VICTORY KEY IN HEALTH

NUTRITION WiLL DETERMINE WAR
PRODUGTION, DR, HEISER SAYS.

Success on Assembly Line as Im-
portant as Winning on Battle
Fields, Manufacturer's
Consultant Asserts.

Fuel up for the job, Dr. Victor
Heiser urges the 30 to 40 million
actual and potential industriai
workers of the next year.

For nutrition is the greatest single
factor in the all-important health
program in plants where this war
will be waged in equal measure with
battles on thé field, the consultant
on healthful working conditions for
the National Association of Manu-
facturers insisted today.

THIS WAR DIFFERENT,

“Wars of the past have been won
largely on the battle fields,” Dr.
Heiser pointed out, “but this con-
flict will depend as much on the
industrial workers as the soldiers.’

The assembly line must hold up,
he asserted, thus the enormous job
of keeping the workers healthy,

With the army and navy having
“first pick,”. and industry getting
what’s left, the resultant handicap
indicates the medical war contri-,
bution will be’ more than that of
either army or navy, he said,

Then add the further problem that |
'the average age in the armed forces
‘is less than 26 years old and the av-.
jerage age in industry is 45 years old.

And that the percentage of women
industrial workers is rising rapidly,
jwith. their average of sick leave
itwelve days a year compared to the
jmen’s ten days.

TO SOLVE PROBLEM.

But such statistics fail to curb the
slow and easy grin of Dr. Heiser,
{who just points out the tough points
jas a matter of stating a problem he
lis confident. can be figured out.

- “American industry always makes
a,'success of what it undertakes, and
this will be another triumph,” he
declared. “Look at the safety cain-
paign. Since 1929 the industrial
accident .rate has declined steadily,
while the motor car injuries and
fatalities and thoge in other walks
of life have increased.” *