The word "Protection"
used to have a sinister meaning in Democratic party
councils propaganda. It meant the Protective Tariff,
a pet issue of most of the business tycoons who
financed the Republican party. The fact that the
protective tariff protected American labor as well as
American industry was conveniently lost sight of by
the Democratic spellbinders. But with the coming of
the Roosevelt Administration in 1933 the word "protection"
quickly got lost from the Democratic lexicon. The
Rockefeller interests, who financed Roosevelt's
original foray into politics, also financed his 1932
blitz at Chicago and took over the direction of some
of his major policies when he muscled into the White
House.
Their yacht "Nourmahal"
(owned by Vincent Astor of the Chase National Bank)
was placed at his disposal for weekend parties. This
was kept up until the Black subcommittee of the
Senate intercepted radio messages from a Wall Street
international banking house to Vincent Astor telling
him what they wanted Roosevelt to do. These messages
were never made public. Senator Black, with every bit
of a year of experience as a police court Judge,
sentencing half-pint bootleggers to the Alabama chain
gang, was made a justice of the United States Supreme
Court. It was that easy.
The first large scale
protection issued by the Roosevelt Administration was
to the American and German dye trusts, a move that
nearly lost World War II for the United States.
To make the record
complete, we should point out that just before the
Hoover Depression placed Roosevelt in the White
House, the Republican Administration was itself
guilty of protecting the owner of a huge drug concern
which killed over 5,000 people with a misbranded
extract of Jamaica Ginger. So it seems that the
Rockefeller (Roosevelt) Administration merely picked
up where the dozen Mellon (Hoover) administration
left off. But under under the Roosevelt aegis a half
dozen agencies of the Federal Government were turned
over to the Rockefeller Drug to do with as they
willed. It is to these dishonest and corrupt agencies
that this chapter is dedicated.
THE FOOD AND DRUG
BANDITS
Nearly forty years ago
that old warhorse for the protection of the American
public from spoiled and poisonous food and drugs, the
late Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, had a fine law enacted for
this purpose. But the Drug Trust got its hooks into
the government bureau which was charged with
enforcing the law, soon after Dr. Wiley's death. This
Bureau - known as the Food and Drug Administration -
is used primarily for the perversion of justice by
"cracking down" on all who endanger the
profits of the Drug Trust. The Bureau occasionally
prosecutes, on its own initiative, smalltime
opportunists who should be prosecuted. Thus in a few
small cases the Bureau does good work.
Its principle
activities, however, are as servants of the Drug
Trust. Not only does the F&DA [sic] wink at
violations by the Drug Trust (such as the mass
murders in the ginger jake and sulfathiozole cases)
but it is very assiduous in putting out of business
any and all vendors of therapeutic devices which
increase the health incidence of the public and thus
decrease the profit incidence of the Drug Trust. When
the F&DA, whose officials all have to be
acceptable to Rockefeller Center before they are
appointed, receive orders to destroy an independent
operator, it goes all out to carry out those orders.
The orders do not come
from Standard Oil or a drug house director. The
American Medical Association is the front for the
Drug Trust. The AMA furnishes the quack doctors to
"testify" that, while they often know
nothing of the product involved, it is their opinion
that it has no therapeutic value.
Financed by the
taxpayers, these Drug Trust persecutions leave no
stone unturned to destroy the victim. If he is a
small operator, the resulting attorney fees and court
costs put him out of business, which is just what the
Drug Trust wants. Occasionally the Drug Trust, and
its stooges in Washington, run up against a tartar -
one who battles them down to the last ditch. We can
name several of these battlers offhand.
Dr. Adolphus Hohensee
of Scranton, Pa., is known as one of America's
leading vitaminologists. Dr. Hohensee has a file of
over 120,000 persons who have attended his lecture
courses and who practice his advice on proper eating.
Thousands of them still consult him and buy the
vitamins which he processes and packages as dietary
aids.
Needless to say, the
Drug Trust has never lost an opportunity to "prosecute"
him thru its stooges in the F&DA. The most recent
harassment was brought in the U.S. District Court of
Arizona and the methods used to convict him would
defy the imagination of a movie script writer.
The specific charge
was that - when he shipped a consignment of vitamins
from Phoenix, Arizona, to HIMSELF in Los Angeles (for
his next series of lectures) - he "misbranded"
them. Now comes the comic opera part, which wasn't
funny to the doctor. The "government" had
to contradict the reports of its own agents in order
to even get into court. When the shipment was first
seized (April 10, 1945) the government chemist who
examined it said they were "exactly according to
label" and not misbranded. When the trial came
up (February 17, 1948) the Food & Drug Bandits
produced another government witness who denied the
report of the first examiner. The Drug Trust didn't
think the Arizona district attorney was very bright,
so they sent to Washington (at taxpayers' expense)
two other government "experts". They wanted
the works put to Dr. Hohensee badly.
Ten local medicos -
all members of the AMA - were put on the stand. Their
stories were so alike as to give the impression they
had all been well-coached. They reversed all known
medical theories by "testifying" that
"vitamins are not necessary to the human body".
They were confronted with government bulletins to the
contrary but merely wriggled out of that one by
opining that these standard publications were
outdated.
The government proved
nothing. According to an affidavit in our possession,
a government witness did actually tamper with the
jury. Nothing about a previous harassment of Dr.
Hohensee in New York in a similar frame-up was
introduced at the trial, but a jurywoman averred that
another member of the jury told this story to his
colleagues, thus prejudicing the cause of justice.
A conviction of Dr.
Hohensee and an $1,800 fine was secured. But the
court denied Dr. Hohensee his constitutional right of
a new trial. And to further put the slug on him, the
judge saw to it that he couldn't appeal the verdict
in spite of overwhelming evidence of a miscarriage of
justice. He decreed that Dr. Hohensee must go to jail
until he paid the fine.
This sounds more like
Hitlerite Germany or Stalinesque Russia than like a
country which is supposed to have our Constitutional
safeguards to life, liberty and the pursuit of
business. Now let's take the case of Col. Dinshah P.
Ghadiali of Malaga, New Jersey.
Col. Dinshah has a
system of healing by colors. Unlike the Hohensee
vitaminology it too scientific for our lay mind, but
it MUST be effectivebecause over 9,000 satisfied
patients have taken his course and purchased his
normalating apparatus at $90 per.
The Post Office's
kangaroo court issued a fraud order against Col.
Dinshah. This spurred Food & Drug Bandits on.
They announced they would find every Spectro-Chrome
equipment they could and take it away from its
purchaser and rightful owner. To do so they resorted
to legalized burglary, claiming they were within
their legal rights in taking private property.
But an Oregon judge
failed to agree with them. He wasn't as amenable to
the Drug Trust slug as the Arizona judge. The Food
& Drug Bandits entered the home of William R.
Olsen in Portland and forcibly made off with his
apparatus.
Olsen hauled them into
court. Their alibi was that they didn't think the
machine worked - that Mr. Olsen shoulhave sent for
one of those medical doctors (who promote the sale of
drugs, serums and biologicals). The court ruled that
whether or not the Food & Drug Bandits were
correct in their opinions of the apparatus was beside
the point.
A man's home is still
his castle, the court ruled. The $90 worth of private
property cite was returned to Mr. Olsen. The judge
was kind to the Food & Drug Bandits. He didn't
cite them to his grand jury for unlawful entry and
burglary.
But the Drug Trust
hooks were deeper into our judicial system than
anyone could surmise. The Food & Drug Bandits
appealed the case to the U.S. District Court of
Appeals, which ruled that a man's home isn't his
castle after all, and that (in effect) an American
citizen has no property rights if such rights
interfere with the profits of the Drug Trust. That is
all anyone can make out of such an unconstitutional
decision which, we understand, the honest judge of
the District Court called "government's madness".
The Food & Drug
Bandits did not stop here. Their orders from the Drug
Trust were to destroy Dishah at any cost. They were
told to take him to court and frame him with the
"testimony" of broken-down medical quacks
who knew nothing whatsoever about Spectro-Chrome.
This was done in the Federal Court at Camden, N.J.,
before a judge named Forman. This judge virtually
acted as the prosecutor for the Drug Trust as well as
the judge on the bench. The defendent was able to
round up 120 of his patients -one-time sick people
who had been cured by the Specto-Chrome.
The "witnesses
for the government" testified to opinions and
admitted they had never tried Specto-Chrome. The
judge charged the jury not to believe the witnesses
for defense. He called them "deluded"
people who, not being the bearers of medical degrees,
didn't know whether they had been cured or not. Thus
Judge Forman reversed all known rules of evidence
since the Magna Charta. A jury of morons convicted
Col. Dinshah. The judge was as tough as he could be,
but was afraid to give Col. Dinshah a jail sentence.
He so stated in words and said that if he did he
would make a martyr of the Colonel and bring many
others to him and his followers would cured. He could
well have added -"and thus further reduce the
profits of the Drug Trust".
Col. Dinshah was fined
$20,000 and all of his private property connected
with the manufacture and sale of the Spectro-Chrome
device was seized and forcibly taken from him.
Take the case of Dr.
William Koch of Detroit, one of the few practitioners
in America who successfully handles cancer cases.
When the Parke-Davis representative in Brazil became
so incensed at him for introducing a science into
that South American country that would cure cancer
without drugs, radium or surgery, he immediately
cabled his headquarters in this country.
The Food & Drug
Bandits went into action.
They cabled Dr. Koch
that they wanted to discuss his labels with him
personally. Dr. Koch courteously, and at his own
expense, came back to the United States to straighten
them out. But they didn't want to be straightened out.
They had him framed before they started, and before
he docked at Miami.
They refused to
consider the evidence of accuracy he presented but
threw him into jail at Miami, Fla., without a shred
of honest evidence against him. In attempting to get
the bond set at $10,000, the Florida D.A. said that
the Federal D.A. in Detroit had made this request by
telephone, claiming Dr. Koch had started to work in
Brazil which he (the Detroit U.S. District Attorney)
didn't want him to go back to and finish.
Two long and costly
trials were held - the taxpayers footing the bill for
the Drug Trust and Dr. Koch paying his own expenses.
Nothing was proved by the "government", but
a few morons on the panels caused both juries to be
hung.
This failure was in
spite of the fact that large sums of tax money were
spent sending Food Koch & Drug "investigators"
through the country trying vainly to find "failures"
from the Koch treatment. Or, at least, genuine
failures.
In California, Charles
M. Pierce invented a device which he called a
Slanting Board. This was a table not unlike an
ironing board on which a person can lie with his feet
12 or more inches above his head. Dr.George Starr
White of Los Angeles recommended it. I tried it and
found it to be a wonderful relaxer.
I also found that it
gave instant, even tho temporary, relief from hay
fever attacks. Altho it costs but $12.50, it was
worth $1,000 to me the past summer when the heat
turned the dust in that geographical saucer known as
the District of Columbia into fine powder and made
life miserable whenever I left an air-conditioned
room or building.
Dr. White, in
analyzing the board, says that the gravitational pull
on our bodies tends to prolapse and thereby enervate
the internal organs. It is only when we lie with the
head lower than the heart that genuine relaxation
seems to be brought about. Also, he says, by use of
the Slanting Board the blood circulation in the brain
irrigates to a better advantage, washes out and
clears up deposits, and renews its normal functions.
Mr. Pierce has sold 11,000
of these boards in the last 10 years and has yet to
hear from a single purchaser that the device isn't
all that is claimed for it. Yet, when the Drug Trust
heard about it the Food & Drug Bandits went into
action.
Nine times they cited
Mr. Pierce before a Federal court at great expense to
him and taxpayers. The last time he was fined $100.00,
but suddenly this persecution stopped. Why?TIME
Magazine recently carried an item about the source of
President Truman's unusual and fitness. It said he
used a Slanting Board every day and did a number of
"pull-ups' on it.The Pierce Slanting Board is
fitted with a foot strap by the use of which the user
can exercise his torso in every way he (or she)
desires.The Food & Drug Bandits obviously were
afraid of contracting a severe case of red face,
should the President ever find out they were low-rating
the device which keeps him in better health than a
President has ever been known to be in at his age.
Bert Lowry in San
Diego in 1921 invented a little contraption which
might be termed a chiropractic self-adjuster. It is a
simple device that fits under the chin and back of
the head, with a rope and pulley to be attached to a
joist, rafter or door jamb. The user lifts himself up
and off a chair - which can do no possible harm.
Actually it adjusts all subluxations (except the
sacrum and coccyx) and the user can feel the vital
nerve force flowing down the spine from the brain and
into the vital organs.I have used it personally for a
year, feel ten years younger, and do not fatigue
easily anymore; elimination, appetite and metabolism
have improved 50%.
Yet Mr. Lowry had to
send me my device by express -the Post Office had
barred it from the mail privileges granted me, you,
Mr. Lowry and every other law-abiding citizen by
Congress.When the Drug Trust discovered that this
little device could conceivably destroy perhaps 50%
of drug sales, if it ever became universally known
and used, they had the Food & Drug Bandits come
down on Mr.Lowry like a ton of bricks. He was cited
into court a number of times. He and the taxpayers
paid a pretty bill for court costs.This kept up until
Tom Scripps, a "City Father" of San Diego
and distant cousin of the famous newspaper family of
that name, asked the Food & Drug Bandits in
Washington what the Hell was the matter with them.He
had a Lowry device in his own home, he pointed out,
and was more than pleased with its benefits.
Whereupon the Food & Drug people called off the
dogs.
But there are other
Government Gangsters in Washington operating at the
beck and call the Drug Trust. When the Food &
Drug Banditti failed, the Drug Trust called in the
Post Department,which has effectively stopped the
dissemination of these health-producing gadgets for
the time being.
Mr. Lowry has been
barred from use of the mails in either direction - by
the kangaroo court operated on a one-sided basis by
the Post Office Department. The author of this book
has been barred from the mails also when he writes to
Mr.Lowry. His mail is returned to him marked "fraudulent"
and the government keeps the 3 cents which was paid
for the express, Constitutional, and statutory right
to have this mail delivered.
There is no doubt in
the minds of doctors who understand the spine and the
ganglion nerve system that use of the Lowry Spine-Ease
would stop the now-fashionable "disc operations"
- the type which unnecessarily ruined the major
league baseball career of Charley Keller of the New
York Yankees.The "disc" is nothing more
than cartilagenous anterior process of the spinal
column. By lightly stretching the whole spinal
column, the subluxed vertebra would straighten itself
out - something every competent chiropractor or
osteopath can do with his hands.
To take out that
cartilagenous cushion from a human spine is a crime
in any language. It not only permits shock when the
spine is bent forward in that spot, but permits more
and often serious interference with the flow of nerve
force to the vital organs in the torso. But that is
alright with the Food & Drug Bandits and the
American Medical Association, because such a
condition will bring the victim back to the offices
of medicoswho will have to use drugs to ease the pain
and cover up the effect for the balance of his
shortened life.
The "protection"
theme of the Food & Drug Thugs sometimes varies.
We have in mind the Ginger Jake Murders of 1930 and
1931, during the days when we had legal prohibition
which prohibited nothing. Louis K. Liggett was
national committeeman from Massachusetts, treasurer
and a financial angel of the Republican party.
He was also the owner
of the Liggett Drug Company, a large and wealthy
pharmaceutical concern. The Liggett Company procured
some sub-standard and dangerous fluid extract of
Jamaica Ginger. They began to distribute it.
Howard Ambruster, an
importer of ergot who was having trouble with the
Food & Drug racketeers, began to complain of
these shipments of dangerous "jake". Since
it contained alcohol thousands of people were buying
it for beverage, rather than medicinal purposes.
Mr. Ambruster was told
that it was a bootleg product; that the Prohibition
authorities should handle it. The Prohibition
authorities pointed out that they had to prove sales
for beverage purposes; that it was sold in drug
stores disguised as medicine - only the F&DA
could stop its sale.
Take the case of Dr.
William Koch of Detroit, one of the few practitioners
in America who successfully handles cancer cases.
When the Parke-Davis representative in Brazil became
so incensed at him for introducing a science into
that South American country that would cure cancer
without drugs, radium or surgery, he immediately
cabled his headquarters in this country. The Food
& Drug Bandits went into action.
They cabled Dr. Koch
that they wanted to discuss his labels with him
personally. Dr. Koch courteously, and at his own
expense, came back to the United States to straighten
them out. But they didn't want to be straightened out.
They had him framed before they started, and before
he docked at Miami. They refused to consider the
evidence of accuracy he presented but threw him into
jail at Miami, Fla., without a shred of honest
evidence against him. In attempting to get the bond
set at $10,000, the Florida D.A. said that the
Federal D.A. in Detroit had made this request by
telephone, claiming Dr. Koch had started to work in
Brazil which he (the Detroit U.S. District Attorney)
didn't want him to go back to and finish.
Two long and costly
trials were held - the taxpayers footing the bill for
the Drug Trust and Dr. Koch paying his own expenses.
Nothing was proved by the "government", but
a few morons on the panels caused both juries to be
hung. This failure was in spite of the fact that
large sums of tax money were spent sending Food &
Drug "investigators" through the country
trying vainly to find "failures" from the
Koch treatment. Or, at least, genuine failures.
In California, Charles
M. Pierce invented a device which he called a
Slanting Board. This was a table not unlike an
ironing board on which a person can lie with his feet
12 or more inches above his head. Dr. George Starr
White of Los Angeles recommended it. I tried it and
found it to be a wonderful relaxer.
I also found that it
gave instant, even tho temporary, relief from hay
fever attacks. Altho it costs but $12.50, it was
worth $1,000 to me the past summer when the heat
turned the dust in that geographical saucer known as
the District of Columbia into fine powder and made
life miserable whenever I left an air-conditioned
room or building.
Dr. White, in
analyzing the board, says that the gravitational pull
on our bodies tends to prolapse and thereby enervate
the internal organs. It is only when we lie with the
head lower than the heart that genuine relaxation
seems to be brought about. Also, he says, by use of
the Slanting Board the blood circulation in the brain
irrigates to a better advantage, washes out and
clears up deposits, and renews its normal functions.
Mr. Pierce has sold 11,000 of these boards in the
last 10 years and has yet to hear from a single
purchaser that the device isn't all that is claimed
for it. Yet, when the Drug Trust heard about it the
Food & Drug Bandits went into action.
Nine times they cited
Mr. Pierce before a Federal court at great expense to
him and taxpayers. The last time he was fined $100.00,
but suddenly this persecution stopped. Why? TIME
Magazine recently carried an item about the source of
President Truman's unusual and fitness. It said he
used a Slanting Board every day and did a number of
"pull-ups' on it. The Pierce Slanting Board is
fitted with a foot strap by the use of which the user
can exercise his torso in every way he (or she)
desires. The Food & Drug Bandits obviously were
afraid of contracting a severe case of red face,
should the President ever find out they were low-rating
the device which keeps him in better health than a
President has ever been known to be in at his age.
Bert Lowry in San Diego in 1921 invented a little
contraption which might be termed a chiropractic self-adjuster.
It is a simple device
that fits under the chin and back of the head, with a
rope and pulley to be attached to a joist, rafter or
door jamb. The user lifts himself up and off a chair
- which can do no possible harm. Actually it adjusts
all subluxations (except the sacrum and coccyx) and
the user can feel the vital nerve force flowing down
the spine from the brain and into the vital organs.I
have used it personally for a year, feel ten years
younger, and do not fatigue easily anymore;
elimination, appetite and metabolism have improved 50%.
Yet Mr. Lowry had to send me my device by express -the
Post Office had barred it from the mail privileges
granted me, you, Mr. Lowry and every other law-abiding
citizen by Congress.
When the Drug Trust
discovered that this little device could conceivably
destroy perhaps 50% of drug sales, if it ever became
universally known and used, they had the Food &
Drug Bandits come down on Mr.Lowry like a ton of
bricks. He was cited into court a number of times. He
and the taxpayers paid a pretty bill for court costs.
This kept up until Tom Scripps, a "City Father"
of San Diego and distant cousin of the famous
newspaper family of that name, asked the Food &
Drug Bandits in Washington what the Hell was the
matter with them. He had a Lowry device in his own
home, he pointed out, and was more than pleased with
its benefits. Whereupon the Food & Drug people
called off the dogs.
But there are other
Government Gangsters in Washington operating at the
beck and call the Drug Trust. When the Food &
Drug Banditti failed, the Drug Trust called in the
Post Department, which has effectively stopped the
dissemination of these health-producing gadgets for
the time being. Mr. Lowry has been barred from use of
the mails in either direction - by the kangaroo court
operated on a one-sided basis by the Post Office
Department. The author of this book has been barred
from the mails also when he writes to Mr.Lowry. His
mail is returned to him marked "fraudulent"
and the government keeps the 3 cents which was paid
for the express, Constitutional, and statutory right
to have this mail delivered.
There is no doubt in
the minds of doctors who understand the spine and the
ganglion nerve system that use of the Lowry Spine-Ease
would stop the now-fashionable "disc operations"
- the type which unnecessarily ruined the major
league baseball career of Charley Keller of the New
York Yankees. The "disc" is nothing more
than cartilagenous anterior process of the spinal
column. By lightly stretching the whole spinal
column, the subluxed vertebra would straighten itself
out - something every competent chiropractor or
osteopath can do with his hands. To take out that
cartilagenous cushion from a human spine is a crime
in any language. It not only permits shock when the
spine is bent forward in that spot, but permits more
and often serious interference with the flow of nerve
force to the vital organs in the torso. But that is
alright with the Food & Drug Bandits and the
American Medical Association, because such a
condition will bring the victim back to the offices
of medicoswho will have to use drugs to ease the pain
and cover up the effect for the balance of his
shortened life. The "protection" theme of
the Food & Drug Thugs sometimes varies. We have
in mind the Ginger Jake Murders of 1930 and 1931,
during the days when we had legal prohibition which
prohibited nothing. Louis K. Liggett was national
committeeman from Massachusetts, treasurer and a
financial angel of the Republican party.
He was also the owner
of the Liggett Drug Company, a large and wealthy
pharmaceutical concern. The Liggett Company procured
some sub-standard and dangerous fluid extract of
Jamaica Ginger. They began to distribute it.
Howard Ambruster, an
importer of ergot who was having trouble with the
Food & Drug racketeers, began to complain of
these shipments of dangerous "jake". Since
it contained alcohol thousands of people were buying
it for beverage, rather than medicinal purposes. Mr.
Ambruster was told that it was a bootleg product;
that the Prohibition authorities should handle it.
The Prohibition authorities pointed out that they had
to prove sales for beverage purposes; that it was
sold in drug stores disguised as medicine - only the
F&DA could stop its sale.
Mr. Liggett was a
power in the Administration. Nothing was done until
people began dropping dead on the streets of cities
and towns in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee where
this deadly concoction had been widely sold to drug
stores. All told, 5,000 people were murdered by the
Liggett Company and the Food & Drug
Administration. Over 30,000 were paralyzed and maimed
for life.
This was before Hoover
"prosperity" had hit the nation. The
Administration was all-powerful. Efforts to have the
Department of Justice do its sworn statutory and
Constitutional duty met with stonewall resistance.
Efforts to have Congress probe this disaster met with
equally strong resistance.
As a sop to their
consciences, the Food & Drug Administration had
two wholesale drug dealers indicted and convicted,
and given 6-month suspended sentences. The main
culprit was indicted as "party unknown" and
never brought to trial. The worst case of connivance
between the Dealers in Death and Federal officials
since the Ginger Jake Murders of 1930 and 1931 was
the Sulfathiazole case of 1940. In the protected
murder of a large number of innocent American
citizens the Food & Drug Banditti had the open co-operation
of Morris Fishbein and his shakedown racket.