14 MAY 1937, Page 3

Diet and Plain Language At last week's meeting of the

governing body of the International Labour Organisation, Mr. Arthur Hayday, the British Workers' delegate, pointed out very pertinently that the campaign for higher standards of nutrition can only succeed if the workers know what it is about. Mr. Hayday complained that experts talked in terms of calories, virAm ins and proteins, which mean nothing to most men, and he asked that they should be translated into a more intelligible language. He is quite right. Food problems are not solved by the efforts of experts alone. If they want to alter the workman's family's habits, they must carry the workman's family with them.