Montana labor news., 1933-02-02

GUINEA PIGS
CAN BE WRONG
Poisonous Products Foisted
On the American
Public.

NEW YORK (FP) The same
economic system which produces star
walton in the midst Of plenty, the
mass-slaughter of international wars,
and the ludicrous phenomenon of a
Herbert Hoover, is also responsible,
it seems, for a secret, constant, in
sidious poisoning of American peo-
ple-all American people.
1t is no news that our government
is more concerned with the profits of
our business men than with the health
of the mass of our citizens. But it is
startling to discover that every day we
live, we are probably putting into our
bodies p%oisons of the deadliest sort,
and doing so because our government
does not care to try to stop the manu-
~facture and sale of such poisonous
products.
Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink,
both technical experts of experience
and both connected with Consumers
Research, where goods are tested for
consumers, have done a commendable
piece Of work in pointing out in their
new book, 100, 900 900 Guinea Pigs,
the unseen hazards that beset us in
the common foods, drugs and cosmet-
les that are a familiar part of our
surroundings.
Proceeding on the premise that we
are laboratory guinea pigs available
to experimentation by every unscru-
pulous, profit-seeking charlatan with
an idea for a money-making product.
the authors prove their case beyond
the shadow of a doubt, citing the
names Of luckless human guinea pigs
sacrificed in our national laboratory,
the names of products you and | use
which are undermining our health, the
names of manufacturers (some Of
them our most highly respected who
are too ignorant to know or too avid
for profit to care that the articles
they manufacture are a menace to the
health, even the lives, Of the people
who use them.
An army officer committed suicide
by eating a tube of that very popular,
pleasant-tasting tooth paste you may
very possibly use daily. A healthy
"10-year-old boy died after eating some
of those harmless candy tablets you
leave on the bottom shelf of your
medicine chest, within reach of the
baby. That luscious, big, juicy APP
pie into which you just sank your
teeth could not be exported to Great
Britain because it is coated with far
more arsenic than the English adj
judge safe for human consumption.
Within a year a young man died hor-
ribly after spending a large sum for
a remedy claimed to be useful in cur
ing 100 different diseases and con-
ditions, and which contained one Of
the most deadly substances known
and our government could find no
grounds for prosecuting the remedy's
promoter.
A neat but not gaudy job has been
done by the authors. The story it.
self, simply told, will bring you out of
your chair with sheer amazement; no
theatrical devices of telling are need
ed. The title is likely to produce a
disrespectful "A hundred million
pigs can't be wrongs" the first
three pages will have you serious
Your reaction to the first few
chapters may be, "Well, | can't worry
about all this or III never enjoy a
again." but the last chapter will
give you some simple, constructive
you will want to do to remedy
the situation. While admitting the
of really effective pro-
lection under a profit system, Kallet
and Schlink have rounded out their
work by proposing some steps by
which we may free ourselves to a
extent from our guinea pig
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