The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-02

Your Health
Humanity Has Need
of Some Spiritual
Vitamins
YESTERDAY we discussed
some of the recommendations
which were made for vitamins for
the physical body, which is all
right as a tribute TO the dying
year. With a new year ahead OF
US, feel inclined to echo the ad-
DR.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
vice Of my friend, DR.. Thurman R.
Rice. Of the Indiana State Board
of Health, who, in these times rec
ommends vitamins for the soul.
A vitamin is a substance which
acts in some way to improve your
nutrition and morale and make
your food more readily absorbed
and more readily used in the body
economy. When they are INSULT
cient in the diet the individual
goes on living, but he Says.
Spiritual Nourishment
What is true about the physical
body is true about the spiritual
body. We have all sorts of things,
humble and solid and wholesome,
which nourish our mental and
spiritual processes: we read news
papers, we have discussions with
our friends, we read business bull
letins, We listen to commercial
continuities on the radio, hear all
sorts Of gossip about the war. All
these things are necessary on a
lower plane, but a great many of
US need lift" to raise our think
ing and our feeling TO a higher
level. That is what DR.. Rice means
by "vitamins for the soul".
Nowadays the physical health is
likely to be affected by the excite
ment and stress of the times.
Whether the news is good or bad,
acceptable or not acceptable, it is
certainly not a pleasant world to
live in from the standpoint Of
news. So he suggests that reading
and conversation be. enlarged to
continue interest in the great cul-
tural and spiritual achievements
of the race.
DR.. Rice found a list someone
suggested Of the 25 greatest books
ever written on which he noticed
that Millions paradise Lost"
stood tenth in the list. He Won
dered why. In high school he had
read it, but in those days it had not
made much impression on him, SO
he decided to take it up again.
At first it was rather hard go
ing. Then he found that it was
written for adults. Then he
learned to read it aloud. That was
much better. His family thought
he was losing his mind but, accord
ing to him, they had thought that
before, and he had noticed that
they treated him better when they
were worried about him. Anyway,
he kept on reading it aloud.
1t is adult food. II is food for
grown men and women and GER
tainly il is time we were growing
up and giving up the nursing bot
tie of babyhood, the pureed vege-
table stage of mental nutrition.
thoroughly agree with his atti-
tude and among other mental lifts
that people need nowadays is more
poetry-the great English poets,
not only Milton, but Keats and
Shelley and Wordsworth and
Browning and Tennyson-
Written 200 Years Ago
How many of you have read the
"Meno" and "Parmenides" of
Plato lately, or have ever read
them? They were written about
1900 years ago and are still being
reprinted so there must be some
thing in them that is good for the
human spirit
These vitarins are not always
quite as easy 70 take as the capsule
ones that you get at the drug store
for your physical nutrition. You
have to keep awake and think and
really work on them, but / guaran-
tee that in the long run they viii
do you good.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
NJ. D.:-A friend Of mine told
me 10 take Elixir Terpin Hydrate
and Codeine for cough. She gave
me a bottle last winter. Is this
medicine harmless and would it
still be good after one year?
Answer: The amount of codeine
in the elixir mentioned is not large
enough 70 be harmful. 1t is good
for a cough aad it Will last for q
year.