NOVEMBER 1, 1915 



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sometimes fiiui it necessary to stop the use 

 of milk for several days. Your statement 

 that no toothbrush would be needed if we 

 fast often enough, etc.. may be true. Of 

 this I feel sure, that the mouth tastes bad, 

 and the teeth become coated, much oftener 

 when tiiore is a disturbance in the digestive 

 mnelunei'v. 



HIGH COST OF living; $27 A BUSHEL FOR 

 WHEAT^ ETC. 



I have said so much about making your 

 (i\vn breakfast foods with a little hand mill, 

 or boiling your wheat and other grains 

 whole, that it may be a little Avearisomo. 

 Here is something, howevei-, from Farminf) 

 liiisiness that may wake some of us up in 

 regard to the one chief cause of the high 

 cost of living. 



ONK CHIEF CAUSK. 



P.impercd palates form one of the chief causes of 

 Uie high cost of living which has been causing so 

 iimch wori-y to millions of people in this country 

 alone. When wheat went to a dollar a bushe! anc! 

 beyond, professional paragraphers began to use up 

 much good ink in claiming that the farmers, and 

 the price they were getting for their wheat, were 

 tile chief cause for the high cost of living. Had 

 they looked into the tin cans and paper sacks which 

 contained a goodly portion of the food which they 

 ate they would h.ive seen a much greater factor than 

 the price which the producer gets, and that is the 

 price which the middleman and the handler get. 



Simply for the sake of making the argument as 

 simple as possible, let us take one thin^ for exam- 

 ple, a thing which is found on the breakfast tables 

 of so many people in this countrj — prepared break- 

 fast foods. Professor E. F. Ladd, of the North Da- 

 kota Experiment Station, throws a revealing light 

 on this subject of the cost of prepared cereals. 

 When he bought a package of a widely used prepar- 

 ed wheat food the dealer informed him that the price 

 had been advanced from 10 to 15 cents on account 

 of the war. By making a simple calculation he 

 found that when he ate it he was eating wheat at 

 45 cents a pound, or S27 a bushel. 



Many of our pioneer ancestors ate simply boiled 

 ■wheat as a cereal food. It was very palatable and 

 nutritious — even more so than most of the fancy 

 cereal foods we get in waxed bags inside pasteboard 

 cartons at a price of $27 a bushel for the wheat 

 from which they are made. .Moreover, they had fo 

 work their teeth and their digestive apparatus mor'j 

 to handle the boiled wheat than we have to work 

 ours to oat and digest these patent predigested foods 

 of our day, and for that reason they were healthier 

 tiian we are. 



FRAUDULENT PATENT MEDICINES. 



May the Lord be praised that our De- 

 partment of Agi'icnlture has seen fit to take 

 hold of the medicine business and destroy 

 their senseless drugs and punish the of- 

 fenders. We clip from quite a lengthy 

 article in the Weekly Newa Letter, Wa.-h- 

 ington, D. ('.. the following: 



It is pointed nut that traffic in medicines for 

 whicli false and fraudulent claims are made is not 

 only an ecoDomic fraud of the worst kind in that 



n worlhU'Hn preparation that costs but a few cents is 

 freqttcntly sold for a dollar or more a bottle, but 

 tliat health and even life are endangered by failuie 

 to secure the service of a physician in such serious 

 diseases as tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia, and 

 scarlet fever until too late, because reliance may 

 have been placed in the curative powers of some 

 worthless preparation which is claimed to be a never- 

 failing remedy. The deluded victim may not realize 

 his danger until the disease has reached a stage too 

 I'ar advanced for even the ablest physician to cope 

 with it. Effective treatment depends in most cases 

 in applying it during the early stages of the dis- 

 ease. 



After the above quotation a list of about 

 .sixty different medicines, some of them 

 having quite a large sale, are mentioned as 

 lieing suppressed. One great harm that 

 "ihese medicines do, as suggested, is that, 

 vvQu if the medicines are harmless, they in- 

 duce people to defer consulting the family 

 <loctor until it is, perhaps, too late. 



This Weekhi Neivs Letter from the De- 

 partment of Agriculture is sent to periodi- 

 cals, colleges, etc., with the understanding 

 that our dilU'ercnt agricultural papers shall 

 send out warnings, making clippings, etc. 



OXYDONOR AND ELECTROPOTSE 



One of our friends sends us the following 

 which he clips from the Neiv York Ameri- 

 can : 



FKAUD ORDKR AGAINST NKW YORK POCTOR. 



Washington, Oct. 16. — The Postoffice Depart- 

 ment today issued a fra\id order against Dr. Her- 

 schel Sanche, of New York, and the Oxydonor Sales 

 Company, of Rochester, N. Y., Cleveland, Detroit, 

 a.'id Chicago. The o)der alleges that Dr. Sanche 

 controls the company, which sells a pamp guaran- 

 teed to transmit hydrogen into the hirman syste-n 

 vith great curative powers. Postoffice Department 

 officials charge that the scheme is a fraud. Dr. 

 Sanche is alleged to have made $1,000,000 from 

 the sale of the pumps. 



Did you ever? The reporter calls the 

 humbug toy a pump; and then he says it is 

 guaranteed to generate hydrogen. Well, it 

 is probably just as well that way, and just 

 as true. The world can rejoice that Dr. 

 Sanche has cotne to a .stopping-place. Years 

 ago, when the venders of electropoise got to 

 raking in the money, Sanche and .some oth- 

 ers as covetous got up a thing and called it 

 oxydonor; then various other parties went 

 into it also, all claiming they could "pump" 

 oxygen through a wire, and that is why 

 " oxy " is put before all their make-believe 

 traps. The writer who sends us the clip- 

 pinir says his wife had an aunt who was 

 persuaded to l)uy an o-xydonor to cure can- 

 rer. She of course died in spite of the 

 " treatment." If it is true that Dr. Sanche 

 has " robbed sick people " to the extent of 

 ;i million dollars, he can well afford to " let 

 up " a while. 



