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Volume X1L Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, February 17, 1922 One Section ? * No. -42
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I MILK DIET IS
I EC CENT! AI T"
1 HUMAN LIFE
I EXTENSION DEPARTMENT
TELLS OF MILK VALUE
llln Another Lesson of A Series
I of Ton, the Extension Ser
I rice at Raleigh Explain* the
Value of Milk to The Human
Race?Without It Animal
I Life Would Soon Become Ex
f tinct and the Human Race
HBiild Not Flourish
Milk is not a recent discov
ery, neither is it something con
cocted by science, but it is the)
first food in importance among
all the foods made use of by
mankind. It is the oldest food
and the one and only one which
has been foupd to be absolute
ly indispensable, not only to the
life of man, but of all other
mhramal life as well. It is a food
that has no substitute in the
diet of the young, and without
which they die. In the whole
history of the world there is not
on record a single child that has
lived more than a few days af
ter its birth without having re
ceived milk from some source,
either a natural one, or an un
natural one. In America statis
tics show that nearly sixty per
eent of the children are raised
unnaturally on cow's milk; in
view of t^is it is easy to under
stand that the milk producing
I cow'plays a tremendous part in
the very beginning of the life
I of our people.
It is not possible to raise a
child, a calf, a pig, or even a
puppy dog, without milk from
some source, either a natural
source or an unnatural one.
When milk is thought of in this
connection one begins to realize
I its importance to the animal
life of the world. It it were pos
sible to take nfilk from all sou
rces out of the world, the earth'
would be depopulated in one
generation, because solely upon
.milk all animal life iriust de
' pend for its first food.
Some years ago Professor Os
car Erf, of the Ohio State Uni
versity tried in every way pos
sible to get calves to/live and
grow without milk. These cal
~vetf were given every food that
could be suggested, as a possi
ble one to take the place of the
milk. Every single calf that re
ceived no milk died in a very
few days after its birth, simply
because of the fact that no fo
od except milk can nourish the
Very young. Dr. E. V. AldCol
lum, of Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, found the same thing to be
true with reference to rats and
other small animals.
Why is milk so essential to
theyoung?
Tliis is'a very natural ques
tion in the face of the facta
known about milk. It has been
known for ages that the young
could not survive without milk,
but it could only be explained
by saying that milk was the
food provided by nature for the
nourishment of the young. It
was formerly believed that the
protein, fats and carbonhydra
tes, together with mineril mat
ter constituted all the essential
parts of a food, but some recent
discoveries along this line made
by Dr. E. V. McCollum, of the
Johns Hdpkins University, have
thrown new light on the sub-i
ject and opened up a new field
of knowledge about foods. He
finds that besides ihe'ddreadv
known constituents of foods,
there are ""at least three Other
very essential ones, which he
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has called vitamines.
It has been proven beyond a
Shadow of doubt that these vi
tamines ars^jfciriiiiilyaibexv
tiai to uuman life. It is the vi
tamine constituent found in the
fat in the milk of all mammal
animals, that the young' child
must have or else it dies. This
particular vitamine is known as
fat soluble A. Since it seems to
be dissolved in or at least clos
ely associated with milk fat.
It is this vitamine not found
in other foods except in milk?
It is found in a few other of
foods in limited Quantities, but
the nature of all other foods in
which it is found is such that
they cannot be digested by the
very young. And, therefore the
vitamines content is not avail
able for their use. The other 2
known vitamines are also in
milk hnd are known as the
water soluble ones. Investiga
tion shows conclusively that
without these vitamines animal
life cannot exist.
Besides Demg the only food
that can stimulate and start the
young fhild to grow, milk is al
so an important and essential
food for the use of a child dur
ing its grdwing period. In order
that the bones can properly ex
pand and grow, a good supply
of lime and phosphorus rrj,ust be
available in the food. The best
source of these minerals is also
found in milk in just the form
best adapted to the use of a
growing boy or girl for the up
building of bone. Without the
?good supply of whole milk, the
bones fail to develop and a dis
ease known as rickets is the re
sult, in Mfhich the bones are of
ten bgpfennder the strain of.try
ing to carry \he load of muscle
placed on a weak and insuffi
cient bony structure. When this
cpnditiojLof the body is brought
about, tuberculosis and other
disease; very often take hold.
Not only is milk a valuable
and indispensable food to pro
mote growth but being the per
fect food that it is, it enables
the grown person as well as the
child to keep up the body vigor
and, thus be better able to re
sist and throw off the various
germs, which we come-in con
tact with daily. Good physician
lhvariably prescribe milk as a
chief food for people who are
suffering from'tuberculosis, be
cause they know that the most
nourishing food possible must
be supplied, and at the same
time it must be a food easily di- ,
gested. Milk meets these re
quirements as no other ' food
does. If it is so valuable as a
means to arrest the disease, it
is certainly reasonable to sup- ,
pose that it .will at all times
help the body to resist the at
tack.of such diseases.
mi vt >, in., ?i
me united states as a wnoie
consumes about one pint of the
whole milk per person per day.
The thirteen Southern States
taken together consume less th
an one-third of one pint per
person per day. What are some
of-the results? The South has a
very high infant death rate, due
so physicians tell us, to a great
extent to a scanty milk supply.
During the recent war when
young men were being drafted
into the army, from all parts of
the country, it was found that
a larger percent of ybung men
from the Southern States were
unfit for military duty, because
of physical reasons, than was
the case in other sections of the
country. A great part of this is
traceable to undernourishment
of bodies during the growing
period, and the undernourish
ment was cheifly due to a lack
of milk. The child that grows
up without a good sup
ply of milk will be undernou
rished and is destined to be a
partial cripple, either physi
cally or mentally, and possibly
both.
There are thousands of boys
and girls in the schools all ov
er this country, who are dull,
listless and inefficient because
they are not given to a diet in
which milk is freely used. The
child whose breakfast is made
up chiefly of meats and bread
washed into the stomach with
coffee or tea. cannot do good
school work that day and oug
1 ht not to be expected to. The
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They remained In the air over Roosevelt Field, Long Island, for 28 hours 1!>
minutes and 50 seconds, despite below zero weather and a blinding snow storm.
chMdren who do the beet school
work are invariably the ones
that are the best nourished hnd
who generally have a good sup
ply of whole milk to drink.
In the whole history of the
world, no nation has ever amo
unted to much, as measured by
its literature, learning, art and
its contribution to civilization
that did not have milk cows and
consequently plenty of milk as
a part of the food for its people
and the nation that has been
a world power in any year his
tory has always been a nation
of milk drinking people. If this
is true of the nations, and it
is, it may be true among the
states of the nation, or it may
be true to a greater or less de
gree with respect to the fami
lies and individuals that com
pose a state.
Because milk is not chewed,
people are prone to think of it
as a beverage to satisfy thirst
and not as a food. It is not a be
verage, but instead is a real
food in every respect of the
word. As an aid in banishing
the beverage idea from minds,
it might be remembered that
a quart of whole milk is equal
in absolute food value to either
of the following amounts of the
food: two pounds of fish, four
fifths of a pound of pork, three
quarters of a pound of steak or
eight eggs of average size.
Dr. McCollum has told us th
at we could entirely dispense
with meat as well as several
Otber foods, without suffering
any ill effects whatever, but if
we permit the use of milk, even
in the diet of adults to fall very
ftiuch below the present consum
pti&n, its effects will become ap
parent in our nationat efficiency
and it is the concensus of opin
ion of careful investigators and
competent dietitians that nat
ure intended the growing
child should ljve largely on the
milk, eggs and the leaves from
certain vegetables, but because
many mothers do not follow
this plan of nature in preparing
the meals for their children and
because the school* have not
put forth as much effort to te
ach children what is the b&t
for them to eat as they harm
to teach them latin and other
classics, the Result is that there
are millions of undernourished
children in America today suff
ering from various diseases as a
result of malnutrition. No' won
der that in the early record of
the history of man we find that
when an ideal land was to be
described, "a land flowing with
milk and noney" was the most
fitting and tempting expression
that could"be thought of.
' It is nothing less than crimi
nal to deny th^ growing child
an abundant supply of whole
some sweet milk, denying is fo
cripple the body and weaken
the mind, thus paving the way
for a career that can never bel
what it might havebeen.
Let us as intelligent Ameri
cans strive to so raise our chil-i
dren that they may grow into
stronger people than their par
ents. and thus be better able to!
battle for their place in the:
BIG RECEPTION WILL
BE HELD IN AHOSKIE
I
WILL HAVE A BIG DAY
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Farmers-Atlantic Bank Will j
Bel Host to Everybody in This
Tcrwn and Section on Satur
day, March 4th., Inuagura
tion Day
On Saturday, March 4th., the
Farmers-Atlantic Bank, of Ah
oakie, will celebrate Inaugura
tion .Day. No, it will not be the
inauguration of a President;
but,- it properly observed by the
patrons of the bank and others,
who do not at present carry!
accounts with any banking in-j
stitution, ^Saturday, March 4th.
wil! be z propitious one for ev
ery attendant. The bank offi-J
ci ils will be hosts to as many as
will come out on that day; and,
among .the events of the day
will be serving refreshments by
the banV good music, and sev
eral contests, in which valuable
cash prizes will be given away.
These "carryings-on" will be
gin promptly at two o'clock and
will last for three hours; thus
giving farmers} and others liv
ing a distance from town plen
ty of time to get into town, in
order to join the thfong that
will be at the bank building on
that day.
?Attention is invited to $-large
page display advertisement in
this issue of thd Herald, exten
ding an invitation to everybody
to attend the Inauguration.
Further announcements will be
made in this newspaper, and
through printed signs and per
sonal letters. The officers of the
bank are'sparing neither time
normonejr in their effort to
make the invitation personal to
every possible bank patron in
this section.
The object of this Inaugura
tion Day is to get the people of
Ahoskie and section started in
the. right direction?by begin-,
ning a Savings Account, The
bank officers and officials real
ize that they have heretofore
Ipaid too little attention to the
Savings Department of the in
stitution; and, they have resol-i
ved to start the people down
the road of regular habitual
thriftiness. They are not at all
particular about the amount of
the deposit, but it is their idea
to present a plan to every per
son whereby regular and. habit
ual depositing of even the smal
lest of amounts will mean much
to the individual; soon growing
world. This can only be'brou
gtit about by proper nouriah
ment and proper nourishment
is impossible without milk.
STATE.NEWS IN DIGEST COM
PILED FOR READERS OF THE
HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD
?January fire losses in North
Carolina amounted to $35,000
per day.
?H. C. Sullivan, cashier of the
bank in Hertford, has admitted
th^ embezzlement of $$0,000
from the bank, which has been
ordered closed. The money was
withdrawn from the bank, and
used by Sullivan in promoting
a* peanut cleanup business.
?Reports are current in politi
cal ? and court circles that Su
perior Court Judge Oliver H.
Allen wil retire from the bench
this spring.
?Jobs were found for 327 per-!
sons by the State Employment
Agencies in the past week.
?Many- improvements will be
I added to Camp Glen at More
head City in preparation for
the annual fen cam portent of the
North Carolina National Guard
next summer.
j ?Judge Devjn, in Superior Co
urt, has held that judges can
| not pay income taxes to the;
! State without violating the spir
it of the Constitution. He made
? permanent a restraining ord
er against Commissioner Watts
who had announced his inten-|
| tion of making state officers al
so pay income taxes,
i ?Mrs. T. W. Bickett has been ,
[ employed as head of the educa
tional section of the new State
Maternity Department, which r
is an addition to the duties ofj
the Health Department'.
r?J. L. Armfield, former Presi
dent of the defunct Thomasvil
: le Bank, has been arrested in
Mexico; ana was this week
brought back to Davidson "coun
ty to face charges of embezzle
ment of the bank's funds.
?The United States Veteran's
Bureau has taken up the,cudgel
against certain scheming mem
bers of the bar who have been
overcharging ex-service men
for aiding them in presenting
claims for compensation.
-r-Fifty eight seconds was re
quired for several hundred pu
pils of the Grainger High 1
School at Kinston one day this
week, at the occasion ^of a fire
drill, to march out of the build
ing. K. B. Curtis, a native of
Ahoski^ is Superintendent of
the schooj.
?Fifty high schools in the sta
te will compete for honors at
the State University this spring
in the basketball tournament.
?A world's record in contracts
for road biuling will be broken
in Raleigh today, when the;
State Highway Commission is
to award contracts for road con
struction.
?The North Carolina division
of the America^ Legion has an-,
nounced that it will take no pa-;
rt in politics.
?Congressman Brinson is in
sisting that Congress act upon
the re-apportionment bill, un
der which' this State will be
entitled to one new member in
Congress.
?Three of the six managers of
the Piedmont League baseball
teams will be native North Ca
rolinians this summer.
?By a majority of 700 out of a
total registration of eighteen
hundred Shelby voted a- bond
issue of one hundred thousand
dollars, Saturday, for the erec
tion of a public hospital.
?All city organizations of Eli
zabeth City are making deter
mined fight against the effort
to raise the sewer rate in that'
city.
-?-The city fathers of New Bern
are planning to make extensive
improvements to the city's sys-j
1
into larger and larger sums, un
til every wise person will have
a nice, snug bank account. The
bank invites everybody to at
tend their reception on March
4th., and enjoy the day at its
expense. ,
tem of streets. Thirty blocks of
city pavement will be repaired.
?Arguments over the selection
of textbooks for state schools
for the next five years are now
in progress before the l^tate?
Department of Education in Ea
leigh.
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?Dr. Manning, a prominent
physician and Mayor'of Dur
ham, was found not guilty of
violating the anti-narcotic law
in Federal Court at Raleligh on
last S&turday. Judge Connor
remarked that his arrest was '
an outrage.
?R. M. Mitchell, of Wake For- *
est, was instantly killed Satur
day, by touching an electric li
ght bulD, which had become
charged with electricity by the
presence of lightning.
?At a meeting of representa
tive school heads, held in the
city of Greensboro last week, it
was decided that students liv
ing outside the school districts
should be charged' tuition.
?Those. E. Holding, young
druggist of Wake Forest, was
not tried for receiving stolen
goods last week; the case being
thrown out erf court.
?J. F. Sawyer, of Hyde Coiin
ty, has reared 13 orphan chil
dren in addition to.his own fam- ?
ily of four. He Ms now 72 years
of age.
'4-The Carolina Shipyard at the
city of Wilmington has been
leased to the Texas Oil Com
pany, who will use it as a dis
tributing point for eastern Car
olina.
?The town of Vanceboro will
soon have electric lights, thru
a connection with the electric
plant at New Bern.
?The small town of Beulahvil
le recently voted $25,000 bonds
for the extension of the Atlan
tic and Carolina Railroad to its
borders.
?Superior Court Judge C. C.
Lyon, of Elizabethtown, m
soon retire from the bench.
?Farmville is planning to have
a Rotary Club soon.
?The Seaboard Railroad haa
recently added twenty-five of
the larger type of locomotiveo
to its equipment. *
?The Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company is planning
to erect al4-sto'ry office build
ing in Greensboro soon.
?The Student Volunteer Un
ion of North Carolina will hold
its annual meeting in Greens
boro, March 3rd to the 5th., in
clusive.
?North Carolina has eighteen
thousand more families than
she has homes.
?$75,000 was reported as hav
ing Ijeen raised up to last Sat
urday night, for the campaign
for Jewish Relief.
?Mount Airy chickens recent
ly won several prizes at the
Poultry Show, held irt Madison
Square, New York City.
?A half million dollars has
been authorized by the council
of Asheville, for street paving
this spring and summer.
?Col. Joseph#Hyde Pratt, of
Chapel Hill, has been elected
President of the National Fcr
esty Association.
?Governor Morrison was bu
sy last week putting his signa
ture to 4,500 bonds, recently
issued by the State Department
at the Capitol, Raleigh.
?The contract for construction
of the new Baptist State Hos^
pital was last week awarded tc
a Charlotte firm. The cost wiH
be $133,690 ; and the building
will be located at Winston-Sa
lem.
?Gaston County has voted for 3
$150,000 worth of bonds for
the erection of a county hospi
?W. H. Austin, of Smithfield,
is-President of the North Ojr
olina Cotton Growers Areocia
tfon, the organization of which
has recently been completed.