The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-01-26

from men and women a. to the means BY
which they recovered health A. of tire
mendous vakae to those in search OF It.
Our business has been conducted from the
very first day upon lines OF strict inteR-
rity and We never yet have published .
false testimonial OF human experience.
Many Of these letter. covered numerous
sheets; some, IL 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 for printing
s1nds ol 0ollas.
We boil down these letter. exactly A.
a Newspaper writer boils his news.-stick.
ing sacredly to the important facts and
eliminating details about the family and
other unimportant matters. This work
Of boiling down, or editing. 70 done
honestly. and with full knowledge Of
our responsibility. but notice the art
Of the "twistsr" in the way he presents
II read. a. follow: The only famou.
physician whose name was siened to a
testimonial was produced in Court by
Collicrr and turned out to Be poor old
ing in a printing establishment. He re
ceived ten dollars tsiooo) for writing his
testimonial"
$4,000 o.c0) with any Investigator that we
have. subject TO inspection OF any fair
committee upwards OF three hundred
(300) communications from .physicians.
many Of them expressing the highest com.
mendaticn 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:
THE only. famous physician whose name
was signed to Postum testimonial. etc.
The truth 10. this DR.. Underwood was
one Of q great many physicians who have
not only written commendatory words
about the value of our foods. but every
now and then some physrian writes an
article on coffee or on food. and send. it
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 oc-
casionallv employed a. doctor TO write
the article be an honest expression Of his
opinion and research.
The weekly" hunted up this physician.
and because he seemed to be Pocr. and and
brought to Court to be exposed before
jury as the "only physician that had ever
endorsed Grnpe-Nuts." but much to the
chagrin of the Weekly" when our attor-
news asked him If the article he wrote
about coffee was true he replied, Yes"
staternert No. s reads: "The health
officers of Mich. Maine, Penn. New
Hamp.. and other states in their official
bulletins have for years been denouncing
a. preposterou. and fraudulent the claims
made by the Postum Cereal Company"
We do not recall anv criticism except
from Mich, Penn. Maine and S. Dakota.
The average reader might think that
the opinions expressed by the State Off
cials arc always correct. but that con-
clusion is not borne out by facts.
As an illustrations: About thirteen years
sco the Dairy and Food Commission of
Michigan for some personal reason printed
severe criticism on us for making Pos.
tum Of Barley according to his official
chemirtl at market price and selling too
high. He was shown there was never =
rrain Of barley used in Postum. His re-
port was false and misleading The gov
ernor dismissed him.
We believe that, most Of the state