Evening journal., 1913-04-03
CANNED GOODS
WHOLESOME
AS FOOD HERE

hls cgoes,on haa been before the
wfid since 1907, when Il waa an
sSrea aasfmatlvely by Rear Admiral
Aomana Of the French Navy IN a
liter to Nicolas Appert who discov-
ted aad gave commercial value to
te art o. Theoretically sealing all
brms ct persshable food In manner
) have thon keen indefinitely. The
lrenoh officers unknowingly had
aten green peas and beans 80 her
hetioany preserved. Rear Admiral
kllemnnd, IN a letter to Appert, de-
dared; "TNc officers actually believ-
I'd your PRESERVED vegetables to DO
resh."
civilization Pioneer.
That dlscoery made canned foods
sTho Pioneesos civilization When
ever one tranls through forest, glen
or swamp II Arctic lands or under
an eouatorialsun, across deserts, the
ubiouitous tircan will DO found. The
wholesomene. Of canned foods is rot
any longer tiory, but certified fact
based on thouniversal use under all
sorts of clinic conditions OF earned
meats. Fishfruits, vegetables. milk,
SOUPS and lndfeds OF special food
preparation ready for immediate
use. such aaolum pudding. spaghetti
IN various lyles, baked beans, len
ills. meat trees, corned beef hash
and many rms Of the same articles,
as canned hicken, truffled chicken,
chicken taale, potted chicken.
Could fr billion tins OF all man
ner of cared food be annually con-
sumed in le United States every year
II such pds was unwholesome, or
ever y picion held that such was
the cast
Cam food rid the navies of the
world scurvy and thus demon
stratedts high dietetic value over
the esier forms Of preserved food
such sailed meats.
For plOrer and Soldier.
Thtin can goes with the explorer
and his invaluable commissary
Brisier General Greeley, of Arctic
fam attributed the good health Of
bis command through two year
sne in the Arctic region to the eX.
cent quality of the canned foods
thi used
ajor General John P. Hawkins
IT'S. A. (retired). and formerly Cen
81 Grants commissary Of subsist
re in the Vicksburg campaign, anc
Ter commissary general of the Unit
States Army says: I'm all my
my experience, have never knowr
heard of a case Of canned food:
Sisoning. The reports of poisoning
y eating canned foods are not to b'
elieved. or are only to be believed
then it may have occurred by reas
IN of the person having eaten from
can the food in which was evidently
spoiled and so spoiled that the ap
pearance of the can would surely
have indicated the unsound condition
of its contests to any opener exercis
ing ordinary care.
"If a person buys tainted meat an'
eats it knowing it to be little of
and is taken sick, he must blame
himself for trifing with his health
ana likewise II he buys canned foot
of suspicious appearance he must ex
pect to pay in health for his careless
ness or temerir."
THE General might have added tina
tainted food subjected to sterilization
Inv heat was far safer than tainte'
GOOD bought rfw. The late DR.. Cyru
Edison. at thehead of the U. S. Boar
NJ Health, Jade careful study TO
wears of allreported cases of sick
ness from ne use of canned foods
IL stated Since my connection Will
tbis deparhent have not receive'
single omplaint against canneI
foods wlch careful investigation
nroved vii founded I do not be
lieve tn; preserving food in her
metically sealed tins in any wa.
renders less wholesome than
wouId herwise be, provided, o
course. lat the preserving is pro
perly de.
THE cnmissary Of Lord Wolseley'
army die in the Soudan, under al
eouatob sun, testifies that, If prop
erlv n,erved from sound materials
nothinkould be better"
A Moon Miracle
Tbeict that four billion tins o
all so of food Theoretically seale
IN carare eaten in the United State
evervear. and not a death prove
due their use. ought to be con
cIusi proof of the wholesomenes
of csed food.