Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
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ACCEPTEDFO FOOD VALUE THEORIES

darkness into neutral port, en-
feehled, broken and undone.
Had Ii not been for her plentiful
supply of typical American and Eng
lish meals she might have remained
out there on the high seas until the
end of the war, sinking French and
English ships,
Christmas of 1914 passed quietly.
and three days later. December %, she
sank the British steamer Hemisphere,
bound from Hull to Rosario, obtain
ing 5000 tons of coal, with a great
quantity of white flour, butter. sweet
cakes, potatoes, and canned vege-
tables.
January 1s, 1918, she sank the
British steamship Portaro, bound
from Liverpool to South America.
after taking all her coal, patent -four.
sugar. canned vegetables. butter and
enormous consignment of Huntley &
Palmer's sweet biscuits So many of
these biscuits were seized that tin
boxes of them were presented as
tips" to all the small boys and mes
sengers who ran out to her in small
boats on the James River with papers,
packages, kilograms. and mail after
her arrival at that port.
AS l watched the boys take away
those prize boxes of Huntley ~ Pal
mer's biscuits l wondered whether the
people would really ever hear the
truth through the magazines and la
dies journals and other organs of up
lift that parade the advertising of so
many foodless foods.
January IA. 1915 she sank the Brit
ish steamship Highland Brae, running
between the slaughterhouses of
RUcnos Ayres and the meat markets
OF London. The temptation to seize
more fresh meat was not resisted, and
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supply a small city. She also took all
the butter patent -four, potatoes, and
canned vegetables which the High
land Brae had aboard.
Scarcely had the bomb exploded
which caused the British steamer to
lurch forward and gurgle TO the bot
tom when the British schooner Will
fred NJ, from st. Johns to Bahia
came peeping over the horizon. In
half an hour the Germans had over
hauled her and in a few hours had
contiscated her cargo of salt fish, po-
tatoes. white flour and butter.
The pallor of her crew and the dlla-
tation of the pupils of their eyes, to-
gether with marked shortness of
breath here and there, were observed
by DR.. Perrenon, but were not con-
sidered seriously significant, and the
men went on devouring their typical
American meals. so highly rated by
the professors of convention and the
advertising geniuses of the refined
food industry.
February ;, 1915. she sank the Nor
wegian bark Samentha. from Linton
to Falmouth, loaded with cargo of
whole wheat The germ and bran OF
that wheat would have been worth
more to the rapidly succumbing Ger
mans than its weight in gold and
precious stones. but the Germans did
not realize that they were sick.
Acidosis is a disease which does not
find its way into the papers, and the
common people, including those who
suffer most from its ravages, have
never heard of it. IT was not sur
prising that the Germans did not
know how badly they needed that
whole wheat with its alkaline bases
and its other soluble eXtractiVes and
Vitamines.
They did not know that within a
few weeks one hundred of them would
pass Just one inch beyond the limit
of federation. after which only one
treatment under the blue sky could
save them. In consequence OF their
faith in fresh meat, white flour, but
ter. boiled potatoes, canned vegetables
sweet biscuits. coffee and condensed
milk. those thousands of bushels oi
whole wheat with their priceless salts
and colloids were sent TO the bottom
and not a single bushel was trans
ferred 10 the German boat.
The facts about to follow have made
history, even though they are doubt
less destined to provide moad DAD
less destined to provoke much noisy
and futile controversy in high places