The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1911-01-27

from men and women as to the means by
which they recovered health as of ire
,nendous value to those in search or 1t.
Our business has been conducted from the
very first day upon lines of strict lnteg-
ritv and we never yet have puoHshed
false testimonial of human experience.
MANY of these letters covered numerous
sheets; some, if printed, would spread
over half page of newspaper. Ii we
would attempt to print one such letter IN
every one of the thousands of papers and
magazines we use. the cost tor printing
that enc letter would run into many thou
sands Of dollars.
We boil down these letters exactly as
q newspaper writer boils his news,-stlck.
ing sacredly to the important facts and
eliminating details about the family and
ether unimportant matters. This work
of boiling down, or editing, is done
honestly, and with full knowledge OF
our responsibility. but notice the art
Of the "twister" in the way he presents
to his readers this matter of testimonials.
Distortion No. q. This is a bad one.
physician whose name was signed to a
testimonial was produced in Court by
Golfers and turned out to be poor old
brokendown homeopath, who is now work
ing in a printing establishment. tie re"
ceived ten dollars $4,000 for writing his
testimonial"
We will wager ten thousand dollars
$4,000. cor with any investigator that we
have, subject to Inspections of any talr
committee, upwards of three hundred
1907 communications from PHYSICIANS,
MANY of them expressing the highest com,
mendation of our products, but these Will
not now or ever be turned over to the
publisher for his use.-
Notice the statement in this charge:
t<The only famous physician whose name
was signed to Postum testimonial, etc.
The truth is, this DR.. Underwood was
one Of great many physicians who have
not only written commendatory words
about the value Of our foods. but every
now and then some physician writes an
article on coffee or on food, and sends 1t
to us with a suggestion OF compensatlch
FIR his time and medical knowledge;
Previous to the time when we employed
physicians in our own business, we oc-
casionaIlv employed a doctor to write
aR article on coffee, always insisting that
the article be sn honest expression of his
opinion and research.
The <'Weeklv' hunted up this physician;
o. 80" it saws "broEendown." had him
brought to Court to be exposed before
jury as the "onlv physician that had ever
endorsed Grape-Nuts." but much to the
chaerin of the ''Weeklv." when our attor-
revs asked him if the article he wrote
about coffee was true he replied, yes
Statement No. reads: "The health
officers OF Mich, Maine, Penn. New
Farnp.. and other states in their official
bulletins have for years been denounc1nG
Is preposterous and fraudulent the claims
made by the Postum Cereal COMPANY.
We d not recall any criticism except
from Mich, Penn, Maine and S. Dakota
The average reader might think that
the opinions expressed by the State Oil
c.alS are always correct. but that con-
c'usion is not borne out by facts.
As an illustration: About thirteen years
q~o the Dair. and Food Commission of
Michigan fer some personal reason printed
a severe criticism on us for making Pos,
turn of Barlev according to his Official
chemist at market price and selling too
hich. He was shown there was never a
grain of barley used in Postum. His re-
port was false and misleading. The gov
elnor dismissed him.
We believe that most of the state