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Show parison of university freshmen to be from one to '.h;ee inches. There is a limit to these increases. in-creases. The advance toward it has been rapid in recent years as a result of the attention given nutrition. Nutrition's Value "Twenty years ago 90 per cent of the children had rickets to some extent. But we have solved all the major problems In nutrition, nutri-tion, and only a few generations will tell us whether it has made us longer lived." Dr. Armin Rembe: "Dr. Carrel Car-rel is wrong in his premise about feeding to accelerate growth. 1 certainly do not prescribe special foods with any such idea in mind. I think that all our diet can do for a child is to enable him to have his normal growth, not to accelerate it. We can retard growth by withholding some of the foods, certain vitamins. That is shown in a child having rickets. rick-ets. But the main luclor that affects the body growth, whether a person is to be tall, f:it or thin, is heredity. "I do not believe that large, fat children are better than the others. If anything, the smaller ones are healthier and surely no less alert and intelligent. We have this question every day. Some mother wants to know why her child isn't as large as her neighbor's youngster." Persia's parliament Is called the "Mejliss." Doctors Arguing Over Vatee Found in Growth Foods BY CLAKK SQIIKE American Wire Correspondent "My! How tall Junior is! He'll soon be bigger than his father." "Why, little Shirley has grown so I'd hardly know her!" Mothers invariably beam with pride when they hear such remarks re-marks about their children. But perhaps they would not feel so elated if they considered this subject sub-ject of height and weight in the same light as some of our doctors. D. Alexis Carrel believes that the life of an individual is directed largely by propaganda, some of it such as most commercial advertising ad-vertising being inspired by selfish self-ish motives. But regardless of its pur-pose even if the motive be altruistic such propaganda, he thinks, may be harmful if based upon a faise or incomplete conception con-ception of the human being. Special Foods Citing an example, he raises the question: "Should physicians, by prescribing prescrib-ing special foods, as most of them do, accelerate the growth of young children ?" Then he asks whether larger and heavier children are better than smaller ones. Intelligence, alertness, audacity and resistance to disease do not depend on the same factors as the weight of the boy, he tells us. in the main, members of the Seattle Pediatric society hold views similar to those of Dr. Carrel, but in some respects they disagree with him. Following are opinions of representative . members mem-bers of that society: Prescribe Best Food Dr. Walter Bale Seelye : "I would take issue with part of what Dr. Carrel says. He states that most physicians prescribe special foods to accelerate growth. I Most of them do not, unless you would say that all food is special. spec-ial. Naturally a child needs food especially adapted to him to his own alimentary canal. Actually, the rate of growth is not stimulated stimu-lated by food, but by glands of internal secretion. "It is true young men and women are larger than they used to be as a result of better nutrition, nu-trition, but children now are rap-Idly rap-Idly approaching par as to height and weight. They have been below par, and these increases are merely mere-ly bringing them nearer to what they should be. Rickets used to be common, showing that a properly balanced diet was not given to children." Weight of No Value Dr. Frank H. Douglass: "No, I do not think larger and heavier children are better. A great many persons lose track of the importance import-ance of stock. I do not believe J fat children are any healthier. I I know they are not. The trouble is parents get around a bridge table and try to compare their children. No one should expect any two children in a group to be alike. Nor should you expect a child which weighed six pounds , at birth to compare with one which weighed 12 pounds, yet we find mothers making such comparisons com-parisons daily. "No special diet is needed here in the Northwest. Several years ago iodized tablets were given in school, but that is not necessary neces-sary now as most families use iodized salt." Dr. Jay I. Durand: "I have no apprehension bver this increase in height, which we mind by com- |