The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-29
By ALFRED W. MCCAIN

An enthusiastic pursuer of health via tEe little brown bottle route in forms us that the drug stores are sell 1 ing one-ounce container of calcium | chloride for 1 cents. Believing that | he has found the secret of life and | can now obtain all the calcium salts needed to keep his body in 9 state of perpetual glow, he asks how much he should take and how often. We ply, Gut out those calcium salt. l Health doesn't come in little brown 1 bottles"
 No food in nature contains calcium | salts in the form in which they arc | found in little brown bottles. White | crystals of needle-like formation un- certain foods. suh organge juice, tomato juice, milk, wheat germ, let tuce, etc. The scientists call these crystals "vitamines.'
 vitamines are supposed to be good | in foods, but when the scientists get | them out of foods the scientists are curfous1y powerless to make them work. Casimir Funk captured some | of these vitamines in the form of col orless needles that melt in an oven hot enough to burn a piece of roast beef to a crisp (451 degrees Fahren- heit)- Added to a diet of starch, sugar, gluten, and other famous foods, the only thing that can be said about them is that the animal that eats them dies.
 Has No Kick
 The scientists of the Biological Di- vision of the American Chemical So- | ciety at their last convention at Have meyer Hall, Columbia University, confessed that Jhe vitamine, or the thing thought to be a vitanline, when extracted from food has no kick. It
 dQsen't work.
 Calcium starvation does not come from the inability of man, woman, or child to get hold of a little brown bottle of calcium salts. The calcium
 compounds of grains. vegetables fruits, greens, eggs. and milk are not present in Jumps that can be sifted out and put in a bottle. They are diffused throughout the whole mass in an attenuated and highly complex colootdal form which no chemist has ever been able to examine in nature.
 In fact, no chemist has ever seen the
 mysterious combination in any nat
 destroy the food by fire or chemicals,
 and thus extract the calcium.
 When he finally succeeds in put that he has not calcium alone, but a whole group of wonder workers, in- cluding potassium, lime. iron, phos- phoTus. manganese, magnesium, and
 so on right down the line of bio-
 natural, unref1ned foods and not found at all in the sifted, bo1ted, and
 chemically processed patent foods. Dr. A. c. Zones. IL 1Sn any one lnSIeul-
 ent of this prescription of Mother Ma ture which maintains health, strength, vitality, and resistance to disease. It's the whole outfit that does the work No one wheel in a watch is more inn portant than any of the others. Any
 one wheel taken out leaves the others helpless to perform their functions as
 tfme-piece
 So it is with these calcium salts.
 Up in Bridgeport, Conn.,, the people are blessed through the presence of
 one man among them, pr. A. C. Fones Zones is a member Of the we'll that adults can be reformed by edicts He believes the place for the truth to work Is in the schools, through the teacher and the child For years he has been conducting a natural flood, whole wheat bread cam
 paign in the city that is beginning now to recognize him as its most use ful citizen.
 about him and his constructive work
 in opposing the food follies that bring
 demineralized sugars, bread, and
 breakfast foods into the homes of Connecticut. Every week for a year
 Peter Davey of Davey Brothers O., Brigeport grocers. with s1xty-nlne stores behind him, has been poster
 ing the life out of us to come up and see F>ones in action.
 'rHe ls no calcium salt fanatic,
 said Davey. He believes in the whole
 thing or nothing. lie sooner ole suddenly than have a piece clipped off every year for twenty-five years. Come up and see him."
 WOrk With Noise.
 Daveys persuasiveness finally bowl
 ed us over and we went last week. Tones gathered a thousand people to- gether in the auditorium of the High school and made us talk for two hours, till we thought nobody had a home to go back to. Everybody stay ed Then we realized why Davey was enthusiastic. Tones had projected himself into the soul of the com- rnuntty A dry subject was not dry to the mothe CTS of children who real ized through the work of Tones that the future will take no more out Of their children than they put into | them in the present.
 The white bread of Bridgeport con- l tains no calcium either in the form