Golden Age, September 23, 1936
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ALUMINUM POISONING ACHIEVEMENTS
SERUM SUPERSTITIONS
CAESAR OR GOD?
SUPER-BIGOTS AND THE PETITION
A FRIGHTENED ROOSTER
ASPIRIN — THE MENACE
HOME AND HEALTH
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Vol. XVII - No. 444
September 23, 1936 CONTENTS
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
CAESAR OR GOD? 817
SUPER-BIGOTS AND THE PETITION 818
DISOBEDIENCE ROBS GOD OF WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY HIS 827
AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY
RUMINATIONS ON COTTON SEED 815
Whole-Wheat Flour 815
Iodine-Enriched Foods 815
Dust Storms 825
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
SERUM SUPERSTITIONS 813
PASTEUR THE FAKE 814
LIGHT 816
Marvels of Surgery 816
WPA Malaria Control 822
23,092 Sterilizations in U.S.A. 823
Rats and Men 824
Blaming It on the Lightning 826
Don'ts in an Electrical Storm 826
Benefit from a Lightning Stroke 826
HOME AND HEALTH
ALUMINUM POISONING
ACHIEVEMENTS 803
When She Saw the Point 804
Sensitive to Aluminum Poisons 805
Findings of Betts and Force 806
Aluminum Workers Short-lived 807
The Brugas Aluminum Murders 807
Seven Men in Her Life 808
The Staphylococcus Aureus 809
ACCIDENT! ACCIDENT! ACCIDENT! 812
Governments Getting Discouraged 814
Where Vaccination Is Not Required 814
What Has Happened in Pittsburgh? 821
"More Deaths from Cancer" 821
ASPIRIN—THE MENACE OF HEART DISEASE 822
Looking Out for the Nickels 822
More Work for the Doctors 823
Honey, Onion Juice and Lemons 823
Garlic for Tuberculosis 823
A Scotsman's Shoes 824
Shopping Late Saturday Night 824
America's Food Supply Reduced 824
The Black Tea Curse in Egypt 824
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
The Great Floods in the U.S.A. 826
Mauna Loa on the Rampage 826
The Quakes at Helena 826
In Cleaning Up Pittsburgh 826
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
THE TALE OF A FRIGHTENED ROOSTER 820
Elgin (Ill.) Still Run by Preachers 829
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Volume XVII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, September 23, 1936 Number 444
Aluminum Poisoning Achievements
DEATHS from cancer have increased steadily since 1900. At that time 63 of every 100,000 persons died from that cause; the present death rate is 102 per 100,000. The rate of progress in the wrong direction has kept step steadily with the increased use of aluminum cooking utensils. Not everyone who uses aluminum gets cancer, of course, but all stand a chance of getting it.
Readers will recall a reference to aluminum sardine containers. Well, they are beginning to produce results. In Erie, Pennsylvania, a painter who ate them for his lunch nearly died. One would suppose the government would do something about a thing like this. Instead of that, it is actually hostile to those who make known the naked truth on the subject. Its real sympathies are with the aluminum trust, not with the people. Fifteen of the largest sardine canners in Norway are packing their products in aluminum cans.
U. S. patent No. 2,027,270 claims that if edible crabs are dipped in an aqueous solution of aluminum, zinc or tin salts they can be canned without discoloration, which has previously hampered the canning of this type of crabmeat. It is a wonder that the brilliant minds who conceived the idea of feeding the public with food plated with aluminum, zinc or tin did not also suggest plating the food with arsenic, because that is a metal also.
A Florida subscriber writes:
A young man of thirty, a neighbor, said cigarettes were harmful to his health, so purchased a pipe with an aluminum stem. Several months passed, and, on my inquiring about the family, a lady said, "Oh, don't you know, the son has awful sores on his mouth and tongue. They are afraid it is cancer." After nineteen months the young man died, his mouth, tongue and throat having been eaten away.
The unseen guests at the aluminum dinner table
Unwilling to Be a Murderer
A. L. Butcher, of Tennessee, writes:
On Christmas eve some friends sent me a lot of jellies and jam, and one of the jars of blackberry jam was not labeled. Not thinking that homemade jam could have been made in aluminum vessels, I ate a lot of it, at 4:00 p.m.; and at 6:00 p.m. it grabbed me and I went to doctoring for what I knew was aluminum poisoning. At 2:00 o'clock that night we called the doctor and he gave me a double-shot hypodermic. Then I developed the flu and pneumonia, which has probably ruined me for life. A few days ago my wife answered an advertisement, thinking that she might get an agency and sell some cooking utensils. The word aluminum was concealed. I told her I bet it was aluminum, and was fixing to write and ask them if such was the case, when the mailman brought their high-powered literature, and by careful examination I discovered that my suspicions were correct. I am writing this company telling them that I refuse to be a murderer or to sell anything made of aluminum that is used in connection with foods or drinks, that I am an invalid now from using food cooked in the stuff and have all the proof on earth to back it up.
Says Mrs. Answorth Rutherford, of Idaho:
I think it only fitting that my husband and self should express our appreciation to you with reference to the following matter. Last May a Mr. West called at our camp and spent some time talking to Mr. Rutherford. In the course of conversation Mr. West remarked, "Mr. Rutherford, are you troubled with stomach complaint?" When my husband replied that he had been ailing for five years or more and taking citro-carbonates and other medicines to effect a cure, Mr. West remarked that he had noticed considerable aluminum ware in use in our kitchen, and then quoted increase in percentage of cancer since 1900, stating that stomach troubles and other diseases are all on the increase since the introduction of aluminum cooking utensils. I was away on a trip at the time Mr. West called, but on my return discarded all the aluminum ware and replaced it with heavy white-lined enamel ware, deciding to test out the matter. It will soon be a year since Mr. West's call, and I am most thankful to state that my husband's health is vastly improved; he hardly ever takes any medicine, and his stomach very seldom distresses him. I have passed the information on to friends and you would be surprised at the number that have likewise discarded their aluminum ware and replaced it with harmless and sanitary ware.
Poisonings in Australia
Those interested in their fellow men and also those not interested in their fellow men but interested in the sale of aluminum cooking utensils will be interested in a group poisoning of seven harvesters, which took place on the property of Lander Brothers, Melrose Plains, twenty-five miles from Tullamore, Australia. The men had had a breakfast of porridge, milk and boiled eggs. Two hours afterward they all became so violently ill that they were unable to stand, and either collapsed where they stood or crawled over the ground moaning.
No matter what may be the outcome, it is the solemn determination of physicians, newspapermen and politicians that nothing shall be done to interfere with the dividends of the aluminum utensil companies. Every reader of The Golden Age knows what was the matter with those seven men.
The Negroes of central Africa, guided by their natural taste, will not touch food that has been cooked in aluminum utensils. Very likely, therefore, even the Bushmen would know better than to eat food thus cooked.
When She Saw the Point
Minnie Spath, of Wisconsin, tells how she got her eyes open on a matter affecting the family health:
My son asked me to discard aluminum, and I said, "I cannot; it is all right; it cost too much to throw it away." That was nine years ago. Then I got an aluminum cooker and drip coffeepot.
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The joys of being a mother
--My son looked pale; at times I could not eat, and if I did I was sick; still I could not imagine it was the aluminum, as a slip in the kettle when I bought it assured me that it was absolutely harmless. One morning my son said his mouth was raw, and, as I am a nurse, I gave him the idea that it was a feverish condition, but at noon my own mouth was so sore that it felt as if it had been scalded. I went home to treat it, and on the way in I saw The Golden Age in the mail. I glanced over it and saw the account of soldiers getting trench mouth from their aluminum canteens. That was enough; I saw the point. It was Saturday; the stores closed at four o'clock; I had to go five miles by street car. I went in and said to the clerk, "I want some cooking utensils." She led me to the aluminum counter, and I said, "No, thank you; I don't want to die yet." So I got Vollrath ware, triple-coated white enamel. My son saw it at once on his return and said, "Good! at last you woke up; but why did you go in such haste?" I said, "Well, I have a sore mouth, too, and with only two of us in the house and both afflicted in the same way, it must be we were poisoned, and there is nothing else that could have done it." Now we are both well and feel fine and thankful.
The peacetime maneuvers at Pine Camp, N. Y., where 120 men were made deathly ill by drinking lemonade carried in a can (probably made of aluminum), are said to have been the greatest peacetime maneuvers ever held by an American army. Seems as though, if they were that important, it was too bad somebody there did not take The Golden Age, so as to warn everybody against drinking lemonade kept in aluminum containers. Or doesn't the poisoning of 120 men matter?
The aluminum trust is certainly on the job. A few weeks ago seventy inmates of the county jail at Los Angeles, where they use aluminum utensils, were suddenly made ill. The news was flashed over the radio, but not a word of it was in the "news" papers the next morning. That was fast work. The efficiency department will now realize that besides putting the silencer on the "news" papers, it is also necessary to control the radio stations.
Clever Sales Work
A dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa., tells of the death of two little children and the serious illness of a third through eating cabbage impregnated with poison "absorbed from a metal container". Fast and clever work. No wonder salesmen of aluminum cooking utensils make big money, when they can follow a succession of murders like that without ever leaving a clue. Other food poisonings are registered: Two little folks at Coney Island. This time it was "detectives who investigated". Quite so! Since none of the great and learned medical health authorities ever would admit the truth, and thus far in ten years of investigation have never consented to the overwhelming evidence that use of aluminum utensils is the cause, it is best all round that detectives should do the investigating of these poisonings. Their guess is as good as that of the doctors, and it leaves a loophole for the flip-flop on this question which must come.
The Columbia (Pa.) News told of the serious poisoning of five Cordelia (Pa.) residents. The Garber family were poisoned by eating tripe boiled in vinegar in an aluminum container. It is a wonder they lived to tell the tale. The Guistwite family prepared oysters in an aluminum pot "and some of the metal is believed to have been eaten from the container". Of course it was, and that was what was the trouble.
In the near future a slick representative of the aluminum trust will call on the editor of the Columbia (Pa.) News, and he will learn that in this land of free speech and a free press nobody needs think he can come out and tell the truth on a thing like this without going to jail, or at least getting threats of it. Meantime the poisoning of the people goes merrily on.
At Grand Rapids, Michigan, a mother and three children ate chicken broth cooked in aluminum and nearly died. It was ten days before they were well enough to leave the hospital. The newspaper stories carefully concealed the fact that the food was cooked in aluminum. The most said was: "Samples of the broth will be examined Tuesday." That is the end of it till the next poisoning; but in the meantime, of course, the "Health Hints" will boast repeatedly of how 'safe and valuable' aluminum is as a cooking utensil.
A picture of a corner of the White House kitchen reveals a row of aluminum pots and pans used for preparing food for the president, his family and his guests. It takes time for news to get around.
Sensitive to Aluminum Poisons
Says Mrs. Edward C. Morse, of New York: I do not think I would have been alive today if I had kept on with my aluminum ware, I was having such awful spells with my stomach, once every day, and then two or three times a day. But I read the article in The Golden Age, stopped using the aluminum utensils, and after I got rid of the poison I began to get better. Now if I go anywhere to eat, and the food is cooked in aluminum utensils, I always have a bad attack with my stomach.
Mrs. Morse’s report is just one more of numerous similar statements received by The Golden Age, all proving the deleterious effects of aluminum upon the human organism. Like constipation, it is at the root of numerous and varied ailments.
Mrs. Ethel E. Bell, of Minnesota, writes that when she ditched her aluminum ware she lost her “sciatic rheumatism”; also, she discovered that once again she could cook rice with lemon flavoring or spaghetti with tomatoes without making the family ill. She is convinced that there is not one single thing about Satan’s kingdom that is right, not even its most-boasted cooking utensils.
"Shortening the milk supply ahead of time"
Aluminum Trust: It is unfortunate that, after I went to all the trouble to wean him or her from tin, enamelware and iron pots, this dreadful bologna bacillus should wreak such havoc with his or her various and sundry organs.
The Findings of Betts and Force
Many capable scientists in all parts of the world have made clear the dangers connected with the introduction into the human system of aluminum hydroxide, aluminum sulphate and aluminum chloride as obtained by the use of foods prepared or stored in aluminum utensils.
The two gentlemen to whom society owes much in this connection are Dr. C. T. Betts, 332 Superior St., Toledo, Ohio, and H. J. Force, Ph.G., 1724 Vine St., Scranton, Pa., the latter a chemist of world-wide reputation. Either of these gentlemen is pleased to communicate with any interested person on this subject so vital to human health.
The following paragraphs from Dr. Betts’ extensive researches and writings on aluminum have never before been presented to the readers of The Golden Age:
The Pelton & Crane Co. are the largest sterilizing-machine makers in America. Some years ago they were told that their sterilizing machines should be made of aluminum in order to get the best results to keep the dental and surgical instruments sterile. Their sterilizers sold from $100 up per unit. I remember they put on quite a campaign to sell these new instruments, which were “perfect”. But, alas! they soon found that not only the instruments were affected, but the sterilizers themselves so contaminated everything therein that they were soon out of date. Of course, nothing could be said against aluminum, but today the Pelton & Crane Co. do not use it at any point where sterilization is desired.
Our principal chemical house is the Walding, Kinnan & Marvin Co. They were so pleased to find something in the way of noncorrosive scoops for medicines. Aluminum scoops were purchased. It was soon found that the aluminum scoops were being chemically acted upon in practically all the bins in which they had been placed. So, out went the scoops.
Dyeing houses thought it would be splendid to use aluminum vats for their immersion purposes. But the manufacturers of dyes soon found they did not get the same results when the dyeing was done in aluminum as that done in enamel. Consequently the warnings on dyes that aluminum should not be used as receptacles for dyeing purposes.
The American Radium Company of Chicago manufactured radium units to produce radio activity in drinking water. They were solicited by the aluminum interests to purchase their containers in which the radium jars were placed. While in Chicago recently the president heard my address before a medical association. He stated that more than 5,000 of those aluminum jars were replaced with glass, and showed me some of them cut in all angles. They had holes in them even under the surface, and some places as long as two or three inches. After they had been used for some little time the dissolution was of such a nature they would have leaks. This necessitated a new outfit or the replacement as he mentioned. Then he advised, after they had spent all that money for the aluminum containers, that he had every reason to believe the aluminum interests knew their material was not fit for the purpose at the time of purchase. To date we have not found one chemist who uses aluminum for any scientific purpose.
Aluminum Workers Live but Ten Years
Aluminum workers live but ten years. Writing on this point, Wm. H. Stow, pioneer, says:
A few years ago, while in Louisville, Kentucky, I was making a model and had some aluminum castings made upon which I had to do considerable filing to get them down to proper shape. As it was very warm weather, I perspired freely, and after a few hours of work I became desperately ill with a headache. I was compelled to cease filing the castings and go to bed for a couple of days. When apparently well as ever, and not once thinking that the filing of the aluminum was the cause of my illness, I returned to my job, and in a remarkably short time was afflicted with the same trouble, only more severe than the first time. Then it dawned on me what was causing my illness. I junked the castings, and have never been bothered that way since. I quite agree with R. H. Barber's article. I have been greatly afflicted with "athlete's foot", but did not know the cause. Before I had read the article two-thirds of the way through I knew what was causing my trouble, and I endorse every word as truth.
Said The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia:
In October, 1934, complaints were received by the state secretary of the Australian Railways Union from fettler (shoveler) members stationed at Richmond, North Queensland, that they were experiencing a great deal of trouble with their hands, which they thought was caused by the metal T-piece of the shovel which was being supplied to fettlers by the department. The appearance of this T-piece suggested that it contained a fair quantity of lead, which would be liable to cause poisoning to injured hands. At the request of the union an analysis of the T-piece was made by an analyst and investigating chemist, in Brisbane, who certified that 92.16 percent consisted of aluminum, which was considered a dangerous ingredient. Advice has now been received that the Commissioner has decided that no more aluminum T-handles would be purchased for use in the railway service.
Mrs. Cyrus Lavey, of Michigan, cooked a soup bone in an aluminum kettle, let it stand until the next night, and then fed it to her dog. The dog was laid out for two or three days and in the meantime would not eat. She put water for the hens in an old iron sink and in an aluminum kettle. The hens drank from the water in the sink and would not touch that in the kettle. She thinks it hopeful that after a generation or so human folks may get to have as much sense as the dogs and hens. One sometimes doubts it.
The Washington Herald states that hot alum water is best to destroy ants and roaches. Put the alum in hot water, let boil till dissolved, and apply with a brush to all cracks where the insects are found. Alum water will destroy human pests, too.
The cartoonist thinks that, for the length of time this issue has been before the public, it is about time to add a new word to the dictionary. He suggests (Webster, please take note):
Aluminumb': Adj. Derived from aluminum, a deadly cooking utensil; meaning, a state of impotence. Synonyms—poisoned, dead, corpsed, deceased, etc.; for instance: "He was aluminumb from the drink," meaning it was fatal.
The Brugas Aluminum Murders
The Brugas aluminum murders attracted much attention in western Pennsylvania, but there was no reason why they should, for they followed the usual lines. Here are the facts: Mrs. George Brugas, Schwab Ave., Munhall Gardens, Pa., cooked beans, pickled cabbage and dumplings in aluminum cooking utensils. Alfred Brugas, 8, and his little sister Margaret, 2, died. They might have had a chance to live, but were rushed to the Homestead hospital, where most of the utensils were of the death-dealing aluminum variety. Edward Brugas, 6, survived.
The Pittsburgh Press, of the time, said in its headlines: "Third Poison Victim Fights with Death: Cooking Utensils Blamed in Munhall Mystery." There followed the usual explanation: "Cooking utensils at the home of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Brugas, were taken to the coroner's office yesterday for examination. It was believed the food the children ate was poisoned by one of the metal utensils in which cabbage was prepared. An autopsy revealed that Albert died from acute stomach inflammation."
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the next day, reported that the county chemist "had found traces of a poisonous salt of nickel in food the children ate the night before they became ill". The way the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph got the "news" to the public was in a headline reading: "Coroner Holds Weird Tragedy Which Struck Family After Meal Can Be Traced to Cabbage Container."
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1. Hi Power, the crack salesman for the aluminum trust, found Miss Amelia Eat, young, healthy and happy. With all the abandon of his depraved nature he soon had her under his power. As a result she bought his complete line of "Poison-Ever" aluminum ware and settled down to cook some real meals for herself. Then he left her.
2. He had been gone only a few weeks when Doctor Dope, an A.M.A., entered her life. True, she had never before been interested in doctors, but she now felt, deep down in her viscera, that she couldn't live without one. He soon revealed his true nature.
3. Without realizing what she was doing (or how fickle it looked) she ditched the doctor and was taken up by the local coroner, Mr. Proben Lye, an astute politician and a man who could keep a secret. He kept hers. He said she had that beautiful pallor possible only to a harborer of the Hocus-Pocus Bacilli.
4. Still numb about what was going on around her, she suffered an undertaker, Mr. Plantum Deep, to become intimately acquainted with her, and, though he was very attentive (with what oodles of flowers for her) and her friends approved of him, she still had time to interest 5. The Rev. I. Philpot Fuller, a sweet-scented hell-firer, who told beautiful lies about her and said something about there being a thief in paradise.
6. After which, her parents, despairing of her ever getting anywhere by her own efforts, made a deal for her with a cemetery lot salesman; but, being still dissatisfied, they made another with a tombstone capitalist.
7. And now—all's well that ends well, as they say—Amelia Eat, after all this, seems to have lost interest in men altogether and has gone into retirement.
--Something had to be done in a hurry, and so the next day the Pittsburgh Press explained that the Aluminum Company of America had made a boost of five percent in wages and that "it was understood the reason for the 'Christmas gift' was the remarkable upturn in business, justifying it". (The day previous the headlines of the same paper had said: "Nickel Poison Cause of Munhall Deaths: Utensil Contaminated Food, Coroner Declares.") That is about all, except that the day after the announcement of the 'Christmas gift' the Pittsburgh Post Gazette said that "the coroner's office was still puzzled over the case" and had "received for further analysis the utensils in which the fatal meal was cooked, including two aluminum pans and one of granite".
My! That was a close call for the aluminum trust. The whole trouble for the trust in this instance was that the county chemist was probably an honest man. It was salts of aluminum that killed the children, and is killing the whole country, but the news must not get out. Meantime "health experts" are filling the papers and magazines with pictures and stories and lies of how supremely healthful aluminum utensils are. It is astonishing what a capacity the American people have for absorbing lies. And don't the Big Business boys know it well?
Aluminum Trust Guilty of Two More Murders
All you have to do to make food poisonous is to let it stand long enough in the aluminum vessel in which it is cooked. With this preliminary information anybody except a hardware merchant, or a publisher of advertisements, or a member of the A.M.A. will understand fully the following skillfully worded dispatch:
Gulfport, Miss., June 26. (UP)—Bacterial poisoning from potatoes kept too long in a cooking utensil was blamed today for the death of two children, the critical condition of another, and minor illness of two older children and the father, Clarence Saucier. Two boys, 8 and 11, died in a hospital at Laurel, and a 3-year-old girl was not expected to live. Saucier and two daughters, 15 and 17, were slightly ill.
This dispatch appeared in the Miami (Fla.) Daily Tribune for June 27, under the headline "Bad Potatoes Kill Two Boys". Is it not surprising how quickly and efficiently the trust gets on the job to cover up the truth in every one of these cases of aluminum poisoning? All that was necessary to conceal the truth was to use the word "bacterial" instead of the word "aluminum", and the trick is done as neatly as any hangman ever tied a noose. But will those who arrange and support this diabolical propaganda to suppress the truth be able to answer to Almighty God for the suffering and misery of which they are the direct cause?
The wholesale poisoning at Indianapolis was a grand success. Out of 460 FERA workers 205 were knocked out. There was the usual "investigation" by a highly paid and inefficient staff, with no result of any value to anybody except the carefully covered statement regarding the tongue sandwiches that "the meat was packed early Thursday morning and was without refrigeration many hours before it was eaten". Though not stated, what happened (as reported to The Golden Age by its own investigator) was that the meat was allowed to stand in aluminum containers. Shyly and modestly dodging the truth the newspaper account of the poisoning indicates that somebody had a hunch that even if aluminum is so grand to cook in, it is not so grand to let things stand in, and so the report concludes: "Yesterday's lunch was served differently. None was packed, but the workers were brought back to the shelter house for their lunches." Would you think it possible that the aluminum gang could be so cruel, or so efficient in keeping the truth hidden? Cooking food in aluminum is bad enough, but letting it stand in the aluminum after it has been prepared is nothing short of murderous.
Austin, Texas, will never learn why 100 students who ate their lunches in the school dining room were suddenly ill that afternoon. The school nurse declares that it was not the food, which is of the best. Without a doubt she told the truth. Again without a doubt the food, some of it, was cooked or stored, or both, in aluminum cooking utensils, and that is why Austin will never know the truth. The stranglehold of the aluminum trust on the newspapers and doctors and hardware dealers is too good, and too rigid, to let the facts on a case like this ever see daylight.
The Staphylococcus Aureus Flimflam
Dr. Betts, like Prof. Force and other honest professional men, long ago became weary of the efforts of the aluminum trust, and others working for them, to throw the blame for aluminum murders upon diminutive creatures: those little fellows of whom it is alleged, ‘In Germany they call them germs,
In Paris they call them parasites,
And in Ireland they call them microbes.’
In a letter to the Camden Courier, Camden, N. J., dated January 15, 1936, Dr. Betts said:
One of your readers has forwarded a copy of your December 17 (1935) issue, which contains an article under the caption “Four More in Philadelphia Stricken by Pastry”.
We thought probably you did not learn the cause of the extensive prevalent illness in Philadelphia: 147 fell ill after eating so-called “Boston Cream pie” and chocolate eclairs. Fortunately none of them died.
I wish to advise that the Department of Health officials in Philadelphia made an extensive investigation and came to the conclusion that a germ by the name of “staphylococcus aureus” was found which had been picked off a pimple on the neck of one of the employees of Mr. Haasis, secretary of the baking company. Five of his employees were sent to the hospital for contagious diseases. Four were told they did not have any contagious disease, but the fifth one had this pimple, which they felt needed attention, so the gentleman was confined in the institution for quite a period.
Extreme care was taken in securing a couple of these staphylococcus aureus germs which were pulled out of that pimple, and the investigators came to the conclusion that they were of the same family, either sisters or brothers, as those found in the eclairs which made the 147 ill.
It is reported that the filling with which the eclairs were made did not come in contact with human hands, that a gun was used for the purpose of squirting the filling into the pastry, but the operator admitted that he had possibly drawn his hand over the pimple on his neck and in that way a couple of the germs could have come in contact with the outside of the gun. Of course, people don’t know how fast these germs multiply, but it is assumed that they would do so rapidly, that one or two of them may have worked their way around, across or through the steel jacket gun so that a couple got into the filling at each squirt. In this way, the state officials now advise us, the eclairs were so poisoned that 147 persons were stricken.
Through the kindness of the Mellon Institute we present Dr. Lovegerm, the eminent scientist, examining the deadly hocus-pocii bacilli. In the circle is a picture of the same basilly, demagnified about seventeen times.
Four days after the food poisoning epidemic you mention the fact that Mrs. Elizabeth M. Brown and her daughters Ethel and Emily and son Harry, of 6136 Wayne Avenue, fell victims to poisoning by eating a Boston Cream pie, but this time the symptoms were the same as those previously reported but the pie was made at the Germantown bakery. Investigation was at once made to find if one of their employees had a pimple, especially on the back of the neck. That seems to be the favorite residence of the staphylococcus aureus. No person having such a pimple was found. This is amazing, owing to the final decision of the state officials of Pennsylvania.
Recently near Yonkers, N.Y., more than one thousand persons were similarly affected by food poisoning by the eating of eclairs and Boston Cream pie. It is a shame that the investigators, along with the state officials and government investigators, did not find any employee who had a pimple on the back of his neck.
Last fall another severe poisoning occurred at Pittsfield, Mass., and still another at Providence, R.I., where hundreds of other persons were severely poisoned, with the same symptoms as those noted at Philadelphia. In every case the health authorities looked for germs instead of mineral acid which is produced by aluminum cooking utensils. Now, as they have determined that these poisoning cases are due to pimples on the back of some employee’s neck, it is only right and just to presume that each of the bakeries from which these poisoned eclairs were sold employed persons with pimples all containing the terrible germ called “staphylococcus aureus”.
We maintain that the aluminum ware in which the filling was cooked and stored before making it into the pastry may have been the cause of the disease. If, however, such is not the case, it would seem a proper procedure to pass a law to execute all persons working in bakeries who have pimples.
Very truly yours,
C. T. BETTS.
No Use to Investigate
An article in the New York American starts off in the old familiar style:
100 Vets Poisoned by Food; All Convalescing After Mystery. More than 100 World War veterans were reported convalescing yesterday after an attack of food poisoning at the United States Administration Facility at Northport, L. I.
The account says that three were so ill that a priest was summoned to give them the last rites, and then wound up in the orthodox manner by saying "laboratory tests were under way to determine what caused the illness". Sure! Why not? However, nothing will be learned, and nothing will be admitted; it never is. It is of no use to investigate, not a particle, because the investigators are positively determined that they will not learn that food cooked in aluminum is poisonous and food left standing in aluminum is even more poisonous. All they have to do is to make a batch of lemonade and let it stand in an aluminum container for a while, then drink it and ring for the doctor. He would investigate, too, maybe, but the result would be the same: a great mystery. An investigator who ignores conclusive evidence is worse than no investigator at all.
Under the heading "Lemonade Routs Pine Camp Guns" the New York Times has a five-column illustrated article setting forth that "Sickening of 120 Cannoneers Explains Retreat of Two Batteries from 'Hill 300'." After mentioning in the body of the article that "the batteries had brought lemonade in large cans with them" and that "the men actually went out of action faster than the umpires had been able to dub them 'dead' earlier in the day", the following brilliant paragraph occurred:
Samples of the lemonade, together with the cans which contained it, and samples of the food the men ate, were sent to Madison Barracks Hospital, a regular army post near here, for analysis. But the lemonade was generally blamed, because even those who ate nothing but drank the lemonade were sick.
That is all, except that it is just possible that sometime within the next generation a report will come back from the high efficient head of the Madison Barracks Hospital that there was nothing wrong with the lemons, nothing wrong with the sugar, nothing wrong with the water, and there could not possibly be anything wrong with the aluminum cans in which the lemonade was contained, and therefore it is not now known, and never will be known, and nobody could possibly ever find out, why these 120 men were suddenly made deathly ill. And yet every reader of The Golden Age above five years of age understands the matter perfectly well. Is it not remarkable, the huge effort that grown men will make to avoid learning anything by past errors, even to the death!
Newspaper item: It seems that a distant relative of the cook, residing in Italy, had a wen on the underside of his cauliflower ear, said to be caused by the bite of the wild flim-flam; and that while sending a telegram to the cook of the "Little Ragweed" tearoom he accidentally, or inadvertently, scratched the wen, and when the cook received the message he was stirring the cream-pie filler, and as he sneezed the germ (which had fallen off the relative's ear in Rome and stuck to the cablegram) was blown off the message into the cream-pie filler. (Despite the fact that the message burned up the wires, the scientists claim it was not hot enough to kill the deadly flim-flam bacillus). The victims, a hundred of them, all died without knowing that the rare and deadly flim-flam germ caused their death. They thought it was the aluminum in which the cream-pie filler was allowed to stand.
The Walter Reed Hospital Poisoning
Fifty patients and three attendants at Walter Reed hospital, Washington, D.C., were poisoned from eating banana pie made of ripe fruit, allowed to stand over night in aluminum ware. There was the usual newspaper palaver about the rare and deadly flim-flam germ caused their death. They thought it was the aluminum in which the cream-pie filler was allowed to stand. And how they do stand by past errors, even to the death!
"officials were investigating", "chemists will examine food samples," and "hospital authorities launched an immediate investigation to learn whether they were suffering from ptomaine from food, or whether some foreign substance had been mixed with the food".
Of course, none of these brilliant men ever found anything, or ever will, but if they will just go to the kitchen they will find that the hospital uses practically nothing but aluminum for cooking purposes, and thus everything is ready for another wholesale poisoning soon. Too bad doctors are so stubborn; but they are. But there are some honest doctors, too, who regret these wholesale aluminum poisonings.
Harry H. Teorizian, of California, states that in his youth, in Armenia, he was an eyewitness of the death of a fellow Armenian at the hands of a blind old Turkish priest. The priest, imbued with the idea that only by murdering an "infidel" could he go to heaven, stood on an elevated place, holding in his hand a hatchet, and crying louder and louder for a victim, until finally the Turks engaged in the massacre brought him an Armenian to be butchered. Mr. Teorizian has now become greatly interested in the subject of the wholesale poisoning of humanity by the use of aluminum utensils. He presents a new angle to this subject, which will be of interest to some.
For over a year I have been suffering from cancer of the stomach. When I read the articles "Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions Ill" I discovered the cause was aluminum ware. Today they are using mostly aluminum coils for beer taps; these are about fifty feet long. I had some stomach trouble before, but the climax came when I went into a beer joint and drank a large glass of beer. It made me sick right away, and so much so that a few days later I questioned the man who sold the beer to me. He was frank and told me the truth, that it was the last of the beer which was left in the coil, as he was waiting for a new barrel. But it was too late to make it right.
What can the people do? If compelled to eat and drink outside, how can they tell what utensils are used to cook with? As for beer taps, the man who sells them told me that they use twice as many aluminum coils as they do block tin, because they are cheaper. Because I am interested in humanity, I handed those two articles "Sales Propaganda Keeps Millions Ill" to the superintendent of the hospital where I am being treated, and to some of the doctors and nurses who are attending me, because I noticed that the hospital uses all aluminum utensils; but they only laughed at me. I only wish that millions of people could read The Golden Age. They don't know what they are missing. Thank God that the new Righteous Ruler, Christ Jesus, will soon take full power to reign in justice; that is our only hope. My greatest regret is that I am now no longer able to go out in the witness work; let this be my testimony, as a witness to the truth.
Accident! Accident! Accident?
IN THE newspaper accounts of the wholesale poisoning of Jehovah's witnesses at Manchester, N.H., there was too much unanimity in the use of the word "accident". In one of its headlines of the affair the Boston Daily Globe said, "Officials believe it an accident." In the body of the story was the statement that the poisonings were believed to be due "to some accident in the preparation of the food"; also that the Manchester health officer "was convinced the affair was an accident". In its news account the Boston Post said "the evidence indicated the stricken persons were victims of accidental food poisoning" and "Manchester police in their investigation have stated they believe that the food poisoning was accidental". The Newark Evening News said, "Sheehan said he believed it was simply a case of accidental food poisoning and that no evidence had been found to indicate otherwise." All right, Mr. Sheehan, all right, but when the Aluminum Trust would like to see all of Jehovah's witnesses poisoned in one big group, and when the Roman Hierarchy would like the same thing, you cannot blame the witnesses for being suspicious when there is such a grand rush to make use of the words "accident" and "accidental". It may have been an accident on purpose. Ever hear of Borgia?
"Military Order of Christ"
IT WILL be news to many that the Portuguese have what they call a "Military Order of Christ", which order was conferred upon Laurence Vincent Benet, fifty-two years a machine gun expert in France. Benet was born at West Point, N.Y., U.S.A., and has spent a lifetime making weapons wherewith murderers could kill, blind and cripple one another.
Serum Superstitions
Offsetting a Superstition
THE case of the Nichols boy reminds me of the time I resided in Boston, Mass. I have five boys, and the three who were then of school age were required to be vaccinated before being allowed to continue their attendance at school. Now I was, and am still, very much opposed to the filthy and dangerous practice of vaccination. Fortunately I possessed a book of medical essays, written by the late Dr. T. R. Allison, of London, England, from whom I had learned of the dangers of vaccination, and this book told how to circumvent the law compelling obedience to the school board’s action, and I hand it on to your readers who may be placed in a similar quandary.
Have the doctor in one room to vaccinate the children, and have some person in the kitchen or bath room with plenty of hot water and a good woolen flannel, and as quickly as the doctor vaccinates the child, send him into the other room, and have hot fomentations applied to the wound until all matter is drawn out.
The vaccination will not “take” and no ill effects will result.
My wife and I had no further trouble from the authorities. They were satisfied and so was I, and the children continued their studies.—By F. W. G— (Washington).
Trying to Convince McCann
JOHN McCANN, of 45 West End avenue, Newark, N.J., has nine healthy children and does not want them “immunized” with diphtheria serums at the parochial school which they attend. In sentencing this father to $50 fine or thirty days in jail for his refusal to have his 6-year-old son “immunized” the judge on the bench “cited a statement by Cardinal Hayes urging parents of New York school children to avail themselves of medical aid”. What “medical aid” has to do with diphtheria serum remains to be explained. At last accounts McCann was still unconvinced.
Death from Serum Disease
THE Ohio State Medical Journal has an article by Milton B. Cohen, M.D., of Cleveland, in which Dr. Cohen tells of a 13-year-old boy kicked on the shin by a horse. He was given several doses of anti-tetanus serum and died from the serum. He did not have tetanus.
Learning Rapidly in California
IN California the State Board of Health learns rapidly. In the Weekly Bulletin of December 14 appeared the news that the only effective cauterization of animal bites is by fuming nitric acid, but admitted that in two cases where this method was used the patient had died in convulsions. The next issue stated that vaccination against canine rabies is in the experimental stage and no reliance should be placed in it; and that is probably the truth.
“Steer Clear of Vaccines”
DR. J. P. LEAKE, of the United States Public Health Service, renowned physician, authority on epidemics, advises parents to steer clear of vaccines for prevention of paralysis, for the good and sufficient reason, said he, “We have before us twelve cases where children vaccinated with infantile paralysis virus have been made victims of the disease against which the vaccine was to have immunized them.”
The Dead Twin
FRANCIS A. ELLIS, M.D., Baltimore, Md., in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, May, 1935, tells of an older brother, Joseph, vaccinated so he could go to school. From this vaccination two younger brothers, twins, became infected, and one of them died from eczema vaccinatum. It was Stanley that died. William also was very ill, but recovered.
Vaccination Persecutions in Quincy
IN Quincy, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Childs, 193 Quincy avenue, were being maliciously arrested every seven days for failure to have their children vaccinated, with the threat that their two lovely children may be taken away from them. They are readers of The Golden Age, which may be the reason why they were persecuted.
Infantile Paralysis Vaccines
DR. THOMAS M. RIVERS, virus research specialist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, in an address in St. Louis, condemned both the active Kolmer virus (already administered to 10,725 persons) and the inactive virus of Park and Brodie, saying: “I wouldn’t give a child of mine either vaccine, and I’d warn my neighbors not to give them to their children.” Pasteur the Fake
SEIZING upon the fact that Pasteur was a Roman Catholic, and eager to get all the favorable publicity possible, the Roman Hierarchy is crazed with delight over the Warner Brothers' picture "The Life of Louis Pasteur". But here is what those truth-lovers, American Medical Liberty League, 35 East Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill., have to say about Louis Pasteur:
Hydrophobia is more of a mental hoax than a reality. If it were not for the money involved in that superstition it would have vanished long ago. Of course, blood poison may follow the bite of a dog. But it can also follow the bite of a man, or of a monkey, or of any other creature, if the teeth are soiled and leave some foreign substance in the blood stream.
Before the introduction of Pasteur's treatment in France the death rate per year charged to hydrophobia was 30; after his treatment the yearly number increased to an average of 45. A few other figures show: At Zurich, of 233 persons bitten by rabid animals in 42 years, only four died. These figures are given by Thomas M. Dolan, L.R.C.P., in his book Rabies and Hydrophobia. Wendt, of Breslau, treated 106 persons bitten by mad animals between the years 1810 and 1823. Out of this number two died.
In contrast to this I might present several examples of the failure of Pasteur's treatment. But only one will do. A French postman, named Pierre Rascol, and another man were bitten by a dog supposed to be mad. The postman was not bitten, but only scratched, for the teeth did not penetrate his clothing. The layman received several severe bites, but he refused to go to the Pasteur Institute and remained in perfect health. The postman, forced by postal authorities to undergo the treatment, did so, from the 9th to the 14th of March. On the 12th of April, following, severe symptoms set in, with pain at the points of inoculation, not the place of the bite, for the simple reason that he had never been bitten. On the 14th of April he died of paralytic hydrophobia, the new disease which Pasteur brought into the world. Is it any wonder that Professor Michel Peter complained: "M. Pasteur does not cure hydrophobia; he gives it." Much of this comes from E. Douglas Humes' book, Bechamp or Pasteur?
Dr. Charles W. Dulles, late lecturer on history of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who was recognized as the greatest authority on hydrophobia in this country, if not in the world, studied the disease thirty years. In an address delivered in Washington in 1913, he said: "I might cite my own experience in the treatment of persons bitten by dogs supposed to be mad, which has furnished not a single case of the developed disease in thirty years. I have probably seen more cases of so-called 'hydrophobia' than any other medical man."
Far from being the public benefactor that the film depicts him, Pasteur's teachings have cost untold millions in health and they have destroyed unnumbered lives in the world. Pasteur was primarily interested in wealth and glory. He did sensational things to achieve this end. He was in the habit of making pronunciamentos before he had proofs that he was right. Then he stuck to his dogmas despite all findings to the contrary.
In 1911 the state of Illinois spent $200,000 to investigate the milk question. The report proved from every angle that tuberculin testing of cattle is useless, dangerous and fraudulent. Also that Pasteurization of milk is only good to preserve it, but bad for the consumer. Instead of being guided by this report and abstaining from these fraudulent practices, the medies, led by Dr. W. A. Evans and his gang, had all copies of these records destroyed, and renewed their depredations against the dairies and the milk consumers.
Besides the experience in Illinois, a few years later, the United States Department of the Interior brought over an expert from Germany, a Professor Loenis, to work with Paul Hacker of that department and get at the facts in the tubercular and the tuberculin question. It was also established independently of, but similarly to, the Illinois report, that tuberculin testing of cattle is a gigantic fraud. But try to get copies of those reports now.
And so one more gasbag blows up.
Governments Frankly Getting Discouraged
THE governments constituting the League of Nations' Permanent Central Opium Board are, frankly, getting discouraged. There was a sentence in their annual report stating that the 128,000 known addicts in the United States and Canada consumed about 17 tons of dope and yet the seizures for the two countries were only 79 1/2 pounds. This was deemed so discouraging that the sentence was omitted from the report.
Canceled $50,000 of Debts
DR. M. M. HURSH, country physician of Cohasset, Minn., canceled $50,000 of debts owing him by citizens of the small community in which he lives, leaving $20,000 of more recent debts still on the books. It was a noble thing to do, and doubtless it was also wise, as it was a good advertisement.
Where Vaccination Is Not Required
VACCINATION is not required in the rural districts of New York, in parts of New Jersey and Connecticut, in certain schools in Massachusetts, or at all in Maine or Vermont, yet in the year 1934 there was not a case of smallpox anywhere in any of these states.
Ruminations on Cotton Seed By Geo. M. Rea (Oklahoma)
COMMON cotton has four "locks" to the "boll". Some varieties have five locks to the boll. The cotton seed is covered with a thin, tough, black shell on which the "lint" forms or grows. Inside this outer covering is a thin, whitish lining. The seed kernel is a yellowish, oily substance surrounding the germ.
Cotton was "discovered" growing wild, and the natives picked out the seed and spun and wove the lint into cloth.
Eli Whitney invented the "gin", a machine for separating the lint from the seed, and then the use of cotton became more general. Now the very finest of soft thread and cloth are made from cotton, some of it imitating wool and linen so closely that it can hardly be told from such except by an old-timer who knows what linen or wool really is. Also the wide range of uses for the lint extends to the strongest and heaviest cord and fabric. It is made into transparent paper, glue, high explosives, and many other things.
Cotton seed was considered worthless, and even as late as the beginning of the present century the bulk of it was thrown away. However, in the meantime, when drouth and famine had destroyed the grass and fodder and grain, and cattle were starving, it was found they would eat cotton seed. But it was not good food. They would soon "burn" out on it unless they had a good supply of grass or fodder or grain along with it. When fed to milch cows it spoiled the milk, and the butter was not fit to eat, being white and soft. But in such emergencies the cattle had to have something to eat, and so did the people, and, since there was a plentiful supply of cotton seed, it was used more or less.
Then the cotton-oil mill was invented, the cotton seed crushers began to organize, big business took hold, and cotton seed and its products began to be commercialized on a grand scale.
The cotton seed is put into the mill, and the outer "hull" is separated from the oily kernel. This kernel is ground into meal, put into an oven and heated, then into powerful presses which squeeze the oil out. The oil is "refined" and "treated" and becomes a substitute for many good things, such as linseed oil and even olive oil. Some of it is made into "cooking oil", and it is the base for most of the "compounds" or (so called) "shortenings", and even an expert can't tell the difference. It takes an old-timer who really knows what olive oil is made of or where lard comes from to tell the difference.
When the oil is squeezed out the giant presses are opened and the residue is taken out in the form of a hard board. This is thrown into the crushers and ground into meal, and, mixed with the "hulls", it at once becomes a "wonderful" stock food and is now widely used for such. Great quantities are used to feed dairy cows, and it has almost completely taken the place of other feed for fattening cattle for market. It "tests" "perfect" by the Bureau of Standards and is "approved" by the—approvers. The meat is soft, spongy, and flabby. Only an old-timer who knows what corned beef is made of really can tell what it is NOT.
And now the latest "development", "creation of the laboratory" of the so-called "scientists", is "bread" "pastry" "delicacies" for table use. It is "supremely delightful", "appetizing" and "nourishing", and "is commended by the doctors" (of course) and "approved" by—the approvers.
The most enterprising bakery in a near-by Oklahoma town is the first to "introduce" the "new" food in this part of the country. A "write-up" (free advertisement) appears in a local paper, telling how the new food is being "featured" in all the leading hotels and at club dinners and teas, . . . and a modern expert of big business WOULD NOT tell the difference between this stuff and food.
The fact is that cotton products are NOT food at all.
Cattle, sheep, goats and man are the only animals that will eat cotton-seed products, and then only if they are starving or it is worked off onto them in some form or combination.
The horse will not eat cotton seed.
Evidently that is where the saying "horse sense" came from.
Whole-Wheat Flour
A CARD announces that whole-wheat flour can be obtained from the Russell-Miller Milling Company, Grand Forks, N. Dak. Of course, it may be obtained from many other places also. There is no knowledge here as to prices.
Iodine-Enriched Foods
IT HAS been discovered that feeding cattle and poultry with marine foods multiplies the amount of iodine in eggs and milk by about ten. A way to help goiter patients is indicated by this.
Light By Dr. William J. Hodge (Kentucky)
SUNLIGHT is the ultimate source of vital energy. All life on our planet is dependent directly or indirectly on sunlight for the formation of its organic combinations. Plants, trees and their fruits are really stored-up sunshine. While the lowest species of organic life, such as fungi, are capable of developing in darkness, the higher plants, which principally support animal life, always depend upon the rays of the sun for assimilating the elements of the soil and atmosphere. They especially require the non-illuminating, ultraviolet rays of the sun, which we know to be most active in the production of electro-chemical effects. Likewise, the animal body is to a large extent directly dependent on sunlight for its growth and healthy development. It is a well-established fact that as a result of an insufficiency of sunlight the fibrin and the red blood corpuscles become diminished in quantity, while the white blood corpuscles are increased, causing a condition known as "leukemia". A more or less continuous exclusion of sunlight induces severe forms of anemic diseases, especially if the diet is deficient in blood-building elements.
The frequent exposure of the body to the sunlight will greatly assist the system in the performance of all its physiological functions. It will insure an even distribution of the blood. Such an adjustment of the circulation is necessary for the normal functioning of the organs and glands.
What is light? Light is a form of radiant energy which, acting upon the retina of the eye, gives us the visual sensation. How is light created? It is created by the rapid vibration of the particles of a luminous body. The sun is our chief source of light. Old Sol rises in the morning with a blaze of splendor, wakes the world, starts the wheels of industry and commerce on their daily grind and slowly wends his way across the broad expanse of the dome, and, in the evening, sets behind the western horizon in a blaze of glory which no artist can paint, tells the world goodnight, with plenty of sleep and rest until he greets you again with his glorious good morning. The sun's rays are made of seven colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. If all these rays were separated by a prism you would see the colors as in the rainbow.
Sunshine, and light as we know it, generated from an electric bulb, is composed of approximately 80 percent infrared rays, 13 percent visible rays, and 7 percent ultraviolet rays. Therefore with our natural eye we really see only 13 percent of the rays making up the ordinary white light.
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