Evening star., 1922-02-05
THE BROKEN STAFF
By Philai,der d. POstOn.

Fast vanishing is the sturdy and
vi-ile manhood of our forefathers-
thosa qualities Of body ana mind, that
spiritual stamina which enabled the
hardy pioneer to overcome and sub
due 81 wage Indian hordes, turn unbroken
wiidernesses into fertile fields. build
great cities where once stood giant
forests and establish civilization:
WHICH led the wise statesmen and
rugged manhood Of frontier and farm
to create and establish this great
nation, and which caused the incom-
parable soldiery of the civil war to
bind together for all time the sover-
eign states of our indissoluble Union.
"'rhe staff of life" upon which these
meu, in reliance and safety. leaned,
and upon which the world now leans
as upon a broken crutch. has been
tampered with. 1t. is. in fact. "a
broken staff" You ask, What IS the
staff of life'?"- 1t is bread - bread,
made of the whole grain of wheat,
corn or other grains, which contain
about a dozen of the basic life ele-
ments from the earth in the form or
vitamines and organic mineral salts,
together with those mysterious ele-
ments. the great life force of the
universe-solar energy-absorbed by
the three outer layers Of the wheat
berry and other grains from the dl-
rect rays of the sun. That, ana that
only. is bread. 1t is in fact the
which humanity should and must
eventually lean. If eventually, why
not now:
Lffeless A. an EGYPTIAN Mummy.
Again, you ask. What is the
broken staff?" 1t IS so-called bread.
made of boIted. refined. bleached. pat
ent and "pure?' white hour-bied
white, refined and drained of pract1
cally every life-giving element and
atom and robbed of ali vitamines and
mineral salts until nothing remains
but pure" starch-an element which
the human body does not need and
cannot utilize as such. White -four is
about as free Of life giving elements
as an Egyptian mummy
Get this startling fact: Extensive
scientific experiments prove that
chickens fed only white bread. or
any pure starch. for several weeks
become paralyzed and die: also that
health in few days feeding of the
outer hulls (the three outside layers>
of the wheat grain, il such feeding
Is begun before they actually col
lapse. Now. get this remarkable con,
trast: Chickens actually starved
same length Of time remain in good
health. though of course somewhat
weak and skinny. Think of it! One
dies in few weeks while being fed
on white bread. while another lives
in spite of being starved to death"
The same fate which befell these
poor chickens which experimenters
forced to eat white bread is now be-
ing meted out in longer and more
agonizing periods to millions OF hu-
man beings in this country and wher-
ever -four is used. Many chronic dis
eases pr'nripal'~ among them being
CONSTIPATION. are directly caused by
white h""ac ard other pure starches.
Hogs and C"ttis "a. Human Beings.
Anothn. astounding fact stands out
boldly as dis-as-d and impoverished
millions struggle in their ignorance.
rainiy to sustain health and stave off
for a reasonable lime "the grim
The astounding feet, the national
crime, is 'i''s: The present milling
process o. s"ur removes from the
wlea, aun',t III sA .rurths Of its SUBJ
stan~e. Tits is hn:ted refined, de-
natu,ed and turred iutp white flour.
which Ci-> int" substantially all our
bread arn one. acur pr oducts This
pure" p.iSs II is "eIng fed daily to
millions rris milling process also
reno es III. che: fnnrth of the wheat
berry. "hi.'h. roughly speaking,
amo"rts to shout 250.000.000 bushels
each year THIS one-fourth of the
entire wheel crop al ethe United
Sta --.h~ v'tamlnes organic salts
and solar sre-cy-crptained in the
three nuts- ,a,a's OF the .grafn--is
carsfu!r 'sd - cstt'e. hogs and
chickens As feed What q gigantic
and WIFI. was's CT organic mineral
wealth. of 100. IN res and life giving
elements. so' Which the bodies and
minds o: he a.a>ses are starving!
These Gtd-piven e'ements of life are
withheld fro" and denied our peo-
pie. result. 2 IN widespread disease
and death. while the agricultural and
other authorities of state and nation,
the cattle men and hog raisers. blind
to or ignorant of the consequent hu-
man misery, demand for their cattle
and hogs these vital life elements of
the grain. frankly admitting and de-
claring that without such food their
animals would soon sicken and die.
l speak for the human need, or at