Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 9 August 1938, Page 4

Timely Topics

[ “Our island, lying amidst sea and \ ocean, tends to have brought to it re- > fined foods of every kind,” says Mr Walter Elliott, British Minister of Health. “Herein lies a great danger. No- | body troubles to bring roughage, but t roughage is necessary to the work- ! ing of the human machine. Refined i sugar, white flour from the whole • grain and butter from milk comes to | our shores. Ships 'are laden with f these refined foods, and roughage f tends to be almost eliminated. Much | knowledge cf foods, of proteins, car- | bohydrates, fats, salts, and vitamins tis available today. Do not learn i too much about any of these. The I simple fact that we need a good mixed | diet is the essential point. If we can t teach people this, and that milk, vegetables and fruits are worth buying, .1 worth making some sacrifice for, we T shall do something worth while, t Other nations live closer to the soil. • They must do so of necessity as they | are further from the sea and its ships. |We have proved by experiment that ?by the addition of milk to the diet of i the schoolboy we can ladd three inch|es to his height and half a stone to | his weight. There will be less emI phasis on sickness and disease if we I learn more of nutrition. We have | learnt that no single measure could ibe taken to improve health and lest sen tiho incidence of disease more H ‘7 than an increased supply of clean 1 milk.”

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U E 0 IS “If (said Mr Winston Churchill recently) a number of States were assembled around Great Britain and France in a solGRAND ALLIANCE emn treaty for FOR DEFENCE. mutual defence against aggression; if they had their forces marshalled in what you may call a Grand Alliance; if they had their staff arrangements concerted; if all this rested, as it can honourably rest, upon the Covenant of the League of Nations, in pursuance of all the purposes and ideals of the League of Nations; if that were sustained, as it would be, by the moral sense of the world; and if it were done in the year 1938—and, believe me, it may be the last chance there will be for doing it—then I say that you might even now arrest this approaching war. Then perhaps the curse which overhangs Europe would pass away. “Then perhaps the ferocious passions which now grip a great people would turn inwards and not outward 3 in an internal rather than an external explosion, and mankind would.-', be spared the deadly ordeal towards which we have been sagging and sliding month by month. I have ventured to indicate a positive conception, a practical and realistic conception, and one which I am convinced will unite all the forces of this country.”