f PACE TWO . A ———— "| YOUR HEALTH % =» From Educational Committee of Board of Trustees of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, which Cambria Counvy Medical Society is a component . , . - What or he neaith or a nation on ration? Britain, in its fourth year of war, is down ww .uinething like iron ra- tions. Yet the diet of the people in Great Britain results in a state of health | which 1s about as good as it was be- fore the war, This statement was recently made by Dr. John Boyd Orr, director of the Iniperial Bureau of Nutrition of Great Britain, who should know. There are no signs of malnutrition in Great Britain, Child health is actually better than | before the war, due to national con-: cern for the safety of children. * There will be enough food in the United States to assure everyone of a reasonably adequate diet through 1943, say U. S. Bureau of Agricul- ture economists. In Great Britain wealthy people are eating about one-third less food than before the war, and feeling better for it. The poor people of Great Britain are getting diets much richer in vita- min and minerals, and are healthier because of this. The amount of land under cultiva- tion in Great Britain is now 50 per cent greater than before the war. The American farmers are faced with the “difficult task” of producing enough food to “maintain domestic food consumption at about its aver- age level as well as to supply quanti- ties of food that are needed for lend- lease shipment.” In the United States we have been eating about the same total amount of food each year since 1909, although there have been some significant shifts. We eat fewer potatoes and less of cereal products, especially flour %nd corn meal. We have been eating more sugar and are drinking more fluid milk and cream. ETE “ In Great Britain there is no heard-! ing and no grumbling. AXE IS THE PATH A Meditation for the New Year, by Ruth Taylor. "The axe is the path into the Jor- est.” When the first i 'epid voyagers | braved ‘the unknown s to seek a| refuge on our shores, they found here virgin wilderness. ‘iiic.e were no paths but those created by the wild beasts and still wilder Ss. With their axes they hewed out home | built their villag their stockades. Wi then crected est, feiled trees fo: turbulent waters, pe: and deeper into. th G crossed the mountains the plains, With their : 1 the timber for the wagons that ei- ghted them to other forests, These they conquered in like manner untill at last they came to where the wat- | ers of the blue Pacific lapped th western shore. “The axe is the path into the for- est.” The free man must ever forge ahead into the unknown, The axe is the symbol of his own strength, of his ability to utilize his own talents to carve out his own path into a new) world. The path he hews, others will follow, to go where he leaves off. His | is the responsibility to make his part of the path run true and smooth, that those who follow after may speed to their own task. “The axe Is the path into the for- est.” We are in the forest of war. Only as we wield our own axe, lustily and | wisely, will we find the path out. On- ly as we work as did those earlier pioneers, from dawn until sunset will we carve our pathway to the moun- tain peaks from which we can see the plains of peace beyond. Only as we lop off the non-essential branches, cut | down the poison growth of hates, sus- | picions and prejudice, level the trees | that hide our vision of a free world, | can we be worthy followers of those | who made this country of ours, As | they who preceded us, wielding their axes, built a nation of the free, so can we, wielding our axes, build a free world. The power is in us. We | need but the will to act. | “The axe, now as always. is the | path into the forest.” og | | | 7 Injured in Wreck, Two LaJose residents were injured | on Saturday night when the car in! which they were riding skidded and | crashed into a utility pole, Ordell | Fishel, driver of the machine, suffer- | ed a frature of the right leg, Andrew | Buccasa escaped with lacerations of | 1914 was 19,785. In 1940 there were GERMAN DEATH RATE | comes from Oregon, where the CONTINUES T0 GROW farmers have had a lot of trouble Diplomatic dispatches from Eu- rope report that the German death rate is going up and the birth rate is going down. Also the number of German sol- diers killed or permanently disabled since the war began now totals 1,900,000. fore the Russian counteroffensive be- gan, and before the British turned back Rommel in Egypt. Obviously, therefore, the total is now well above 2,000,000. This does not include prisoners nor men suffering minor wounds. If | these were included, the total casu- alty figure would be, according to accepted military ratios, more than twice the basic figure, or approxi- | mately 5,000,000. Meanwhile, exact figures on the German birth rate have been re- ceived. These indicate the usual wartime downward trend of births, despite Hitler's frantic efforts to make procreation popular. The birth rate was 20.5 in 1939 per thousand, 20.4 in 1940, 18.8 in 1941, but for the first three months of 1942 took a drop to only 15.8. Neutral diplomatic sources report that business men in Germany are beginning to foresee defeat. But the people as a whole will not be aware of approaching defeat, and their morale will not crack, until the German army suffers a major military reverse. The heavy casual- ties, now comparable to the total suffered in the First World war, are not enough in themselves to cause popular revolt, as long as the Ger- man armies successfully dominate Europe. But when Rommel is cleaned out of Africa, and when that news seeps into the German consciousness, we can look for popular discontent, plus | burning distrust of the Nazi mili- | tary machine. * * * ITALIAN UNREST Those who expect the bombing of Italy to cause a revolt of the people are badly mistaken. The bombing | may knock out her industrial pro- | ductiveness and cripple her fleet and | shipping, but will not cause a popu- | lar revolt. Reasons for this are two: 1. Nazi | troops have such a stranglehold on / Italy that no revolt could gain head- way; 2. There are no leaders left | to head a revolt. 1talo Baivo was an opponent of | collaboration with Germany. He led a spectacular flight of planes to the United States, and was an admirer | of this country. But he differed with Mussolini on African policy, con- tending that Libya could not be i delended. “Baipt med in Wnat was officially reported as an airplane “accident.” Pietro Badoglio was skeptical about the: Greck campaign, told Mussolini he weauldn’t undertake it without ten divisions and four months preparation. dered him to take one month and four divisions. among the Italian people, but too old to lead. tedolfo Graziani was also skep- al about the defense of Libya, largely responsible for pre- its defenses. Much younger, he has broken with Mussolini and is under surveillance, possibly under 4 t People Haig Mussolini. Yet the sentiment of the people, ly in southern Italy, is such that they would welcome deliverance from Mussolini and Hitler. U. S. diplomats, waiting for release from internment after Pearl Harbor were told secretly by lialians: “We will not forget!” There are many things ths y will not forget, including the ludicrous behavior of Mussolini, who conceals his baldness and his wen by never removing his hat before a camera; the wild behavior of his daughter, Edda Ciano; and the lavish enter- taining of Count Ciano who serves soup-to-nuts banquets while the peo- ple eat a few ounces of rationed bread. As yet there has been no bombing of Rome, but some indication of what might happen was given early in the war when the French sent planes over Rome for four nights. especial The people poured out of the city | on everything that had wheels, in- cluding push carts, bicycles and baby carriages. Yet the French had dropped nothing more harmful than leaflets. It is reported that when Allied bombers come over the city, the people kneel at the altar of their patron saint, San Gennaro, and with Mussolini in mind, say: “Dear San Gennaro, tell them: he’s not here— he’s in Rome!” * * * LET THE NAZIS KNOW Many an army official is over- cautious about speaking for publica- tion these days, but not Lieut. Gen. ‘Hap’ Arnold, commander of the army air forces. Disclosing that U. S. fliers are being turned out of preflight schools at the rate of 40,000 a year, Arnold was asked if the cs could be | i quoted. “Why not?’ he chuckled. “It won't do any Might do a lot of good. It'll ; Germans how many we've got!" — 7 i DO YOU KNOW The medical personnel in Russia in | both legs. Fishel was admitted to the 120,000 physicians in the Soviet Un- | Spangler hospital. ion, also 72 medical schools. This estimate made be- | Mussolini or- Badoglio is popular | UNION PRESS.COURIER U. S. SOLDIERS—U. S. FARMERS | | Forthright Sen. Charley McNary ! | this year getting men to pick their { fruit and harvest their wheat. So McNary wrote to Secretary of | War Stimson pointing out that there { were two army carntonments in Ore- { gon, that it might be an excellent thing for the nation’s food supply and for national co-operation gen- erally if some of the soldiers were given furloughs and allowed to help Oregon farmers with their crops. Secretary of War Stimson wrote back rather tartly that soldiers of the U. S. army had to work at war, | and that the idea was preposterous. A little later Senator McNary no- ticed newspaper accounts of the way American soldiers in England had taken time to help English farmers harvest crops. So he wrote Stim- son again. “The work of our men in training for war must be shot to pleces in England,” McNary said, “in view of the fact that American soldiers are working in the harvest fields.” The secretary of war replied a little lamely that ii American troops in England were working in the har- vest fields, they were doirg it on their own time. But he welconied no? more suggestions about helping farmers here at home. | STEALING THE STARS Washington is full of movie moguls all worried about the fact that their big stars are leaving them. Trou- ble is the $25,000 ceiling on incomes. Hollywood stars figure this is an opportunity to jump their contracts, and everybody is now out stealing each other’s stars—or trying to. The ins and outs of the new in come ceiling are difficult. But in | brief, here is how it affects Holly- wood. The total salary which can | be paid under the new ruling is | $67,000, which, when tax deductions | are made, gives a net income of | $25,000. Certain other deductions | also are allowable, but the treasury | regulation specifically states that | additional money to care for these | deductions cannot be paid out by | the companies. If they do pay them, the government may require them | to make goed the outlays. { This is what gripes the movie stars. Some of them have been getting salaries running up into the $200,000s, so to come down to $67,000 is quite a plop. . Furthermore, movie contracts are for one picture, with an option tak- en on the next and then the next. So with the companies unable to pay high salaries, the options on their stars are automatically broken. V- ARMY MASCOTS Mascots are popular in the armed services, Dogs arey most co on but some as have adoptoiesie- eagles, goats, mules, horses, prairie dogs, and even kangaroo rats, In fact on the morning report of the 355th Infantry, Camp Carlson. Colo., appears the name of a cer- tain sergeant who has never Te. i ceived a cent of pay since he joined | the army, yet he is one of the hap- | piest and best liked members of | the outfit. The “sergeant” in this case is aj white fox terrier, a company mas- cot. He was in good standing until recently, wore his chevrons proudly on his khaki jacket. But one night he left the camp AWOL to chase prairie dogs and did not return in time for reveille, Like any other soldier, he had to | pay the penalty for misconduct. In | a solemn ceremony, attended by of- | | ficers, he was *‘b en,” his stripes were tiiken away, and the warrant was signed by the colonel. Vv HEROES wItTHOUT HEADLINES You don’t hear much about them | and their names don't get into the | headlines, but some of the boys do- | ing great jobs in Egypt are the tank repair crews of the U. 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