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Show The Cache American. Losran, Cache County. Utah Pace Six I Child Health Day, May 1, Is Dedicated This Year To Campaign for Better Birth Registrations "GAY GADGETS" Anaorlatcd Nwapapr WNli Paaturai By NANCY PEPPER UP IN ARMS How many sterling silver bsngle you load on your arm from wrist to elbow? Well, thats how many you'll wear. Or maybe brscclcts esn silyou prefer those ver bangles with your name engraved on one, your Dream Man's name on the other. They look like handcuffs, aorta. And don't forget your silver identification and friendship link bracelets. How to Bo Charming You just wear silver charm bracelets, of course. Barrettes nre L. ' BIRTH Certificate for Every Baby in the U. S. A." is the slogan for Child Health Day. celebrated on May 1. Since 1923 May Day has become traditionally the children's day, and in 1923 congress passed a joint resolution requesting and authorizing the President to issue an annual proclamation designating May 1 as a day on which all groups interested in bettering conditions for children might unite and rededicate themselves to this cause. The war emergency and selective ' service has demonstrated the value of complete and accurate birth registration at the time of birth. During the first 18 months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor the U. S. Civil Service commission alone asked the Bureau of the Census to make 500,000 searches of records for proof of citizenship when birth records were unavailable. These and subsequent searches have cost the federal government a million and a half dollars and required the services of 800 clerks and typists. State vital statistics offices and the Bureau of the Census have been flooded with requests for delayed birth registration from great numbers of people who have had to prove citizenship to obtain jobs in war Industries. So a birth certificate is your "first citizenship paper." Most all states have laws governing these birth registrations, but despite these laws the Bureau of the Census estimates the nation has a backlog of almost 55 million persons who were not registered at the time of birth. The census in 1940 revealed that in some states birth registration is only about 75 per cent complete and In some of the southern states less than 50 per cent of the current births are registered. In the nation as a whole, the percentage of registrations was 92.5 per cent. Country Records Less Complete. n the average, rural counties had less complete birth registrations than urban counties. There are scores of instances in which a proper birth certificate Is essential. Evidence of age, citizenship and family relationships may be required when a person enters school, obtains a work permit, auto drivers license, pilots license, marriage license, nurse's license, to carry firearms, an insurance policy, to qualify for voting, to enlist in the armed services, to enter civil service, to qualify for social security benefits, for federal pensions, to obtain employment in industry, passports, old age assistance, right of inheritance, to establish claims for servicemens dependents allow ance and a score of other reasons. The childrens bureau of the department of labor has played a major role in the development of more complete birth registrations. Other organizations which have helped in A Cl this Important work Include the eral federation of Womens Gen- Clubs, the Mothers Congress, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae and other women's organizations throughout the country. The war has brought a bumper crop of babies. Since Pearl Harbor more than 10 million births have been recorded in this country. 1943 set a record of more than 3 million. Proper registration, which Includes Information on health, is Important In the proper treatment and allocation of funds under the various federal laws, such as maternal and child health care, etc. For instance, under the Social Security act federal funds are available to states to promote these welfare programs on the basis of the number of registered live births in the state. Much of the money appropriated through the social security act is earmarked for service in rural areas where community health facilities are limited, but it is in the rural areas where birth registration is least complete. Birth records also are essential In determining the accuracy of gains and losses in the infant mortality rate and the causes of these deaths. Based on the records available, from 1915 to 1942 both infant mortality and maternal mortality hve been cut about 60 per cent. In the decade 1933 to 1943 Infant mortality has been reduced from 58 to 40 per 1,000 births. For every 3 babies who died in 1933 during the first year of 30,-00- t" Farm City Family Finds Living onTwo-Acr- c Much Better Than in New York Apartment By Ed Robinson In 'Better Two years ago we Robinsons lived in a New York apartment We discovered that the unadvertised incond veniences outweigh the conveniences that living in a large city bat to offer. When we had to take a long bus ride to let the baby play outdoors, we began to think seriously about living in the country. What we had in mind was a small place near enough to my job for me to go back and forth every day and yet large enough for us to grow a big part of our own food. We knew nothing about fanning but began to read Then we books and pamphlets. moved to a small place near Norwalk, Conn., about an hour from my New York office. Our basic Idea was to farm for our own use rather than for profit we called It our Have-Mor- e plan. When you produce only a few things, you have to sell the surplus at wholesale and buy other things at When you raise a great retail. many different things and use them yourself you are in effect selling at retail. How near have we come to this goal? Today we are producing all our milk and cream, some butter, all our eggs, about 120 pounds of chicken a year, over 200 pounds Minute Mdle-U- pi of pork, bacon and ham, plus rabBy GABRIELLE bit, lamb, goose, raspberries, asparagus, and all but a few dollars worth of fresh, canned and frozen vegetables. And we are doing it all in our spare time. We handle it all easily, and I am still able to commute to my New York job five days a week. We y and Im home get up at from the office by seven in the evening and can work In the garden until nine. Usually we are in bed by ten, but in the canning season we are sometimes busy until midnight. Earn Extra $100 a Month. Our figures show that the market value of the food we are producing averages $55 a month above cost Skin dry, Our Skin looking dull? expenditures for clothes, doctor lines showing up? Do some Quick bills and other costs have gone Work! Spread on a generous layer down. Instead of our spare time of vanishing cream. Stroke and pat for entertainment, we money costing tt well into the lines and furrows of use it productively. Our payments the skin. Relax for a minute. Then on the place (which in 20 years will remove the cream with tissues, leavare less than the mean ownership) ing on a light film as a base for rent used to be. Add all these savyour powder. This Minute Mask ings and the total is around $900 a will do wonders for your skin and year the equivalent, considering inquick too! come taxes, of earning nearly $100 WNU Features. Ledger Syndicate. much-boaste- Homes and Gardens." a month extra. Eggs were our first project. We started with seven pullets at $11. During eight months those seven hens laid 646 eggs; they cost us 25 cents a dozen against 60 cents in the store. We increased our flock to twenty. A better laying breed, these cut our feed costs about 15 per cent We now eat four dozen eggs a week. When several neighbors use the Have-Mor- e plan, variety can go up while both cost and labor are going down. We traded geese for turkeys, rabbits for pears, broilers and eggs for potatoes. Milk From Goat. In season we had all the fresh vegetables we could eat In addition we canned and froze about 275 quarts for winter use and saved ourselves about $150 that's $150 over the $22.50 we spent for plowing, seeds, fertilizer and spray. A grade Nubian doe and her kid, shipped 2,000 miles from one of America's best goat ld "" 17c: JOHANNESBURG. Lt John J. Dobson, president of the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa, predicted the expenditure on arms for the war against Germany and Japan would total more than $1,400,000,000,000. He said this was apart from cost of rebuilding ruined areas. U.S.A. I3W9J7J U. $.$.. e y or weekend-la-weeken- d diary end youll have tome standard for comparison when your social life seems to slip. Suppose you dont have a date this entire weekend and you didnt have one last weekend either! Look bock into your diary. Weren't there wide open spaces last year, too ? Then, suddenly, werent you back in the social whirl with more dates than you could handle ? Learn to take the good with the bad and the good will seem better and the bad not so tragic. breeders, cost $49 including shipping. Our friends are always flabbergasted when we tell them that was goat milk they had for lunch. Actually, goat milk, properly handled, has no distinctive taste, is a little richer than cow milk and naturally homogenized. We bought two inoculated pigs in April, slaughtered them in December and had 460 pounds of pork at a cost of 22 cents a pound. From our two does and buck well have 30 to 40 young three d or rabbits in a year. They are easier to dress than chickens, require less than five minutes care a day and cost only 8 to 10 cents a pound. seven-weeks-o- ld four-poun- V' fif I rrnr jij j ipj uijiiji ' ill iKf ? uf II At Improved Sheep Proves Production Aid Earl old-tim- ge lf Feed Cattle Corncobs For the third successive year wheat grown in Colorado won the Phillip W. Pillsbury prize for the best grain raised in the country. Jesse Powers, Henderson, Colo., farmer, was awarded the trophy for the 1944 crop year with hard red spring wheat. Presentation was made in Denver by R. H. Tucker, left, and Carl Powell, right, two of the judges. THE U. S. 5. R. HAS A BIG POPULATION o HHimrir V TEtSFACT CoL TRIXIE TEEN SAYS -Keep Colorado Wheat Takes Prize Third Year six-thirt- $1,400,000,000,000 Set A Total Cost of War f Back But they must be sterling . . silver and they must have his name or yours (or both) engraved their lives, only 2 died in 1943. on them. In the same period maternal morRing 'n P Ins-- Yes. tality was pared down 58 per cent the silver fad While 62 mothers died for every has to laspread 10.000 births In 1933 only 28 died In pel and aweater pint, too and 1943. bulky allver rings are tremen. Also, Depends on Registrar. that popular friendship ring with two The key to complete registration from It of babies Is the local registrar. In tiny silver hearts dangling Goon? Then just Wanna Spoon, 1941 there were approximately 0 a sterling silver spoon and of these public servants charged salvage bend it to fit your wrist Time was with the responsibility of gathering were satisfied with a dime when birth and death certificates. In store you covered with nail polspoon, many states the duties are Imposed ish. This year, youll take aterling on civil officials who have other duor else! othtown such as In the clerk. ties, er states the duties fall upon any Daffynltlons citizen who is public spirited enough BOOMER BOY Popular Wolt to assume them. The roster of loYOU JAB ME You make me cal registrars Includes housewives, mad. DIM BULB A stupid person. pharmacists, merchants, physicians' GAMBLER-O- ne who makes blind wives, farmers, undertakers and Individuals in other callings. Fees dates. DAPPER The brand new word paid to the registrars run from 20 cents to $1, but In a survey of six for neat keen, rugged, super or states, 72 per cent of these folks sharp.. (What anotherl) MARRIED-Gol- ng earned $50 or less a year. Less than Steady. 2 per cent earned more than $500. GRAVEL GERTIE A drippy gal Improvement in the records, how- (The D. Tracy Influence). ARE YOU SERIOUS Instead of ever, is due to the work of these 30.000 local workers who depend "Are you kidding?" AN ELEANOR A gal who really upon the assistance of the doctors, nurses, midwives or others attendgets around. PASS THE FEATHER What you ant at births. Child Health officials say now is lay when someone tells a joke that'a the time to bring mothers into the not funny. The Idea is that you picture so that if every one else for- could tickle yourself with a feather gets, these mothers will do their and make yourself laugh see? BROWN SUGARDiG Telling fibs. part to make sure that there Is on COOKIE DUSTER Moustache. file a birth certificate for every baby TAKE IT EASY, BREEZY In in the U. S. A. other words, "not so IS generally understood that the boom in sport will be on postwar Dip the emazing side. But it will be an entirely different matter from the port boom after World War L Smaller Quantity of It will appeal to a far greater number of actual playera but 1 doubt Derris Now Required very much that It will even approach Golden age that folthe LATEST boon for aheep raisers lowed the First World war those from the U. S. departthat brought ment of agriculture in the form of years ui Babe Ruth, Jack an effective, economical and easily Dempsey, Bobby prepared dipping solution for rid- Jones, Bill TUden. ding sheep of ticks. Bill Johnston. Red Six ounces of derris powder Charlie Grange, containing 3 per cent rotenone are Paddock, mixed with a little water to make Roger a thin paste and then diluted In Sand a, and many Hornsby 100 gallons of water. Cube powmore in almost evalso der, containing rotenone, may ery line of sport be substituted for derris. Babe Ruth bad been L Despite the limited supply of a atar pitcher berotenone currenUy being Imported fore. But tt was not Grantland Rice Into the U. S.. flock owners may aruntil after the war range for allocations to suit their that be unwrapped his big mace and needs. Control of sheep ticks Is one home runs. began hitting of the authorized uses. Less than I cant see any such stars In sight half aa much derris or cube powder is needed to kill sheep ticks as was for some time to come. For this has been a longer and far more punishformerly thought necessary. are Dip made with derria or cube ing war as far as our athletes powdera are not only easy to pre- concerned. It has arrested the playpare, but save labor, since one dip- ing careers of far more young atars, such aa Bob Feller, Ted Wllllama, ping la enough. Most other aheep who dips commonly used required two Billy Conn, and so many others were still short of their prime and peak when called to service. Here and there among the yanng-e- r ' A.. servicemen well have a certain number of stars wha may eamo e close ta the mark boxers, ball playera and football players. t But anyone who expect t ace a Ruth Jones TUden-GranDempaey Sande and Hornsby parade - n Is Ukely to be disappointed. c. It could happen, of course. Since almost anything can happen in sport. But it Isn't a good bet The odds are against it There will be too many of our greatest stars around Pearl Harbor daya back in 1941, who will be over the hill physically before they have the chance to return Only Tick-Fre- e Sheep Are Profitable. to competitive sport They will still be good, many of them, but too applications about 24 days apart, of them will have lost theb the first to kill adult tick and the many second to kill the new crop. The best years. rotenone in the new dip kills both Another Type of Boom the tick and the pupae in one dipThe sport boom that will follow in and the effective remains ping, this war will be another type. While fleece for several weeks. Another advantage of the meth- it may not give the spectators such od is that unheated water from prac- big names as we have mentioned, tically any source can be used. so many outstanding stars, it will The presence of alkali or clay doea accomplish something much more not reduce the effectiveness of the important It will lift the general avnew dip. However, pure clean water erage of play and skill far higher than lt ever was before. is best Veterinarians of the department's The First World war contributed bureau of animal industry studied nothing to the headline mastery of the effects of dips of various the Golden age. The sport stars of strengths. None of the dipped sheep that era had practically no connecnor their fleece suffered any ill ef- tion with the war in any way. You fects. can ring in Grover Cleveland Alexander, since Old Pete was a star pitcher back around 1911. But it will be different after this Agriculture war. Army and navy now have In the News from 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 men in the service. And army and navy By W. J. Dryden have outlined one of the biggest programs for sport ever known, along FACTS ON MILK the line of coaching, training and play. , competitive one-haFour and million farms This big swing in the direction of produce milk. The annual supply in the U. S. would fill a river 3,000 sport is a vital necessity. Army and miles long, 40 feet wide, and 2H navy know this. When the war in feet deep. Europe is over, there will be millions The dairy industry annually sup- who cant be rushed home or on plies 15,000,000 pounds of casein used to Asia and the Paclfio at a days in casein paint. A notice. They will need a vast sportpaste from milk ing program to keep them interfermented is used ested in life while waiting for boats by Soviet doctors and planes to bring them back, or to bring about carry them to other theaters of rapid healing of action. wounds. It is also The big weakness of sport in the used in making United States is that we have been fiber and plastics, too much of a spectator nation and also a wool sub- not enough of a playing nation. This stitute. applies to our youngsters and to oldin er men. When 25,000 out of 100,000 Penicillin, mass production, are rejected by the was made possi- draft, something is obviously wrong. ble by use of casein. Army and navy now plan to Pasteurized milk will prevent the aU these millions a chance to give play spread of undulant fever. It is the the games they like with greater most complete food and the most skill, even if few of them ever beperishable. Hippocrates prescribed come champions. There can only be milk in 360 B. C. to build health. one champion, at a time, after all. Milk exposed to sun for two hours But there can be a vast improvewill lose 20 per cent of its vitamin G ment in our average skill. content. Milk can be rendered sterile by filtering through sand. Postwar Football a o A o Him mjmno w wo (estj o Navy Will Send Health Force to Assist Greeks A navy public WASHINGTON. health unit will sail for Athens soon at the request of the Greek govern- ment Announcing this, the navy said the 14 man group would seek to curb disease, restore and improve sanitary facilities and do everything else in its power to ameliorate living conditions among a people crushed by years of ehemy IT Instead of burning corncobs to get rid Of them, Ohio State university specialists are urging that they be saved and fed to beef cattle. With a shortage of feed possible before the end of next year, much of the needed roughage may be furnished by the corncob. Many farmers find it advisable to grind the whole corn, cob and all, using a coarse grind. Some report that it takes a little encouragement before the sattie will eat the corncob. FARMERS WONDERFUL HAVE JOB OF In World Wor I form production increased 1914-1- 77 920 In World WorD farm production Z57. hosncrecsed 1939-19- 44 DONE A WAR PRODUCTION There is one knotty, thorny problem that the league or leagues will soon have to meet. This involves returning servicemen who may have a year or two years of college football left, but who may want to play rather than return to campus life. As the pro rule now works no player can be taken into pro ranks until his class has graduated. This regulation has worked well so far and has drawn the full approval of the colleges and the college coaches. The war is almost certain to be over in Europe before next fall. That doesnt mean that all football players In army or navy wiH be released. But many will be, including a few from the Pacific. Some of these college players will want to return and finish their college course. Others won't. One angle is this If these men iont want to go back to college, why shouldnt we use them?" Others jelieve the present rule that calls tor waiting until their college time over should be kept as it is or was before the war. pro-footb- U j |