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ice in a biting north wind watching an ice hockey game, or who will shiver in a snowdrift in admiring attention while a ski-jumping exhibition is in process is rare. That sort of thing is fun for a few minutes and then the cold begins to get in its work. No one can enjoy skiing or skating or coasting or snowshoeing or other form of winter sports from the sidelines; he has to get into the game to feel the tingle and zest of it.

It takes effort sometimes to make a start. Assuredly no spectacle was ever so ridiculous as a novice on skis or skates or even snowshoes. And the novice is painfully conscious of that fact when he starts. But he gathers his courage in both hands. He decides to try the ski run. He starts. It is not so bad as he thought. He is getting on famously. He hopes that people are watching his progress to see how successful he is. Some

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thing happens. One ski starts exploring on its own responsibility.... As he digs himself out of the smothering snow he looks around sheepishly for the crowds of derisive spectators. There are none. They are having too many troubles of their own to watch the tumbles of a beginner. His selfconsciousness vanishes. He is fully initiated into the army of Winter Sports Enthusiasts.

Taken as a single incident that is trivial enough, but repeated as it has been thousands of times this winter it has a social significance which might furnish the subject for a Doctor's thesis in Psychology. America is a self-conscious country, hampered and handicapped by the fear of being spontaneous. Is it not possible that, by helping to lift this self-consciousness, Our winter sports are building the mental health of the nation as well as its physical well-being?

FILLED MILK

ILLED milk is a name that the majority of citizens have become familiar with during the past few months. It refers to a certain substance made up of a compound of skimmilk and cocoanut oil. It is manufactured by separating the butter fat from the whole milk and substituting in its place, cocoanut or vegetable oil. This is a very profitable business for the manufacturer; butter fat, worth approximately fifty cents per pound, is replaced by cocoanut oil, worth from six to ten cents per pound. The business has been growing by tremendous bounds until a yearly production of 86,000,000 pounds has been reached. Filled Milk is very injurious to health. Such an authority as Dr. E. V. McCollum of Johns Hopkins University, testified before Congress that an infant fed a few weeks on this product would develop the rickets. The reason for this lies in the fact that when

you remove butter fat from whole milk, it takes 90% of a particular class of vitamines which are very essential to the health and growth of infants and growing children.

House Bill No. 94 in the New Hampshire legislature, if passed, would prohibit the sale and manufacture in this state of filled milk. It is essential that this bill should pass for both health and economic reasons.

A bill similar to this has been enacted in eleven states and the constitutionality of the law upheld in three of these States. This This legislation is endorsed by organizations representing the great majority of citizens in New Hampshire. These organizations are the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation, the Grange, the Federation of Labor, the League of Women Voters, the Dairymen's Association and many other organizations of local, state and national character.-H. S. B.

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ROBERT P. BASS (R)
PETERBOROUGH

Committee on Ways and Means

THE leading exponent to be found in the entire northeast in the battle for the cause of social and industrial justice"That's what Roosevelt called him back in 1912. He was Governor then one of the youngest Governors New Hampshire has ever had, and one of the few who left a perfect record of performed platform pledges. Roosevelt's words come back with special force this session because of Mr. Bass's hard fight for a fact-finding commission on the 48-hour law, his personal investigation culminating in his stand as Republican champion of the law, and his active interest in the alleviation of the farmer's tax burden.

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GEORGE A. WOOD (R)
PORTSMOUTH

Committee on Labor

Committee on Ways and Means You may use my photograph if you wish, but the really important pictures in our family are these" and Mr. Wood pulled from his pocket a set of pictures of the two-year-old girl who is probably better known in New Hampshire legislative circles than any other young woman of her age in the state. Mr. Wood is variously known as "Betty Jean's grandfather," "Mary I. Wood's husband" and as one of the most fair-mindied of our legislators. He has made his third term notable by his able support of the 48-hour law.

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WILLIAM E. PRICE (R)
LISBON

Committee on Revision of
Statutes

Committee on Rules

LISBON has an unwritten law that no man shall go to the Legislature two consecutive sessions. However, having found in Mr. Price a representative combining the broad outlook of a scholar-he holds degrees of A. B. and A. M. from Brown-and the keen business judgment of a successful manufacturer, the town was wise enough to return him for a second term. He would have been speaker had the Republicans controlled the House, and he was one of the ablest opponents of the 48-hour law.

JOHN G. WINANT (R)
CONCORD

Committee on Labor
THE Young Schoolmaster in

Politics is a favorite subject for novelists. But when one adds to John Winant's teaching career at St. Paul's and his already notable record both in the House and in the Senate, some Texas oil adventures, a California ranch, and war experience which began with enlistment as a private and concluded with command of a squadron in the Air Service-Well, an author confronted with that wealth of material would speedily be reduced to distraction similar to Mr. Winant's when genius starts to burn and his 48-hour friends have kidnapped his stenographer.

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