2 : a
First photo of cloud seeding
This US Signal Corps photo is the first ever taken of the
cloud seeding process under natural circumstances, and is actual
physical proof that clouds can be crystallized and broken up

by a man-made procedure.

The channel shown, photograpphed

from the cloud seeding: plane, is about 1 and 2/10 miles at its
' widest point. Similar experiment were carried out in a recent
hurricane and the process has been used throughout the US in

attempts to bring rain.

@ SCIENCE FEATURE

Vitamin thief

By DYSON CARTER

T do you think of peo-
ple who buy expensive vege-
tables, cook them carefully,
serve them on the table and then
throw them out? : :
How do you rate parents who
worry about their children’s
health, and feed them poison
that makes the kids get worse
and worse?

Let’s cut this riddle short, We
are talking about Mineral Oil.
Thick colorless, oily stuff sold
in drug stores, for relief of
constipation. Often mixed with
other medicines like agar. Com-
monly used in commercial foods.
Mineral Oil, regardless of its
form, name or price, is a poison.

Just before the war,* scientists
of the American Medical Asso-
ciation (Council on Foods and
Nutrition) sent out a warning
about mineral oil. Some food
companies, they said, were put-
ting mineral oil in salad dress-
ings. The biochemists told doc-
ters to be on the look-out for
such products, and to stop their
patients from eating them.

Why? Because mineral oil
takes out of our bodies the two
precious vitamins A and D.
These vitamins dissolve in oil.
Vitamins A and D are extreme-
ly important for good health,
from the time before we are
born until. the day we die. Mil-
lions of people get very little
of these vitamins. Mineral oil
coats the stomach with a greasy

film and “washes away” vita-
mins A and D.
The warning got little pub-

licity. Then came the war. All
of a sudden, food companies and
restaurants by the thousands be-
gan using vast quantities of
mineral oil. It was a cheap sub-
stitute for vegetable oils and
Shortenings. Car-loads: of this
food poison went into salad
dressings, popcorn, doughnuts,
potato chips and all sorts of
fried foods. Sometimes the la-
bels said there was mineral oil

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1947

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in these foods. But that was
no protection. The public still
not know that science
strongly condemns mineral oil.

So. the poison is being sold
on a mass scale. | .

In the last five years, many
more scientific reports have
come out, branding mineral oil
as a very dangerous substance.
I have looked over articles from
five medical journals, and the
evidence is shocking. Here is a
brief summary:

1. Mineral oil washes out vita-
mins A and D, whether you
swallow the oil in “constipation
medicines” or in foods.

2. One ounce of the oil can
remove all the vitamin A you

get in two weeks of eating the -

-best vegetables. ‘

3. A child who gets a small
daily dose of mineral oil, will
lose all the vitamin A in ten
times the amount of spinach he
or she could eat in a day!

4. Pregnant women, and men
or women on “reducing diets,”
are seriously harmed by mineral
oil; because they need all the
vitamins they can get, and the
oil starves them of these pre-
cious elements. :

5. Babies and children tend to
develop the terrible bone disease
called rickets when they are fed
mineral oil in any form.

6..A pregnant woman is in
danger of serious bleeding. at
childbirth if she has taken
much mineral oil; the oil inter-
feres with vitamin K, necessary
for healthy blood-clotting.

7. All people, at any age, are
in danger of excessive bleeding
(in accidents or operations) if
they take mineral oil. x

The Medical Association be-
came so alarmed over these
facts that drastic action was
taken in 1942. After that, not
a single food product, contain-
ing mineral oil, was approved
by the association, even if the
food could be given only by
doctors.

Who gets the cream?

Editor, Pacific Tribune:

ERE are a few facts re-

garding the “milk question,”
as seen by various parties in-
terested. First let us hear the
farmers’ complaint. The follow-
ing is a report published in
the Vancouver Sun on Febru-
ary 22: :

VICTORIA—Farmers of the
Fraser Valley and Vancouver
Island are not getting enough
for their milk to give them a
decent wage.

On stormy days in the winter
the farmers are dangerously
close to not having enough milk
to supply the householders
with fluid mitk.

There are two of the chief
facts brought out by Dean F.
M. Clement of UBC in his
survey of milk production costs.

Dean Clement finds that the
average cost of producing milk
of the farms is 58.79 per pound
butterfat.

The average selling price is
73.24 cents. :

This leaves the farmer 14.45
cents per pound as his margin
which represents his wages. To
the average producer, says
Dean Clement this means $819

.@ year. .

Working out adjustments for
interests on investment and
other factors he comes to the
conclusion that the total farm
income for the average man

is $1406 as a cash return for

capital invested and labor.

Dean Clement declares that -

on the supposition that 85 per-
cent of producers must receive
their costs of production they
should now get 75.18 cents per
pound butterfat for their milk
exclusive of what they are en-
titled in the way of wages for
their labor.

Adding to this a wage of
$100 a month for the farmer,

_complaints of

he estimates the average selling
price should be 94.61 cents, a
boost of 21.37 cents or about
30 percent over the present
average price.

Please notice that these facts
were found by the UBC; that
the price of “butterfat should
be 94.61 a pound; that the re-
port ‘was made before subsidies
were removed. Now the farm-
ers must pay an increase of $8
a ton for wheat, $6 for oats,
$11 for barley, $4 for laying
mash and $3 for stock mash,
The farmer is about where he
was during the war years; pro-
ducing at a loss, for the 385
cents on 100 lb. now allowed
by the provincial milk board
is not enough,

Well, let the farmers speak
for themselves. The following
was printed in the Sun on
October 22:

Action tantamount to a
“milk strike” was threatened
by farmers Tuesday at the
B.C. Milk Board’s hearing on
prices in the industry.

Milk producers are asking a
two-cent per quart increase.

‘If there is no bigger a re-
turn on milk, farmers will turn
to cash crops,” said Les Gil-
mour, speaking for Richmond
Milk Producers. Gilmour said
they lost thousands of dollars
on the dairy industry last year.

E. G.>Sherwood, of Lulu Is-
land, said he produced 150,000
quarts last year.

After paying expenses and
not counting any interest on

his $75,000 capital outlay, he

realized $335 as ‘his salary as
manager for a year. This year
he anticipates a $2000 loss.

Let us turn a deaf ear to the
non-producing
distributors. There are _ too
many of them. If their de-

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-nesday night that profits of

mands were to be satisfied
their number would double un-
til they ruined farmers and
starved workers’ children in the
city .-However, they were not
forgotten and they will get
5 cents a can more: Indeed,
they get the cream.

As to the champions of cheap
and abundant milk consump-
tion, who are really fighting
for national health and whose
efforts are just and right, their
demands have been disregard-
ed just like all their com-
plaints against the ever-increas-
ing cost of living. Price con-
trol and subsidies are the only
remedy but it appears that to
get them we will have to turn
the present government out of
office.

If, in spite of all, you still
believe in the superiority of
free enterprise, then read this,
dated. October 16, and give a
lusty cheer:

NORTH BATTLEFORD,
Agriculture Minister
James Gardiner suggested Wed-

from 13 to 14 cents more than
a “legitimate profit’ were being
made on butter sales.

Speaking at a Liberal rally
here, the federal minister of
agriculture said that in some
cases butter purchased ° during
the spring, when the retail
price was 48 cents a pound,
now was being retailed at
more than 60 cents a pound.

‘TI want to say to those
holding butter ... in the light
of the prices they paid the
farmer in May, June and July,
those persons could still pay
the farmer 65 cents and sell
the butter at 61 cents a pound,
he said.

F. K. MERGOP.

Ladner, B.C.

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