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campaigns since the summer of 1938. The people elected a new Mayor, City Council, District Attorney, and Governor. “To these CIVIC efforts for better government, Clifford Clinton and Clifton’s contributed more than 95% of the funds. Nelda Clinton and Ransom M. Callicott (Clifford’s partner) gave extra hours to managing the day-to-day operations of the business. Clifton’s guests and friends donated services, learned the political ropes and became a formidable volunteer citizens’ army. More than 2,200 radio broadcasts were given and factual material was published in pamphlets, papers and magazines. “One of those who became associated with Clifford Clinton during these CIVIC years, and aided the cause immeasurably, was Ernest R. Chamberlain. This brilliant former newspaperman served on after the CIVIC battles concluded and became one of the founders with Clifford Clinton of the Meals for Millions Foundation.” There follows a tribute in poetry written by Nelle Shuler Fertig, daughter of the Rev. Bob Shuler, Clinton’s fellow member in CIVIC–titled “To my father’s friend” (In memory of Clifford E. Clinton). 228. Clifton’s Food for Thot (Los Angeles, California).1970. In memory of Clifford E. Clinton, our founder (Continued– Part III, 1942-1970). No. 1985. March 12. 8 p. • Summary: Continued: 1942–World War II. “At age 42, leaving business in the capable hands of his wife, his partner and his associates, Clinton enlisted as a private in the Army. He was offered training at Officers’ Candidate School, took it, and became a First Lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corp. He was assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, where he took charge of all feeding. His methods, especially his techniques of cutting food waste drastically, attracted the attention of the Office of the Quartermaster General in Washington, D.C., and shortly thereafter Clinton was placed on civilian status and made a consultant to the Army, the War Food Department, and UNRRA. He traveled around the country and around the world advising on food, inspecting conditions and curtailing waste. In one of the citations he received he is credited with saving the Army 20 train-carloads of wasted food per month. Clifford Clinton never could stand waste–not since his early years as a young boy in China.” “The ‘No guest need go hungry...’ policy [at Clifton’s restaurants] was met in this and various ways until the year 1943. Here is Clinton writing about what happened then: “‘In 1943, when considering our Community Center expansion program, Clifton’s determined to meet this policy scientifically and went to Dr. Henry Borsook, an eminent biochemist in at Cal Tech in Pasadena, with a set of requirements for the development of a balanced food.’ “Clifton’s put up a research grant and by the end of 1943 Dr. Borsook’s research had resulted in the development of Multi-Purpose Food (MPF)... Since its MEALS FOR MILLIONS, SOY, AND FREEDOM FROM HUNGER 100 © Copyright Soyinfo Center 2011 development, Clifton’s has been meeting its policy by serving MPF to those unable to pay (yet needing good nutrition nonetheless). It is available for 5¢ per portion, or free to those who need. “When Clifford Clinton returned to Clifton’s from World War II, he recalled that when serving as food consultant to the War Department, he had learned of the famine and malnutrition which would follow the war. He tried to get MPF-type foods into service in the cause of hunger relief. ‘Considerable time was spent in trying to get agencies to see the value of using inexpensive and nourishing food in this type of relief feeding,’ he wrote. Some progress was made, but not much. 1946–So in 1946 Clinton “decided to set up a private, non-profit Foundation called Meals for Millions, to make permanent war on hunger and malnutrition in America and the world. Clinton actively served as founder-president of MFM “until his retirement in 1965. Co-founders with him were Dr. Borsook, Ransom Callicott, Ernest Chamberlain, Edmond Clinton [Clifford’s son] and Florence Rose. Florence was a remarkable dedicated, tireless, spirited dynamo who arrived on the scene from her previous work with Margaret Sanger and Pearl Buck just about the time Meals for Millions was being organized. She served as Executive Director and Ernest Chamberlain served as Co- Director of the Foundation until they both retired in 1965. 1965–Clifford Clinton, Florence Rose, and Ernest Chamberlain all retire from the Meals for Millions Foundation, which they had founded it in 1946. 1969 Nov. 20–Died peacefully at his home in Los Angeles. Dr. Raymond I. Lindquist, Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, conducted services. 1970–Today the Foundation’s offices, protein foods processing plant, and class rooms are located at 1800 Olympic Blvd. in Santa Monica [California]. Col. I.F. Saunders is Executive Director. “Meals for Millions participates in emergency relief programs and has distributed over 15 million pounds of MPF to people in 129 countries and territories. Special emphasis today is on helping to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in America, as well as on training food technicians from hunger-areas abroad how to establish their own high protein food processing plants in their own countries, utilizing their own indigenous crops and food stuffs. Thus, the concept is helping others to help themselves. “All men have the right to eat. The most fundamental freedom is freedom from hunger. It is the right of every person to basic nourishment. These are the thoughts and beacons which animated the life of Clifford E. Clinton. He was a man who cared, and loved, and served, and tried, also, to satisfy other human hungers–for friendship, beauty,
intellectual and spiritual satisfaction, happiness, peace and contentment. The brochure ends with a poem “For Clifford Clinton,” by Esther York Burkholder (Editor, Clifton’s Food for Thot). And finally with excerpts from the “Funeral service” conducted by Raymond I. Lindquist, minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Note: Clifford E. Clinton lived 1900-1969. Clifton’s Cafeteria was both a restaurant and a soup kitchen. Almost all these circulars, published from 1931 to 1995, are in: Collection of Clifton’s Cafeteria circulars (Collection 1827). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. 7 boxes (3.5 linear feet). 229. Meals for Millions Foundation. 1970. Annual report 1969. Santa Monica, California: MFM Foundation. 9 p. Typed with signature on letterhead. • Summary: Submitted by I.F. Saunders, Executive Director. MFM’s logo (in the upper left on the title page) shows two hands gripping the handle of a horizontal spoon, with its mouth to the right facing upward–in white on a black background. Note: This is the earliest document seen (Dec. 2010) on which this logo appears. Contents: In Memoriam: Three great friends of the Foundation passed away in 1969: “Our Founder, Clifford E, Clinton, a giant among men; Florence Rose, the first Executive Director, beloved around the world; and Don Belding, a much-revered and long-time member of the Board of Directors. “Their loss is felt deeply by each of us.” Summary of annual report. MFM board and staff (In March of 1969, at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors, in accordance with the By-Laws of this Foundation,” Dr. Morris Asimow was re-elected chairman of the board and Mr. Russell Eller, was re-elected president...) “Key loss to the staff was: Mark Sterner, who now lives in Korea, but who continues to help us through his work with Korea High Protein Foods, Inc.” Meals for Millions training school (administrated by Eva Kadiev). Research and development (enriched noodles, peanut meal MEALS FOR MILLIONS, SOY, AND FREEDOM FROM HUNGER 101 © Copyright Soyinfo Center 2011 concentrate, crystalline protein). United States projects: California, Texas, Connecticut, South Carolina, American Indians. Overseas Projects: Korea, Ecuador, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Iran, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico, Chile. Women’s Clubs. Public relations. Remarks. Note 1. No financial information is given, nor information on shipments of MPF for the year. Note 2. A photo (on the Web, Dec. 2010) shows Clifford E. Clinton’s signature on his grave marker at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale, California). Plot: Kindly Light section, Lot 311, Interment Space 6. The grave site is on a grassy hillside. Address: 1800 Olympic Boulevard (P.O. Box 1666), Santa Monica, California. Phone: 870- 0451. 230. Soybean Digest.1970. MPF produces good results in Iran. April. p. 48. • Summary: Multi-Purpose Food (MPF) showed good results in feeding tests with Iranian school students, according to Dr. A.M. Setayesh, author of a report on the subject. “MPF, which contains 50% vegetable protein balanced with the required vitamins and minerals, is produced by [sic, for] the Meals for Millions Foundation in California. Students on the test received 20 grams of MPF mixed with water daily. “There is considerable malnutrition in Iran, partly due to a shortage of food but in large part due to ignorance of what constitutes a good diet.” 231. Narayanaswamy, D.; Daniel, V.A.; Desai, B.L.M.; Rajalakshmi, D.; Swaminathan, M.; Parpia, H.A.B. 1970. The effect of supplementation with limiting amino acids on the protein efficiency ratio of a low-cost protein food based on wheat and soybean flours and fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. Nutrition Reports International 2(4):225-30. Oct. [10 ref] • Summary: A low-cost protein food has been prepared. It is a blend of 70 parts of wheat flour and 30 parts of processed full-fat soybean flour, fortified with vitamins and minerals. It contains about 22.5% protein. “The PER of the food at 10% protein level was 1.93. Addition of methionine significantly increased the PER to 2.40, while addition of a mixture of methionine, threonine and lysine further increased the PER to 2.91 as compared with 3.0 for milk proteins.” Address: Central Food Technological Research Inst. (CFTRI), Mysore, India. 232. Setayesh, A.M. 1970. Study of the effects of nutritional feeding program with Multi-Purpose Food on students of schools in the DIP. Hudson, Iowa: Soybean Digest. Summarized in Soybean Digest, April 1970, p. 48. *
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