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Vol. XV ■ No. 392 September 26, 1934
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LABOR AND ECONOMICS
No Taxes in Tel-Aviv
Swiss Railways Operated for Public 818 Labor Provisions in Constitution
of Mexico
Minimum Wages in Canada . . . 820 Who Is the Most Valuable Citi,.e;i? 820 Work for 200 Men
Hartford and Cleveland .... 821 Ohio’s Old Age Pension I.aw . . 828
social and educational
Blood Lust Up 100 Percent . . 812 Hove France Locks After
Her Veterans.......814
Tucker Prison Farm, ALtansas . 8 IS The Odd Magic Square .... 822 Some of the Biggest Things . . 828 Arrangement of the Hollow Square 823 Children Absorb Instruction Readily 823 Index to Volume XV of
THE GOLDEN AGE .... 830
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
The Krupps Received Their Reward 814
Longest Double-Track Tunnel . . 816
London-Australia Air Service . . 818
Thompson’s Embarrassing Question 821
Stealing from Widows .... 821
The Federal Reserve Staff . . . 821
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
The Men Who Voted Against War 812
NRA Easing the U. S. into Fascism 812
General Butler on War .... 812
Great Britain Stood by Germany . 813 3,500,000 Political Prisoners . . 814 Reduction in Number of Politicians 828 What the World War Accomplished 829 Farmer-Labor Party Goes Left . S29
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
Interesting Facts About Bees . . 815 The Dry Blizzards of 1934 . . . 815 Tropical Park in the Everglades . 829
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Germany No Longer Needs Colonies 813
“Diel You Know?”.....815
Effect of Sounds upon Liquids . 815 High-Speed Bike for Level Ground 821
HOME AND HEALTH
Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions
III (Part 2).......803
Pleasant Way to Obtain Iron . . 824
Rotondi’s Raisin Bread .... 824
Deaths from Vaccination . . . 824
A Bunch of Ideas......824
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
Russia Has 2,000 Fighting Planes 814 No Defense Against Air Attacks . 816 Otoes Want Their Pay .... 818 American Resources and
Achievements.......829
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Purgatory........817
Jesus Born About October Fir:3t 825
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Volume XV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, September 26, 1934 Number 392
Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions Ill
In Two Parts—Part 2
MINNESOTA comes next on our list. Doctors got in the habit of exploring J. N. Peterson, of Minnesota, for cancer, but after abstaining from aluminum ware for two and a half years he had a complete recovery.
Mrs. C. Walker, of Minnesota, killed two dogs by feeding them in an aluminum pan, and came mighty near getting rid of her hubby by the same method. For six years he was forced to bed by dizziness, headache and vomiting after a few hours’ work, and could take only raw eggs and fresh milk right from the cows. Now he works sixteen hours a day, and Mrs. Walker has no idea when, if ever, she is going to be able to collect the insurance on him.
Mrs. Agnes L. Brown, of Minnesota, suffered with stomach trouble, constipation, headaches, sore mouth, sore throat and heart trouble, dizziness and loss of sight. The children had heart attacks and sore mouths; the husband had trouble with heart, stomach, kidneys and head. All these troubles ended with the disuse of aluminum utensils, but since then a single meal at the home of a friend brought Mrs. Brown headaches, shortness of breath, soreness of tongue and a miserable feeling all over. She noticed that the major portion of the meal was cooked in aluminum. Mrs. Brown had a dear old lady friend who laughed at the idea that aluminum utensils, alum baking powder and white flour could do her any harm; she died of cancer, self-induced. Her son noticed that his baby was getting sores externally and refused to eat. Mrs. Brown told him aluminum utensils were killing his child. He went home, smashed the whole set with an axe, got enamel ware instead, and the whole family got well. She knew of a case where a ham boiled, but not cooled, in an aluminum kettle, made ill every person who ate of it. She says that the alum used to soften the city drinking water of Virginia, Minnesota, is a big help to the M.D.’s and undertakers.
A. L. Dosh, of Minnesota, had in his family a patient suffering with what appeared to be tumors of the breast for over seven years; they were of the size of a large pea, and almost black. Before breaking they became very painful, and the pain spread throughout the body. Six weeks after dumping the aluminum ware the last of these tumors disappeared, and there has not been the slightest return of the trouble; also, a stomach and bowel trouble which was very threatening passed away, and the patient is regaining health. Another member of the family was cured of ulcers and bad skin eruptions by the same means.
Missouri Wholesale Poisonings
Missouri believes in doing things on a generous and noble scale. At the General Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, 325 employees were made ill. It is the boast of the aluminum ware makers that they have their wares in every hospital. The results seem to show that this boast is true; and when you come to think of it, that it is the business of a hospital to make people sick, and to keep them sick, it is not such a bad here-and-now edition of the purgatory scheme. Every business today is run for revenue only.
The St. Louis Star-Times advertises “A New Tuna, Luxury Brand, Packed in Aluminum Can, New, Delicious”. We anxiously await reports of results.
Mrs. J. R. Griffith, of Missouri, noticed that when her dog Tim was fed from an aluminum dish he always left some on the sides and bottom, but when fed from an enamel dish he licked up every particle.
G. A. Bauer, of Missouri, had a skin cancer which, it was explained to him, he could have removed for $50. He stopped eating food cooked
in aluminum ware; the “cancer” dried up, and he brushed it off with his fingers.
J. N. Ragan, of Missouri, warmed and drank one morning coffee that had been left in an aluminum percolator the previous morning; as a result he was nearly blind for nine months, until the aluminum worked out of his system. Two eye specialists consulted were unable to understand the case or to help in any way.
E. M. Moore, of Missouri, entertained for a Sunday meal, noticed that it was all cooked in aluminum, and laughingly thought to himself he ought now to get some results. He did: Monday he was ill; Tuesday his back was very lame; Wednesday he was practically helpless from severe pains and soreness in his kidneys; after tw7o weeks they were still sore. The pain was inside, not outside.
Mrs. F. AV. Robinson, of Missouri, writes that since discontinuing the use of aluminum ware her husband's hands have become soft as velvet; for years they were covered with a thick gray crust of a grimy color; deep cracks came which would heal and crack again. One physician was honest enough to say he did not know what it was; another said it was tetter; another said old men were subject to it; and the fourth and last told him he must keep his hands out of water. A neighbor who kept hot soup constantly bubbling on the back of the stove in an aluminum kettle nearly killed himself before he found out the cause of his trouble. His liver was so enlarged he could hardly lie down.
At Galena, Missouri, in the family of Richard Crabtree, some chicken was kept overnight in an aluminum pan. Two of Mr. Crabtree’s children, a boy of one year and another boy of four years, died and were buried in the same grave. This was all regular; nothing unusual about it in any way. The deaths could have been forecast by any reader of The Golden Age as a most natural result.
Natal, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, his wife and thirty others, were poisoned at a dinner given in Dr. Weizmann’s honor in Durban, Natal, South Africa. It was a regular, formal, up-to-date poisoning; no unusual features of any kind.
At Verdel, Nebraska, the wife of Fila Sherman, his seventeen-year-old daughter Vivian and his thirteen-year-old daughter Esther died within a week after they had eaten corn prepared in an aluminum pan; very sad, but quite to be expected.
Mrs. F. AV. Morse, of New Hampshire, writes that when she ceased to use aluminum ware she ceased to have stomach trouble; she is quite sure it was these utensils that caused her to have a skin cancer, now also healed.
At the Overbrook Hospital for the Insane, Newark, N. J., after a Christmas dinner, out of 280 guests all but 50 were taken ill within two hours after the feast. There was nothing the matter with the food itself. The answer is so plain that anybody can understand it. The aluminum utensil people boast that nearly all the hospitals in the country cook their food in nothing but aluminum.
Matilda R. AVellman, of New Jersey, writes that her dog died of cancer of the rectum; his drinking pan was of aluminum ware.
New York Wholesale Poisonings
If the smaller, less important states can have wholesale poisonings, they are not to be denied to the Empire State. There was one at White Plains, where G5 persons became desperately ill, and another at Jamaica Hospital, Richmond Hill, New York, where 60 were stricken; everything regular. The “health authorities” never know any reasons for these wholesale poisonings, and never will know any.
It would seem as if the opinions of Dr. Hal Truman Beans, of Columbia University, New York city; Doctor N. S. Hanoka, of New York city; Doctor Frank C. Gephart, chemist, New York; Andrew Dingwall, Ph.D., chemist, Brooklyn; Lester C. Himebaugh, biochemist, New York; Max Kahn, associate in biological chemistry, Columbia University; John Allen Killian, professor of chemistry, Fordham Medical School, New York; Dr. Matthew Steele, Ph.D., instructor at Columbia University; Dr. William J. Gies, professor of biological chemistry, Columbia University; Dr. Hattie L. Hoeft, physiological chemist, Teachers College of Columbia University, ought to have some weight, but apparently their well-considered advice that aluminum compounds, when taken internally by man, are poisonous, has not registered as it should. Even though most of them may not wish it, we are helping to get their ideas before the people, as a public duty.
Doctor Royal S. Copeland, United States senator from New York, and former commissioner of health of New York city, states that food should not be allowed to remain overnight or for any period of time in aluminum cookingware.
E. W. Symondson, of New York, lost his mother, presumably by operation for cancer; he is now well convinced she would be alive today had she never had any aluminum utensils. When he notices people who look ill, and inquires, he often finds they cook by what may be called “the great graveyard way”.
Buffalo Boy Scout Troop 66 left some onions piled on aluminum dishes used by the troops, and they were overlooked; in a few months the dishes were still more useless than ever, as they were pitted with holes.
Miss Edith Hollenbeck, of New York, had vomiting spells three or four times a week; the doctors said it was cancer; she threw away all her aluminum utensils, and got well.
Chris Jenson, of New York, became entirely incapacitated for work as a result of the habit of using for drinking and cooking purposes water left in an aluminum kettle, but his palpitation of the heart and fainting spells all disappeared within a year after he threw the aluminum ware away.
Clayton J. Woodworth, of New York, tilted an aluminum skillet in a gas flame; the skillet took fire and fell in pieces; as the aluminum hydroxides, sulphates and chlorides had worked out into the food, their place had been taken by the fats used in cooking. An aluminum teakettle was mended several times, due to aluminum hydroxide passing out into the foods and drinks of the family. Pie crust rolled out on a table top of pure aluminum was so gray it could not be eaten. Obviously, a metal unfit for a table top would be a metal unfit for use as a cooking utensil.
0. 0. McIntyre, New York newspaper man, divulged that 900 were poisoned at a bank executive luncheon in New York. Same old story: nothing of this was allowed in the newspapers; it is thought better to risk the lives of a few men such as Mitchell and Morgan than to have aluminum shares go down.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, of New York, made a shampoo in an aluminum basin; immediately after using the shampoo her hair felt like a coil of very fine wire and broke off most unaccountably.
Mrs. H. V. Champlin writes of the death of her father, after his eating of chicken cooked in aluminum and allowed to stand in it for a few hours; two other members of the family were also made seriously ill. The mother, Mrs. C. J. Baker, died from the poison three days later.
In the nine years from 1920 to 1929 cancer rose from twentieth place to second place as a cause of death; it knows no help but the knife, the N-ray and radium. One would think that all doctors would be willing to recommend fresh fruits and vegetables and to cut out white bread, pork and aluminum utensils and see what would happen. They would learn something.
New Zealand and North Dakota
Dr. R. Atkinson Reddell, of New Zealand, in a letter to Doctor Betts, states that he has long held the view that the cooking of foods in aluminum ware is destructive to health and was glad when Betts’ book Aluminum Poisoning put scientific information on the subject within his reach.
Mrs. Ivy Gillanders, of New Zealand, was very ill with stomach trouble and colitis, but, since ridding her home of every aluminum article in it, now finds herself in greatly improved health.
Roe E. Remington, biological chemist, North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, North Dakota, found by experimentation that aluminum compounds, when taken internally by man, are precipitated therein, and thus are poisonous.
Henry W. Haven, of North Dakota, had a sick kitten, and incidentally a sick wife. He made his wife feed the kitten for ten days in something else than aluminum, so the kitten would get well, and then happened to think of his wife and made her feed herself the same way. It was hard on the doctor who had had her as a regular customer for eight years; for she got entirely well. Henry says the only place for aluminum utensils is on the rock pile.
Ohio Wholesale Poisonings
Ohio is a great state, one of the very greatest in the Union. It claims the same rights as any other great state to allow its citizens to be poisoned wholesale as well as retail. The Toledo Y.W.C.A., famous for its cleanliness, carefully selected chickens, cooked them in aluminum, and allowed them to stand therein from afternoon till eight at night, when they served a banquet to 300 high school young women. The result was regular in every way; 70 of the young women became very ill. Any “medical authority” that would have dared discover the truth on this would have lost his job. There is too much profitable advertising at stake. What is an occasional wholesale poisoning of our finest citizens when we have the reputation and integrity and dividends of our greatest financial institutions at stake?
Mrs. Elsie Hoppe, of Toledo, boiled beef hearts and tomato soup in an aluminum kettle; the result was regular. She, and four of her children, ill. Mrs. Everett Smith, and daughter Lois, died from home-cooked food, allowed to be stored for some time in aluminum before being packed in glass jars.
W. L. Bryden, of Ohio, suffered from a gnawing sensation in his right side and up the colon to its turn; he thought he had cancer; he discarded his aluminum utensils, and recovered entirely.
Dr. P. D. Pottle, of Ohio, observed that on a hot July day seven goats refused to drink water from an aluminum bucket, but drank eagerly when a different bucket was provided.
Mrs. Lawrence Harbauer, of Ohio, told Dr. Betts she had used aluminum ware for years without any ill effects. She died in less than thirty days after she made that remark, and they found in her gall bladder a stone over 1| inches in diameter. Her husband, even after her death, continued the use of the utensils which had ended the life of his companion; shortly thereafter he died from ulcers and cancerous tissue, aluminum-caused.
Mrs. Charles Frazer, of Ohio, cooked the food for goats in aluminum. One of the goats developed bowel trouble; when enamel ware was substituted the goat got well.
Mrs. Louis Cook, of Ohio, bought a set of aluminum ware at a big price. After using for a time she noticed in the kettle a crystal, like salt, touched it with finger tip, and tasted. It was sour, and produced a sore on her tongue that took two weeks to heal. If you want that kind of sores on your intestines, you just go right ahead and use all the aluminum utensils you wish to. Don’t allow anything we may say to stop you. You have a right to die by a selfinduced cancer the same as anybody else, and should be protected in that right; only don’t get sore when somebody tells you about it.
Dr. Arles Pottle, of Ohio, reports a case of a patient with heavy ulceration of the stomach completely healed when the lady discontinued using aluminum ware.
Garnet Pearl Walker, of Ohio, writes of a neighbor girl who had violent vomiting spells for years; she switched over to using granite ware, and the trouble ended completely.
Mrs. I. A. Hall, of Ohio, says her mother broke out with hives, became unconscious, and was so swollen as to be unrecognizable. A physician said it was from her kidneys; another said it was rheumatism and her teeth would have to be extracted (he overlooked the fact that she had worn false teeth for thirty-five years); a third said it was from her liver; a fourth said her tonsils must come out, and he had his wish. The attacks continued nine months, but in sixty days after discarding all aluminum ware she became a well woman. Incidentally, antagonism to the literature of the Kingdom turned into friendliness. All the people need is to have the liars stop lying to them.
Mrs. Grace Daugherty, of Ohio, had sore mouth and a sore lip from wearing an aluminum plate and cooking in aluminum ware. These troubles disappeared when the causes were removed. A stomach trouble of long standing also disappeared.
The mother of L. V. Gates, of Ohio, had violent attacks of gallstones for several years and was told she must be operated upon; but when she stopped using aluminum ware she had no more attacks.
At Steubenville, Ohio, it was noted that Tom Parry’s canary will neither chirp, sing nor bathe when given water treated with alum and other chemicals, but bursts into song and bathes birdfashion when given pure spring water. Says Dr, Betts: “Thousands of voices of little children are similarly silenced as reported concerning this canary.”
One reason why cows occasionally give poisoned milk and children are slain thereby is that the cows eat white snakeroot (in Ohio) or rayless goldenrod (New Mexico) and the excessive amount of aluminum compounds which these contain is more than the human system can handle.
The people of Columbus have 500 tons of bauxite (aluminum-ore compound) thrown into their drinking water every year. It is used to purify (?) the water and help the chemical companies continue to operate at a profit. Iron sulphate should be used instead, and is harmless.
Adolph Kurzen, of Ohio, talked with an aluminum worker who said there is a disagreeable and sickening smell from working in aluminum, the fingers become sore, and the worker lives but about ten years.
Charles Howard, managing editor of the 86-page Toledo Times, was dismissed within twenty-four hours after he allowed to be printed an article by himself upon the aluminum question, after he had thoroughly investigated the facts. It is dangerous to tell the truth.
It took the Federal Trade Commission five years, required 158 witnesses and 4,000 pages of closely typewritten testimony to reveal to the Mellon government the facts that are freely revealed to our readers in this issue. As soon as the report was published it was immediately suppressed for reasons which are so self-evident that it is a public shame to even mention them.
Oklahoma Has Poisonings Also
Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1933, dumped into its water supply 251 tons of alum, undoubtedly affecting the health of thousands. Iron sulphate could have been used instead, with perfect safety.
Mrs. Jack McKenzie, of Oklahoma, writes that vomiting spells were killing her boy, but he recovered when she stopped using aluminum-ware utensils.
J. H. Barger, of Oklahoma, had a constant pain in his stomach, sharp pains in chest, was very nervous, and lost twenty pounds in weight; tried all kinds of doctors and medicines without result, but obtained complete relief when the aluminum ware was discarded. Now, at meal time, he is hungry, eats all he wants, and feels fine.
Arthur J. Edens, of Oklahoma, was kept ill by eating food carried in aluminum containers in his lunch kit. After lunch came a nauseating feeling, followed by pains in the stomach. The malady disappeared with the utensils.
W. V. Stanley, of Oklahoma, was bothered with stomach trouble and heart trouble, was forced to stop on the street and sit down on curbs or in doorways, and could not climb stairs. Not one of these symptoms has appeared since he quit killing himself by small doses of aluminum hydrate taken from his kitchen ware three times a day.
At Tecumseh, Oklahoma, 90 girls were poisoned at the State Home for girls. Everything about this poisoning was regular, including the absence of any explanation by the medical “authorities”.
A subscriber in Oklahoma noted a letter from the president of the American Medical Association, deploring the increase in trench mouth. The lady wrote Dr. Fishbein that the cause of trench mouth, which he had admitted he did not comprehend, was that the soldier boys tried to drink from aluminum containers. He replied: “Careful scientific study in various parts of the world indicates not the slightest danger to the human from eating food cooked in aluminum cooking utensils.”
Under the circumstances one can partly comprehend the following from the Journal of the American Association for Medico-Physical Re* search:
The Journal of the A.M.A. is the vilest sheet that passes the United States mail. Its language merely keeps within the Postal Regulations. It is conducted meticulously upon the principles of graft. Nothing new and useful in therapeutics escapes its unqualified condemnation. Its attacks are generally ad hominem. Its editorial columns are largely devoted to character assassination. No reputation, no life, no character is above its libelous assaults. It is of such reputation that the statement of a fact in its columns is prima facie evidence of its untruth. Its editorial writers work in the seething ooze of corruption and write with a “muck rake”. This reputation of the Journal of the A.M.A. is general in the United States. Its editor is of the type of Jew that crucified Jesus Christ.
Ontario and Oregon
Margaret Carson, trained nurse, served twice in the largest hospital in Toronto. Each time she developed cankers in her mouth, due entirely to the fact that at that time the cooking in that hospital was all done in aluminum. Since then the hospital in question has done away with all aluminum utensils. Looks as if, in Canada, the health authorities were willing to learn something.
W. A. Sinclair, of Ontario, writes that a Doctor C., having made a study of aluminum compounds, is warning the people against the use of aluminum for cooking and fully agrees that the position of The Golden Age on the subject is correct. He is not generally supported by the medical board of his city.
A. S. McKenzie, of Ontario, tells of a surgeon who rejected hot water for the purpose of sterilizing a surgical instrument, when it was brought to him in an aluminum container. He said the contaminated water coming in connection with the blood stream might cause serious trouble. The Pelton and Crane Company, sterilizer manufacturers, made them of aluminum. For some unpublished reason they now make them of stainless steel.
Mrs. C. R. Fair, of Ontario, had heart trouble and sinking spells, gradually coming closer and closer together; often her husband had to resort to artificial respiration to pull her through. Paying attention to The Golden Age, she noticed those attacks always came after eating cabbage, rhubarb, spinach or anything that would clean the kettles of their verdigris. She then discarded all aluminum ware, and has not had one spell since. A hardware man to whom she confided admitted that aluminum ware is not fit for anybody to use, and stated that he advises customers never to purchase it.
J. A. Manning, of Ontario, took a quantity of defibrinated cow's blood, and stirred into it alum (one of the acid salts of aluminum) in hot water, with the surprising result that the blood turned into a solid. He thinks this shows why people are slowly killed after eating meat cooked and allowed to stand in aluminum vessels.
Mrs. Dudley Ryan, of Ontario, very ill of stomach trouble, threw out all her aluminum, and got well. (She reports a neighbor who had a piece of beef turn green when left in a pot overnight; another churned in an aluminum vessel and the butter turned black; another mixed a white cake batter in an aluminum bowl and a black streak followed the spoon.)
At Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 75 students were made terribly ill from eating foods cooked in aluminum ware which had remained overnight in the aluminum containers. This poisoning was in every way regular. All possibility of chemical poisoning was eliminated by the state board of health.
Mrs. Aurelia L. Culp, of Oregon, finds that she and her husband are benefited physically, and their minds made more clear, by discontinuing the use of aluminum ware in cooking. Recently for four weeks in a hospital she was able to identify at once the foods which had been cooked in aluminum, noting a slightly bitter taste.
Kate Ronde, of Oregon, writes two remarkable letters, each of which would make two pages of The Golden Age. We wish we had space to print them. Six years of investigation makes her certain that when she stopped using aluminum she stopped having the flu, and that most flu victims are regular users of Mr. Mellon’s metal. She discovered that five cats refused food that had stood in aluminum containers, and would not taste it even when sugared and creamed, yet they were hungry enough at the same time to eat plain bread. Since discontinuing the use of the metal she has ceased having neuritis, and is no longer always tired out, has no need of laxatives, and misses the palpitation and sharp pains around the heart which were regularly hers before.
Pennsylvania Wholesale Poisonings
Pennsylvania has as able chemists as are to be found anywhere. Prominent among these are H. J. Force, of Scranton, Dr. Clarence A. Smith, of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Dr. Arnold K. Balls, associate in chemistry, University of Pennsylvania. These men have all borne testimony to the fact that aluminum compounds, when taken internally by man, are poisonous. Those men are honest and they are disinterested. Their advice should be heeded. However, wholesale aluminum poisonings in Pennsylvania go right on, year after year. Eight were poisoned at the Capolozzi wedding at Pittsburgh. Everything about the poisoning was regular.
At Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 200 church diners were poisoned at the First Baptist church, due to the fact that the entire supply of gravy was collected into one aluminum container. When the highly paid advertising experts got on the job they quickly changed the word “aluminum” to “metallic”, so as to throw the public off the track. An advertising man is a useful man.
At McKeesport, Pennsylvania, soup made of fresh and excellent materials was allowed to stand from 11:30 a.m. to 5: 30 p.m. in a closed aluminum container. When eaten it sent a father, mother and two children to the hospital deathly sick. This is not a complaint: it is only telling about it.
The Pittsburgh Posl-Gazette mentioned that the new Thompson restaurant is equipped with Allegheny metal, which contains no copper, zinc, tin, or aluminum to react with food acids or taint foods with a metallic flavor. Allegheny metal is not plated, and is unrusting and untarnishing, and is considered the very best. Probably Mr. Mellon uses this in his own kitchen.
Prof. H. J. Force, of Scranton, thirteen years a pharmaceutical chemist in New York city, and twenty-two years chief chemist of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, humorously tells how to kill your friends with the aluminum sulphates, aluminum chlorides and aluminum hydroxide formed by cookery:
‘ ‘ Give them the following dinner: Sauerkraut cooked in aluminum; tomatoes with salt and baking soda, cooked in aluminum; bread baked with alum baking powder; custard pie baked in an aluminum pan; and coffee made in an aluminum percolator. Let all stand twenty-four hours in aluminum, and then reheat and serve, but tell your friends what they are eating, and let them read this first. This should prove to anyone who is honest about aluminum that it is poisonous. If people will not believe the best authorities, then they must take the consequences.”
Mr. Force says further:
“A friend of mine, after having seventeen carbuncles, threw out his fancy aluminum ware. The carbuncles disappeared. Another fed his dog from an aluminum dish; the dog died from a cancer of the face. Two others each gave a dozen young ducks water in aluminum pans, and all the ducks died in less than two weeks.”
Mrs. G. Lijjpenot, of Pennsylvania, always cooked in aluminum, and every four or five months had severe attacks starting with diarrhea and pains in the abdomen as though someone were sticking a knife in and twisting it. Sometimes she could hardly get her breath. When she switched over to enamel-ware utensils these attacks, which had persisted for years, ceased.
A. K. Brubaker, of Pennsylvania, jeweler and optometrist, is not purchasing any more aluminum frames, finding that they give some patients a sore nose and sores back of the ear.
Paul Pierce, of Pennsylvania, writes such a comical letter that we reproduce it entire:
‘‘After reading about aluminum about four years ago, and promptly discarding every piece of the darn stuff, we have derived great benefits. My wife had a small tumor in her one breast which left entirely in three weeks, with no recurrence in four years. She was sick continually. I was fat, ugly, and a chronic grouch. We got along like a tomcat and a bulldog in a barrel. After we sold the catalytic stuff to a junk peddler, I lost 38 pounds in a year; I lost that ever-hungry feeling. Thanks to the good articles published, we get along wonderful.”
Harry C. Knapp, of Pennsylvania, dropped in weight from 195 to 140 and was so dizzy that he staggered like a drunken person. Everything he ate passed right through him, and he could get nothing to stop it. In three months from the time he replaced his aluminum ware with iron pots and granite ware he was back to himself, and has not been sick since.
H. D. Pitzer, of Pennsylvania, had a brotherin-law about to be operated on for appendicitis; they used aluminum ware exclusively in their house. Pitzer advised a change of cooking-ware as a substitute for the knife, and the prescription worked like magic.
Lawson H. Force, of Pennsylvania, took a new aluminum shaker, filled it half full of fresh cream, and shook it violently for fifteen minutes. At the end of that time the aluminum in the cream was so strong it could be smelled; one taste was enough to make one spit it out immediately. He believes that to drink the cream would have caused harmful results, if not death.
Claude C. Corle, of Pennsylvania, had heart trouble, Bright’s disease, and strangling spells at night; his wife had kidney and bladder trouble and headaches and underwent three operations in septum, tonsils and breast. Change of cooking-ware made them completely well. Since the change they have not spent a cent for either drugs or doctors.
F. E. Koob, of Pennsylvania, is employed in a place where he has seen much food cooked and served in aluminum containers, with many resultant cases of indigestion, gastritis and headache readily observed. A doctor of his city ordered a patient to discard over $100 worth of aluminum ware.
In a work published by Dr. Arthur R. Cushny, of Pennsylvania, in 1906, it is established that even then it was well known that aluminum poisons the bowels and kidneys and causes degeneration of the nerve cells and fibers of the spinal cord, particularly those of the lower cranial nerves.
Emmett Baxter, of Pennsylvania, when he discontinued using aluminum ware noticed a great improvement in his kidneys in two or three days, and in ten days a long-standing trouble had disappeared.
Quebec and Queensland
Professor R. F. Ruttan, of Montreal, Quebec, is one of the authorities that aluminum compounds when taken internally by man are poisonous.
William E. Comfort, also of Montreal, reports great benefit to his health since entirely ceasing the use of aluminum ware.
Sid. Dalia Veechia, of Queensland, nearly lost a sister and a nephew who drank milk which had stood for fourteen hours in an aluminum container. Out of twelve adults and five children at the place where the poisoning occurred these were the only ones to drink of the milk which had stood in the aluminum container, and the only ones to be made ill.
Saskatchewan, Scotland, South Dakota
Mrs. A. M. Cook, of Saskatchewan, received from her hubby some cured finnan haddie that looked and smelled very tasty. She put it in an aluminum kettle in the cool cellar over night and boiled it twenty-five minutes the next day for the midday meal. It was so bitter it could not be eaten. Mrs. Cook noted an entire disappearance of digestive troubles since discontinuing the boiling of coffee in an aluminum percolator.
Peter Crown, pioneer, of Saskatchewan, had no appetite, but did have cramps in legs and a splitting headache and expected to die almost any time. He got well from the time he gave up using aluminum ware.
As we go to press we have reports of 58 men of the Highland Light Infantry poisoned at Gailes, Ayrshire, Scotland. The 58 men belonged to two companies, but no cases were reported from other companies in the same battalion, or other troops encamped at Gailes. When this is sifted down it will without doubt be found that the food for the two poisoned companies was cooked and kept in aluminum containers.
There was a grand wholesale poisoning at the Ziebarth home in Elkton, South Dakota, that would have warmed the heart of any aluminum ware advertising man. Previous to the day of the action beef and pork were cooked in a large aluminum pot. The gravy was stored in the same utensil over night, reheated the next morning and poured over the meats, after which buns ■were prepared and placed in cartons for the noon lunch. Within three hours 250 persons were acutely affected with food poisoning, many lost their sight temporarily, and the use of their limbs. More than 150 persons received hospital treatment.
Switzerland, Tennessee, Texas
Switzerland prohibits the use of aluminum compounds in foodstuffs. In Switzerland such a thing as happened at Elkton, South Dakota, would result in something being done for the people, but in the United States the only result would be to have somebody rush into print in The Scientific American or The Literary Digest and air his profound and invincible ignorance by telling the 250 people who were nearly killed that aluminum utensils are perfectly safe. And they would prove it by quoting from the Journal of the American Medical Association and other large advertisers of aluminum ware.
Lucy Templeton, of Tennessee, noted that the birds would not drink out of an aluminum dish. They have no advertising section to maintain.
A. L. Butcher, of Tennessee, writes that squirrels will not eat nuts that are proffered to them in an aluminum container, and birds will not eat food that has been mixed in aluminum ware. On his own account he notes relief from excessive fatigue, improved memory, and a complete freedom from attacks of the flu and neuritis with which he was previously affected.
Mrs. W. A. Lee, of Tennessee, had an open wound on an injured leg for seven years. At one time she was in bed seven months with this, and at another time two months. The trouble disappeared completely when the aluminum ware was discarded.
At La Grange, Texas, a lady and her daughter were made desperately ill by drinking buttermilk made in a churn the rod of the dasher of which had been painted with aluminum paint. The paint worked off with the churning process and was drunk with the buttermilk.
Airs. H. D. Warren, of Texas, and her daughter, were subject to frequent vomiting spells until they threw their aluminum ware on the dump, but have had no trouble since.
D. E. Logan, Jr., of Texas, found that his boarding-house lady used for him her own aluminum coffeepot instead of the one he furnished: result, his tongue became sore and swollen on one side; but when he stopped drinking coffee at his boarding-house the tongue got well in two days.
Sarah Wallace, of Texas, was under a doctor’s care for fourteen years, too wretched to care whether she lived or died. During all that time she used aluminum ware exclusively. Now she says she has no aluminum ware but can put in eight hours in a day in the Lord’s service and the only thing wrong at the day’s end is that she is somewhat tired and as hungry as a bear.
Airs. Ruth Lloyd, of Texas, had a forty-five-piece set of aluminum ware that kept her husband, herself and two children often ill with stomach trouble, bloody flux, flu, and pains in the head. Since they discarded their nice, pretty set the whole family has been well except when they went visiting relatives who cooked in aluminum.
Airs. J. J. Johnson, of Texas, reports a woman, angry because her sick husband came home with enamel kettles, insisting, on a doctor’s orders, that all his food be cooked in them, instead of in the nice aluminum kettles she had always used, and which had kept him continually ill with stomach trouble. However, in three weeks her hubby was permanently cured, and the wife was so delighted that she took all her aluminum ware out into the back yard and, with a hammer and a large nail, made sure that every piece was ruined so that nobody else would ever be harmed by it.
J. B. Lassiter, of Texas, with his five-year-old daughter Mary, were both killed by eating poisoned beans, carried over from a previous meal in an aluminum vessel. His wife, a sixteen-year-old son, and two daughters were made ill from the same cause. A two-year-old baby that went to bed without supper was the only member of the family not poisoned. “When this poisoning case got into the papers it was carefully referred to as “metal” poisoning, not as “aluminum” poisoning; and thus the advertising man saved his job, and the hardware man the profits on his aluminum-ware business.
Virginia and Washington
Cr. M. Kitzmiller, of Virginia, writes that though he had been eating crabs all his life, yet when he first ate crabs cooked in aluminum utensils the crab juice ate holes in his clothing and even in his shoes wherever it touched them.
Martha B. Smith, of Virginia, never had neuritis until she cooked in aluminum, got over it when she discarded the utensils, and got it immediately again when she went to a convention where the food was thus cooked, and was so ill that for two days she could not walk.
R. O. Chandler, of Virginia, was told to part with his teeth and tonsils, to recover from bleeding gums and awful pains in the stomach. His wife was not told what to do for her impending cancer of the stomach. Now they no longer have any aluminum ware in the house, the husband, wife and four boys enjoy the best of health, and Chandler still has his teeth and tonsils.
B. W. Branscome, D.C., D.O., of Virginia, released fourteen puppies, fifteen days old, one by one, into a room containing milk in an aluminum receptacle and also in a granite-ware receptacle, and every one of the puppies went to the granite-ware receptacle for its food and shunned the aluminum one.
C. A. Downey, of Washington, suffered so with gas in stomach and bowels that he lost six to eight weeks’ work each year. When he discarded his aluminum utensils he got well at once, and gained 21 pounds in weight.
Wason Brothers, of Seattle, Washington, advertise: “Don’t use aluminum or nickel coffeepot : use only seamless enamel ware.” Occasionally there is a merchant with a conscience.
Mrs. Theodore Nordenum, of Washington, reports that a neighbor 88 years of age had suffered from stomach trouble for years, but gained immediate and permanent relief when he ceased using aluminum-ware utensils.
West Australia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
A gentleman, in a West Australian newspaper, merely signing himself “C.H.”, tried three times churning in aluminum ware. Each time the butter had a greenish tinge and an unpleasant taste and was thrown out. Others have noticed that mixing butter in an aluminum bowl imparts a slight color, a disagreeable odor, and a bitter, unpleasant taste.
F. D. Forquer, of West Virginia, had sour stomach and gas in stomach and bowels and a nice set of aluminum cooking utensils. His kidneys pained him very much, he lost weight, and his friends thought he was going to die. His house burned down, he had to buy new utensils and selected enamel and iron, with the result that he got entirely well.
Two physicians and a clinic of physicians advised Mrs. Ethel Lemburg, of Wisconsin, that her only hope of life was to have her gall bladder removed; but she removed her aluminum ware instead, as being less expensive and less dangerous, and now she has perfect health and still has her gall bladder.
What a dastardly thing it is that men who already have more than heart could wish will in avarice persist in the business of poisoning millions of fellow creatures, making life miserable and hastening death. The definite breaking of the everlasting covenant does not, we may be sure, escape the notice of Jehovah. “He that is higher than the highest regardeth.” (Ecclesiastes 5: 8) The covenant which emphasizes the sanctity of life cannot be lightly broken.
Nor can the perpetrators of slow murder come to plead ignorance of the fact that the metal they urge unsuspecting people to use for preparing their food is dangerous to health. They know the facts and have thoroughly organized their forces to suppress the truth by means of a subtle and ubiquitous censorship. The Lord Jehovah knows and will recompense the wicked. He will deliver the people, “and precious shall their blood be in His sight.”
The Men Who Voted Against War
WHEN the United States Congress voted for participation in the World War, 455 for and 56 against, it made the biggest mistake ever made in the history of any nation. The influence for good then lost will never be regained, and the billions then loaned will never be repaid. Only 7 of the 56 men who voted foi' peace are still in Congress, but all agree that their course was right in 1917, when Uncle Sam was flattered into pulling the Allies’ chestnuts out of the fire. Britain’s default puts the finishing touches on American bitterness over the deal America received as a reward for its generosity, its resistless energy and courage, and its colossal foolishness. Before America would participate in another World War she would see the earth open her mouth and swallow the whole of Europe from the Urals to the Bay of Biscay. The flattery that worked before, the propaganda that was so wonderfully clever and successful and untrue, would be hooted and jeered from one end of the country to the other. Never again! If the poor of Europe had benefited to any extent, we would say less about it, but they are as badly off as the people of America.
NRA Easing the U.S. into Fascism
Leo Gallagher, Tom Mooney’s attorney, recently returned from Germany, is convinced that the NRA will fail, and that when it fails the American people are in for worse things than have recently happened in Germany. He believes the course of events will be, as in Germany, persecution, industrial deadlock and, eventually and inevitably, Communism. But we are convinced that God’s kingdom, man’s only hope, will cut the whole performance short. Meantime, no doubt, the Inquisition in all its “glory” is ahead. Let it come.
General Butler on War
General Smedley Butler told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that war is a racket espoused by Wall Street and munitions trusts, that the marines are a collecting agency, that the same crowd that gets up a war, and collects the profit from it, is the one that calls the veterans ‘treasury raiders’ when they endeavor to get the compensation that is needed, and that in the new war that is in the making the Americans will probably be in it on the side that owes them the most.
Getting Rid of the War-Makers
Henry Ford thinks that if the world could get rid of about 100 men who control the munition business we should then have a warless world. That is something like what Jehovah God has declared His purpose to do. All these munition makers, and all the other troublemakers, no matter how many they are, or how powerful, will be destroyed by the angels of Jehovah God in the impending battle of Armageddon ; and thereafter, according to the Scriptures, there will indeed be a warless world. A dispatch from London says that Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, has been threatened with kidnaping and is being closely guarded. All the kidnapers will be destroyed in Armageddon, too. Henry ought to get Judge Rutherford’s work Vindication (in three volumes, at 25c each) and see the wonderful things that are going to happen; it would surely interest him if he got started to read it once.
Blood Lust Up 100 Percent
IN THE year 1900, in the 31 principal cities of the United States the homicide rate was 5.01 per 100,000; last year, in the same cities the rate was 10.7 per 100,000. In other words, following the war which was to make the world safe for democracy, the murder rate has more than doubled. It is observed that many of the murders are committed by persons of education and refinement—a considerable number of them by women.
America’s Scarlet Army
AMERICA’S scarlet army is said to consist of 400,000 persons, guilty every yeai' of 12,000 murders, 3,000 kidnapings, 100,000 assaults, 50,000 robberies, 40,000 burglaries, and 5,000 arsons. If the entire sum of the crime bill ($13,000,000,000) and the annual racketeering bill could be saved for one year the national debt could be wiped out. The interest racket and the purgatory racket are two major crimes not included in the list.
; World’s Fastest Fighting Plane
THE United States is shortly to have a fleet of the fastest fighting planes ever built. ; They will have speeds up to 260 miles per hour. ■ The undercarriages will draw up into the under surface of the fuselage during flight, thus adding 20 miles per hour to the top speed.
Great Britain Stood by Germany
GREAT BRITAIN stood by Germany during the World War. Coal was sent without restriction to Scandinavia and handed on freely to Germany. Shipments of oil seeds, tallow, lard, fish oils, animal oils and fats were more than doubled, and went into Germany for the manufacture of glycerine used in high explosives. The export of copper to Sweden doubled; that of copper from Sweden to Germany trebled. In the first six weeks of 1916 Great Britain shipped 20,000 tons of zinc ore to Rotterdam, whence it went to the German munition makers. In 1915 Britain sent Sweden twelve times the amount of nickel sent in 1913. By these means Germany was able to hold out two years longer.
A Reproof of Christian Britain
IT SEEMS in order to reprove Christian Britain for shipping 16,000,000 rounds of ammunition to her well-oiled Bolivian brethren and only 2,000,000 rounds to her Paraguayan brethren. There must be some reason for this injustice, and (excepting for unanimous confidence in the world’s richest oil company) one is almost tempted to think that Britain sent more to the one than she did to the other because there was more money in it. But would it be right to lay such charges to a Christian nation like Britain? Maybe we can straighten out the kink in this by singing “God save the kink”.
Germany No Longer Needs Colonies
ERMANY no longer needs colonies, or other sources of raw materials. Her chemists now produce sugar in large quantities and very edible biscuits for humans from ordinary wood; the fodders thus produced for cattle, hogs and poultry are so nutritive that meat, lard, butter, eggs and milk are thus produced indirectly. Cotton, wool, silk, gasoline, oil, grease, alcohol, are all obtained from a cheap grade of bituminous coal and ordinary forest timber.
Penniless Colonists Return from Australia
GROUP of penniless colonists returned to Great Britain, after nine years of failure in trying to wrest a living from the semidesert lands of Victoria. Finally the Victorian government advanced them enough to return with their families to England, there to enter the ranks of the unemployed.
The Joys of Life in Russia
eter Stepovoy, Ukrainian, writing in the Sault Ste. Marie (Canada) Daily Star, gives the following extract from a letter to him from Russia, dated January 8, 1934: “I am informing you that I am alive and also my family and we wish the same to you, though I did not know what we are living for, or how we live. Last spring we bought buckwheat chaff, ground it up fine, mixed it with molasses, cooked and ate it, until the weeds grew. After that we lived on the weeds until the grain began to ripen. Then we cut the heads from rye, dried them and ground them on stones, and made bread. I can’t explain to you how glad we were when we saw the first bread on the table. Other food, such as meat, pork, fish or any kind of fats, we have forgotten how it looked. We eat chaff, and that is not so bad. Others eat their own children, cats, horses, anything that they could eat. It was frightful the way people died from starvation, and it was not possible to pick them up and bury them each day. In our village 1,300 people died.” This is one of five similar letters published in the Star. In another Mr. Stepovoy’s correspondent tells of a man in poor health, with a sick wife and twTo small children, ten and twelve years of age, who had to live an entire year on 13 bushels of grain.
Rockefeller and Soviet in Collaboration
OLITICS makes strange bedfellows. Here are two dispatches sent the same day, one from London and one from Paris. The London dispatch says that the International Research Library of the League of Nations is the gift of John D. Rockefeller, jr.; it is one of the great libraries of the world, and cost $2,000,000. The Paris dispatch says that the League of Nations is so near collapse that the Soviet Republic is proposing that both Russia and the United States join at once, so as to save it. France is eager to have Russia join the League. The British Labor party is very desirous that both Russia and the United States should join.
Treaties Outmoded in 2y2 Years
IN 3,000 years in which such records have been kept, it is known that 8,000 peace treaties have been effected. The average life of these treaties was 2| years. Since the World War the number of peace treaties has greatly increased, and their probable value greatly decreased.
Severe Discipline in Russia
A NY worker who falls below his quota, in either quality or quantity, will have his wages cut up to as much as one-third, says a dispatch from Russia. An engineer, responsible for a fatal train wreck, was ordered shot. Aviation is developing rapidly. By the middle of last August the aviation mail lines were 31,815 miles in length, and it is expected that within three years from now they will reach 124,280 miles. This summer 5,000,000 Russian youth received military training. All Siberia is well covered with aviation lines.
How France Looks After Her Veterans
FRENCH veterans receive pensions, half fares on all transportation systems, preference in government jobs, rebates on certain taxes, cash loans at low interest and without security for starting in business, special grants up to $1,000 for purposes of home building, assistance in meeting payments on insurance policies, assistance from government welfare projects. Additionally, the law requires that in every business 10 percent of the personnel must be war-wounded or pensioners.
No Taxes in Tel-Aviv
IN THE beautiful Jewish city of Tel-Aviv, Palestine, a community of 80,000 is maintained by merely passing around the hat. When anything is wanted for the city the inhabitants cheerfully chip in, and in this way have paid for a municipal building, a sports ground and theater, for hospitals, and for exposition grounds and buildings. There are no Gentiles. There are now 250,000 Jews in Palestine, 50,000 having come in the past year, many of them driven out of Germany by the persecutions.
The Krupps Received Their Reward
THE Krupps, Germany’s great armament firm, did not go unrewarded. Not only did they receive the highest decorations for patriotism from the kaiser, but after the war was over they received 123,000,000 shillings from the British government royalties on the Krupp patent hand grenades which British troops used in killing many thousands of Germans. Not even in America do we have a finer example of the ‘honor’ to be found among Big Business concerns.
Recent Sayings of Doctor Goebbels
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German minister of propaganda, recently said: “I know that it is a sacrifice for us not to have a new war. War is the most simple affirmation of life. Suppress war and it would be like trying to suppress the processes of nature. These are also terrible. Every living thing is terrible.” We submit that a man who can talk like that, so soon after the most terrible of all wars, is demonized, unquestionably.
3,500,000 Political Prisoners
IN THE New York Times Van Gheel Gilder-meister, a Dutch Quaker, who has devoted much of his time during the past twelve years to bringing about the release of political prisoners, declares that, excluding those in concentration camps, and excluding Russia, there are now 3,500,000 humans in prison in the Balkan states on account of their race or their political views.
German Children’s Country Year
TWENTY THOUSAND Prussian boys and girls, new graduates of the German school system, compulsorily left their parents on April 16, 1934, to spend eight months on the land, under the leadership of 1,800 teachers. The boys will work in the fields, while the girls will learn household tasks. Book learning will be strictly national, folk and race knowledge, political history, technical knowledge, field and map work.
Russia Has 2,000 Fighting Planes
A TACOMA business man who makes frequent trips to the Orient declares that Japan has 350 fighting planes, while Russia now has 2,000, built by the Germans. On account of the fact that Japanese houses are built of paper it is thought possible that if war breaks out the Russians might do incalculable damage if they select a windy day for an attack.
27-Year War in Morocco Ends
THE 27-ycar war waged by the French in Morocco has finally come to an end with the complete subjugation of the last of the wild Berber tribes. The victory is considered important because the airline to South America traverses the country where the last fighting occurred.
Interesting Facts About Bees
BY ARRANGING themselves in hollow cube formation bees keep their hives at 57 degrees even when it is 30 below zero. The membership of the hive is in two classes: those on the outside, that keep the cold out, and those on the inside, that work to keep up the interior heat. From time to time these change places with each other. In the summer a worker works himself to death in six weeks: the first two weeks he is a packer, working entirely on the inside of the hive; the next two weeks he is a pollen gatherer; and the last two weeks he gathers nectar, sometimes flying 84 miles and back for a single drop. The nectar when gathered is 80 percent water. This has to be condensed until it is but 18 percent water. This is done by hanging a drop on the top of a cell, where it is continually fanned by wing movements until it is ready to pack away. If humans were fed food as nutritious as that fed to the larvae of bees a baby would grow to weigh 7,000 pounds in a few weeks. Very few bees sting: it may mean death to the stinger. Bees can tell other bees when they have found a rich supply of prospective honey, but they cannot tell where it is, though they can lead the other bees to it. Bees have police that prevent strangers from entering, although bees do sometimes get into other hives than their own and steal the honey there stored.
The Dry Blizzards of 1934
THE dry blizzards or dust storms of 1934, due to soil erosion, are but the precursor of further and worse storms, yet they were so bad that whole fields of seeded oats were blown away with the soil, high drifts of fine dust formed, snowplows were used at Valparaiso, Indiana, and in the Twin Cities (St. Paul-Minneapolis), at the height of the storm, and throughout the entire day, motorists drove with lights. Over a large area it was necessary to suspend flying, surgical operations were postponed, and telephone operation was considerably interfered with.
Could Easily Have Swallowed Jonah
IN APRIL a creature with a mouth three yards wide was washed up on the Romani beach, between Egypt and Palestine. Its body was more than fifteen yards long. Such a creature could easily have swallowed Jonah.
“Did You Know?”
SAY'S William Kean Seymour, in Progress
Today: “Did you know that thousands of lives ebb out slowly and piteously with little cries and squeals and snarls on the red altar of ‘Science’? Did you know how a committee had conceived a plan, world-wide and international, to give one thousand dollars for the best report of year-long dental torturing of dogs? The advance of ‘Science’! Each dentist takes a dog, infects with pus his jaw, and waits, and watches, and notes his torment for a year, and then kills off the dog and sends his paper in. War against decaying teeth! Science! Progress! The dog again shall prove his loyalty and help some fiend to win a prize. I do not ask this sacrifice; you do not ask it.”
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