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Show o o Oriental Scholar Improves Nutritive Value of Rice By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street. N.W., Washington, I). C. WASHINGTON. - Do you know that an Invention of a young Persian-American may rid the orient of its greatest curse, malnutrition? Do you know how it happened that some of the most beautiful classics clas-sics of Middle Eastern literature litera-ture came to be written in a lan-gauge lan-gauge Aramaic once the "vulgar" "vul-gar" patois of the people? The same man answered both those questions for me and it's quite possible that had he not been able to answer an-swer both, he would have been able to answer Baukhage either. It was the inventor, himself, M Yonan-Malek who enlightened ma hi two and a half hours of the most charming and Informative conver- catioa in which I have indulged In man a strike-darkened, politics- clouded Washington afternoon. Briefly, he has Invented a procesi which keeps the nutritive nutri-tive valoe of rice in the kernel, beesta the rice yield by 25 per . eent, cheats rice-eating beetles and weevils ent of their annual million dollar banquet, but probably most important of all, leave the Vitamin B factors In each grain of rice Intact. Since the rice-eating countries account ac-count for half the world's population popula-tion and since malnutrition Is a strl-eus strl-eus problem in all of them, the invention in-vention seems a little less than revolutionary rev-olutionary in iU potentialities. It ia already the basis of a going rn'irerm. Polish Vitamin Out of Product My acquaintance with rice has been a nodding one, furthered by periodic visits to Chinese restaurants. restau-rants. When I ate the underpinning of the celery sprouts and a strips of chicken, I didn't realize that the ancient Pharaohs of Egypt would have approved its polished whiteness. white-ness. I didn't realize that that polished pol-ished whiteness had been achieved by 19 different cleaning, milling and polishing operations. And I certainly cer-tainly didn't guess that those 19 operations op-erations had robbed my rice of 78 per cent of its thiamine, 58 per cent of its riboflavin and 63 per cent of its niacin and most of Its food value. White rice, It seems, is a fetish that goes back to the days of the Pharaohs when white was the sym-bol sym-bol of royalty. Some unnamed chef with a deep sense of the fitness of things didn't like the idea of his Pharaoh partaking of crude, ple-bian-looklng rice. So he ordered the royal millers to polish the grain to a pearly whiteness. The millers com-vlied, com-vlied, never realizing they were polling pol-ling the food value out of the food. The poor people of Egypt went ea eating their rongb unpolished rice. And nobody guessed why they were healthier than tbelr rulers. Tola altuatUn lasted until the French revolution when the revolutionaries Insisted eu their right to keep ap with the royal Joneses. They wanted polished pol-ished white rice too (and white bread). They got It, and have been getting H ever aince. The eastern has persisted until today when we still require our rice millers to strip away more than half the vitamins from our riee and wheat. This is not so important in potato nd bread-conscious America, but in oriental countries where frequently fre-quently the word "rice" and "food" are synonymous, it's something else gain. Six hundred thirty million orientals derive more than 4 per cent of their food calories from rice and if the rice is polished, they re losing vital nutritional values at every meal. Malek became rice-conscious back fat 1938 when one of his friends wished aloud that he could figure out some way to increase rice consumption con-sumption in the United States. At that time, tons of rice were rotting in the California riee fields for want of market. Each season, this country's rice growers were being left with a surplus of t least three million bags of rice. The industry was slowly going broke. Malek went at the problem in the approved American tradition. He polled representative California ft i in waftOfl( BARBS . , . by Baukhage j I see by the papers that factory They now have invented an ex- imoke makes cabbages grow big- ploding scarecrow that goes bang ger. And making the factories every three minutes, says Business smoke makes bigger appetites for Week. It won t take the crows long bigger cabbages. to know that a barking dog does not bite. Are you an unkind person? May- be. We learned in our copy books Plate glass production has that "politenest is to do and say reached all-time high says Busi- the kindest thing in the kindest ness Week. So have babies and way." automobile accidents. housewives to find out why they weren't serving more rice at their dinner tables. He learned that they were tired of burned pots and pans and sticky gummy rice.: "If we could only buy canned rice, ready to heat and serve," they would sigh. Malek tried to oblige. For several months, he cooked rice and canned rice in his own home, in industrial indus-trial kitchens, in government laboratories. lab-oratories. But the rice invariably looked and tasted like Gour paste. Long Memory Aids Research One day, however, he tried cooking cook-ing and canning the patna variety of rice from India. The results were somewhat more encouraging. The canned kernels seemed less gelatinous, gela-tinous, almost fluffy. Then he remembered re-membered something he'd read about the natives of Assam. It seemed these natives suffered less from berl berl than did natives of ether oriental regions. Malik took to the research books, and discovered discov-ered that the Assamites parboiled their rice. That is, they soaked it for days in water to loosen the tough hulls, then they steamed it. Up to that point Malek had been trying to can polished white rice. Rice whose vitamin-filled vitamin-filled bran layers had been cleaned, hulled, milled, scoured and polished away. This was : the first mention of the treatment treat-ment of rough paddy, rice before be-fore It was milled, tie leaped on it as a possible clue. He managed to get from a friend a bag of rough paddy rice prepaid fortunately, for by this time, Malek was walking to and from his experimental experi-mental laboratory, unable to afford even a car token. He soaked the rice for days. When he needed to parboil the rice in steam, be found an unused sterilizer ster-ilizer at a nearby hospital where the internes were glad to help him. Even his neighbors in his apartment building were on hand to help him spread the parboiled rice on the roof to dry. Now he had his precious parboiled paddy rice. But the tough hulls on the kernels posed a problem. An ordinary rice mill handles rough rice in carload lots. The only way for Malek to mill a hundred pounds was to find a hand mill. Well, he found a hand mill and ground the hulls from the rice. The rice was canned, and this time the kernels that rolled out were hard, dark, chocolate colored and separate. At that time, Malek didn't know he had accidentally driven the water-soluble bran layers into the rice kernel Itself. He only knew this rice was distinctly different than any he had canned before. What he had to do then was to determine the length of time to soak the rice, what temperature to use, under what steam pressure to parboil par-boil it. It took Malek months, work-lng work-lng with makeshift equipment to hit upon the right formula. Finally he obtained rice which, when canned, came out fluffy, with each grain separate and perfectly tender. The layers of bran driven Into the kernel Imparted a different differ-ent nut-like bran flavor and the long cooking at high temperature had made the rice sterile. But the1 best part of all which he discovered discov-ered through scientific analysis-was analysis-was the fact that this new rice was1 unbelievably rich in vitamins. The army and navy were interested, inter-ested, and Malek offered them his patents for the war's duration. At the present time he's busy licensing, rice mills here and abroad to use hi process. About the only thing he has left to worry about now Is how to obtain the rice in order to process It. The rice supply, as any grocery-haunting housewife will know, la not what it used to be. The world supply of rice Is short this year, and a large percentage of rice raised in the United States has been allocated to countries where rice Is a staple sta-ple food. This scarcity explains why rice, along with augar and syrup. Is the only rood atlil remaining re-maining under price control. But once the world supply increases, in-creases, there'll be more rice, more nutritious rice, more flavorful riee. Furthermore, Malek guarantees that the brand-new bride won't have to make any last-minute switches in the dinner menu because the rice she cooked turned out all wrong. Ohl what about the Aramaic classics? I couldn't do justice to that one not without a little more space and a lot more help from Malek. Colorful Old West Lives Again In Omaha Historical Museum Railroad Exhibit Is Visual Record Of Pioneer Days WNU Features. OMAHA, NEB. The roar ing, hectic days of the Old West are not dead they still live in all their flamboyant glory in the Union Pacific's historical museum located in the company's headquarters building here. Fascinating documents, maps, relics, weapons, furniture, books, household articles, farm implements, imple-ments, personal possessions and other mementos of the men and events which carved an empire out of a wilderness comprise a dramatic and graphic visual record of the struggles, tragedies and triumphs of the pioneer West. Portray progress. Interwoven with the faded relics and ghosts of long-dead pioneers and heroes of the West are exhibits portraying por-traying the epic record in the build ing of the Union Pacific, which played an instrumental role in the westward expansion of the empire. Shunning away from the musty and molderlng atmosphere atmos-phere of the typical "museum idea," all the exhibits are designed de-signed to preserve all the color aad adventure which prevailed In the pioneer days. Since this valuable historical collection col-lection was opened to the public in 1939, approximately 200,000 visitors representing every state in the union and 41 foreign countries have registered regis-tered at the museum. Reminisce on Careers. Bearded oldsters wander through the exhibits musing over items which recall their own picturesque careers when they and the West were young. In contrast are school children and street urchins, intrigued in-trigued by the drama in the winning win-ning of the West Side by side come scholars and business men, house wives and railroad executives. while during war years many a serviceman discovered that browsing brows-ing around the exhibits provided an ideal means of whiling away the seemingly endless wait for trains. Curator of the museum is Mrs. Ruth Cultra Hamilton, former I school teacher who has been asso- ciated with the railroad for many years. Lauds Woman's Role. True to her clan, Mrs. Hamilton admits that her one regret is that the museum collections are almost wholly a memorial to the great men of the past. "No one remembers those anonymous anony-mous women who ranked with their men as courageous pioneers," she complains. : To museum visitors, however, how-ever, she can point out a few household articles which serve as mute reminders that even while heroes conquered the West, aomeone bad to cook and 1 rriY L -I iiMlliiilW'''l SEW :7A wy EN ROUTE TO PROMISED LAND . . . Mormon pioneers used these orude farm Implements and household utensils on their historic trek from Nauvoo, IU., to Utah. Blindness Wo Handicap, Industrious PAINESVILLE. OHIO. Although blind since he was seven, Robert Bixel is one of the most industrious men in this community. After working work-ing throughout the week at a rubber rub-ber plant, he continues the pace on Sunday by rushing off to church, where he is an evangelist and singer. sing-er. Not content with these regular activities, Bixel utilizes a guide dog to help him around the community Varied Surplus Items MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Apparently Appar-ently there's no limit to the surplus material which War Assets administration admin-istration is called on to handle. First there was an island, then a model dairy farm complete with herd on the west coast. Later WAA found itself saddled with surplus horses in the Midwest and left-over panties and brassieres in the South. Now the New Orleans office reports re-ports it has in safekeeping 99 black If mm m 1 )i txvwrimmjJim 1 1 yawji f '"Pi'fl'M w a i m EBW VT7 fr Pjffi JM TfvV I'll I Iir h -' ':U f.'lJrt'wi l&l HISTORY WAS MADE . . . With the rifles, saddle and other equipment equip-ment included in this general view of a section of the historical museum. sew, rear children and help with the farming. Modern-day housewives stare un-comprehendingly un-comprehendingly at such primitive devices as candle molds, a sauerkraut sauer-kraut stomper, a broom of hickory splints, a spinning wheel and reel dating back to 1859. Typical of the hardships which the pioneer woman wom-an endured are exhibits of crude farm implements an awkward flail, clumsy hoe and handmade barley fork. The old iron Dutch oven and grill in the museum once were the only cooking utensils owned by some Mormon family, which carried them across the plains on the historic migration from Nauvoo, 111., to Utah. Recall Indian Raids. Many souvenirs of the constant guerrilla warfare between the hostile hos-tile Indians and workmen who pushed the rails ever westward also are on display. Supplementing the tomahawks and arrows is the handiwork handi-work of Indian women who engaged en-gaged in more peaceful pursuits than their warriors. Included in the display are fine baskets and bead-work, bead-work, tobacco pouches, medicine bags, amulets and other articles fashioned by Sioux women and decorated dec-orated with embroidery of flattened porcupine quills dyed with roots and berries. Wild-eyed youngsters gaze in awe at the pistols which spat flame and lead in the hectic early days but which now rest peacefully in the museum's display cases. Many Guns Shown. A huge .69 horse pistol is on display, along with flintlocks dating back to the American revolution and pepper-box types, derringers, ball and cap and muzzle-loading types. In one case are guns taken from train robbers while another case contains bullet molds, cartridge loaders, powder flasks and horns, to give chiropractic treatments, repair re-pair chairs and sell greeting cards. At home he mows the lawn, fires the furnace and helps with house-bold house-bold tasks. An ardent sportsman, Bixel rides horseback, goes fishing and coon hunting. On coon hunts he asks only for a stout club about four feet in length and "I'll get along all right by myself." Blind since seven years of age as Test WAA Ingenuity diamonds and a quantity of pure silver. The diamonds they're not the kind you'd give your best girl aren't for sale, however. Used in precision machinery, they're still classed as strategic material. But WAA is selling the silver 36,000 bars of it which was recovered recov-ered from a recently demolished magnesium plant operated at Lake Charles, La., as a defense industry during the war Bfc ' n fit 1 V. 4 F iff 'I 1 ft mum '-y y -X - L ": j"n !WJt V !--'" " " ' - i' -f F ; lit-, I u"'' , , 1 shot pouches and other pieces of equipment used in pistol shooting. A rare old book showing the trails from Texas to Ellsworth, Kas., one of the roaring "cow towns" of the '70s, and a collection of branding irons highlight the mementos of the day of the cattleman and cowboy. cow-boy. Mute symbols of a still earlier day when the buffalo and bison roamed the western plains by the THE WILD AND WOOLLY ,WEST . . . Is re-created for goggle-eyed youngsters in this display of guns and knives. millions are the watch and scissors used by "Old Jim" Bridger and a money belt and autographed picture pic-ture of "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The epic migration of pioneers pio-neers over the Mormon trail, Oregon trail and other path ways to the West is represented represent-ed by many relics. Attracting major interest is an original map issued to westbound pioneers, pio-neers, showing every place across the prairies where food could be obtained and the location loca-tion of blacksmiths. Rare and original photographs of the Great Emancipator hold the i spotlight in an extensive Lincoln col- lection. A replica of the Lincoln funeral car also Is displayed. Tribute to Rails. With the building of the West irretrievably ir-retrievably linked with the development develop-ment of rail transportation, the museum mu-seum features mementos in the history his-tory of railroading. Principal item is a yellowed telegram tele-gram bearing a single sentence, "You can make affidavit of completion comple-tion of road to Promontory Summit." Sum-mit." This message, sent by Gren-ville Gren-ville M. Dodge, chief engineer, to Oliver Ames, then president of the U. P., signified completion of construction con-struction work, and on the following follow-ing day the Golden Spike was driven driv-en to join the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific as the first transcontinental trans-continental railroad linking the East and West Ohio Man Proves a result of being struck by a stone thrown by a playmate, Bixel refuses to acknowledge the handicap. He now plans to learn typing to permit him to keep up with his immense amount of correspondence. Formerly the regular preacher at Riverview church in nearby Novelty, Nov-elty, Ohio, Bixel turned the pastorate pastor-ate over to a brother-in-law and now acts as a traveling evangelist. College Coeds Are Free Baby Sitters CORVALLIS, ORE. - This col- lege town has become a parents' 1 paradise since Oregon State college j coeds have started serving as free baby sitters. The baby sittters are provided by the college Red Cross chapters, the only regulation limiting limit-ing the service to 10 p. m. on school J nights and 12:30 a. m. on Saturdays. Satur-days. No charge is made for the coed's services. fliif i 1 ipS iffy tPfi srfl f X. fiCEalLJrs&sA COME short while back, one of the leaders in college football asked your correspondent to name the 15 I leading coaches in the country. The only answer we could think of in a given time limit was this: "The 15 coaches who have the best material." ma-terial." There is little questioning the fact that for the season of 1946, Red Blaik of Army deserved his award, due largely to the fact that Red and, his staff carried Army three years without a defeat. Time and again we have been asked to rank the coaches in order. This is an impossi ble job. Look over just a few from the list Neyland of Tennessee, Blaik of Army, Barlow of Harvard, Little of Columbia, Crisler of Michigan, Thomas Thom-as of Alabama, Leaby of Notre Dame, McMillln of Indiana, Neely of Rice, Butts of Geor Bierman gia, McKeever of Cornell, Wade of Duke, Snavely of North Carolina, Odell of Tale, Le-Brucherie Le-Brucherie of U.C.L.A., Bierman of Minnesota but why beep on? This Is only a partial list, where, if given the same material and the same schedules, luck would have to write the story. I can say this. There is no bunch connected with sport that gives as much time, thought, worry and con plete concentration as football coaches give. They brood by day and night. An ankle, a shoulder, a knee or a back can make all the difference in the world. Those in front figure they must stay there. The losers must win a game or two. There is a big difference in material from time to time but the old grads and the public at large never consider consid-er this. They look only to the final scores. Such coaches as Red Drew of Mississippi, Red Sanders of Van derbilt and Paul Bryant of Kentucky may be unknown nationally, but they are as good as the best with what they have. 'A Coaches' Coach' There may be a better coach than Dick Harlow of Harvard but who is he? Neyland of Tennessee can keep pace with anyone. Jock Suth erland was the coaches' coach in col lege until he came over to pro ranks. j Spend a few days with Steve Owen ana ureasy Neale, in or out of sea son, and you get part of the answer fall, winter, spring and summer they're always talking and thinking football, still playing over games they lost. Lonme Stagg at 84 was still in harness this last season, reluc tant to retire. Lonnie was a star at Yale, 60 years ago. With all the tears they shed and all the moaning they give the world, it is almost impossible to shake them loose with-out with-out using a grenade. Your correspondent more than once has ducked the opportunity of picking or trying to pick the 10 best coaches of all time. Looking back to something over 40 years we'd say that four of the best were Pop Warner, Knute Rockne, Hurry-up Yost and Percy Haughton. Pop Warner gave football more on the technical side than anyone else, including the single and double wing, a system still just as effective as the T. Colorful Yost Yost gave football its first flare of coaching color and Michigan its first great college football record 56 victories in five years, blemished only by a tie with Minnesota, before Chicago broke the string in 1905. Knute Rockne brought to football its greatest combination of coaching ability, human interest and personality. person-ality. Rock, in addition to being a great coach, was also the game's star personal contribution when it came to human contact. Bob Zuppke of Illinois brought to football coaching the added gifts of philosophy and humor. Zup had more color than two rainbows. One of bis best friends was the late Howard How-ard Jones of Yale and Southern California. Cal-ifornia. No two men were ever further fur-ther apart as human beings. But they were fine coaches and close pals. Haughton of Harvard today is a greatly underrated coach. Cold, hard, austere, he was one of the greatest. A star tactician and technician, tech-nician, Haughton was probably the best of all in discipline. As Tack Hardwick told me once, "If Haughton Haugh-ton told Harvard to jump off a 100 foot cliff and he would catch us we'd all jump. And Percy would catch us." Character Builders The thousand, at least a thousand. football coaches we've met and known in the last 40 odd years, have made an almost unbelievable contribution, con-tribution, not only to sport, but also to the good of the nation at large. Not all of them, of course. But the big majority have turned out a great job in the way of training, instruction, instruc-tion, discipline and, if you'll pardon the phrase, "character building." Did you ever know Dan McGugia or Lonnie Stagg? Ask their play-ers, play-ers, many of them now gray or bald. To restore and preserve cane seats treat lightly with linseed oil. Be sure all excess oil has been wiped away. . e Cloth-covered suitcases can be restored to newness by covering the fabric with a coat of high grade lacquer. To prevent windows from sticking, stick-ing, rub a little floor wax in the window sash groove. ,'. . To remove the metal base of an electric light bulb that has broken in the socket, push a cork into the base and turn it. :. . Winter window washing is made a lot easier by adding denatured alcohol to the water to prevent freezing. Wipe quickly with crushed tissue paper. SiilL $&DfuL Mating, The touring company had never been of the best, and when they reached the stage of playing to the family of the man who owned the little country theater, and found that even they left at the end of the first act, it was decided to break up. Two of the actors set out to work their way back to New York. They were lucky enough to get a passage on a barge, and when passing through a lock they overheard over-heard this conversation: "What you got on board, Jim?" "Load of fertilizer and a couple of actors, Bert." The two actors looked at each other in silence, then sighed deep- "Cyril," said one, "shall we never nev-er top the bill?" Fact Finding Mother More pudding, Jimmy? Your eyes are bigger than your stomach, child. Jimmy That doesn't seem reasonable, mother. Let us experiment exper-iment and either establish or disprove dis-prove the assertion definitely. Half In, Half Out Woman (on telephone) 7 jcn my little boy to your store jor two pounds of plums and I got only a pound. Your scales must be wrong. Fruit Dealer My scales are all right, madam. Have you tried weighing your little boy? Solid Advice Psychiatrist the thing for you to do is to forget about your troubles and bury yourself in your work. Man Gosh, and me a concrete mixer. GIRLS! WOMEN! try this if you're RJlflVOMS Oa "CERTAIN DAYS' Of Moatb- Do femalt functional monthly disturbance disturb-ance maks you feel nervous. Irritable, as wsak and tired out at such times? Then do try Lydla E. Plnkham's Vegetable Vege-table Compound to relieve such symptoms. symp-toms. It'a amoiu for this I Taken regularly regu-larly Plnkham's Compound helps build up resistance against such distress. dis-tress. Also a great stomachic tonlol iWULPIMXHAM'SSnl WNU 02-47 Buy Safe and Sound '4 A . JMSSr! I f j ...I.". .; 1 '.- ' ' iirinn km Rub in Ben-Gay, quick! Gently warming Ben-Gay brings speedy, welcome relief from chest-cold discomfort discom-fort You see, Ben-Gay contains up to 2 V4 times more methyl salicylate and menthol two pain-relieving agents known to all doctors than five other widely offered rub-ins. Insist on genuine Ben-Gay, the original orig-inal Eaume Analgesique. Also for Pain doe to RHEUMATISM, MUSCLE ACHE, and STRAINS. Ask for Mild Ben-Gay for Children. WHY TAKE HARSH LAXATIVES? Healthful Fresh Fruit Drink Makes Purgatives Unnecessary Unnec-essary for Most People Here s a way to overcome constipa tion without harsh laxatives. Drink nk juice ot 1 bunkist Lemon in a glass ot water first thing on arising. Most people find this all they need -stimulates normal bowel action day after day! Lemon and water is good for you. Lemons are among the richest sources of vitamin C, which combats fatigue, helpsresistcoldsandinfections. They supply valuable amounts of vitamins Bi and P. They pep up appetite. They alkaliniu, aid digestion. Lemon and water has a fresh tang too-clears the mouth, wakes you up, starts you going. Try this grand wake-up drink 10 mornings. See if it doesn't help you! Use California Sunkist Lemons. a,PERIODPAIN (functional), headache relief, and painful miseries of colds StJOSeph ASPIRIN Only Gas on Stomach Relinad la 5 niMtos tr daubl your money back WWd tuttam toten add eaoi painful, nffoert faff u, soar stomach and heartburn, doctor gaDallr prwcnba tha fastaat-actiaff nedietoaf kaowo lor rroptoaatle raW medicines like thoee i n Beil-ao Tableta. No laxative. Btll-aiii bring ooufort Id jiffy or double your money back oa retain of botUt to ot. 25c at ail uVosgiata. XwBrutK''ApatkaW , makef BLACK Lfr CO MUCH FAJmU Beware Coughs from cssmoa colds That Hang On Creomulslon relieves promptly because be-cause It bom right to the seat ot tn trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, Inflamed In-flamed bronchial mucous mem-' branes. Tell your druggist to sell you. ft bottle of Oreomulsion with, the understanding un-derstanding you must like the way it ouicklj allays the cough or you are-to are-to have your money back CREOMULSION for Coushs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis Men who walk for a living use SOUS as well as Heels O'Sullmn U. S. Savings Bonds in. CASH IN FSATHERS7 |