Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-19
By REV. CHARLES F.IAKED. ID. Dill. ID

ton of greater freedom and less
responsibility. than the one ne oc-
cupied when Washington tried TO
silence him and the White House
was supine. Month by month
this clear sighted man looks into
the ragged and tattered souls of
takers, quacks, chariatans and The
whole tribe of humbugs who prev
upon the millions of our popula
ton that are gullible still. II Is
consoling 20 think that a sensible
reduction in the ranks of the tribe
called gullible must take place
every time Good Housekeeping"
appears
fraud Is Exposed.
In the Febmlary issue DIR. WILEY
exposed a fcsHd which recalls tho
incident OF my schoolboy DAYS.
have not the heart to traverse tho
entire ground covered by DR.. Wi
ley. feel myself growing angry
again when read story-l+ere
in America in February. nineteen
hundred and fourteen-which
runs line for line like that one Of
more than 40 years ago. The lies
have the same ring in them. The
promises are couched in language
all but identical. Even the prices
are singularly like those eaxcted
by the British swindlers. And the
hope deferred makes the heart
still sick,
Twenty-six dollars Or. Wiley
paid for the fake instrument
twenty five, as. a matter of fact
for the electric affair that was to
work miracles of healing, and an
extra dollar for medicine. Repre-
sentlng himself to be anaemic and
suffering from malaria and very
thin, he entered into correspond
ence with humbug and then
gazed into the fake with the see
Ing eve of genius He Classics
what he calls degrees in fakery.'
And he says:
There is the simple panacea
made of sugar or starch. There
is the active and yet mostly harm
less drug whose properties are Of
the mildest character Then there
is the active and often dangerous
drug which should be used only
under the most careful personal
supervision of the physician. over
and above thes ', there is the uni
Versal effort to frighten the VIC
Tins into the belief that they are
i'll. followed by assurance of Ger
tain cure"
This electric swindle, however.
, falls into none of these classes.
1t is superlatively above and be-
yond the domain of common ia
kerry"
And he adds:
The curious thing bout such
dreadful and deceptive articles is
that apparently there is no law to
punish the defrauders. The des-
perate mother who takes a loaf
of bread to keep alive a starving
child is sent to the penitentiary;
but the man who robs you Of 500
with the promise of a cure for all
your ills not only goes scot-free.
but is permitted to use the United
States mails TO make as nearly
universal as possible the ravages
of his greed. 1t is time TO destroy
utterly and forever the prestige
of such fraud"
Not For Scoundrels.
1t is all very well to say that
persons who are so silly as to be
lieve that for $40 they can buy an
electric belt or electric garter or
electric anything else that will
cure every disease under the sun
from a wooden leg to chronic i'm
pecuniosity deserve to be swim
died That is brutal way OF
looking al life. No good comes 10
a community which becomes cyD
ical any more than good comes {"
an individual from his cynicisu1.
The Unfted States mails the
blessings OF cheap printing and
the organizati of modern So
ciety are not to be placed at the
service of scoundrels for the PUN
der of decent men and women
even if these men and women do
not possess the reasoning power
of Plato and the financial genius
of John D. Rockefeller.
Now it is a hair wash-sellinS
for a dollar, costing > cents. rum
ing tie hair of the woman VINO
uses it; now 1t is an aues''
food medicine" now it is drug,
Month by month pr. Wiley Re~