The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-10
We EAT Mud
AND LIKE It
After You Read What Or. Rusby Says,
Maybe You'ii Be More Par
tIcuIar Than BE-
fore.
CANDY FROM CLAYBANK
TWO Carloads Per Day Used by One
Firm In Jew York in Making
Their Celebrated
Bonbons.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
Fakes DR.. Rusby says American
people buy:
Mud, nodded and vanished with
rotten eggs, for coffee.
Waste grain mash from the brew
cries, for breakfast food.
Acetic acid, made from chips of
sawdust for vinegar.
Glucose and sacharine for maple
syrup.
Mixture of clay and sugar flayoreS
with tar products, as candy.
Decomposed meat died and en-
balmed for green sausage"
Cottonseed Oil for cream cheese.
The filthiest oil for butter.
NEWARK, N. j., Dec. o. Basing
his statement on the contention of DR..
Henry Colt that 100000 infants die
annually before reaching their third
year, in the United States, from
causes which could be avoided by cor
rect process of nutrition, DR.. H. H.
Rusby, pure food specialist, who has
aided DR.. Wiley in many government
investigations, tonight declared in an
interview, that the most intricate
problem before the people and the
officials of this country, is the battle
against drug frauds and food adulter-
ations.
Food adulteration, even by con-
Germs considered highly reputable, is
amazing, and seventy-five per cent of
the capital invested in drug and medi-
cine purveying is employed in perpe-
trating fraud upon the public" de-
clared Rusby.
$50 serious is this menace to public
health and SO large is the amount of
money secured through these frauds
that every state board of health, and
every municipal health officer in the
United States must at once align
themselves against this menace to
save this nation from becoming one OF
broken-down, short-lived, dyspeptic
dlu Udu-tSiupcTCu IStOPlc.
"The issue of life and death among
our infantile population sets directly
on the nutritive value of the food sup
piled them. Countless numbers of in
fants and adults die from the direc,
effects of injurious constituents OF
food and medicines; other thousands
die because the remedial measures re
quired by their condition are not sup
piled.
Conclusive proofs of these facts
are at hand, and the people must be
moved to the dangers which threaten
them and which they cannot see
Our sole hope for relief for saving
the health of our people is in action by
local authorities backed by an arous
ed public sentiment"
After sounding this alarm to the
| people, DIR. Rusby told of some, of the
cases of food adulteration which
have recently come under his person
al observance in New York. He told
how coffee beans are nodded of mud
and vanished with rotten eggs; how
acetic acid made from oak chips ant
sawdust masquerades under the nam.
of cider vinegar Glucose and sachar
Inc, he said, are blended and sold as
maple syrup. Cream cheese is made O
cotton seed Oil and dainty confec
tons are composed of clay and su
gar favored with tar product ex
| tracts and colored with dye. Filthies
fats are the principal ingredients o
! butter.
Then he told of a clay bank, IL
South Carolina, from which thous
ands of tons of fine white clay Il
shipped annually to be mixed will
sugar. One candy manufactory II
New York, he said, uses two carloads
of this clay week in candy making
This same clay goes into thousan'
other food articles.
''The list of adulterations, SO ser1
1 Gus as each to menace health, Is a.
most without number said DR. Rus
/ by. ."Chemistry is the accomplice o
these unscrnpulous food purveyors
and through chemistry they must b
i exposed. Those conditions exist i
breakfast foods are made OF vast
grain mash from breweries; hoy
probably every city In the country
and they can only be eradicate,
through an aroused public sentimen'
4 1t is the duty Of every public officia
| to help In this greatest battle --th
flight for the peoples health