The Holly chieftain., 1911-01-20

We will wager ten thousand dollars
t10, ,O00.00) with amy investigator that
we have. subject to inspection of any
fair committee, upwards of three hum
dred 5000 communications from ply
sicians. many of them expressing the
highest commentator of our products,
but these will not now or ever be turn
ed over to the publisher for his use.
Notice the statement in this charge:
THE only famous physician whose
name was signed to Postum testimon-
ial. ETC."
The truth is. this DR.. Underwood was
one Of great many physicians who
have not only written commendatory
words about the han value Of our FOODS but
writes an article on coffee or on food
and sends 1t to us with a suggestion of
compensation for his time and medical
knowledge. Previous to the time when
we employed physicians in our own
business we occasionally employed a
doctor to write an Article on coffee. al
honest expression of his opinion and
research.
The Weekly" hunted up this physi-
clan. and because be tAsemed to be poor.
brought to Court 10 be exposed before
a Jury as the "only physician that had
ever endorsed Grdps- Nuts" but much
our attorneys asked him IL the article
he wrote about coffee was true he re-
piled. yes"
| Statement No. S reads: 'The health
officers of Mich, Maine, Penn, New
Hamp.. and other states in their off,
cial bulletins have for years been de-
nouncing preposterous and fraudu-
Cereal Company" We do not recall
any criticism except from Mich, Penn.
Maine and s. Dakota.
the opinions expressed by the State Of
ticials are always correct, but that
conclusion is not borne out by facts.
AS an illustrations: About thirteen
years ago the Dairy and Food Commits
Sion of Michigan for some personal
reason printed severe criticism on US
for making Postum Of Barley accord
ing to his official chemisD at market
price and selling too high. He was
shown there was never a grain Of bar
lev used in Postum. HIS report was
i...se and misleading. The governor
We believe that most of the state
officials are honest, and on the other
hand we are firmly convinced that some
of their conclusions cannot be sub
stantiated by facts in scientiflc re-
search.
/ They never criticize the purity of our
foods for SO much we are thankful.
If our conclusions in regard to its be-
ing brain food differ from theirs, and
we are both honest, they have rather
the advantage, because under the law
package any statement IL it disagrees
with their opinion. Otherwise they
would harass grocers.
Spasm No. sayst THE most dam
gerous thing in the world for one
threatened with appendicitis is to eat
any food whatever. Notwithstanding s
! he knew that danger,"eC w. Post ad-
vertised Grape-Nuts at fifteen cents a
package for those SO threatened"
This is intended to muddle the read
er into believing that we put out
Grape-Nuts as cure for appendicitis.
Mr.. Post himself. has had probably
America In the study and observation
Of food as related to the digestive or
gans. and we. proved in Court by tho
physicians and surgeons on the witness
stand that the predominating cause of
appendicitis is undigested food. and
that 1t Is necessary to quit eating food.
and when the body requires food again.
ruse pre-digested food, or at least one
easy OF digestion.
DIR. Ochsner in his work on appendi-
citis refers directly to the use of the
well-known pre-digested foods that
can be obtained on the market. He
also brought out the interesting fact
that in after treatment" It is advan-
tageous to take on pre-digested food.
The price of the package (referred to
by the weekly Is not known by US to
have any relation to the question.
Our advice to stop using indigestible
food in bowel troubles and to use
Grape-Nuts food has been great
blessing to tens of thousands of people
and we hope will continue to bless a