The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-08

questions OF general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
made by Mr.. Roy +. Hendrickson,
chief of the Food Distribution Ad-
ministration.
What doyou mean, eating hinge!
1t was only, about a year before
Pearl Harbor that DR.. Thomas
Parran, Surgeon-General of the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice, told US that 100000 Ameri-
cans were suffering from def
cheney diseases and Mr.. Paul V.
McNutt, not to be outdone, upped
him and said that 100000
Americans were lacking foods es-
sential for health" and 95,000,000
Americans "have impaired health
because they do not eat the right
food"
OF course, did not believe these
statements at the time. based my
beliefs on observations in dis
pensary clinic in a hospital where
the patients are in the low income
group, because 1t was rare to find
more than one or two cases of
deficiency disease in $4,000 pa
tients year-even cases in the
early stages. Furthermore, | I'M
dertook the examination Of 1900
employees in an industrial plant
and found no evidences Of def
cheney disease in any of them. Ac-
cording to DR.. ParTans remarks
! should have found 500 with de-
ficiency disease and according TO
Mr.. McNutt / should have found
1000.
Estimate Of Deficiency Diseases
But in the present set-up on
food rationing it is not at all I'M
likely that we will begin to see de-
ficiency disease, although do not
believe ever in the numbers that
DR.. Parran seemed to estimate.
The Western Hemisphere can
supply food in abundance for the
whole world. | cannot understand
by what process of stumbling our
food administrators have gotten
US TO this pass.
I'VE need not 60 hungry and,
unless we are stubborn, we need
not be improperly nourished,"
says Mr.. Hendrickson.
The American people are not
stubborn, but most of them have
no idea about the vitamins. And
they have not been trained to learn
any more than they have been
trained to use stickers in order to
get their rightful amount of food.
Used Instructive Selection
In the old days Of plenty all but
a fraction got a balanced diet be-
cause they couldn't help them
selves. Instinct and taste and ap-
petite told them to 80 to a gro
Gerry store and get a variety OF
foods or to grow a variety of foods
on their farms.
Mr.. Wickard said, after reading
some criticisms of this kind from
Louis Bromfeld, the farmer-au-
thor, that Mr.. Bromfeld had not
made one constructive suggestion.
Well, III make constructive sug-
gestion for Mr.. Wickard:
1t is one that was made by q
friend of mine as long ago as May,
1912: stop worrying about the
prices of food and get producing.
Get away from the Administra-
tons Canute-like initiation pho
bia. The farmer isn't going to
break his back to increase produc-
ton when you weigh him down
with price ceilings, take away his
labor and ladle out extra wages
and favors to industrial labor"
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
J. C.:-Would one teaspoonful
of baking soda mixed in a cupful
of water and used on the eyes,
from 5 to 25 drops a day, be
harmful?
Answer: No. Baking soda
makes an alkaline solution which
should be soothing to the eyes.
Z. B.:-What causes an en-
larged heart and what are the
symptoms? Is there a cure or any
precautions that must be taken?
Answer: An enlarged heart re-
suits from any extra work that
the heart has TO do. 1t is a COM
pensation on the part of nature
and as a matter of fact, does no
harm. Because an enlarged heart
means that there has been some
extra work for the heart TO do in
the past, the individual should
take some ordinary precautions
in the way Of not doing any extra,
or suddenly increased, activity.
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