The Washington herald., 1913-12-20
HERE With CURE
FOR THE PLAGUE
Party from Coast Asks Presi-
dent to Have Remedy
Investigated.
WALKS ACROSS COUNTRY
Two Men and a Woman, Processing
to Have Been Victims, Offer to
Surrender Formula.

Three persons, two men and one wom-
day after a 4,0OO-mile walk from Los
| Angeles to Washington, and delivered
to the President letter asking him IL
have the government investigate tuber'
culosis remedy which, they say, cured
which they describe as the certain de-
| stroyer OF tuberculosis.
Their proposition. broadly speaking is
| that the discoverer of the remedy,
! Charles +. Aycock, of Los Angeles, Is
v illing to surrender his secret formula
tc the government if the President will
guarantee that it will not fall into the
hands of charlGtans. and that the gov
eminent will treat. free of charge. those
| tuberCular patients too poor TO pay
money for the cure.
The manner in which the letter. which
they described as a message of hope
TO tubercular victims, was brought to
the President is like a dream These
three pilgrims. Alfred A Berger, J. T.
lrice, ami Carrie T. van Gaasbeek. who
apparently. are in the best Of health and
the prime of physical condition, carry
certificates from reputable Los Angeles
physicians and from the health depart
ment of that city,. showing that they
had tuberculosis and that they are now
cured. Following their recovery, they
concluded that, as a sign of their graft
tUde. they would make the journey on
foot across the continent in order to ASA
Mr.. Wilson to put within reach Of all the
people the thing which cured them.
Left Los Angeles April =.
They are accompanied by brother and
sister, Norman Al Clarkson and Mabel
-hskerman They left Los Angeles on
April S. and they have traversed all
sorts of roads and territory. They took
the Southern route. across the Arizona
desert. through FL Paso, across Eastern
New Mexico and Texas. and up through
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and
Virginia. Their last halt was in Alex
andria
There were two other walkers in the
party, little Mexican bUrros, on whose
backs were carried the equipment and
tents of the travellers. They have lived.
ever since April 6, on the road in the
day time, and at night in their tents, or.
when the weather was too cold. in
churches, city halls, and
stores. On several occasions they were
given shelter at police headquarters in
larger cities. and one hoSpitable county
sheriff put them up in jail for the night.
Berger the captain of the trans-con-
tinental mixers was in the last stage Of
when he began to take the
medicine. He was not expected to live
another week. and he had reached the
point where he had more than seven
within twenty-four hours. /
Price was not able to get out of bed |
when he began the new treatment He |
is now absolutely well. He is fifty-nine |
years old, and is the second oldest man
to walk across the continent. Miss Van |
iaasbeek had galloping consumption, but |
the new remedy was efficacioUs in her |
case as with the others.
We realize" said Mr.. Berger. that |
some people may regard with skepticism |
our unqualified assertion that Mr.. Aycock !
has found remedy for tuberculosis. In .
the first place, however, We are proof
that the medicine cures. 1t is not a
serum. as was Dr. Friedmanns. but II
$ something to be taken internally.
Moreover. We give the medicine and
'ormula to the government to be investi-
gated and thoroughly tested by the ply
'icians and medical experts Of the gov