Stephen Babcock. [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.] https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/OIPCYYDJHYN4T82 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ The libraries provide public access to a wide range of material, including online exhibits, digitized collections, archival finding aids, our catalog, online articles, and a growing range of materials in many media. When possible, we provide rights information in catalog records, finding aids, and other metadata that accompanies collections or items. However, it is always the user's obligation to evaluate copyright and rights issues in light of their own use. 728 State Street | Madison, Wisconsin 53706 | library.wisc.edu ae = Va 4 n WE OF TODAY face the noon of the — owe the utmost honor . Stephen Moulton — Age of Nutrition. a Se tc Babeock. oo - This Sun of the Sciences . to be so ranked NOW IS THE TIME to recognize his because it glows with very life for allsorts and _ greatness, and pay him the homage long over- conditions of men .. is nearing mid-sky to due, for 1943 marked the centenary of his shed health, strength and beauty throughout birth. The event has been fittingly celebrated the world. Everywhere it is being recognized in Wisconsin, his adopted state. But the that food is the first freedom. plaudits of praise should come from every It is a basic fact that without food Life state and nation. For his gifts to mankind could not exist; that knowledge of its mani- are timeless and invaluable. fold forces . some still to be revealed through Fifty-three years ago our knowledge of Na- patient, scientific research .. heads the list _ture’s greatest food-gift, MILK, was veiled of human needs. A very great part of what we __ in guesswork and legend. Indeed, little then are and can do, from birth to death, is the | was known about the true relation of daily body and brain fruitage of what we eat. food to body, mind and spirit; how it fathered Yet, because eating is the fundamental mat- _ clear thinking, productive action, and attain- ter of course, few of us ever pause to weigh ment of high ideals. Suddenly the mists of the worth of those who have delved into _ ignorance were pierced by a clear gleam of re- Nature’s nutrition secrets. vealing light, which was to illuminate the Aristotle, Galileo, Columbus, Newton, the world . the nutritional discoveries of : Curies . these and scores of other way- Stephen Moulton Babcock! showers . are familiar enough. Names of As momentous as the flash that enabled great painters and musicians, warriors and Franklin to unlock the secret of electricity statesmen, discoverers and disease-conquerors, _ with a common door key, the discoveries in- fall easily from the general tongue. But those on by Babcock paved the way to the whose right to universal fame rests on their _ present vast human worth’ of modern nutri- revelations in Nutrition remain almost un- tion. known, despite the fact that what they have In the telling of his great story, E. B. Hart, done and today are doing forms the founda- _ Harry Steenbock and Dean Russell, men who tion for all human power and progress. have made notable nutritional contributions Among these latter shines the name of an _ themselves, have given especially kind as- American to whom we and the whole world sistance..