The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-12

took care of them. Not that ] adj
vocate that mothers should leave
their families TO go TO work unless
they must. but it does sometimes
happen that it Is good thing fol
the family.
There is still another group tina,
finds it impossible to get to the
doctor because of pressure of daily
duties, SO they get "out Of medi-
cine" which would ordinarily seem
to be calamity. and they just stay
out Of medicine. That is some
times a very good thing, for sys-
TENS get saturated with drugs and
need rest.
It's Good Diplomacy
lam running into more and more
folks who are finding it is good for
them to grow things. making it
necessary to be out of doors and
exercise more generally than they
were in the habit of doing.
There is no doubt that our Good
Neighbor" policy is going to ad-
vance more rapidly because we are
finding it a profitable business to
have trade relations with our folks
South Of the Border"
Some writer has recently said
that the Caribbean nations, the
small republics of Central America
and the islands. are doing their
best fighting with their cultivation
of the land. They are credited
with having the most versatile
crop laboratories in the world"
There are many things that you
do not realize are important to
you until you run out of them
things you have always had, and
now find that they cannot be pro-
cured. These are things like rope.
or even common Irvine, and the
chemical insecticides, which We use
for spraying purposes about our
farms and gardens. and the Army
buys by the thousand pounds for
Kidding army clothing Of vermin.
The cultivation of these things is
now being promoted in our own
lands.
AS wrote the other day, ! am
especially interested in what We are
going to do about drugs. We have
as yet only one substitute for quin-
Inc which is even fairly successful
and that is atabrine. We know that
cinchona trees grow wild from
Mexico to far down in South Amer
lea. and it is encouraging to hear
that United States experiments are
now bent on cultivation of this in
valuable crop. with view to re
turn quinine production to this
hemisphere. 1t would prove profit
able in more ways than one.
Source of Palm Oil
One of our commonest remedies
Is ipecac. which is made from the
roots Of q plant which can be grown
plentifully In the South American
regions. Our imports for our own
needs have been multiplied five
times in the last half dozen years,
which makes an attractive business
proposition for somebody. One Of
our staple laxatives is SIENNA, which
is concocted from the leaf and pod
of the cassia tree. growing freely
In the Caribbean region. Last year,
we imported some four million
pounds from India and Egypt; this
year we turn to our own side OF the
world to provide our needs.
Nothing is going to help our
war period than to have some sort
Of economic openings that will
provide new ways for our people
to live. More than that, we must
tive cieanly and attractively II we
want to feel and be we'll
Not the least of our newer out
looks for production In our own
countries concern the oils which
60 to make soaps and cosmetics, by
means of which we not only keep
hygienically clean but bolster our
morale by improving our looks.
The College of Tropical Agricul-
ture in Trinidad has reported that
q meager / per cent of the Latin
American palm crops are under
cultivation and harvest. Yet this
vastly valuable crop provides us
with millions and millions Of
pounds of oils with which we pretty
ourselves up. besides being chiefly
responsible for the glycerine so
much needed In making explosives
and processing metals.
The University Of California has
ueen doing some careful planning
TO develop the growth of cork
paintings, sending cork "acorns"
TO the lush soil Of the tropics. Tung
trees are something else of impor-
lance since we must have their oil
10 our paints and varnishes.