The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-04

contain the invaluable vitamin c.
so important for teeth and gum
health during pregnancy as we'll as
for combating infections.
1t Is found, too, through dietetic
surveys made recently. that expec-
tant mothers in America. in ratio
of nine out of ten. are deficient in
this factor. Still more serious def
ciencies and mineral concentrates
are an absolute requirement for
those who are eating for two"
Cause of Accidents
Here is the latest onslaught on a
good old American custom that will
rouse the ire Of countless persons.
The sandwich, or snack, in dietetic
terms is nothing less than snare.
say the nutritionists. 1t does not
hold up under the pressure Of mod
ern work demands. the "speed-up"
is too much for it. Three fourths OF
our wage earners are accused OF
eating lunches that are entirely in
adequate. They get blamed for
much of the absenteeism due to
fatigue and colds. Mal-nutrition is
blamed for many of the industrial
accidents and deaths which now
run about 1000 a day. "Sabo-
tours" they openly name the sand
wich and the soda pop lunch.
With Secretary Wickard's mes
sage about rationing still filling our
ears. we find special satisfaction In
a news item coming out Of Spring
field. Mass. Women workers and
wives and mothers of the huge
Package Machinery Company en-
ployes there, hope to set a pattern
for the rest of the nation" by ex-
changing recipes and food economy
hints with the British women at the
Bournville. England, plant of Cad
bury Bros. confectioners and cocoa
distributors. Very soon, now, there
will be an interchange Of Food for
Victory" literature with these
plants. arranged through the Brit
ish Ministry of Information. We
should be able to acquire much in
formation from the many lessons
Britain has already learned
through stern necessity.
Dishwashing Problems
Homer N. Calver. editor of the
Health Officers News Digest and
recognized authority on public
health problems, observes that 1.-The
common dishwasher is the wars
forgotten man." Most of us admit
that dishwashing is a Job that is
endured because it cannot be cured,
but not all of us have stopped to
think what a task 1t is now to find
anyone who is willing to be pes
tered with it.
In the first place. the war has
brought about a tremendous in
crease in eating out" and Mr.. Cal
yer points out that sales in eating
and drinking places have proper
tionately increased more in 1912
than in the Is years from 1929 to
1912. He adds also that the greater
use of more sanitary paper cups.
containers and plates. has mate
rally reduced the problem listed by
restaurant proprietor and house.
wife alike as Public Headache No. /
-dishwashing.
1t is no news 10 any OF us CnaC
the "aggravation Of the dishwash-
ing problem results partly from a
scarcity of sanitary dishwashing
equipment due to increased de-
mand, and shortage OF dishwash-
ers," Mr.. Calver goes on to say. Ex-
banded business, continual turn
over of employees. inability to re-
place supplies. all make 1t hard TO
maintain their accustomed STAN
dards of cleanliness. Sincere effort
Is being made to meet health re-
luirements by using paper cups and
containers, and thus control the
danger Of transmission OF disease
from mouth to mouth due to made
luate dishwashing.