Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06

children of the United States, whether
their parents realize it or not, are now
IN that poison squad, particularly the
children OF the poor and the unfortu-
nate.
They will learn that when the food
drugger puts his commercial dose into
his commercial product and sends it
forth to perform its commercial duty
or yielding profit, he does not know
into whose hands it will fall nor any
thing about the physical condition of
the individual who will receive his
medicated wares.
They will learn that through igno-
rance and selfishness in supplying un-
mt food for the human family murders
are being committed every day.
They Will lear nthat as life was given
Tor some good purpose, life's efficiency
should not be lessened by those who
exploit the needs of life, particularly
the natural foodstuffs upon which life
depends.
They will learn that of the ESQ in
fants that die before they are one year
old out of every 1000 infants born
and of the countless thousands of
adults who die before their time, many
precious lives &C aid be saved if the
food manufacturer could be made to
realize the responsibility he takes
upon himself when he assumes that it
is his right to feed a nation with no
other object before him than profit to
himself
They will learn that all murders are
not picturesque
They will learn that the slow-moving
subtle, insidious undermining of the
health of men, women and children is
murder.
They will learn that individuals have
no right to debase food products, the
to bring about degeneration, i'll health
to bring about degeneration, i'll heltha
and death to those who depend for
health and life upon impoverished
food.
They will learn that self-slaughter
is given the widest possible publicity,
but that the subtle slaughtering of
the race is given no publicity at all
They will learn that to hide the
truth by refusing it publicity is to be
guilty of whatever murder is involved
in robbing the peoples foodstuffs of
the elements necessary to sustain life.
They will learn that if life is sacred,
everything upon which life depends is
sacred, and the juggling. refining or
denaturing of mans food supply is
sacrilege.
At a time when we are asking that
the schools and colleges should teach
the relative viciousness and baseness
of crime, so that public opinion may
proclaim that mob-murders and self-
murders are the most cowardly and
least defensible of all offenses, let us
also demand that the schools and col
leges teach, with their anatomy and
hygiene, the meaning of the presence
of proteins, carbohydrates, fats and
mineral salts in the diet, so that any
commercial effort to interfere with
these elements for the sake of gain
may be looked upon as a crime against
the sacredness of life.
The school children already know
that the idea of the sacredness of
human life is universal. through the
fact that the destroyers of their own
lives are denied church burial by sew
eral great branches of the Christian
religion.
With their chicken-feeding expert
ence before them they will lern that
if the average man, though a stranger,
will afford succor to his fellow to pre-
vent a death by violence, 1t is not too
much to ask of him to help prevent
the continuance of the modern food
crimes which end so pitifully and
tragically.
They will learn that there is some
thing wrong with society when society
responds with reverence and tears
to the acts of brave souls when they
serenelv yield their lives for the pub
lie good, while at the same time refus-
ing to pick up its own little fragment
of public duty, lying at its very feet,
because it does not find that duty
cleaning with the golden hue of ro-
nance.
The chicken experience will teach
the children that If we honor thou
sands of noble men and women who
spend their lives at the hospital bed
side to bring the sick back to health,
there is even greater honor due to
them who fight beforehand against
preventable disease.