proos, an consequently le attempts r " fl necessar. to health and growth, in PROF. SAER ON T' E FIN1IS1
the impossible and makes an ass of Vitam ifes addition 'o and entirely apart from COLONY IN NORTHER MIC11IN
himself, those factors previously recognized (Continued from Page 2)
If the book were reduced to 50 pages (By M. H. Pryor) (fats, carbo-hydrates, proteins, min- able things hy the skill of their hands.
instead of 297, it ,would make a very "N pereon partaking of a welihal erals, and calories). The reports also Economically, the state and the Finnish
readable contribution; but one must show that a deficiency of a certain settlers would gain through the organ-
wade through so much useless ma- anced diet need fear that an insuffici- kind of vitamine brings on a certain iation and developmpnt of a set of
terial to get to the really fine parts that ent amount of vitamines is being sup- class of diseases and on the other home industries. Socially, the Finns
most readers will be discouraged. I plied" is tle consensus of opinion of hand each class of vitamines can be would gain by preserving a pride in
have no doubt, however, that the bok faculty men and other authorities con- used to combat a certain class of dis- their racial attainments, now being
will serve a ueful purpose to a lim- seases. The best known of these vita- smothered hy mail order furnishings,
ited class of readers, but it is far above mine-deficient diseases is rickets. which to them seem American, where-
the general public, and far below the more than a little attention at the Dr. Roth gave three reasons why it as they are rather likely to apologize
intellectual person. present time. is inadvisable to use artificial vita- for their old-world craft. Their re-
Many persons are being misled mine containers: First, the majority markable cooperative habits facilitate
A life of Danton, famous leader of into the belief, through the means of of people do not need any additional the task of getting them to engage
the French Revolution, translated supply, second, there is a great possi- in such enterprises. The problem is
from the French of Louis Madelin, has numerous advertisements of products bility that the wrong kind will be pro- essentially one not of production, but
just been published by Alfred A. said to contain vitamines, that these cured, and third, all such preparations of marketing.
Knopf. It begins with Danton's tur- food elements are to be obtained only are expensive as compared to the nat- The suggestion, made along these.
bulent childhood-the child hideous, through the agency of their special ural food sources. He further stated lines by Professor Sauer, found an
scarred with smallpox, furious and ut- preparations and thatby taking these that all fresh foods and fresh vege- immediate favorable response. Presi-
terly untamable. And those early remedies a panacea for all ills will tables are relatively higher in vita- dent Wargelin of the Finnish College
chapters reveal the man's life in min- be obtained and a new elixir of life mine content than those, cooked or at Hancock endorsed it cordially, as
iature. He was like the bull that discovered. The error of this impres- canned with the possible exception of did the most influential Finnish lead-
gored him in his childhood-some of sion was pointed out by all the authori- tomatoes. , er of the Upper Peninsula. Mr.
the spirit of the beast must have en- ties interviewed. In indicating the importance that Doelle, prominently identified with
tered into hi-he stamped and but- If a well balanced ration is main- this food element is taking, Dr. Roth Upper Peninsula affairs and now mem-
ted his way through life. Hewas .0 taiied, said Dr. John Sudwall pro- pointed out that since the attention ber of the State Board of Agriculture
instrument of the "people's rage," a y ' focused on this subject by the investi- and the State Department of Agricul-
vein through which ran the .ation's flo of heneand plelth, gations of Dr. Casimir Funk, then of ture, has sounded out the idea with
sr-he bad al the mob attributes:all of the necessary food element are London, in 1904, it has grown so that citizens of the Upper Peninsula, and
fever-he badluallgtheemobrattributes'
violence and generosity, disorder and klid incuings. "th dis fret it now being investigated by nearly has initiated the first steps with a
kinds df vitamines. "It is far better,",
sentimentality, venality and fury. Ith.o.v ' every laboratory in the country includ- 'roup of public officials and interested
was Robespierre who finally broke he said, to obtain the vitamne ele- ing those of -the government. citizens of the Upper Peninsula. Pos-
hibut even atment from the source itself than from Dr. Charles W. Edmunds, professor sible lines of work are being can-
stood on the scaffold, he was still the some preparation." He also pointed out of Therapeutics and .Hateria Medics, vassed and means of distribution. The
bull at bay. "Show my head to the that in buying preparations, the cost substantiated the statements of the plan is still a project, but has excel-
peope; t i woth t!"was much greater than if the food
people; it is worth It!,, canghe srae han f it - dtwo preceding authorities and pointed lent chances of success because of the
contaning the same amount of vita-out a few of the common foods that industry, skill, and cooperative ten-
Maxim Gorky is at present in the mines was purchased. contain the different kinds of vita- dencies of the Finn. It is the opinion
Schwarzwald, according to reports re- Dr. George B. Roth, '09, assistant mines. Eggs and milk were given as of Professor Sauer that the success
ceived by friends in America, his professor of pharmacology, at Western containers of vitamine A, fruits and or failure of the proposal does not
health brokeniafter four years of revo- Reserve University in Cleveland, and green vegetables as containers of vita- rest with the Finns so much, whom
lution in Russia. So undermined has formerly with the UnitedStates Public mine B, and bran and not too finely he considers as definitely ready to
been his health that he is' almost Health Service at Washington, being ground flour as containers of vitamine participate, as it does with the quality
wrechIed now. A friend writes that the closely connected with this subject of C. In commenting on the proprietary and persistence of the leadership that
physician who treats Gorky reports vitamines in both places, has pointed preparations containing vitamines, is necessary to organize the forces
that a few months further in the out the three kinds of vitamines known which he said were mostly made with available.
Schwarzwald will bring about his re- to science. These, he said, designated alfalfa for a base, he pointed out that
covery, however. Continuing, this ed as A, B, and C, and different foods none of them of which he knew did The early publication df Sinclair
friend says: "Gorky tells -horrible contain them in varying amounts. harm and occasionally a slight good Lewis' first novel since "Main Street"
things about Russia and about the life Some foods may be rich in one kind was accomplished, although very is announced. The title is to be "Bab-
there. He is not in sympathy with and totally lacking in another. Yeast, rarely, bitt."
the government which rules Russia for example, which is being so widely
today, and he told me that he will advertised, contains only a quantity of04
never return to Russia." B and none of the other kinds.
Reports published recently in the
"The Fair Rewards," the first novel American Journal of Hygiene and the Aobom
at Thomas Dee, a brilliant short story Journal of Biooical Chemistry state
writer, has just been published by that according to recent discoveries
Knopf. vitamines are chemical substances
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