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The Improvement Era, July, 1942 Says WMmm:$$M . - ',-.: .-. fi 'VE ENLISTED wm0$g$0$$$M WON'T YOU TOO? Let's cooperate with our govern- ment by faithfully performing these important war duties: CONSERVE VITAMINS. Keep perishables in a cool, dark place; cook quickly; then eat at once. * E>on't add soda to green vegetables. * Avoid "drowning" foods in water or fat. Authorities recommend semi-waterless cooking; also, more roasting and broiling, less frying. + Slow-roast meats at low temperature to tender ize.reduceshrinkageandmake cheaper cuts more appetizing. PROVIDE BALANCED DIET with daily servings of: meat, fish or cheese; milk; eggs; at least one green or yellow veg- etable; fruit or fruit juices, is every day . NUTRITION DAY especially citrus; whole grain in America's victory crusade for or "enriched" cereals or bread; fats, such as salad oils, butter, health and conservation. The 6,000,000 far-westerners, among margarine, bacon; sweets in moderation. Drink at least six 85,000,000 Americans who live in gas-equipped homes, are asked glasses a day of water or other liquids. to do their part. • Your home sector is already mechanized for modern war on weakness and waste: with gas cooking for speed, SAVE GAS. Don't light burner until needed; turn off before economy and vitamin-saving . gas hot water service as a daily instead of after removing uten- sil. liquid comes to a aid to sterile cleanliness . gas heating to provide clean, healthful When boil, reduce flame; the simmer warmth . and gas refrigeration "serving in silence" at minimum burner will keep it boiling. Use oven heat control (or cost. • What then are your duties as a Home Front volunteer? Take thermometer) to maintain rec- ommended baking tempera- good care of your appliances, possibly irreplaceable until after the ture. * Remember, gas is the war. Study and apply the newer knowledge of nutrition. Observe sim- principal fuel of western war industries as well as homes. ple rules of health and thrift. • These may seem unimportant in terms Enjoy its many advantages with care to avoid waste! of one family, but practiced by millions, they'll help win the war. FREE INSTRUCTION— Community classes in nutrition are being organized everywhere. Gas companies, among many other wartime services, have loaned their Home Service repre- GAS Buy U. S. sentatives as teachers. For details, watch local newspapers or ask your gas company. * Published in cooperation with the THE War Savings western community leaders who are unselfishly devoting time VICTORY and effort to this wartime program, by . ;; ; Bonds run and Stamps MOUNTAIN FUEL SUPPLY COMPANY Serving Twenty-three Utah Communities I 1942. PACIFIC COAST GAS ASSOCIATION THE IMPROVEMENT ERA, JULY, 1942 SAYS Grahams Are Just for Children! BY FRANKLIN S. HARRIS, JR. IN THESE strenuous days, men have "t-Tow many hours a week will enable learned the value of an energy-build- a worker to produce the maximum ing "pick-up" of Honey Bee Grahams and milk between meals. That's why output? Experiments in Great Britain thoughtful wives are keeping a generous and Germany have found that too long supply of Honey Bee Grahams by Purity a day cuts production. British indus- on hand at all times. trial authorities have found fifty-six working hours a week to be best for Extra Nourishing! Extra Delicious! men, and forty-eight for women. The Extra Fresh! Biblical one day in seven is still essential so that in Britain the men would be working five ten-hour days with a six- hour day on Saturday and with Sun- day off. The number of hours for max- imum work depends on the type of work. It is expected that in the United States with higher production rates and more intensive production methods the optimum hours should likely be less than experience abroad found. '"The rate of a moving atomic clock is slower than when the atom is sta- Clip and Send Today Purity Biscuit Co., Salt Lake tionary. Dr. H. E. Ives and collabo- Please send my FREE copy of "Cartoon Cookery." rators have found an atom which nor- for mally gives off light of one color will Name _ give light of a slightly redder color in- Free Recipe Book Address stead when the atom is moving; the City State __ faster the atom moves the greater is the amount of the change toward red. HPHE hay crop for one year in the * United States would fill a hay barn thirty by forty feet and 5000 miles long. If this hay were treated with phosphoric acid and stored in silos, it would take only one-tenth the volume. Ctudies by Vitez, Nagy, and Dick- mann on the absorption of nicotine from cigarette smoke by the body and the fate of nicotine in the body have found that when the smoke was not inhaled sixty percent of the nicotine was retained in the body and none ap- fflk£k peared in the urine; with inhaling the AMERICA'S MANPOWER smoke, ninety-three percent of the nico- goes to market. ..goes to work... goes fo war by tine in the smoke was retained yet only bos... on short trips averaging /usf a few miles. less than two percent of the nicotine Serving thousands of towns as no other transportation system was eliminated in the urine. can, Union Pacific Stages helps speed America's War Program... carrying manpowetoverthesbort-but-vitalfy-importantdistances to markets... to war factories... to military camps bases! Cince a trace of the element tellurium and in the diet confers on the breath a See Your Local Union Pacific Bus very offensive odor of decayed horse- Agent for Complete Information. radish, it has been proposed to use it in pills given to victims of contagious diseases to be certain that people will stay away from them while the disease is contagious. 417 Mmprooement Era "The Glory of God is Intelligence' JULY. 1942 Heber J. Grant, John A. Widtsoe, 7 VOLUME 45 NUMBER Editors Richard L. Evans, "THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH" Managing Editor Marba C . Josephson, OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PRIESTHOOD QUORUMS, MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS, DEPART- Associate Editor MENT OF EDUCATION, MUSIC COMMITTEE, WARD George Q. Morris, General Mgr. TEACHERS, AND OTHER AGENCIES OF THE CHURCH Lucy G. C« nnon, Associate Mgr OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. J. K. Orton , Business Mgr. JoblsL d(L QonijuniA. JJul £dit&iL (paqsL ( (Do Ijojul Jinow— Counsel to a Young Man Heber J. Grant 427 Qhuuidk. J>&atuA&A, How coffee destroys fish in the Turning Point David A. Smith 429 ocean and the soil of crop lands? The Arizona Apostle Compiled by Rachel Grant Taylor 432 421 New Honor Accorded Elder George Albert Smith 442 An Official Communication from Brigham Young, Governor.. 443 Dr. J. H. Kellogg's twenty famous Evidences and Reconciliations: LII—What Knowledge Did health rules? 426 the Pioneers of '47 Have of the Western Part of North America? John A, Widtsoe 449 How to gain a testimony of the No Liquor-Tobacco Aaronic 461 gospel? .422, 426, 429, 439, 458 ^ Ward Teaching 462 427 Our Country Saints, Mark Genealogy 463 Mortensen 443 Music _ 464 The story behind #800,000.00 An Official Communication .... 443 Mutual Messages 465 worth of Church Moves On 446 Field Photos 465, 466 misappropriated funds Ohio Missionary Quartet, A Deeper Note, Howard in connection with Buchanan's Clive L. Bradford 459 Braucher 466 Priesthood: Melchizedek 458 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bur- army? 430 nett's Outstanding Record 467 SfLSXJUaL J'SbCtijUMA. Whether the Mormons knew where they were going when they The Abstracted Indian Trust Bonds—Part I....M. H. Cannon 430 Spiritual Rearmament and Moral Defense...E. Cecil McGavin 434 headed West? 449 Utah's First July 24th Celebration Harold H, Jenson 435 Can a man quit tobacco? Stalking in the Jungles of Africa Gardell Dano Christensen 436 458 Service to the Sightless Hugh Toner Law 438 Exploring the Universe, Frank- Mexican Money Axes, Charles lin S. Harris, Jr 417 E. Dibble 442 EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL Telefacts 420 On the Book Rack 445 OFFICES: Test of Patriotism, Albert L. Homing: Praise is Stimulant, a 50 North Main Street, Salt Lake City. Utah. Zobell, Jr 420 Laura Gray 450 Copyright 1942 by Mutual Funds. Inc., a Cor- poration Unexpected Evidence (Word Handy Hints ...„ 450 0/ the Young Men's Mutual Improve- ment Association the Church of Wisdom) 421 Cooks' Corner, Josephine B. of of Jesus Christ o{ Latter-day Saints. All rights reserved. Sub- Motion Pictures that Advertise Nichols 451 scription price, $2.00 a year, in advance; 20c Liquor 422 Refugee Mothers, Adrienne single copy. Dr. Kellogg's Health Rules, Bach .... 452 Entered at the Post Office. Salt Lake City, John A. Widtsoe 426 Index to Advertisers 472 Utah, as second-class matter. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided Young People's Book Rack .... 440 Your Page and Ours 480 for in section 1103. Act of October, 1917 authorized July 2. 1918. fcdil&rijahu The Improvement Era is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, but welcomes con- tributions. All manuscripts must be accompanied What Shall We Save? Richard L. Evans 449 by sufficient postage for delivery and return. "It Is Later than You Think!" 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