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"Seynte Valentine, of customc i t ) : - 1 , nus DEPARTMENT - which works ,primarily with the agricultural department, tests only the foods which have a vitamin content guarantee on their label. There is no state law demand ing the adding of vitamins, but when the manufacturer states that the product is enriched, or added vitamins put in, the State so. make sure this There is a need for a state law requiring a definite content al. though more and more compa- riles are listing a quantity guar. antee. It is interesting to learn how this equipment works. For instance, it is necessary to use red, ic or giasswear for these - tests - because ordinary B-Riboflavin light decomposes -- , ,t1;.! '..- l - , , r t ,,.,,i , , , 1 4 0,,e .... 0'. - . , :-:- ,, 1114.444kok p .., By Courtney Cottam IT WAS JUST at the close. of thet war that $2,000.00 worth of new scientific equipment was added to the Chemist's t ment at the State Capitol.Depart. Utah,. always, rated high in the pro- tection of foods and drugs, added , to the Utah State chemist's- task of keeping foodstuffs and bever- ages free from filth, insects and toxic preservatives, that of test- 'ing the vitamin content of foods. Because of the modern han- -' dling of foodstuffs. essential vitamin contents ereoftere de- pleted, and they are being added ph la artifically to many of these prod- ucts. Although the label reads that a certain percentage of vi- taming have been added, until this equipment was installed, there -- was no way of checking the accuracy of the statement. Now the chemists are able to determine the total content of and added, vitamins; ' original, being tested at this time are - - - grain products Ruch as cereals ': . and flours and breads. - - The work of determining the true vitamin content of tablets and capsules may eventually be a part of the job of the chemist department, although at this time aspirin is the only drug so . tested. - 4171 414:411114.1.70 , .k."4.4. I . - ' , ....,,,,, , . v - v . 1 4.4 - A,,,,,...,-, , , I ' - 0 tpit : 0."2'11414.1111.447,141No , . r . - , k , tote''' 414, O ' , . be. .. ., 111PA. s.1 01J. It tto ot 91: , 4, 44,4o4644,10e.:1Sto - apbs 411, loot? Aar 44, tip.., -- . ,,,. t,,mit ' ' 7:444414.11441"4417e".41411041. 0:414:1141141114411114, Ai? 147,64rP To-ir- .11'.17f4r oe , - me. I i . WHAT'S 19'48 It Latr . 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This liquid is placed itt the , - fluorimeter, and ultraviolet light is passed through IL If. there is any vitamin R-- 2 present the sOlv , lution will fluoresce and of color that green,lhe amount is produced- - being directly proto ,:- 1 portlonal the amount of vita. min present. f , I AND THAT SOURCE OF much miscellaneous information, old Pepys, wrote in 1666, "By and by comes Mrs. Pierce with my name in her bosom for her Valentine, which will cost me money."N.. r .. i I It t v -- That brings us up to the commercial aspect, so generally -yen-for transmuting -sentiment into coin For even at that datenearly three- hundred years ago, a it cost money,loo. valentine gift Some 150 years later, Charles Lamb was to note the sending of valentines more liearly like the valentine of todaybut to him it W as all sentimentand worthwhile., liesaid, This is the day on Which those charming little missives yClepted valentines cros- sand inteicross each other at every street and turning." :ascribed i 4 - ; in . -- 1 . , FIRST VALENTINES were imported from France and England and were the charming little missives Mentioned by. Lambgenerally a sentimental picture entwined with roses and AMERICA'S - 1 4, turf anelace. forget-me-no- ts , V The first native valentines were made by a New England stationer, in the 1840's, who earned for his initiative the title, "Great High Priest of Love, Courtthip and Marriage." He evidently made a good thing of his office, because other printers and stationers followed his lead, and in 1857 Ihree,million valentines were sold throughout the country. Many of , were hand lettered-an- d ,hand colored, and are rare items in the collection of any lover of Americana. comic valentine Made, But just three years later the its debutan 'American' product, to cause blushes, if not for the unhappiness they evoked, at any rate for their lack of any pretense to artistic creation or-- even- - decency. - ,,, 111.0..411 No gok 04 est To itl alle, - s . , I . . ,-- , '., ---; - - 0e441.6 Ntaito,,....11.19116 , n -- 4. - rps 184:44444, 4408t P' Zia fi .4"4.44".. - - PAPERS" THE LINCOLN show our sixteenth president to hate been "of the people" more than any leader this country has known, according to David C. Weems, who is preparing the papers for publication by Doubleday this fall. Lincoln's correspondence, which was kept from the American public for in o r e than eighty years, will be issued '' set with extenin a sive notes by Mearns, head of the reference department of the Library of Congress and a , noted Lincoln scholar. According to Mearns, who has been working .with the papers release last July, f. since their "Abraham Lincoln stands alone ' in history largely because in life he stood among - people. Only' through them, the inhabitants of , a wide broken, angry land, is ' it possible to find him. It is this two-volu- V.- A element which gives such transcendent importance to the (newly revealed) papers." "NO MORTAL ''AN was ever the object of such intense and particular research," and because the days before his inauguration offered, a more accessible field, almost every possible fact concerning his habits, his beliefs and his household are well known. Secret papers could hardly turn ud anything which hadn't been dug out by the human ferrets. Yet the perlod of the presidency has escaped such microscopic examination. "The LineT'n Papers" reports the Washingtom years the most significant time of his development and the energence of his genius. "The Lincoln Papers." held secret in the Librar of Congress until July 26, 1947, Include thousands of letters from the Amen 0 i ' - , 44111141111410 teeill volt11,1, 'V , , els can public to their crisic leader. As Mearns points out: "Their responses to him and his to them, their anguish and his sympathies,' their aspirations and his endeavors. their reaching out and his upholding them" make possible for the first time a true estimate of his towering spirit. It is all there, uttered spontane-- . ously 0.rithout thought to poster ity, yet unintentionally mirroring perfectly Lincoln's reflection as it was caught by his people. he was so much "It In and of his world that Abraham Lincoln is the foremost Amen.' can," the editor of- 'The Lincoln Papers" explains.- "He is fore-- most because, he was the central, focal character in a bruising, bitter, wretched,.. splendid moment when many men were great and he was greater 'still. He is foremost because his contemporaries made him foremost, thet contains a light, sensitive chemical that, when exposed to a light, sets up an electric. cur,. rent which is directly propor. tional to the amount striking the photoceIL of light . -- N. lb. '0,01::e tatt gileglibt, stNitek -- - 111 7r:01111111111111Y.t Nimpeeeeeeeleo, NeitArtioareetiab N4141.4.40:41.14 Papers . Will Give Clearer- Picture of the , 0 . high-intens- ity The photocell is an instrumeht 44.4 - Lincoc)11-1's- - icate, very sensitive instrtmient, with a mercury- arch lamp or some other source - atia01116811 of ultraviolet light. During use .1111111111111 this light passes through a glass to et .. ' filter - that takes out any visible "' - . 1. light,- so' that the only light that . 444 passes through is ultraviolet, or "black" light, So named because AtI011SSIVE . . it is not visible to the eye. i 101111111 It is well to note here that see A, 111 certain chemicals, when exposed , OS to a definite wave length of As , light such as ultraviolet, give off solosseop a visible light, or light of an- asseest. other wave length. The intensity of this new light or new wave length is measured by allowing ut it to strike a photo-electr- ic cell. ' and the electric current pro. duced is indicated on the sensi. tive galvanometer, or meter to - record the amount of electric. T - - 141441144i: , is a del- - icy 1111 - . lhonsapite.. Ile Iw un- were 13opu1ar with only a pleasant souls, and prettiness and affection tritimphed. The valenand applique work tines grew in elaborateness and "mush"--frin- ge v.ere added; lace billowed and frothedand then celluloid was invented and put to work, By 1904 a Iove lorn swain was paying , ;25 for a confection concocted of Cupids, celluloid, lace and drivel.---Today the trend is toward a more latonic type of sentiment and a more economical type of cardthe slanguage of the day is translated onto the valentine and youths assumed. clischan of sentimentality is dressed up In pert and catchy mottos.-probably, what- But it is, after all, the same ever is deducled to prove this or that, it really does go back to old Dame Nature' habits. So if you don't want to be inhibited and submft and to suffer all the pangs of the frOstrated, relax to the custom and send your true love a valentine tonight. BUT THESE "COMICS" i , - eget, -- , - - Voare - THIS FLUORIMETER 4111111811111 111111111110 118Apee ed I 4.. e..... ea - - ' , age the : ,S-- . ire I Mn conceded his primacy, and con- may have done the work him.: ferrtd their power and their serf Many time in the 14 years between 1905 and 1919, when honor on him." the papers were in his custody. DAVID "It should be remembered, how- - MAIMS STATES flatly his belief that the collec- ever, that he had only proposed 'tion, of the Lincoln papers is in- to 'glean out what is useless ant tact. Robert Todd Lincoln, the classify the remainder in some president's ison, whose order it sort.' Such weeding would have was that the papers be withheld been unfortunate, but it would 21 years after the date of his not necessarily have impairet death. did so in order to prevent the Usefulness and dependability offense to the "immediate ances- of the collection. It should be tors of persons now living." "If remembered also that he recognized the existence of 4many he had purged the correspondence. there would have been no documents necessary, to the would be damreason whatever ,or the imposi- history to men now living." He tion of secrecy. aging "Itseems unlikely thathe did - took pains to protect the sensi anything of the kind.... Robert bilities of the living, perhaps for Todd Lincoln always insisted the very reason that he might that he must sutymit the papers preserve the necessary docuto a sifting. Did he carry out ments." Mr. Mearns has selected over that Intention? Perhaps be may have had some assistance from 'five hundred of the papers for ' John G. Nicholay, or again he publication next fall. .,. . Jar - In Defense of - . OOOOOOOOOOO AMOUNTS OF FOODSTUFFS can be tested in the fluorimeter. For instance, 'in testing vitamin B, or Thiamin. it is possible to take one tea., spoonful of material, divide it into fourths, then take a millionth part of the fourth and cll. vide one. of these irdinitisimal parts into halves, which will give . , half of a microgram. There is very little deviation In vitamins from the declared amounts on the labels, although the difference in labeling caused 0 ir some confusion. With such modern, equipment to safeguard the well- - 1 , being of the people of Utah, the 4:, t already noteworthy high stand- - a I r ard of health in the state should r,:. ,') 'it j zoom to a new leveL MINUTE - Valentines , , ' Now let the messages cif love be spoken. Let no one hesitate to soy the word, , To send the flower or verse or some small token. That givesttis love a voice that can be heard. - Into the shattered air they shriek their creed. But love speaks softly, and is often silent., Trusting froUstrands of thought too swiftly broken; So in this day when much is mod and violent 'Olive W But - f hate is vocal. Hate sends its screaming missive Straight to thepnguished heart, that must give heed. And lust ond greed are noisy and derisive, Let love's sane messages be clearly sf5oken. ' For , - , , k i , SPIRIT OF LOVE Lovely Judy Ander son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rae I 219 Anderson, Nineteenth-E- as portrays the spirit of St, Valentine's Day. (Photo by Willard L Arvesethi |