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! 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