Golden Age, September 8, 1937

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September 8, 1937 CONTENTS

LABOR AND ECONOMICS

Fatigue and Accidents 781

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"Guaranteed" Incomes of 30% 783

Less Demand for Human Labor 791

No Possible Jobs for 6,500,000 794

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BY TRAIL AND STREAM AND GARDEN PATH 783

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UNSAVORY ODORS FROM CHICAGO 786

Acknowledging and Rejecting Truth 790

Aboriginal Names of Places 790

OUTWITTING THE HIERARCHY IN "THE SPECK" 792

MANUFACTURING AND MINING

Head Murderers to Be Spared 781

New Hosiery Mills in the South 781

World Production of Rayon 781

POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN

Cardenas Working with the "Church" 787

Let Mexico Alone 787

45% of Ejidos Re-established 787

Fascism in the Western World 787

The Socialists at Brussels 788

In the Island of Cos 789

The Madmen of the World 789

Kelly Thinks Franco Will Win 790

New Zealand's New Deal 791

Britain's Base at Singapore 794

DESTROYING AMERICAN LIBERTY 795

AGRICULTURE AND HUSBANDRY

Propellers for Orchards 781

Starving Cows in Australia 791

Flame Throwers for Killing Weeds 791

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Height of Tidal Waves 799

Longest Eclipse in 1200 Years 799

The Kaietur Waterfall 799

HOME AND HEALTH

POISONS FORMED BY ALUMINUM COOKING UTENSILS 771

ALUMINUM POISON AND "EGYPT" 778

Aluminum Not Fit for My Dog 779

Doctor Clendening, Widely Advertised 779

Somebody Will Try to Kill Betts Yet 779

They Feel Fine Now! 779

Aluminum (Findings of Dr. McGuigan) 780

Rockefeller and Chiropractic 782

Beware of Benzedrine Pep Pills 782

One Prescription Lasted Three Years 790

Three Eminent Physicians 782

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

MORMON DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 784

From a Perplexed Radio Fan in Lithuania 788

The Crowds that Heard the Bishop 793

Chamundeswari Had the Best Room 794

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The Golden Age

Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, September 8, 1937 Number 469

Poisons Formed by Aluminum Cooking Utensils

By H. J. Force, Ph.G.* (Scranton, Pa.)

ALUMINUM is an element, just the same as iron, lead or gold. In other words, it is not composed of any other elements or substances. Most of the aluminum cooking utensils are nearly pure aluminum. The question is, How does it affect our health when used for general cooking purposes? Health is your most important consideration.

From a chemical standpoint, aluminum and lead are similar in many respects. Rub your fingers over aluminum and they become blackened. Lead produces the same result. Some of the Materia Medicas state that the action of aluminum and lead are similar on living organisms.

People often say that they have used aluminum for years and it has not poisoned them. Many people have taken large doses of various poisons, trying to commit suicide, but in some cases the poisons did not produce death. Nevertheless, they were poisonous compounds just the same.

Various books on medicine and the U. S. Dispensatory state that arsenic, mercury, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, aluminum, lead, strychnine, etc., are poisonous. None of these recommendations as to their poisonous properties would be questioned in a court at law, although many will admit they have serious stomach trouble, often ulcers of the stomach, cancers, liver troubles, skin affections, etc. Most of these conditions improve when aluminum ware is discontinued.

A friend of mine, after having 17 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.

There have been so many cases where people have been so much improved when they have discarded their aluminum ware that the question as to its use should be given most serious consideration. I do not claim that everyone who uses aluminum utensils will be poisoned. Neither is everyone poisoned by poison oak or poison ivy, yet it would be foolish for anyone to state that they are not poisonous because some are not affected by these poisons.

* Professor Force, one of America’s most highly skilled chemists, is an authority on antiseptics, and may be consulted by mail free.

But aluminum is different. It acts more in the nature of a cumulative poison. In a number of cases where people have died under hospital care and where aluminum was used almost exclusively, autopsies have shown that aluminum was present in the brain, kidneys and liver in sufficient quantity, in my judgment, to cause death.

"‘A.M.A.’—Aluminum Manufacturers’ Associates"

--Ideal Embalming Fluid

The combination of aluminum chloride with aluminum acetate would make an ideal disinfectant and embalming fluid. This combination could easily be brought about by adding salt to pickles when they are prepared in aluminum. Aluminum chloride compounds will be formed when vegetables are cooked in aluminum to which a small quantity of salt (chemically called sodium chloride) has been added. Many natural waters contain quite a little salt. It is evident that when such waters are used when cooking in aluminum, aluminum chloride will be formed.

It has been shown that aluminum compounds precipitate or destroy pepsin, which is the principal ingredient in digestion. Alum is a compound of aluminum, potash, sulphur and oxygen, together with a small portion of water, and has the chemical formula Al K (SO4)2-12H2O. When vegetables are cooked in aluminum vessels, they often contain such compounds as sulphur, potash or soda, which could easily combine with the aluminum, forming small quantities of alum, also aluminum sulphate.

Many drinking waters through the United States are very hard, containing a large portion of sulphur compounds, also potash and soda. In fact, some waters which I have analyzed became alkaline on boiling. As potash and soda very readily dissolve aluminum, forming a compound similar to alum in its composition, it follows that this compound will be formed if aluminum utensils are used for any length of time to cook food products.

Sauerkraut, when cooked in aluminum, will produce aluminum chloride, especially if allowed to stand for some time. Many cases of poisoning have resulted from eating sauerkraut cooked in aluminum, and some deaths.

Alum and the various compounds contain a large percent of aluminum, in most cases in soluble form which can readily be absorbed in the stomach or the intestines, and may seriously affect the kidneys and liver.

When aluminum cooking utensils are used, there is always some aluminum dissolved. The amount will depend upon the kind of water used. At picnics, church suppers and other places where large numbers are served, the foods are often allowed to stand for some time in aluminum. As a result we often read in the newspapers of numbers of people being stricken ill very soon after eating, probably poisoned from the aluminum compounds formed, and death often following.

People often say they like aluminum, as foods do not burn when cooked in such utensils. The reason is that some aluminum is always dissolving, forming hydrogen gas, and so pushing the foods away from the aluminum. The same thing applies to an aluminum griddle. Salt and soda are generally used in the batter, and these increase the solubility of the aluminum.

Large doses of aluminum compounds are often fatal. Small quantities may be taken daily with little or no effect. But sooner or later, indigestion, constipation, Bright’s disease, or diabetes may develop as a result of the continued use of aluminum ware, due to its solubility.

To show the solubility of aluminum, make the following simple test for yourself: Place in a well cleaned and scoured aluminum utensil one quart of water, one teaspoon of salt and one of baking soda, and let boil for one hour, adding water to make up the loss. Then remove from the fire and let stand for two or three hours; then pour into a glass jar, and notice the milky condition caused by aluminum hydroxide. This will settle out in a day or so, but its presence is proof that aluminum is soluble.

What Textbooks Say

Let us see what textbooks, such as are used in our medical colleges, say about aluminum. Take the Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacology, for example, by Alexander L. Blackwood, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.P., professor of clinical medicine and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. On page 111 of this volume, we find under “Alum” the following statement:

Physiological Action. This agent is actively astringent, coagulating the albumen of the tissues and of the blood, and produces a local constriction of the capillaries. It is mildly escharotic and produces a hardening of the skin and tissues in general. It excites and later diminishes the salivary secretions as well as those of the mucous surfaces; it diminishes the gastric fluid and precipitates pepsin. As a result of its action on the intestinal sections, constipation is produced. Through its irritating properties, which may be in excess of its astringent properties, gastro-enteritis may result.

On page 112 in the same book, under "Aluminum Hydroxide" the following statement is made:

Physiological Action. This agent produces profound prostration with irritation of the mucous membranes with diminished secretions, and as a result there is constipation and inactivity of the bowels. The nervous system is affected as is indicated by the extreme prostration with numbness of the parts and paralysis of the involuntary muscles.

To make the above clearer, we give the definitions of a few of the words mentioned:

Astringent. A medicine which causes contraction of the tissues and arrests the flow of secretions.

Coagulation. Changing to a curd-like mass; becoming clotted.

Escharotic. A substance which burns and destroys the life of the parts to which it is applied.

The coagulating of the albumen of the tissues and the blood is characteristic of most poisons, and would result in death. Such a condition could cause paralysis, insanity, cancer, rheumatism, neuritis, indigestion, ulcers of the stomach and intestines, some forms of skin diseases, etc.

In God's holy Word, the Bible, it states (Deuteronomy 12:23): "Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh."

If your blood, which is your life, is being poisoned the above condition is easily accounted for, and you are in danger of not only infection, but various diseases. The Bible is our only Authority as to life, and can be depended upon to state the facts.

The Nation Is Being Poisoned

From the Dispensatory and various Materia Medicas, it is apparent that the nation is being poisoned. There never was so much sickness and complaining, never so much stomach disorder, etc. Cancer has jumped from the tenth place to the second place as the cause of death in the last ten years. Yet at the same time we have more knowledge, more doctors, hospitals, radio lectures on health and newspaper articles on how to keep well, etc., yet sickness is still on the increase. There must be a reason.

All aboard—for the tomb!

A number of men working on the Australian Railways complained that many of them were having sore hands. This matter was called to the attention of the officials of the railroad, and was thought to be due to the white metal handles on the shovels. The handles of these shovels were analyzed by a chemist in Brisbane, Australia, and showed 92.16 percent of aluminum.

This analysis was sent to me for an opinion. I advised them that the trouble was due to the aluminum on the shovel handles, and recommended that their use be discontinued, and that the men were being poisoned by the aluminum coming in contact with their hands.

The Australian Railway Commission, after full investigation, recommended that all shovels of this type be discontinued. (This from an article in the Courier Mail, August 8, 1935, Brisbane, Australia, under the heading of "Dangerous Tools".)

Is it not evident that if men with hard, callused hands should be so affected as to make their hands sore, and probably poisoned in other ways, eating foods cooked in aluminum, which may contain quite a percentage of poisonous aluminum salts, would very quickly affect the delicate mucous membrane of the stomach, resulting in ulcers or other serious conditions?

I might say that the above affected about 30,000 miles of railway.

Testimony of Informed Doctors

Dr. Leo Spira, M.D., of Vienna, Austria, has written a booklet entitled "The Clinical Aspect of Chronic Poisoning by Aluminum and its Alloys", published by John Bale, Sons & Danielson, Ltd., London, England, giving the results of his observations over a period of ten years, showing many cases of chronic poisoning due to the use of aluminum cooking utensils. He has actually proved this by the success of the treatment based on his findings, in cases in which all other methods of treatment failed. Aluminum utensils were eliminated and quick recovery in most cases resulted. Return to the use of aluminum resulted in a relapse.

According to German literature, diseases are making their appearance which have hitherto been unknown on the Continent. Gonnermann attributes this to the increased use of aluminum cooking utensils. Von Halla records 25 cases of constipation and skin diseases which did not yield to the orthodox treatment, but were cured by the removal of all aluminum cooking utensils. Cancer has increased in Austria in proportion to the increased use of aluminum ware.

Dr. R. M. Le Hunte Cooper, M.D., B.S., etc., of London, England, has written a booklet of 32 pages entitled "The Danger of Food Contamination by Aluminum", published by John Bale, Sons & Danielson, Ltd., of London, England, in which he states he has so many cases of aluminum poisoning that he hardly knows which to discuss. Many are given in his booklet, showing where all orthodox treatment has failed, but when all aluminum utensils were removed, most of the patients quickly recovered. He refers to headache, pyorrhea, sore mouth, sore throat, rheumatism, neuritis, bowel conditions, indigestion, ulcers, skin affections, etc., all of which have been greatly relieved by eliminating the use of aluminum wares.

“. . . Alum baking powders, which are used very extensively in the U.S.A., are forbidden in England, France, Germany, and many other countries . . .”

Hemorrhage of the Brain

A hemorrhage of the brain is almost always caused by a poison. Strychnine poisoning invariably produces hemorrhage of the brain. Research has shown that the brain absorbs more aluminum than any other organ under certain conditions, and if death does not result, then the patient will probably become insane where large quantities of aluminum have been absorbed.

The information here given justifies us in never allowing any aluminum under any circumstances to enter our bodies from artificial sources. Why, even the suspicion that it might be poisonous ought alone to be sufficient. We cannot have too much evidence on the effects of aluminum.

Many people have the impression that poisons should have a bitter or very unpleasant taste. This is true in some cases, such as strychnine, but with aluminum compounds there is little or no taste. That is one reason why some believe aluminum is not poisonous.

In our daily papers it is very common to see some doctor writing on health topics and recommending the use of aluminum cooking utensils. Letters written to these same papers, explaining the poisonous properties of aluminum, are in nearly every case refused publication. Some of our so-called “scientific” magazines have published considerable on the aluminum question, trying to show that this metal is safe for cooking utensils. Of course, it must be remembered that the daily press and magazines carry large ads on aluminum ware.

Many of the so-called demonstrating cooking schools seem to be for the purpose of advertising the use of aluminum ware, as such utensils are almost invariably used exclusively. Whenever the question of the poisonous character of aluminum ware is raised, the one in charge usually becomes very austere, and indignantly denounces any such claims. This is usually followed by citing in parrot-like fashion the approval of the metal by a well-known professional association whose journal has carried numerous full-page ads that advocate the use of aluminum.

From our investigation, we recommend iron, steel and stainless steel utensils; also agate, enamel and earthen ware. You will notice that foods have a different taste when they are not cooked in aluminum. We are in no way interested in any kind of cooking utensils, as to their manufacture or sale.

Remember, the continued use of aluminum wares will finally produce results which will be similar to leaving the foods standing in them for some time. It is the small quantities, as the Dispensatory points out, which are absorbed from the foods, which may produce indigestion, nervousness, constipation, cancer, etc.

Bacteria Thrive in Aluminum Vessels

Did you ever find maggots in your aluminum pans? Do you know that such pans may be full of the most deadly bacteria known to science?

Almost daily you read in the press of hundreds' being poisoned by eating food cooked in aluminum. Do you know how such poisonings occur? If you do not, this will tell you.

Aluminum is a soft metal and is easily corroded and pitted under certain conditions. For example, when sauerkraut or vegetables are cooked in aluminum and allowed to stand for some time, the utensil often becomes badly pitted. It has frequently happened that sauerkraut has eaten holes completely through the aluminum kettles in which it was prepared. Vegetables that are cooked with soda and salt will produce similar results. Corned beef corrodes most aluminum utensils. Rolled, pressed or cast aluminum all corrode.

Various kinds of food that may lodge in such cavities cannot be thoroughly washed out. The food particles then decay or become rotten. If flies lay eggs in such spots, maggots will result, of course small in size.

Bacteria of many kinds, which may cause various diseases, are found in such recesses. Aluminum cooking utensils are often used to hold potatoes, beets, and other vegetables that come from the ground, bringing with them all kinds of bacteria. After a mere rinsing these utensils are used to hold milk, cream, chicken salads, etc., with the result that a heavy bacterial growth may soon result, which may cause serious illness. In fact, death has resulted in a number of cases, as will be shown later.

Bacteria are only about 1/25000 inch in diameter.

Many bacteria double in number every half hour. Now, suppose that there are only a thousand bacteria in one of the cavities; double 1,000 ten successive times, and you will have some idea of the increase of bacteria possible in the space of five hours.

Bacteria grow rapidly, and some of them die. Their dead bodies, together with the decomposed food they feed on, form other compounds known as toxins and ptomaines, which are among the most deadly poisons known to science.

Minutely Scrutinize Your Cockroach Castles

Take a look at your aluminum ware through a small magnifying glass and you will see craters. It is impossible to wash or scour out all the various foods which lodge in these cavities. Many of these decaying cesspools hold food for the bacteria. Cockroaches would find food in these utensils, and they also carry disease germs.

“Yes,” you say, “there are many such spots in my kettles, but boiling water will destroy all of these germs.” You are wrong. It will require more than boiling temperature to destroy the spores. When the food runs out and the temperature is too low, many forms of bacteria, especially the poisonous kinds or those that produce disease, change their form to what are known as spores. They lie dormant for years, or until conditions are favorable for their growth, or we may say that they “hibernate”.

In various works on bacteriology, lengthy discussions on different forms of bacteria together with their mode of growth and their effect as to the cause of disease, etc., are given in detail, and it might be well for the reader to examine some of these works if he desires further information. The Principles of Bacteriology, by A. C. Abbott, M.D., professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania, states that the food supply for the majority of bacteria is dead vegetable and animal matter. In his book, Dr. Abbott states:

. . . Under natural conditions it frequently occurs that the development of one species or group of species of bacteria is directly dependent upon the functional activities of another totally distinct species, the growth of one group resulting in conditions that are of vital importance to the existence of the other.

Dr. Abbott also states that spores of certain bacteria are not destroyed after exposure of from five to six hours to the temperature of boiling water. He further says that nearly all bacteria can be destroyed by subjecting them to a boiling temperature for fifteen minutes, then allowing them to stand at room temperature for twenty-four hours, then repeating this process for two more days. By this method spores develop into growing bacteria and are then destroyed by boiling.

The cavities in aluminum ware must necessarily contain both animal and vegetable matter which will decompose or decay and furnish food for various kinds of bacteria. Bacteriological tests have shown this to be the case.

It is not assumed that every cooking utensil is infested with poisonous bacteria. Many of them may be harmless gas-producing bacteria, and this only in cases where there is pitting of the wares. However, wares that are free from pits now may be badly pitted in a few weeks, and so find homes for bacteria.

Frequent Cases of Food Poisoning

It is well known that many cases of food poisoning can be traced to various kinds of food prepared in aluminum. Some of them appear in the daily press, if they escape the censor. Let us take a few cases of food poisoning as reported by the United States Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.

Three men from the Navy poisoned by eating fried oysters. One dies. Investigation showed bacteria of extremely toxic nature. The oysters may have been kept in aluminum.

Nine officers of the Navy poisoned by chicken salad. Samples of the salad showed large numbers of poisonous bacteria.

Fourteen poisoned in the Navy from boiled smoked tongue. Tests showed large number of poisonous bacteria.

Cheese poisoning. United States Ship Reuben James. Forty poisoned. No poisonous germs in the cheese, of course. Bacteria may have been in some of the other foods, as it is claimed the Army and Navy use aluminum utensils.

Fifty-eight poisoned by corned beef. None of the beef left for examination. Could have found plenty of bugs in aluminum kettles. All of these cases are in the Navy. We wonder how many there are that are not reported. Only wholesale cases reported.

The U. S. Public Health Service asks the question, “What would happen in case of war?” as the U. S. S. Reuben James was put out of action by the poisoning of the crew. In time of war, foods may stand in the cooking utensils for hours. Our battleships would be easy prey in case of a general food poisoning, for sick men could not navigate them, nor could they fire the guns. They would just be heading for the last round-up. Suppose an aviator with a lot of passengers aboard were suddenly taken sick from such poisoning. The same could be said of engineers. Many accidents happen, the causes of which are never explained.

In some cases of food poisoning people quickly become unconscious, death soon following. Others become dizzy, suffer from stomach trouble, intestinal affections, headache, great weakness, and partial paralysis, etc.

In the last war, a number of chemists who were in the chemical division told me that about half of the men were sick all the time with stomach trouble. Everything was cooked and kept in aluminum. I have been told that the government is throwing all aluminum utensils out of the Navy. Let us hope that this is true. The same should be done for the Army.

Don’t Blame the Water Only

Water companies tell me that people sometimes complain that all in the family are sick with stomach trouble, etc., and it must be the water. Those who complain could probably find the cause in their aluminum utensils.

Others blame the milk, the butcher, and the baker; and should sickness be due to their products, we should probably find that the foods had been placed in aluminum vessels. The farmer certainly gets plenty of inspection, but nothing is said about his placing food products in badly infected vessels made of aluminum.

The “Great Plague of London”, the “Black Death”, the bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, etc., have killed millions throughout the world. But when the infected places were cleaned up and sanitary conditions were improved, the diseases nearly disappeared. The same can be said for the Panama Canal. All of these disease conditions were caused by various forms of bacteria. Bedbugs are carriers of the smallpox germ. Clean out the bedbugs, keep clean, and smallpox will disappear. And that goes for most other diseases.

Some doctors think infantile paralysis may start from a throat condition; others, that it starts in the intestinal tract. How could you expect a child to keep well if fed daily from aluminum pans that may be full of various kinds of disease germs and poisonous ptomaines?

Wholesale Poisonings

But let us turn to some further cases of wholesale poisoning:

In a large general hospital, 325 employees were made ill. No report on the patients.

A large university hospital reported 15 doctors, 10 dietitians and 125 nurses poisoned by chicken salad kept in aluminum for a few hours.

New Jersey hospital, 50 guests poisoned.

New York state hospital, 65 poisoned.

New York state hospital, 60 poisoned.

New York city, 900 poisoned at a banquet.

Ohio Y.W.C.A., 70 young women poisoned.

Oklahoma State Home, 90 girls poisoned.

Oregon College, 75 poisoned.

Pennsylvania church supper, 200 poisoned.

South Dakota Home, 250 poisoned.

These are only a few of the many cases we could report. Thousands of individual cases could be given, with many deaths. In nearly all cases, aluminum utensils were used and foods were allowed to stand in them for some hours, which gave the bacteria a chance to develop, and in some cases to form poisonous ptomaines.

Some people may say, "Why does the government allow such utensils to be sold?" None of the government departments or the public health departments know that this condition exists. Doctors do not know about this danger, as several have been poisoned. Some have died soon after eating food from aluminum utensils.

Here is a case that just occurred here in Scranton. Creamed chicken was served. A portion was then put in an aluminum pan in the refrigerator. The next day it was found that the chicken was bubbling up with gas. As it seemed to be fermenting, it was thrown out. This was due to the cavities in the aluminum pan being full of bacteria. Creamed chicken makes a good culture, or food, for bacteria. As bacteria have little mode of motion, the gas they form moves up through the food, carrying the bacteria along. The result is that all the food is soon contaminated with the bacteria, and so quickly becomes poisonous.

Doctors Urged to Help

Hospitals are kept scrupulously clean. The utmost care is taken in the operating rooms to have everything thoroughly sterilized. Yet patients, though dangerously ill, many suffering from internal complications with infection, are given food that may contain large quantities of poisonous bacteria if prepared in aluminum wares that are pitted. The cases of doctors, nurses, etc., being poisoned by the hundreds need no further proof. They certainly would not knowingly cook spoiled or decayed food. We believe they use much care to be sure that food products are of the best quality. We think the same can be said for our Navy and War Departments, as well as for all other organizations. Yet in most of the poisoning cases, investigation has shown poisonous bacteria to be present.

I call upon the doctors of all schools to help inform the public of this grave danger, so as to protect the sick in our hospitals and homes. The first duty of every statesman should be the health of the nation, and I trust all will try to bring this question to the attention of all public officials. Laws should be passed prohibiting the manufacture of aluminum ware for use in preparing any kind of food products and medical preparations. Sick people are a liability to the nation.

A doctor wrote me that he had a cancer on his face. He stopped using aluminum, and in a few months the cancer nearly disappeared. Then he ate squash, cooked in aluminum. In 48 hours it was like a raging volcano.

Two well-known cancer surgeons died last year from cancer. They said they used aluminum.

A man in New York city stated that his mother died from aluminum poisoning, together with complications of cancer, according to the physician.

Cancer patients should avoid all kinds of aluminum wares, also all food products that may be prepared in aluminum.

A doctor here in Scranton told me he had aluminum poisoning. He died three weeks later. Many more could be given.

Partial List of Safe Hospitals

A few of the modern hospitals using stainless steel equipment:

Allegheny General Hospital ........................................ Pittsburgh, Pa.

Children's Hospital ................................................................ St. Louis, Mo.

Children's Hospital ............................................................ Pittsburgh, Pa.

Eye and Ear Hospital ........................................................ Pittsburgh, Pa.

Huron Road Hospital .................................................... Cleveland, Ohio

Iowa State Hospital ........................................................ Iowa City, Iowa

Johns Hopkins Hospital ................................................ Baltimore, Md.

Jersey City Hospital ........................................................ Jersey City, N. J.

Johnson's Emergency Hospital ................................ Milwaukee, Wis.

Lennox Hills Hospital ........................................................ New York, N. Y.

Lincoln Hospital ........................................................................ Newark, N. J.

Madison General Hospital ................................................ Madison, Wis.

Norwegian American Hospital ........................................ Chicago, Ill.

Presbyterian Hospital .................................................... Philadelphia, Pa.

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital ........................................ Boston, Mass.

Rhode Island Hospital .................................................... Providence, R. I.

San Antonio State Hospital ............................ San Antonio, Texas

Swedish Hospital ............................................................ Minneapolis, Minn.

Stevenson Memorial Hospital ....... Allison, Ont., Canada St. Mary's Hospital ......................................... Detroit, Mich.

St. Vincent's Hospital .................................... St. Louis, Mo.

Tuberculosis Hospital ................................... Houston, Texas

U. S. Veterans' Hospital ................................ Portland, Oreg.

U. S. Veterans' Hospital ................................. Lincoln, Nebr.

Yale New Haven Hospital ........................ New Haven, Conn.

West Penn Hospital ....................................... Pittsburgh, Pa.

Avoid Restaurants Using Aluminum

I would caution against eating in hotels and restaurants where aluminum utensils are used. Such establishments should put on their menus, "Nothing prepared in aluminum," when that is the case.

"The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette states that the new Thompson restaurant is equipped with stainless steel, which contains no copper, zinc, tin, or aluminum to react with food acids or taint foods with a metallic flavor. Stainless steel is not plated, and is unrusting and untarnishing, and is considered the very best." When you are in Pittsburgh, there is one place that should be free from poisonous food.

I have personally given several pieces of stainless steel a most severe test over a period of time and can find no pitting in these utensils and have found them satisfactory in my home. I also use agate, enamel and earthen wares, and know that iron utensils are entirely safe. Monel metal is widely used for utensils and is very satisfactory.

I am interested only in the health of the public, and I believe the above suggestions will be of benefit to all to avoid heading for the last round-up. Will you do your part? Give this information to your friends. We need your help. Tell the truth about this condition, here and in foreign lands.

Aluminum Poison and "Egypt" By I. D. Witter (Canada)

IN THE course of making an examination of the Encyclopædia Britannica in reference to Egypt, "The Black Land," the astonishing coincidence of diseases similar to those caused by aluminum poisoning referred to in No. 342 of The Golden Age and the conditions of the drinking water in the affected area at and near the outlet or mouth of the Nile was noted.

In the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. VII, page 700, "Diseases of Egypt":

Notwithstanding the fineness of the climate, the stranger who visits Egypt is struck by the signs which he sees everywhere of the prevalence of many serious diseases, and in the first half of this century he might have witnessed the effects of a great epidemic of the plague or the cholera. . . . Ophthalmia followed by blindness . . . dysentery is very often fatal. . . . The plague has been the greatest scourge of Egypt . . . there have been no severe epidemics of plague elsewhere in the same period . . . The plague starts at Alexandria [at the mouth of the river] quickly travelling as far up the river as Cairo . . . (Evidently the river above Cairo does not become as greatly polluted.) . . . Dysentery is common, causing a very large mortality . . . 200,000 perished from cholera in Egypt during the plague in 1848 . . . Among the diseases most dreaded by European residents is liver complaint . . . Hemorrhoids and herniae are among the commonest maladies . . . Skin diseases have been at all times prevalent in Egypt . . . Madness is common, generally in the form of idiocy . . . idiots are regarded with much respect as saints.

A paragraph in The Golden Age No. 342, page 37:

Such a condition could cause paralysis, insanity, cancer, rheumatism, neuritis, indigestion, ulcers of the stomach and intestines, some forms of skin disease, etc.

Rheumatism also is common in Egypt. Cholera is an abdominal and intestinal poisoning.

Now for the cause??? The waters of the Nile are turbid at all times except a short period in midsummer. On page 705 of same volume (VII, Ency. Brit.):

Turbid appearance due to large quantities of earthy matter which are annually deposited . . . Analysis of deposit: Water 11, Carbon .09, Oxide of iron .06, Silica .04, Carbonate of magnesia .04, Carbonate of lime .18, ALUMEN .48. ALUM is from Alumen (see Vol. I, page 644, sixth paragraph, subject "Aluminum"). The water is extremely sweet, particularly in its turbid state. [Quoting from page 706:] A careful filtration destroys its peculiar flavor, and the best method is to allow it to settle in the porous jars manufactured in the country. [These jars are probably made out of the same earthy substance.] It is very wholesome.

The fact that this water is sweet seems to show that it must reek with ALUM. The fact that it is recommended as being wholesome is another proof that there is something wrong with it. The fact that these diseases coincide with those resulting from aluminum poisoning also proves that something is wrong.

The cause is unknown??? What do you make of it?

Aluminum Not Fit for My Dog

By H. P. Haley (New Hampshire)

WE HAVE a little dog and it is the last thing I would ever think of to even give her a drink of water from an aluminum container; we think too much of her. As for ourselves, you can no doubt guess the answer. No aluminum cooking dishes in our house!

I am 6 feet 1 inch, weigh around 270, am 55 years old and healthy as a bear, but fully convinced that such would not be the case had I not become wise to the danger of ALUMINUM both through articles in The Golden Age and in my own experience.

A few years ago, working in a railroad tower, I purchased an aluminum saucepan, and used same to get my suppers, boiling tea in it or making chowders, etc., from August until along in January, when I had a nice two weeks' session from my job, with a doctor working over me the first week trying to get the machinery around my gall bladder to function, with everything at a standstill, and pain unmentionable, and the other week to get back on my feet at home where the Mrs. never would use aluminum, and then back to the job, continuing to use my aluminum dish and gradually getting back into the condition I was in before having the doctor; but, luckily, I got through on this job and discarded the pan, getting the home free from possibility of further poisoning, and came back on my feet in no time. Previous to this I had never given aluminum a thought, and went back for a second dose of it. But never again. We learn slowly, but surely.

Doctor Clendening, Widely Advertised

DOCTOR CLENDENING, widely advertised, and widely uninformed, tremendously so, in one of his syndicated articles made this statement:

That aluminum is perfectly harmless is indicated by the fact that aluminum is more and more supplanting other metals in dental work as a substitute due to the present scarcity of gold. It hardly is possible that dentists would agree to put into the mouth a substance which they thought would cause cancer.

When this was brought to the attention of Dr. C. T. Betts he showed that Doctor Clendening did not know the first thing about what he was talking about, by making the following observations:

Aluminum has been practically discarded in all dental appliances and denture work. This is due to the fact that practically all those who wear either the swedged or cast aluminum plate bases soon find constant irritation of the mouth results.

Aluminum is poisonous, like other metals. We are all familiar with mercurial poisoning or that made by copper vessels called verdigris. The workers at the radium paint factory in New Jersey were affected with what is termed radium poisoning, 22 of whom have already died and the others are suffering, and no antidote is known. Arsenic is a rank poison; so is lead; in fact, any metal that is so soft it becomes a part of the food and finely divided so that it is digestible; poisoning results from its ingestion.

Somebody Will Try to Kill Betts Yet

SOMEBODY will try to kill Dr. Betts yet, if he doesn't stop telling the truth about aluminum cooking utensils. Here is what he wrote to the warden of the Michigan state prison when they had a huge poisoning bee there lately. He also sent a similar letter to Dr. H. C. Wells, Franklin County Home, Columbus, Ohio, when they had a similar bee there.

June 10, 1937

Warden Joel Moore

Michigan State Prison

Jackson, Mich.

DEAR MR. MOORE:

I was up to visit your institution some time ago and had the unusual experience of going thru your department of kitchens. I observed the extensive kitchen equipment, especially the large round-bottomed kettles in which was boiling water ready to be filled with beans and other edibles. I noticed the millions of aluminum hydroxide specks moving around in the water and on the surface, due to the heat. I mentioned to my friend that it would not be long until there would be an extensive poisoning of the inmates of Jackson Prison as we find occurring in practically all large institutions where this cooking ware is used.

We find that many foods are cooked in aluminum where salt and vinegar are used. You get an aluminum acetate if you use vinegar, and aluminum chloride if you use salt. Both of these are good for embalming fluids used by morticians. This is a very vital and important fact which should be taken into consideration when persons are under the public's care in an institution like yours.

We can't see how anybody, whether interested in Mellon or any organization making aluminum ware, can help seeing the above point. Surely if we are interested in keeping people healthy it is about time that we called a halt upon the sale of aluminum kitchenware.

We hope something will be done to prevent these extensive group poisonings from mineral acid as formed by aluminum utensils in your institution.

They Feel Fine Now!

SAYS John J. Oskay of New Jersey:

I have just finished reading my copy of The Golden Age magazine No. 444, which contains an article on "Aluminum Poisoning". I wish to say that this is nothing but the truth about aluminum poisoning, as I have found out for myself.

My mother, who is 57 years of age, has for several years now been very sickly; in fact, she was getting so sick I thought she would not live long. She has been troubled with her stomach, having severe cases of vomiting after almost every meal in the morning, and sometimes it made her sick for the whole day, and so weak she was unable to work around the house or even cook.

Last year I read in the Golden Age magazine about aluminum poisoning. I told my mother she should try a different pot to cook in, so she bought herself an enamel pot; and did she note the difference! She feels fine now, and able to work and cook and is not troubled with vomiting and weakness any more. From the very day she changed her pot to cook in she became well. She is very grateful and tells everyone she knows how she gained back her health.

I myself am 23 years old and have for many years been troubled with severe head colds and hay fever. We quit using aluminum last August, and this year I got head colds less and now have had none for over four months. And here I am, in hay-fever time with goldenrod all around me, and ragweed with which you could make a haystack, and have not had an attack of hay fever yet. I sleep better than ever before, and can do a good day’s work every day.

Aluminum

(Report of Findings of Dr. H. A. McGuigan for the Federal Trade Commission in Docket Case No. 540. Washington, D.C.)

THAT:

Boiling water in aluminum produces hydro-oxide poison.

Cooking an egg in aluminum, phosphate.

Boiling meat in aluminum, chloride.

Frying bacon in aluminum, a powerful narcotic acid, which produces coma, and in excessive doses, death.

Boiling soda water in aluminum produces hydro-oxide of sodium.

All vegetables cooked in aluminum are made poisonous by the production of hydro-oxide acid. Hydro-oxide acid, a drug produced by boiling water in aluminum, neutralizes the digestive juices of the stomach, robbing them of their value to digest food and producing stomach and gastro-intestinal disorders, such as ulcers of the stomach and colitis.

This poison will produce acidosis of the blood, which destroys the red blood cells, which produces a condition similar to anemia.

The sale of aluminum ware for cooking purposes is prohibited in Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Switzerland, Hungary, and Brazil.—Chanwos Chals, in Army and Navy Magazine.

In What Were They Cooked?

AT Wautauga, South Dakota, September 16, four persons died from eating home-preserved beans. The physician, Dr. C. Olson, tried to save them by having a serum rushed from Kansas City. In what were the beans cooked, Dr. Olson? And in what were they stored subsequently? Aluminum?

Small Chance for the Dogs

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, has a so-called "Haven for Homeless Dogs", built at a cost of $25,000. While in the Haven the dog is fed from aluminum dishes. A woman in New Jersey had a dog she prized highly. She fed him exclusively from an aluminum utensil and he died of cancer of the rectum.

Cancer Mortality Continues to Increase

CANCER mortality continues to increase, along with the sale of aluminum cooking utensils. In the United States, in 1935, the deaths from cancer mounted to 153,000, and were second only to heart disease. One out of every eight women reaching the age of 40 now dies of cancer.

Poisonous Fumes from Aluminum Plant

AT Burntisland, Scotland, the location of plants of the British Aluminum Company, property in the neighborhood of the aluminum works is unsalable on account of poisonous fumes. Plants, shrubs, fruit trees and gardens all die, and the health of the community is ruined.

Persons Using Aluminum Bottle Caps

ALUMINUM bottle caps for milk are now to be had. Persons buying their milk covered with such caps may render a service. Let one of the caps stand full of milk for a day or so and then examine the cap and the milk and report what you find.

Want to Lie Up for a Week?

MRS. MAUD LOOPER, of Texas, asks: Want to lie up for a week? Cook potatoes, put cream on them, and let them stand in aluminum until supper, and then eat a lot. I did three years ago. I did not know what caused my vacation in bed, at the time, but I know now, since reading The Golden Age.

Manufacturing

Head Murderers to Be Spared

LORD STRABOLGI, British naval expert, noting that the value of shares in British munition industries has been going up at the rate of $600,000 an hour ever since the British government decided to put all its financial resources into the rearmament campaign, comforts the big murderers of the industry by suggesting that while nobody will really be safe in the next war, yet some kind of gentleman’s agreement may be worked out by which the generals and their headquarters will be spared, and the slaughter will be merely that of common people and their wives and children, as in the case of the Hierarchy’s war upon Madrid.

Fatigue and Accidents

IT IS a sad commentary on the heartlessness of this generation to learn that the number of accidents in industry rises steadily between seven and twelve o’clock, recedes after the lunch hour, begins to increase around 2 p.m., and reaches a peak at five o’clock in the afternoon. Tired eyes, tired muscles, long hours, poor light, poor ventilation, dusty occupations, humidity, heat, cold—all lead to fatigue, and fatigue leads to accidents.

International Murderers All Busy

IT ISN’T only the International Murderers of Europe that are busy. There is big money today in the manufacture of shells, torpedoes and other military and naval supplies, and all the plants in the United States that have facilities for making such accoutrements of the Devil’s civilization are working night and day, in three shifts.

Propellers for Orchards

AN AIRPLANE propeller mounted on a 45-foot tower produces a rolling movement of the air for 750 feet in all directions; thus one is sufficient for a good-sized orchard. It is found that this method of preventing orchard frosts is very much cheaper than the smudge-pot method, and is said to be as effective.

The Newest Rayon

THE newest rayon, one-third thinner than finest silk, unwinds at 2,500 miles to the pound, and a woman’s vest made of this fiber alone could be concealed in the palm of one hand.

World Production of Rayon

WORLD production of rayon increased from 50,000,000 pounds, in 1920, to 960,000,000 pounds, in 1935. One-fourth of this is produced in the United States. There is four times as much rayon used in the United States as of real silk.

New Hosiery Mills in the South

THE governor of Mississippi is quoted as authority for the statement that Federal funds are being used to build four hosiery mills in that state, which when completed will be turned over in fee simple to hosiery manufacturers of Massachusetts as an inducement for them to move their plants to the sunny South.

Moving an Eleven-Story Building

IN Indianapolis an eleven-story building was moved to an adjoining lot and was turned to face another street. During the two months required to move the building it was in constant use, flexible connections being used for light, power, heat and sewage facilities. The moving job cost $300,000.

Nitroglycerin Used in Making Lace

IT WILL be news to some that nitroglycerin is used in making lace, and some lace is so sensitive that it ignites with a detonation if exposed to the sun. In North Bergen, New Jersey, a lace factory blew up recently, resulting in four deaths.

Vacuum Concrete Dries in 20 Minutes

THE discovery has been made that by forming a vacuum over freshly laid concrete the excess water can be withdrawn immediately, the concrete is made more dense, and it dries in twenty minutes.

Extracting Water from Fresh Concrete

EXTRACTING water from fresh concrete the Billner vacuum process sucks the water out so completely that after fifteen minutes the concrete can be walked on without leaving footprints.

New Trains for the Netherlands

THE Dutch State railways are being electrified. Streamlined trains are being installed. Feeder lines will be operated with Diesel engines. Everything will be new and up to date.

Home and Health

Rockefeller and Chiropractic

IT IS well known that the late John D. Rockefeller contributed millions of dollars to assist the medical profession to gain the stranglehold they now have on national, state, county and municipal boards of health, and on the public press. It is not so generally well known that for the past six years of his life he was himself a chiropractic patient, and that William Jensen, D.C., of Daytona Beach, Florida, treated him several times during the last four days of his life. The medical doctors, the Rockefeller family and the newspaper profession aimed to keep these facts from becoming known, but through a slip in the office of the New York World-Telegram the news leaked out that when the old gentleman felt himself slipping he called for his chiropractor. Somebody in the World-Telegram office surely got a good call-down for that bull. The Chiropractic Journal, exulting in the World-Telegram's break, made another when it gleefully announced that, though Mr. Rockefeller died on May 23, he received chiropractic adjustments on May 27 and May 29. Even Chiropractic's best friends would hardly claim that for them! The Journal meant to say May 20 and 22. It made a slip on the calendar.

Beware of Benzedrine Pep Pills

BEWARE of Benzedrine pep pills; they do indeed keep one awake, but at the universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Chicago and Toronto students have collapsed, developed insomnia and showed a low pulse rate when they took too many, and it is a fair bet that some of them have been injured for life.

Dry Ice Destroys Tissue

DRY ice is a wonderful discovery and a great blessing to humanity, but it is dangerous, too. Placing it in the mouth results in ulcers and other injuries. In New York a child swallowed a piece the size of a grape and had to be treated for two weeks in a hospital.

60 Going Blind from Drugs

SIXTY women of Los Angeles are blind or going blind from the use of drugs taken to help them reduce weight. What an awful price to pay for absolute idiocy. Women were intended to be plump so that in the great emergencies of their lives they would have vitality upon which to draw.

Three Eminent Physicians

THREE eminent physicians have expressed opinions on drugs that are well worth considering. These men stand among the highest in the profession. Captain Hughes Merns, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D.C., said:

No reputable physician nowadays gives medicine indiscriminately to every patient who applies. The modern doctor has lost his old-time faith in drugs, for the simple reason that they do not always do what is claimed for them. Frequently, we have found that they do more harm than good. A drug, for instance, may "cure" a pain in the head, but do permanent damage somewhere else. Hundreds of drugs have been dropped from American authorized lists, and it is generally believed that more will follow.

Daniel H. Kress, M.D., wrote:

Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms. Pain may disappear, but the patient be left in a worse condition, though unconscious of it at the time.

Dr. William Osler, one of America's most eminent physicians, said:

The patient who takes medicine must recover twice: once from the disease and once from the medicine. The only drugs that are worth an oyster-shucker's oath are those that smell good, taste good and are harmless.

Putting Narcotic Problem Up to Japan

IN A speech before the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee, T. W. Russell Pasha, of Egypt, made the charge that 90 per-cent of all the world's illicit white narcotics were of Japanese origin, made in a Japanese concession in or around Tientsin, China, and always under Japanese supervision; he estimated that half a ton of heroin was shipped weekly from these 200 Japanese factories, 90 percent of which goes to the United States, and the rest to Egypt and other countries.

King Carol's Grocery Store

KING CAROL, of Rumania, raises so much wine, cheese, butter and fruit on the royal farms that he opened a grocery store in the rear of the palace, where the surplus is sold at reasonable prices to whoever cares to buy and is willing to carry away his own purchases.

By Trail and Stream and Garden Path By Grace A. Estep (Pennsylvania)

JANE walked slowly along the dusty road. It was a perfect September afternoon. The sky was close and blue and smiling. The wayside was gay with brilliant autumn blooms.

A black and yellow and white caterpillar hurried along the road hunting for a place to make her bed. An orange and brown butterfly danced among the flowers, while a dark-blue one settled on a goldenrod.

Pretty wild grasses waved their graceful heads and sowed their tiny seeds. Red apples shone on laden trees, and red seedpods dangled from vines and bushes.

A few soft bird-songs broke the lazy stillness. Jane stopped to listen. All at once a sound behind her caused her to turn, just in time to see a boy raising a rifle to his shoulder.

"John! Stop that!" she screamed, but too late. A shot rang out, and the very song to which she had been listening was broken.

"John! Why did you do that?"

The boy looked up, a little surprised. "I wanted to see if I could hit it."

"All right. You DID hit it. Now what? There it lies, a lifeless bunch of feathers and flesh and bone, its little throat still swelled with the last song it will ever sing—the very song I was listening to—the song it will never finish. Can you give it back its song? Can you make its heart beat again?"

John stared strangely at the tiny bird at his feet.

"John, do you know who gave us our birds? The great Creator, of course. And why did He give them to us?"

The boy shook his head, and, hanging it lower, said nothing.

"This little fellow that you have just killed spent his life in serving you and me. Harmful insects and weed seeds were the main part of his diet. Oh, yes, he took an occasional cherry, pecked at a few apples—but the damage he did is so small it can't even be counted at all when compared to the great good he did. God has arranged things so wonderfully."

"Do you know, John, that if it weren't for the birds we could not live? The harmful insects would have no enemies to destroy them. They would eat up all our crops, our trees, our flowers. Before long we should be living in a desolate, dry earth with no food, and shortly we'd all die."

John seemed puzzled. He dug his toe into the dust, and thought it over.

"Even if birds had no such value, we love their song; we enjoy their beautiful colors and the graceful way they fly; we find their nests and feeding habits interesting; we marvel at the long flights they make over land and sea."

John looked up suddenly. "The police in our town shoot the birds."

"More shame to them. I know they shoot the starlings because they are noisy. Some meddlesome old women and stupid old men who never do much of anything—especially anything good—spend their time thinking up things to fuss about. One of their pet complaints is that the birds in the trees make too much noise. Then the gallant police trot out and shoot them. But the starlings are very helpful birds and should be cared for and protected."

"But crows are no good, are they?"

"Oh, yes, Johnny. The farmers make raids on the crows, determined to kill all they can; but they'll be surprised to find some day, when it's too late that the crows helped their crops, including corn, a lot more than they damaged them."

John dropped his gun and looked again at the little dead bird.

"People are pretty silly, aren't they?"

"Indeed they are, John."

"Is it wrong to kill anything?"

"Some things that are harmful or are needed for food have to be killed. But they should be killed in a way that will not make them suffer. It is wrong to be cruel to anything."

"God doesn't like cruel people—"

"No, He certainly doesn't."

"Guaranteed" Incomes of 30% for Life

TWO men in New York made a careful list of persons over 78 years of age who had money, and induced 150 of them to part with $250,000 under a "guaranty" of 30 percent income annually on their investment. They actually did pay the 30 percent to a few, as bait. The net result is that these old people, many of them, are left flat, stripped of the little nest eggs held for the comfort of their declining years or for the payment of funeral and medical expenses.

Mormon Doctrine and Covenants

C. J. McFADDEN, Utah pioneer, one of Jehovah’s witnesses, had occasion to examine the Mormon “Doctrine and Covenants”, and noticed the following inconsistencies:

Section 107, verse 54, says God blessed Adam and called him Michael; section 128, verse 21, speaks of Michael or Adam; section 78, verse 16, speaks of Michael your prince, establishing his feet, setting him upon high and giving unto him the keys of salvation, under the counsel and direction of the Holy One, who is without beginning of days or end of life; section 88, verse 113, tells that the Devil shall gather together his armies, even the hosts of hell, and shall come up to battle against Michael and his armies; section 88, verse 115, says that Michael shall fight their battles and shall overcome him who seeketh the throne of Him who sitteth upon the throne, even the Lamb.

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