Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1953 — Page 9

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 24, 1953.

Imposing Os Food Habits Is Wrong • Nutritionist Says . Attempt Is Wrong AMES, la. (UP) — A Harvard University nutritionist says pea pie., can’t be oriented overnight to a new diet just because It's good for them. And United States food habits can’t be imposed on others with too much success. s Dr. Florence Kluckhohn of Harvard’s laboratory of social relations, conducting a lecture series at lowa State College said the food patterns of “a given group of people are intricately interrelated with their whole culture, values •and traditions.” Dr. Kluckhohn cited an example of the danger of trying to convert non-Americans to Amerlcaii food habits. She said welfare workers- inadvertently did more harm than good after World War I when they taught Spanish-Americans \in many villages to use wheat hour Instead of corn to make th'eir\tortillas.' “This.” she said, “dftpriyed them of their main source 1 of calcium which had come from the pulverized- limestone used in making corn tortillas. \ American Independence Dr. .Kluckhohn described the culture and family life of theg Span-ish-Americans in old Mexico. Sire told hoW their, diet is a traditional one. * \ • ‘‘There basic foods are beans i>f various types, some meat, little or no milk, corn and edible plants,” she skid. "Small children eat the same foods as adults witii none of our own emphasis on special baby foods.” 1 ‘‘ln contrast, the American family is unusual, for the children are brought up to be highly indepen-. dent and competition is keen.” She pointed out that in the Mex- ■ '' t

lean family there is- dependency. “American men and women frequently know other person's much better than they do -ttielr own brother's and sisters,” jDr. Kluckhohn said. I ‘ Italian Birth And Death Rates Lower 1952 All-Time Low In Births, Deaths ROME (t’P) — Modern Italians are giving birth to babies at a rate less than half the record pace set by their grandparents, the Central Institute of Statistics has revealed. The year 19&2 was the all-time low. There Were only 17.6 per thousand squalling additions to the already bursting population compared to 38.0 per thousand in 1881 — peak year since records were ke,pt. The downward has been underway- for two generations, even during the time when Benito Mussolini called for more children for his empire. r i \ Deaths Fewer 1 * But still the population is growing. Better living conditions and state - sponsored social assistance have produced a parallel drop In the death rate which, fell from the 1881 peak of S7.s per thousand to I'o per thousand iri 1952. \ LThe latest census show-ed there Were 47.100.000 Italians on the peninsula and its satellite islands —a teeming number for a country that is economically poor. The institute the growth of the Italian population, featured by both low birth-rate and low mortality, “economical.” Italians Taller ft said the immediate result of ■the trend is that the population is aging — there are more middleaged Italians and fewer youngsters. Ultimately there will be aged people, and the birth rate will go down even more. The hot and backward south

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was still pacing the rest of Italy in baby production. The regions of Basilreata and Ca •’bria, on the toe of the stood out with a birth-raite of 25.4 and 25.1 respectively. At the other end or the scale, the region of Liguria, in the northwestern section of the peninsula, had a birth rate of 9.9 per thousand, Mwest in the land. [ Italians, by |he way,, are growing taller, the statistics indicated. Figures furnished by the military authorities showed the average height of Ltaliani born in 1854 was 63.77 inches, the average height of Italians born in 1927 was 65.74 inches. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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SKATING IS LOTS MORE FUN THAN WALKING - SOMETIMES . LEARNING TO SKATE before she can walk real .well, 17-month-old Patsy Vlggiano goes around the block with a friend, Helen Sneath, 9, tn Phiia- ; delphia. Full of confidence, Patsy munches on an ice cream cone. Without warning catastrophe | strikes—and so does Patsy. (International),

Wrong Place To Rest FRESNO, Calif., UP — William K. Hodge, 46, of , Fresno, stopped alt a West Fresno police precinct station ‘‘just to rest" and promptly was locked up.. Police discovered Hodge’s car was one sought in connection with a liquor store holdup in East Fresno about two hours earlier. 1 Name Game BUFFALO. N. Y., UP — Rust, Wahl and Flohr live in adjacent houses here.Red Ink Improvement COLOMBO, UP — Ceylon had a trade deficit of 32,620,000 rupees for the first half of 1953, an im-

provement over the corresponding period last year when the deficit was 67.708.00 f/ rupees. Ski-Happy PORTLAND, Me.. UP fedgar Reed, 29, of Worcester. Mass., likes to water ski more than most. He skied non-stop without !a fall 43 miles from Boothbay Harbor to Portland. Bad Economics MANCHESTER. Conn.. UP — After being fined SSO for driving 11 years without a license.lNapoleoh Desrosiers ruefully figured that if he had paid the yearly fee ’ he’d have saved sls. i Democrat Want Ads Bring Results