic, machinist, welder,
metals-nith or craftsman can
get job there.
The Bell Aircraft Company
which is soon to open its gigantic
plant near Marietta, Georgia, will
have no Negro workers. The COM
pany is willing to employ them
but Georgia educational officials
continue to play delaying game
in opening training opportunities
to a group that forms virtually
half of the states available labor
supply. Hundreds of whites have al
ready graduated, including many
women, but not a single course has
yet been made available to Ne
groes. And present indications are
that there may never be any
courses opened.
JUST WISHFUL THINKING
AS the manpower shortage in.
creased and all available white
men became employed, Negroe.
would then be considered, was tht
rather bewildering opinion ex.
pressed by some labor analysts
cautioning Negro workers to JUS
wait patiently, jobs would eventu.
ally be opened.
But even this vague and very
indefinite promise is proving to
be just SO much wishful think
ing. Employers, still passing
over the huge reservoir Of black
workers, are now getting their
requirements from among white
women.
And the plight of the Negro
woman is doubly more dishearten.
ing than Is that of her husband
Pressure comes from two sources
IndustrialistS refuse to hire then
in line with old discrimination
practices and even if an industri.
alists here and there might show
a friendly inclination to give som.
of them jobs, white housewives
fearful that they may no longer