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THE GAZETTE, A Matter Of Survival Napoleon is quoted as having said on one occasion that an army marches on its stomach which, being interpreted in simple terms, means that an army that is well fed is able to go places and do things. Con- versely the army that is not well fed is likely to be defeated because of lack of stamina and vigor. The truth of Napoleon's dictum is so universally recognized to-day that no country sends forth its uniformed men to battle without taking extra- ordinary measures to see that at all times the troops have ample supplies of well-cooked nourishing food. At no time in history have armies been as well fed as they are during the preserit war. The governments and the high commands of the combatting nations in the conflict now under way realize fully the effect of good nourishing food, not only upon the physical health of their-fighting forces but upon their morale as well. Whilé-the health and vigor of the troops is thus taken care of, the im- portance of bringing up and maintaining at the highest standard the health ‘of the civilian population of the nation at war is apt to be regarded erroneously :as a matter of secondary consideration. In this age and generation it is accepted-as axiomatic that, whether in uniform or ‘not, the entire nation must bend all its energies to a vigorous prosecution of the war, which means that the worker in the factory, the yard and the mine turning out munitions, tanks, ships, *planes, metals and all the impedimenta requisite to. mechanized warfare; the farmer on the land producing foodstuffs to feed the combatants and civilian popula- tions and the men at their desks directing these and other essential opera- tions must be able to work at maximum efficiency. The ability. to work at maximum efficiency is dependent, not alone upon will power and good intention but these forces must be supplemented by sound, robust health, by physical well being. The health of the people at home who are buttressing the efforts of the forces on the fighting front must be buoyant, not only that valuable hours. and days be not lost through sickness or half hearted effort, but that supreme effort can be maintained at-all times. This is highly important @t the present stage of the war when an. unimpeded flow of maximum quantities of supplies of all kinds is vital to. speedy success. / * * * * Ample But Deficient In this country there can be no complaint of a lack of ample food. There is sufficient in bulk of some commodities to supply the needs of. all the Cariadian armed forces, the British armed forces and both Canadian and British civilian populations. Reserved stocks of some commodities afford testimony to that fact. There is a question, however, whether the constituents of the food in common use ensure that degree of nutriment essential, to maximum health and therefore maximum production. A survey of the United States department of agriculture in 1935-37 revealed that one half the population was living on a poor diet, 35 per cent. on a fair diet and only 15 per cent. on a good diet, and by good diet is meant one containing all the essentials to maximum health. Since the Canadian dietary is very similar to that in the U.S.A. is it not probable that a similar survey in this country would yield comparable results? The cause of this prevalence of diet deficiency is not attributable to poverty, for the survey showed that people who were spending as much as a per month for food were placed in the poor diet column. According to Dr. Henry Borsook, professor of biochemistry of the Cali- fornia Institute of Technology at Pasadena, the situation is- attributable to tlle general use of food stuffs which have lost some of the essential vita- mins and minerals during highly refined processing in mills and factories. If that is so, ‘ahd Dr. Borsook has plenty of support for his statements ainohg scientific nutritional authorities, these elements so highly necessary must be restored and made available to all the people, and ap- Wit can be done at very little cost. ~ : . E sGreat *Britein realizes the importance of providing the people health giving minerals and vitamins in staple foods of uni- ig.evidenced by the new legislation requiring that vita- ; ‘and calciuim be added to all flour used in the manufacture of bread. ‘This:measure is.regarded by Dr. Borsook as an “historic event in public health.” : * * * * At The Source i This same authority declared in a recent news despatch that “the cheapest, easiest and most effective way of improving the nutrition of the nation is to add vitamins and minerals to such staple foods as flour, corn- meak,. sugar and to some bottled and canned goods at the source. These must be added in measured amounts, under government regulation, and subjgct to government inspection.” Some remarkable results in the treatment of diseases due to deficient nutrition, ' by the use of pure chemicals are repored in the Reader’s Digest by Paul de Kruif, an eminent -bacteriologist. He visualizes the time’ is near:at hand when it will be possible to. make available to everybody “a vitamin supercharge that can be added to a cheap diet of. sufficient calories. Two ‘ounces of it per day, spread 'on a piece of bread will cost not’ more than twenty cents a pound. That’s less than.ten dollars a year for an abundance of the chemicals essential to human nutrition.” In time of peace health is vitally important. In wartime it is of still greater importance. In war, health spells survival. Price Is High “During a two-week. visit to Tokyo, just. concluded, I learned: on good authority. that Moscow is demanding: a shockingly severe price for the pact of amity so earnestly desired by the Japanese,” radios A. T. Steele from’ Shanghai to the Chicago Daily News. The Russians want back fishing. ahd oil concessions Japan now enjoys and.-considers vital. Saving Aluminum Will Conserve Sufficient For Annual Production Of Planes Through co-operation of ‘manufac- turers with G. C, Bateman, metals controller, it is. hoped to conserve enough aluminum in Canada for the annual production of. 3,000 airplanes, an official said: It has not been necessary to issue @ ban on non-essential use of alumi- num since a voluntary agreement was reached with foil manufacturing companies to -employ a_ substitute and it is in this particular cutting down on use of aluminum that the greatest saving is expected, the official said. Some time ago Mr, Bateman eall- ed in representatives of foil com- panies and told them all available aluminum was needed for war pur- poses. They were asked to take the matter up with their customers and it was agreed a substitute would be used. It is understood the conservation plan is well underway and instead of aluminum foil some manufactur- ers have decided to use waxed paper. Others are turning to 4 foil develop- ed from a mixture of lead and tin. Four doctors are engaged in aerial medical work in the interior of .Aus- tralia. When called by telephone or telegram, they fly to homesteads hundreds of miles away. TWO WAYS TO PAY YOUR INCOME TAX THE HARD WAY— Forget about your sharply-in- creased wartime income tax until it becomes due on April 30, 1941: Then, no doubt, you will be rudely shocked by the size of the amount you will have to pay. THE EASY WAY— Plan now to take advantage of the government's offer to ac- cept monthly instalments, with- out interest charge. The offer is. explained in a pamphlet, which shows you how to ease the burden of your income tax by spreading it over an extend ed period, permitting adual adjustment of your spending and saving program. By doing this you not only simplify your own tax problem but you also help Canada’s war effort by expedit- ing collection of government revenue. Extract from Booklet issued by Financial Counsel, Toronto-Mont- real. For the annual “picnic of the states,” a table one mile long was built along a tree-lined street in On- tario, Calif. They’re rationing bacon in Britain —but only until the army brings it home. It is said human beings are born with the ability to make 500 basic gestures, | Geographical - Your most Valuable Energy Food. 46 Scientific Instruments Britain Gains Supremacy In Making _These Delicate Machines A triumph over their German rivals is announced by Britain’s scientific instrument makers. Before the war Canada invited the world to compete for a _ surveying aneroid required by the Dominion’s Survey Department. They asked for an accuracy of 0.02 inches of mercury. The Germans said it was impossible. = flatly refused to try. Britain decided to tackle ‘the job. Two years’ special research have been put in on it and now the makers are able to disclose the fact that they have done 10 times better than they were asked to do. They have achieved not the 0.02 inches of accur- acy, but 0.002, or 1-10th of the error allowed by the specification. “We lost heavily on it,” said a member of the firm, “but the re- search we did has been of immense value.” To-day Britain’s supremacy ‘in making scientific instruments is shown by the world demand for them.- Among her wartime custom- ers are Argentina, Australia, Can- ada, New Zealand and South Africa. When bombers are swung ahoard ship at Montreal, their dashboards carry—among much else—tempera- ture. indicators, boost gauges, fuel press gauges, oil pump gauges, air- intake, thermometers and precision altometers, all of them made in Great. Britain. The latest figures are eloquent of Britain’s: new supremacy. Before the war she was exporting about one- third the quantity. of scientific instru- ments sold by her German rivals. During: the first. nine months of the present year she sent overseas more than. £900,000 worth, an actual in- crease of almost £100,000 over the first nine months of 1939. SELECTED RECIPES LEMON CRUMB PIE 1% cup Kellogg’s Rice Krispies 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup boiling water 1 cup.sugar 2 teaspoon cornstarch: 2 eggs 3. tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind % recipe All-Bran pastry Roll Rice Krispies into fine crumbs; add butter and boiling water. Mix sugar and corn starch; add well beat- en egg yolks, lemon juice and rind. Combine the mixtures, Line a pie pan with All- Bran Pastry. Fill ‘with mixture and bake in hot. oven (450 |degrees F':) about 20 minutes or until filling is set and pastry brown. Cover. with meringue made from two beaten egg whites and four tablespoons sugar. Bake in slow oven (325. de- grees) about 20 minutes. Yield: One 8-inch pie. TOMATO RAREBIT 1% th Canadian cheese ¥%, teaspoon dry mustard Y¥, teaspoon pepper 2 cups. drained, canined tomatoes Salt 6 Holland Rusk “ In the upper section of a double boiler put diced cheese and add mus- tard and. pepper. When cheese is melted, add tomato pulp and salt to taste. Stir until smooth and creamy and serve on rusk.. Six portions. Silkworms Dislike Raids According to the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph silkworms on a silk farm owned by Lady Hart Dyke all go on strike during air raids. Whether it is the bombs or the sirens that annoy the worms nobody knows. But when- ever there is an air raid near by the worms stop spinning and refuse to work until hours after the all-clear has sounded. One diphtheria inoculation ~ will ward off the disease for several years. * 2392 Life Plays Queer Jokes Many People Cheated Out Of Things They, Planned For Life can play queer jokes on peo- ple sometimes. In a Western city there was a gro- cer who worked very hard and saved his money religiously, so that his old age would be provided for. For fifty years he stuck to his gro- cery store. He worked and saved too hard to have very much fun, but he was looking forward tb the day when he could retire. Then he would have his fun. He would have money and leisure, and he would make up for the years of hard work. Well, he finally retired—money in the bank, an assured income, a nice home, everything he needed. ‘‘Now,” he told his friends, ‘I am going to enjoy life.” And just 24 hours after he retired he dropped dead. If a novelist put that in a book we wouldn't -believe it. We would say that things don’t really happen that way, and we would accuse the novel- ist of straining too hard for an ironic effect. But life takes queer twists ‘that are not permitted to good fiction. It all happened, precisely as described. here; and all we can do is admit that there are times when wisdom and prudence are horribly confounded. As a matter of fact, this sort of thing happens fairly often—in a little different way. Not many people who have prepared for a carefree and leisurely old age die just as’ they begin to taste their reward of course; but they get cheated out. of their dues just the same. They find that leisure, after a lifetime of hard work, is boredom. They find that they have forgotten how to play. They find that the empty hours are depressing be- cause they do not know what to do with them. They find themselves feeling that they had been put upon the shelf, and they grow ten. years older in twelve months. Air Training Accidents Fewer Fatal Accidents Have Oc- curred Than Was Expected The percentage of flying accidents, having regard to the amount of fly- ing done in schools of the British commonwealth air training plan in Canada, is lower than was expected, the air ministry said in a statement issued .recently. . Since the plan started operating there was up to late December 29 fatal flying accidents, and in the same period 168,050 flying hours were putin. The statement gave @ lengthy outline of the rules and pre- cautions taken in the Royal Canadian Air Force to prevent. accidents, but said “Canada will not carry out the greatest air training plgn ever con- ceived without meeting with some percentage of accidents.” The Gosport system is used by the R.C.A.F. It embodies all the experi- ence of training in the last war and in the intervening years. It has been adopted throughout the British em- pire and in. other countries, formed the basis of the United States training system. Defended Canada Argument Between Dr, Cora Hind And General Jan Smuts Mrs. A. Campbell Mackie, in an address to the Women’s Historical Society at Toronto, told of being en- tained a few years ago at @ lunch- eon in Cape Town by an argument between Dr.- E. Cora Hind, .of the Winnipeg Free Press, and General Jan Smuts, prime minister of South Africa. “Dr. Hind was ori @ world tour at the time. The argument was regarding the comparative merits of Canadian and South African wheat and was. very enlightening, . according to Mrs. Mackie. : Pleads. Not Guilty In his latest speech, Hitler said: “I have no responsibility for . the world war.” This has a-ring es though he were preparing his de- fence. for the trial he fears is becom- ing imminent. Prague, Warsaw, or London would all he fitting places in which to hold it. It is said that Roger Bacon (1214- 1294 was the first to realize that glass would bend light rays. The in- yention of spectacles is supposed to have taken place in Italy around 1285. Making a fool of yourself is not so bad if you have sense enough to know who did it. Bren guns are capeble of firing bullets one-third of an inch long at the rate of 700 to 800 a minute. Cannon fire may cause windows to shatter and dishes to rattle more than 100. miles away. and|- Of Interest To-day Ancient Warriors Had Ufderground Shelter As Protection Against Cold In the ‘‘Anabasis’—the account of the adventurous retreat of the ten thousand Greeks from Babylon to the Black Sea—there is a description of @n underground shelter which has some points of interest to-day. It was more than two thousand years ago, civilization had not yet invent- ed bombing from the air, but as a rough defence against one of man’s oldest enemies, extreme cold, the shelter appears to have been reason- ably good. Xenephon is telling how his men, after long and painful | marches through snow-storms in the Armen- ian Highlands, found welcome relief in a village among the mountains. The dwellings, he tells. us, were ex- cavated underground with an en- trance like a. well, widening below. There were also subterranean pas- sages for the cattle and ladders for the inhabitants to descend by. As may be imagined, Xenophon lingers with evident delight over his mem- ories-of those warm days of rest and safety which he and his soldiers spent after a period of ravenous hunger and frost-bite among snowstorms. The atmosphere must have been cer- tainly warm, and there was plenty of food ready at hand. Goats, sheep, cattle, even birds were there, fed through the winter, with a hoard of wheat and vegetables, and the cul- tured Greek author mentions a new pleasure he discovered — drinking Armenian beer through straws in- serted in the liquid. — Manchester Guardian Weekly. ‘ The Bishop’s Preference The former Bishop of London was once ordered by his physician to spend the winter in Algiers., The Bishop said it was impossible, he had so many engagements. “Well, my Lord Bishop,” said the specialist, “it either means Algiers or heaven.” “In that case,” said the Bishop, “I'll BO to Algiers.” Under a new government. regula- lation all advertisements of food and drug products in Canada claiming a vitamin content must specify the vitamins present. i Childs Young Relieve Misery of Colds Improved Vicks Way If your child is miserable with muscular soreness or tightness, Spells of Soughing or irritation from a cold—you'll welcome the relief a “VapoRub Massage” brings. With this more thorough treat- ment, the poultice-and-vapor action of Vicks VapoRub more stentively (ee irritated air passages With soothing medicinal yabots 3 STIMULATES chest and back like a warming poultice or plaster... STARTS RELIEVING misery right away! Results delight even old friends of VapoRub. TO oer a , yabervab Massage” with all its benefits — massage VapoRub for 3 see on IM- PORTANT RIB-AREA OF BACK as well as throat and chest — spread a thick layer on chest, cover with a warmed cloth: BE SURE to use genuine, time-tested ; VICKS VAPORUB. eee -Cows Carry On Bombing In Britain Has . Had - Little Effect On Output Of Milk Reports from dairying areas in the United Kingdom indicate that the disturbance of explosions and machine gun fire appear to have little or no effect on the output of the milking herds. Many of the rural areas have been severely bombed during the recent intensive raids but despite this the mortality in farm live stock has not been as heavy as might be expected. Cattle have been the principal victims, followed by sheep, chiefly because of their tendency to herd together. Well down in the list of farm casualities are horses and pigs. No doubt you have met people whose. actions are nearly always guided by the fixed star of self-in- terest. Seasonal growth rings can be de- tected in some natural pearls, a scientist reports. | Many a train of thought would penefit by a head-on collision. “Culinary cleanliness is my pet obsession—but 1 never thought of being choosy about waxed paper —what I daily wrapped Sonny’s lunch. in, for instance.” Pure waxed paper is as important as pure food, and pure dishes. Be on the safe side with Para- Sani—and use a new sheet every time. PURE-HEAVY WAXED PAPER N MADE IN APPLEF ORD PRODUCT CANADA -APPLEFORD PAPER PRODUCTS LTD. 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