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Show UINTAII BASIN RECORD War Brings America Knowledge of How To Eat Properly; Once Lowly Vitamin Now Important Item in Balanced Diet U. $. Army Is 'On Alert' For Chemical Warfare U. S. Finds It's Protein and Not Meat That Counts; Most Nutritive Cuts Once Many Developments in Gas Warfare Date From World War I; America Thought to Have Scorned by Houseuives; Heavy Meals Necessary for Workers. By AL JEDLICKA Greatest Potential Gas Offensive. Released by Western Newspaper Union. By BAUKIIAGE Ketvi Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Some days ago the British short wave radio, beamed on Germany, was telling the German people, who dared to listen to the forbidden words, that if their armies used gas against the Russians, the British retaliate and paralyze the German cities with gas bombs from the air. Just about that same hour, I was entering the Army and Navy club in Washington with a short, vigorous, bright-eye- d general, whose mental agility makes up for his lack of length. It was no coincidence. I was there to learn something more about chemical warfare and I knew of no better way than to pump Brig. Gen. Alden H. Waitt of the chemical warfare service and whose book Gas Warfare has sold out twice in Washington book stores. There was, however, a coincidence connected with that visit, for as we walked into the great crowded din- would wwi I .s ' Soldiers stationed at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif., outfitted with new type training gas masks. ing room of the club, Waitt paused to speak to a man in civilian clothes with a ribbon in his buttonhole. I recognized a figure Amos Fries,- first of chemical the warfare general service. He, of course, is retired gray-haire- d once-famili- ar now. I recalled that shortly after the World war, the activities of General Fries got under some people's skins. He was a over his specialty, and in the reaction against all things military which comes after a war, the cynics used td joke about the stenographer who transcribed her symbols so that a letter was sent addressed to the comical warfare service. First hyper-enthusia- st New Emphasis But Fries persisted and managed to preserve his unit in a tight little Independent group instead of having Its activities scattered all over the other services. As far as the public goes, very little attention has been paid to this arm of our military offense and defense. It may, however. become very prominent before the war is over and some people say that day is "imminent. If gas comes, the United States will be prepared for it. From an organization with 94 officers in the thirties, the chemical warfare service has grown until its officer personnel numbers many thousand (I can't reveal the figure) and many of them are with combat troops today where they are responsible for the use of smoke screens and for Incendiaries the fire bombs and the flame throwers. I have witnessed demonstrations at the Edgewood arsenal near Baltimore, and although I cannot report the details, I can say that some of the effects were remarkable. You ought to see a steel tank or a concrete pillbox go up in flames when it is lighted by a flame thrower. It is unbelievable to watch. There have been, of course, many developments in this weapon of warfare since gas was first used in World War I by the Germans and used so successfully and yet so stupidly. The attack took the British and French colonial troops utterly by surprise and caused what amounted to a rout. If the Germans had had the sense to follow it up, they could have broken through the lines and reached Calais. d That was not the first use of gas in warfare the first recorded use was some time earlier in fact, just 2,445 years earlier at the siege of Plataea, when the Spartans burned wood saturated with pitch and sulphur under the walls. It failed because a rain came up. Five years later a similar gas attack was a complete success at the siege of Delium where the fumes drove the defenders from the citys walls in a panic. Recent Developments The most recent developments in gas warfare has just been revealed. The Allies have known for some time that the Germans had a new powerful gas which it is almost impossible to detect by smell. It can now be stated that this gas is nitrogen-mustara relative of the deadly, burning mustard gas of the last war but far more volatile and that much more effective, for it enters the lungs in greater quantities. It can also now be stated that the Americans are able to manufacture this gas rapidly and in quantity, if necessary. Our experts are thoroughly familiar with its characteristics. The other development which will d, If the Little Woman came home from some cooking school all worked up about the science of food and its preparation, the head man dampened her enthusiasm by gently but firmly advising her that all that vitamin and mineral stuff was the bunk, and meat and potatoes were greatly increase the efficiency of the good enough to keep the world going. use of gas, if it is used today, is the In fact, the head man argued innew method of spraying it from low vincibly, hadnt the world been livflying planes. This makes it possiing on potatoes and meat, etc., since ble to contaminate an area containmans memory runneth, and hadnt ing troops almost without warning. she, as well as he, been raised on However, it is believed that the the old standbys and, what was United States is not only prepared wrong with them? Nothing! of with the best protection but probcourse. But that was before December 7, ably has the most effective potential gas offensive weapons of any of 1941. A lot of things have happened the armies. since then and one of them is Mr. What are the arguments in favor and Mrs. Americas attitude toward of the use of this weapon which, so the vitamin and its entourage. Meat far, has not been used? Let me and other rationing have thrown us quote Brigadier General Waitt: on the defensive and it is now a Every sensible man is agreed question of stretching foods, finding that war should be resorted to only substitutes and all of the time seekwhen all peaceful methods have ing to maintain nutritive values. The upshot of the whole thing is failed. When, in order to sustain its policies, a nation has no other choice that we might emerge from the war but to use force to gain its ends, it with a more intelligent knowledge of should do this with as little loss as food, of the purpose of its varieties, Not only should there be and consequently be in a position to possible. little loss to the nation itself but guide our healthy growth by exact unnecessary loss to its enemy should standards. be avoided. Victory depends on the If we were to be awfully enthuamount of loss. The smaller the siastic about the situation, we might loss to both sides, the greater the say that scientific nutrition may be victory to the victor. This may be the one big development following the war, just like the automobile strange doctrine but it is sound. came into its own in 1919. But a lot Unusual Outlook of people who will find it hard to War, Waitt believes, is not carreform their old eating habits probried on to kill or destroy but rather ably would argue to the death that to enforce a policy, and if possible, we were wrong, because the airplane the enforcement should be accomwill be the thing with peace. plished without loss of life or propMust Find Proteins. erty. Since meat rationing came along, We can work toward this end by the use of gas. He points to these food experts have been pointing out facts for his argument: There were the necessity of seeking other 275,000 American casualties in the sources of protein. In so doing, they American ranks in the last war. have consoled us no end by their More than were caused reminder that, after all, its not the by gas. Of the gas casualties, only about 2 per cent died. In other .S words, the men wounded by gas had r' A about 12 times the chance to live as those wounded by other weapons. To urge the use of gas sounds strange, indeed. I recall how surprised I was when a young Chinese captain, who had fought through most of the campaigns against Gas is a kindly Japan, said to me: weapon." Of course, he had never met it himself bst he had seen plenty of men blown apart by shrapnel and high explosive and he was very posi' L tive in his statement. 1 What about civilians if gas is ' used? In the first place, America, of course, is in less danger than Britain because of distance but not out of danger. There has been much I V J contradictory opinion expressed as to the possibility of gassing cities. i One view is that it would be utterly the other is that whole Ineffective, Eggs have some meat value. populations could be blotted out Waitt says both extreme views are meat that makes meat valuable, but That there is a middle the protein it contains. wrong. ground, that gas can be used against Meat is necessary to our diet beindustrial and political centers of im- cause of its high protein content, portance for its disorganizing and writes one nutritionist. . . . Theredemoralizing effect but that the chief fore, other foods high in protein can targets will be strategic points such be made to do as well. as railway stations, power and light One of these, the nutritionist plants and the like. Gas will not continues, is fish. Perhaps during wipe out populations, he believes, it this war our domestic cheese will will not entirely supplant explosives. come into its own. From the simple But it will be an effective weapon. cottage cheese to the fancy Swiss, it The most important defense, aside equals in quality any in the world from material means of protection and could be used to great advanwhich Waitt describes in detail, is tage, being superb as a food because education and discipline. of the high quality of its proteins." i h A. B II I E F S Polish saboteurs killed or wounded Nazis, damaged 17 German trains and destroyed seven oil wells withb one month. 424 The famous German military magazine, Militaerwochenblatt, has suspended after 127 years of publication, the London radio said In a broadcast recently reported by United States government monitors. Time was not so very long ago when all of this nutritive and vitamin talk sounded kind of silly. That was the time when almost everybody thought that vitamins were something that came in capsules or pills; when women figured that they knew all of the tricks of the culinary trade, and when we all liked food for its taste and gave little consideration to its minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, etc. Plates were heaped with potatoes and meat; if there were any kids around, few vegetables were served because they didnt like them; and then more potatoes and more meat, and finally a great big slug of pie, was put down to top off a good meal. by Baukhage farmer who sells butter, lard or any other food rationed under the meats and fats program to a retailer now must collect ration points for the sale. A If you are having trouble with the point rationing system, go to your Red Cross chapter. A nutrition expert will gladly explain point rationing to you. Soybeans have been found to be extremely high in protein and economical in production. It has been estimated that the same amount of protein as in meat can be raised from soybeans at about h the cost. Other high protein foods include white, navy and kidney beans; black peas, peanuts and peanut butter. Peanuts never have been taken very seriously except at ball games maybe, but with the emphasis on their decided food value and the industrial use for their oil, they have come into extensive cultivation in the one-tent- South. Nutritionists have been careful not to put all of their eggs in one basket, however. While pointing out the food value of vegetables, one expert explains: . . . Ersatz dishes of beans, peas, lentils and the like are foods having a lower biologic value than meat itself. They are sometimes referred tion in varying degrees occur frequently in all parts of the country. Diets of many industrial workers of appeared ,to be below the level what is required for optimum nutrition and all because foods are not chosen wisely! Nutritionists figure that the noon meal must include approximately of the days requirements of protein, minerals, vitamins and one-thir- d calories for heavy workers. Good breakfasts are essential and between-mea- l lunches are helpful in overcoming fatigue during the day. lunches of foods providing minerals and vitamins and about one ounce of easily digested Between-mea- l carbohydrates are the most bene- ficial. If the housewife has received one, she probably has received a thousand suggestions on how to get the most out of food these days. But when these suggestions are considered from both nutritive as well as economical viewpoints, it will be to as meat substitutes, and they are useful, but one should make certain that milk, eggs and cheese are included in the menu to furnish biologic values similar to meat, chicken and fish. f. To obtain a balance in diet for necessary nutrition, another expert steps to the head of the class with the suggestion that milk, leafy green t 1 f. or yellow vegetables, potatoes, citrus fruits, tomatoes, whole grain or enriched cereals, meat or meat al& ;; I i iMnA-- L ternates and occasionally an egg be j included in the days meals. a i i Meats Also Have Vitamins. This expert had in mind the fact that besides protein, meats also possess vitamins and minerals; so that in finding protein substitutes, it is also necessary to supply vitamin supplements. Vitamin B1 and vitamins B2 and G are present in meat, chiefly in pork. To make up for any losses, Vegetables rich in proteins. whole wheat bread, enriched bread or cereals and milk may be eaten considered that most of them have instead. Some nutritionists believe that something on the ball. For instance: Its the style to eat potato skins. Baked potatoes or potatoes cooked in their jackets have a lot of good minerals just beneath the skin, so when theyre thrown away were not getting the greatest nutritive value 1 - V; A for our money. And this brings up the subject of eating the greens under salads. Valuable minerals and vitamins are stored there to be had for the eating. The sugar supply should go farther now because its considered good manners to stir tea and coffee vigorously after adding sugar, so we can get its full sweetening value. 'A f V This will be even more important v when iced tea days appear if we have the iced tea. We used to eat bread and gravy i when we ate alone, or put aside our -- e iiLiMnirtirifSunday manners, but now its the style to eat gravy on hot bisStudy food on nutrition basis. cuits, muffins and bread. Every Americans have never known how homemaker is being asked to save all drippings and to serve them as to shop for meat One says that the most nutritious parts of every car- gravy to extend the good meat flavor cass are seldom chosen at all, but and add nutritive value to the meaL Everyone likes to eat around the go into making fertilizer or feed. bone of a juicy broiled lamb chop Blood, lungs, stomach, pancreas, or a of fried chicken, and now kidney, brain, sweetbreads and werepiece not only told that its permis-sabl- e hearts these are among the items from the standpoint of manwhich the housewife passed up with untroubled conscience on her shop- ners, but were encouraged to follow this procedure because its the trend. ping tours. Learn to Carve. One nutritionist remarked that the meat packers who knew the pecu- ' Not the very least of the suggesliarities of the people, put choice tions is one directed toward the head tidbits like those mentioned above man as well as the little woman. into their canned dog food. As a Nowadays, if Papa does the carving result, he says, much dog food was at the table, Papa is advised to superior in nutritive value to some learn how to carve. It seems theres more to carving of the meat canned for human conthan merely wearing the badge of sumption. There is one thing we "shall do authority; indeed, good carving well to remember, the nutritionist avoids waste, assures uniform slicdeclares, and that is there is no ings (important to the preservation evidence to support the theory that of harmony in every home) and afwhen we buy expensive cuts of meat fords extra servings. Perfectly elementary in Itself is we are buying more or better protein than the cheaper cuts would the fact that a sharp knife is essential to a good carver. And provide us. equally Generally speaking. American elementary, a good carver should take in enough interest his tool to ashabits of choosing, buying, preparing and serving meats have been waste- sure its care. Thus, knives should ful of both food value and money. not be let loose in a drawer where Americans in the main have scorned other metal can dull or nick the the animal organs and the cheaper blade. A properly Sharpened knife cuts of muscle meat, tasteful and can be kept keen for a long time by nutritious though these may be. a dozen strokes with a steel before use. Many people habitually spurn fat In carving any cut of On meats. the other hand, we rush meat, it is to buy the cuts which include a large desirable to understand the anatomy of bone structure of the cut to be proportion of bone and gristle, which carved and to remember that meat represents waste. should always be carved across the Find Adequate Diets. grain. Steak, because it is tender The National Research council in and the meat fibers are already relaa recent report on nutrition asserted tively short, is an exception to the that inadequate diets and malnutri rule. u - o 9 y f ? if 's ' Primitive weaving has beer ried on in Haiti for n Christopher Columbus brou? Haiti from hemisphere,4' woven cloth that he secured", the Indians of that ancient of Hispaniola on his first v to the New world. Families Share Tales of the Town: In Chicago last year, 8,103 When the editors and publishers shared the products flies conannual their town for in were vention several of them were talking community war gardens. shop . . . One recalled the time Rub Out Bathtub Rin. when Heywood Broun was a cub and Bathtubs which are stained he was instructed to come in very early one Christmas morn . . . by the use of rubber mats e, When Broun arrived the empty city brought back to whiteness K room depressed him. The desks easy method: Try rubbings were littered with remnants of the paste of scratchless scouring previous nights tale clippings, bare der and kerosene. Wash wifi, spikes, curled up cheese sandwiches and water. What remains t and beer containers . . . Suddenly, stain might be bleached ot off in a corner, a telegraph instru- covering the bottom of the tat ment started to click . . . Tobacco clear water, then pouring tins were jammed against the tele- three tablespoonsful of a good graph bugs to make them louder remover into it; thoroughly . . . One after the other joined in this with the water and allow the monotonous chorus all chirping remain over night. He could the same message tell, he said later, that they were Best Milk Cows trying to report something imporAlthough the evidence was tant happening ctnewhere, but he C: ... tabulation couldnt understand a word they entirelyindicated cows that cords came in . . . were tapping Finally, in the and fall freshened early a sleepy telegrapher . . . Broun Is ter were more productive Please tell me said: those which freshened in s happening. They are 4 clicking and summer. They product madly. Maybe a liner has ieen sunk 11 per cent more or a king assassinated or an earth- average of 11 per' cent more butterfat quake! Im sure its a big story cent more income over and our paper is being scooped! The veteran listened to one after cost. ' o the other and then smiled . . . Wars Raise Prices This is Christmas, son, said the During the first 40 monti they are all saying the both a wars, farm prices in the ! Child A bom is same thing. ed States rose about 80 per c Child is bom a Child is bom! However, that does not mean cent In the days when most of the pa- each product rose 80 per ;V Some rose r started. war the a on were Park .certain Row, pers and as potatoes, such hogs editor was nicknamed Simon Legree because of the way he kicked around some rose less, such as egg: some of the staff . . . One night, butter. o and this is journalistic history, a K Freshen Lima Beans staffer couldnt stand the abuse any knowr worth trick a Theres He threw the editor longer down a flight of stairs . . . The next restoring lima beans to their i freshness. After soaking t R; nal when in staff came he the night to five hoyrs in cold w. four with a gold presented the reporter o For the Best cook the beans in the same w: d pros watch inscribed: Tuc Cook about 20 minutes, add Journalism in 1928. and cook 20 to 30 minutes lc has bi orche till the beans are tender. One night some of ns were privihas o leged to meet Sgt. A1 Schmid, the ng mu Ruins Indian Find Philadelphia boy who was decorated Rich new archeological finds at Guadalcanal for erasing over 200 "herell fortress Japs until one of their grenades eluding a pyramid, alla John I !: dating blinded him . . . Al, who is Dutch-Iris- part3 of a statue, ed, sc of era Toltec the mysterious a has different slant on the aer stu war He talked a lot about two seventh and 11th centuries, ch g Mexico, announced from of his buddies, one Rivers, a Protes.ie del otant, who died there, and one lad Life, Bell Was Scot named Diamond from Brooklyn, a invr Alexander Graham Bell, Jewish chap . . . They say, said Al, that I killed 200 Japs. I dont of the telephone, was bom in I. know how true that is. I never said burgh, Scotland. that. I was told so by people who read it in the papers . . . And he kept talking about the others or wishing hard that he could do something about "waking up the people back home! one-side- d, fTirr r, U ... ... When the collared the last big bunch of Nazi spies (just before we entered the war) some of the prisoners revealed the following . . . That after the advance men had been smuggled in and had made all the most elaborate preparations (laying the ground work with secret radio stations and all the other standbys) the Nazis sent over their He was a man very best agent who had worked all over the world, and he had never failed on any assignment . . . There was just nothing this bloke didnt know about the noble art of espionage . . . And he was sent here to take charge of matters On his first day in New York the other Nazi spies gathered to meet him where he planned to give them their instructions On his way to the rendezvous, however, something went wrong with the script . . . Even the higher-up- s in Berlin never figured to coach him in a most important detail . . . How to cross the street at Times Square. The great spy was killed to get out of the way of a cab.trying ' ' ... ... The Big Shows Sallies In Our Alley: Dick Himber heard Colonel Romulo (he helped rescue MacArthur) tell it at a party. It was the one joke, said Romulo, "that kept us laughing on Bataan until the end. A mamma rabbit and a daddy rabbit were in the woods when they saw a pack of wolves. They hid in a cave. How will we hide here? asked the long mamma rabbit . . . Until.' was the reply, we outnumber em! " The Front Pages: The most important problem for some newspapers was reported by United Press from Providence, R. I. The State Senate, it appears, passed a measure that would make it mandatory for Rhode Island newspapers to print names and addresses of all writers of editorials and ditto for those whose letters are published under the Letters to the Editor s. Quotation Marksmanship; G. Martin: True generosity is the Spring cleaning budgets is rec- have always been in them, is no ability to e ingratitude . . , The Alaommended by the committee as en of their value. A serious fam-il- y accept bama Times: Show aid to the purchase of more bonds courtesy to othconclave over expenditures of the ers not because they are by every family. Recognizing that first quarter of, the is sure year to but because you are . . gentlemen, most budgets are as full of old hab- result in of ways to save ONeill: The its at this time of year as closets money. discovery censorship which8 by banning a strip tease show are cluttered with clothes, the comThe first thing that clutters up a always finishes by mittee suggests a family conference budget, condemning as says the committee "is a play which hints upon items to be discarded for simdebt. Loans, installment that payments Washington might not have chopped plified living, with consequent savcharge Recounts and delinquent bills down that tree . . . Anon: ing, budgets, the comare a heavy tax on any income. He is Clark Gable-bodiemittee says, are unpatriotic in war Obviously, the young man to only way get clear Schopenhauer: Life i. a busl'rA; time, and the fact that certain tilings is to pay off. that does not pay expenses. 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HERE'S WAY TO BUY BONDS -- GET MORE SLEEP! of An extra hours sleep in the near side of the evening was recommended as a war thrift measure by the National Thrift committee. With small wage earners facing the necessity of buying more and more war bonds, the National Thrift committee issues the warning that drastic economies on the home front are inescapable. Health-givinsleep will automatically curtail many extravagances, in the opinion of the IV i eft," ort to S. W. MACDONALD, Director of Industrial Relation! The Red River Lumber T Co CM Westwood, Lassen County, Persons now employed in other dch industr es should not apply. W.N.U. Week No. 4.119 - ui orm, fii'ur 'll I "It? Cue ' hit." ' flc BALTl lure |