Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-10-02

affixed to every package of bleached
flour sold within it's boundaries. Its
legislators have recognized the fact
ignored by those of other States,
that flour bleached with nitrogen per-
oxide, sulphur or alum is injurious
to the human system. In recent
contribution to the New York Globe,
printed under the caption, "The
Staff of DEATH" Bailey Willard, OF
Palisade, deplored the use OF these
bleaching agents as well as the use
of flour that is ground and sifted to
a fine powder, setting forth that this
kind of food was not only deleterious
because of its poisonous tendency
but that it doomed the trade in lax
atives and cathartics, as the whole
tendency of finely powdered flour
was to clog the alimentary canal.
This argument is in line with that
of many dietetic experts who declare
that appendicitis is chiefly due to
the modern habit of eating finely
ground and sifted flour. Mr.. Mil
lard recommended the use of flour
in which the bran and gluten are re-
tanned, declaring that it was far
more wholesome and nutritious. He
blamed the housewives of the country
for demanding fine white flour. He
said that it would be difficult to get
whole wheat flour upon the table, for
the reason that it did not make the
"lovely white Bread" so much ad-
mired by the women.
''The Staff of Death" article greatly
agitated the millers, who, having in
vested millions of dollars in machin-
cry for turning out the powdered
flour, resent all efforts toward chang
ing the system of flour production.
The Northwestern Miller, one of the
largest and most influential trade
journals in this country, attacked Mr..
Willard in a violent manner, heaping
upon him all the ridicule at it's COM
mand. 1t also attacked Mr.. Mccain
the Globes food expert, who has been
pointing out the injury done by chem
ically bleached flour and has been
recommending the use Of bran in
connection with the other parts of
the wheat kernel now used almost
exclusively for flour making.
The editor of the Northwestern
Miller" got very funny at Mr.. Mil
lard's expense, and Palisade, the
place of his residence, also came in
for a share of the ridicule. Here is
a part of the article printed by the
miller's organ.
Zone Baily Willard lives, or
claims to live, in Palisade, N. j.,
wherever that may be. The soul of
Baily is wrung with gall and bitter
ness, and the heart of Willard is
bowed down with disappointment and
detection; therefore, heart and soul,
Bailey Willard pours forth his gall,
bitterness, disappointment and dc
lection in communication headed
"The Staff of DEATH" which appears
in a daily joke of newspaper, badly
misprinted in New York, called The
Globe.
Bailey says it took fifty years to
get white flour foisted upon civiliza-
ton, and he is "afraid it will take a
hundred years to get rid of it."
BAILEY is right about this in his
two-to-one proportions, but inaccur-
rate in his basic figures; for about
two hundred years to get rid of it
by which time the Globe and Bailey
Willard, and even Palisade, New
Jersey, will be things of the long-for-
gotten past. Being all food for
worms, who will not care whether
they are fattened on bran or flour,
they will hardly derive much salts
faction from the triumph of their
cause. So Bailey is disheartened and
discouraged, and has good reason to
be.
"Sadhearted Bailey says, "there are
so many insidious agencies at work
to make our bread the staff of death
instead of life, that it would be big
task for ten thousand banded reform
ers to overcome them and give us
something that is real, natural food.
Again the DELEGATE from Palisade!
New Jersey, is right. Ten thousand
reformers, whether banded or ring
ed, streaked and speckled, could not
overcome these insidious agencies,
the chief of which is Common-sense
ably assisted by Wholesomeness, Nu-
triton, Cleanliness, and Economy.
"Bailey Willard, the sad soul mourn
err of Palisade Tin New Jersey be it
remembered), is either bachelor
or a henpecked husband, unable to in
fluence his wife by the power OF his
reasoning; if the former, he is evil
IDENTIFY lacking influence with his
landlady, which suggests some slight
difficulty between them in squarine
the weekly bill; if the latter, his wife
knows him to well to take any stock
in his theories concerning bread. AT
any rate, Bailey is woman hater
He declares that the female OF the
species is to blame for the univer-
salty of white bread and the neg
lect of his dear brown bran, the be-
loved of himself and Branny MI
Cam.
"He asks: DO you think that Mr.
McCann, or anybody else, can make
the housewife see the point and fol
low it?' The answer is Alas! no.
"Bailey thus mourns: Nearly every
man who has gone for this reform
at home will tell you that while II
is easy enough to make bran breae
ord rouffins If is one of the hardest