Index

Chapter 3

Government Gangsters

PART 1 / PART 2

A new product called sulfathiazole tablets was concocted by Winthrop Drug Company, one of the 66 subsidiaries of German Farben-American Standard Oil's drug cartel. Being made by this Rockefeller unit it was automatically under the protection of both the Food & Drug Administration and the American Medical Association.

Fishbein announced in his Journal of the American Medical Association on January 25,1941, that ... "Sulfathiazole-Winthrop has been accepted by the Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry for inclusion in its official volume of new and non-official remedies."

Every member of the medical profession who is unaware of the type of person Mr.Fishbein is regards such an "acceptance" as a solemn gaurantee to them by the officers of the AMA that an investigation has been made and that the product can be relied on for quality and efficacy.

This concoction was also approved by one Dr. J. J. Durrett of the Food & Drug Administration - the official in charge of new drugs. Dr. Durrett, being a Rockefeller-approved appointee, was only doing what his undercover bosses expected him to do.

Four hundred thousand sulfathiazole tablets were unloaded on the market December, 1940. These tablets were a mixture of the "germ-destroying" sulfa drug and Luminal, the drug which puts people to sleep. Although the usual safe dosage of Luminal is one grain, some of the tablets were found to contain 5 grains.

Many people who bought and took these Winthrops really did go to sleep. They never woke up. It was then discovered that, to be charitable, the Food & Drug Administration had been asleep at the switch. They had approved deadly tablets apparently without knowing what they contained. No one was ever punished, or even embarrassed, for these murders.

After reading of the banditry performed by Food & Drug agents and inspectors for the benefit of the Drug Trust, it is hard to believe that the Food & Drug Administration actually does good work when it confines itself to the duties allocated to itself by Congress.In the case of the small fry, or of firms not owned by the Drug Trust, the F&DA often cracks down on those who sell putrid food or adulterated or misbranded drugs and proprietary medicines to the public. We can name some rackets which the F&DA nipped in the bud.

They will include:

  • Letz & Schramm - mouse hairs and rodent skin in their apple butter.

  • California Packing Company - decomposed sardines.

  • Lydia Pinkham - for advertising "a baby in every bottle".

  • Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation - insects and rodent hairs in their product.

  • Edna Wallace Hopper - for saying her restorative cream would take the wrinkles out of any face.

  • Eustis Packing Company - for needling their tangerines.

  • Vita Food Products Company - for selling wormy fish.

  • Everitt Packing Company - for selling mouldy catsup.

  • The Parmeda Company - for saying their hair tonic will make hair grow.

    These are typical of the routine jobs performed by the Food & Drug Administration. But we never hear of them stopping the sale of Bayer's aspirin, which is downright harmful, as shown in the chapter of this book entitled "Dangerous Doses" or any of the other harmful and even deadly products sold by units of the Rockefeller Drug Trust.

    • KANGAROO COURT

    Congress enacted a mail fraud law to protect the public against mail frauds and created the Solicitor's Office in the Post Office Department to administer it. But Congress never intended for the law to be mal-administered, or used as an instrument for the Drug Trust's blackjack activities.

    When a victim gets past the Food & Drug Administration by proving to a jury that the charges are trumped up, the Drug Trust then has the Post Office Department jump on him. There he has no recourse to a jury.He is framed by the Post Office officials and "convicted" by the POD's own Kangaroo Court. And then he is denied his Constitutional right to use the U.S. mails and his livelihood is destroyed. Facts are not allowed to be presented. A customer-patient, a purchaser, who has used the product complained about and who knows exactly how it works and whether or not it is good or worthless, is not allowed to testify.There is a universal rule in courts of justice that witnesses cannot testify to their opinions, only facts. Facts are excluded from the proceedings of the Post Office Department's Kangaroo Court. In their place are allowed the billious opinions of quack medicos, on the public payroll because they were failures at private practice. In many instances these quacks are forced to admit that they KNOW NOTHING of the product they are condemning. They claim they are "experts" and thus know everything without actually knowing anything.This kangaroo court is presided over by a gentleman known as the "trial examiner". Some of these examiners have been good, honest men, who know the whole proceeding is illegal and unamerican. One of them told us as much, but said he could do nothing about it, as his superiors required him to render a "decision" based on these unjudicial rules. If there were any lawyers in the Solicitor's office they would know this entirely illegal because the Supreme Court has ruled so. It was in the October, 1902 term, in the case of the American School of Magnetic Healing and J. H. Kelly vs. J. M. McAnnulty, and is to be found in Supreme Court Reports (187-190), Page 90, officially titled 187 US 94.

    Boiled down, this decision - which is still the law of the land - reversed that of the Solicitor of the Post Office Department and said he was NOT justified in issuing a mail fraud order "where the effectiveness of the treatment in question is a mere matter of opinion." It specifically added that the statutes are only intended to cover actual FRAUD IN FACT.

    In the process of protecting the huge profits of the Drug Trust the POD occasionally prosecutes and puts out of business a real fraud. But there is no way to tell whether or not a product barred by the Post Office is actually fraudulent. That's the public's hard luck. Such a threat to the Drug Trust profits is the Lowry Spine-Ease that the Post Office denied him and his customers their statutory right to use the mails, even after the Food & Drug Bandits called it a day. Even the powerful Scripps family seems to have been unable to call off the Solicitor's Office from the latter's protection racket of Drug Trust profits.

    In the case of Colonel Dinshah they have gone to unbelievable lengths - embezzlement of $20,000 it would be called if performed by a private individual. Many of Colonel Dinshah's satisfied patients, who had purchased his device for $90, did so with postal money orders. It was the Colonel's habit to hold each such order a month or two before cashing them patient time to make a complaint if the device wasn't exactly as represented.

    When the fraud order was issued, he had approximately 300 money orders on hand and ready for deposit. Without the slightest authority of law or morality, the Solicitor's Office of the Post Office Department have declared these money orders "worthless". All post offices have been ordered not to cash them, altho the government has the money, the customers have the devices and Col. Dinshah has never received a complaint that they are not just as he represented them. And satisfactory to the buyers.*

    PATENT OFFICE

    Back in 1935, when the Journal of the AMA was caught printing fake pictures of what it claimed to be the Ellis Microdynameter, successful demonstrations of the deviceon members of the House Committee on Commerce discouraged efforts by the Drug Trust to use Congress for such purposes of fakery. Fishbein had induced Doctor-Senator Copeland to place in the Congressional Record a totally false description of the Ellis machine (described in another chapter of this book). "Plain Talk Magazine", of which I was editor, exposed the fakery of both the AMA Journal and Senator Copeland, thus blocking efforts to keep the micro off the market. Secretly, Fishbein set out to do further damage to the Ellis people. When F. C. Ellis applied for a patent, to protect his invention from the jackals who always turn up whenever someone discovers or invents something of a valuable nature, he found that the Drug Trust has reached into the Patent Office also.

    For eight years the Patent Office succeeded in stalling off any action on the invention. It kicked the thing around successively into eight different classification divisions, even pretending to think it was either a nut or a bolt. At one time it was gathering dust in the Nuts and Bolts Division.

    One examiner after another told Mr.Ellis that the thing was definitely patentable, but that he (the examiner) was not allowed to approve issuance of letters patent. Mr. Ellis went from there to the Court of Patent Appeals with the same result. The Drug Trust apparently was represented on that body too.

    Mr.Ellis was not to be intimidated, so he filed a suit in Federal Court at Chicago to force the Patent Office to comply with the laws of the United States. In this action he found an honest and intelligent judge (Barksdale) who insisted on hearing all the evidence and not just that which the Drug Trust desired presented to the court. One of the exhibits of the "government" was a "report" of Mr.Fishbein, alias the Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association. This "report" brazenly said:

    "The Bureau of Investigation has made no examination of the mechanics of the microdynameter."

    Judge Barksdale asked the prosecution if it had any evidence,and upon being told that the "government" considered the "report" evidence ordered the Patent Office to issue the patent forthwith.

    "BETTER" BUSINESS BUREAUS

    In 1922 the great international banking racket known as the J.P.Morgan & Company laid elaborate plans for swindling the investing public thru the sale of billions of dollars of worthless bonds of foreign governments. The overall plan was whipped up by then Secretary of the Treasury and boss of the reigning Republican party - Andrew W. Mellon. Mr.Mellon first gently tapped any foreign government on the noggin which showed any sign of honesty and (or) demurred against issuing bonds ordered by the House of Morgan.

    When the bonds were ready to unload on the victim public, Mellon had his bank examiners from the Treasury Department "suggest" to all national banks that the Morgan foreign bonds be bought as a "secondary reserve" and, if necessary, to call all good time-tested loans to local businesses. The net result was the closing of over 3,000 national banks when these foreign bonds were found worthless.

    In order to extract the last possible dollar from the victim public the Morgan Mob decided to stifle all competition from independent brokers, financiers and firms. They had their affiliates, the investment bankers of the New York Stock Exchange, give $100,000 to a promoter to organize what was called the Better Business Bureaus of America.

    Branches were organized in every large and many medium-sized cities, and some of them set an all-time high for hypocracy and fraud. The announced functions of these bureaus was fine, but the announced functions were too often a cover-up for activities that wouldn't bear the light of day.Thru local publicity the BBB became known as an organization to protect the public against worthless securities and substandard local merchandize. The BBB was always careful to advise the purchase of securities unloaded by Morgan and his affiliates - and discourage those sold by any other source. Locally they looked after the interests of those merchants who paid dues, and were often rough on those who didn't.

    One of the BBB's first activities was to lobby thru about 40 state legislatures a standard Blue Sky Law. An amazing but raw feature of these BS laws was that they exempted securities listed on the stock exchange -no matter how worthless they were known to be.In the early 30s a committee of Congress caught some of these Wall Street burglars red-handed bribing editors and financial writers of the large New York dailies - including the Times and Wall Street Journal - to print fake stories of worthless securities to "peg the market". Millions of dollars were lost by victims of these "inspired" newspaper articles.

    BBBs were not above selling blackjacking services to the American Medical Association to aid in the Drug Trust's blackjacking of rival packaged-medicine vendors. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the 6th Circuit, in a decision handed down in the case of the Raladam Company, which had also incurred the ill-will of the Medical Fuhrer by refusing to be shaken down, showed how this was done.

    It pointed out that the American Medical Association was engaged in a campaign against proprietary remedies which it "believed" should be used not at all or only under their "supervision". The court frankly said, in speaking of the Medical Bund and its Fuhrer (Morris Fishbein, Q.K.):

    "It has a Bureau for that and other purposes. When it is thought that a particular advertisement should be stopped the Bureau takes the matter up with the Federal Trade Commission with the Ass'n of Better Business Bureaus which are scattered over the country ... The Better Business Bureaus explain to their local newspapers and to the general periodicals, that it would be wise to refuse this advertising ..."

    This is not an indictment of all local Bureau managers. This is not an indictment of all local Bureau managers. Many of them are conscientious, as are some local directors. But the over-all protection of stock exchange securities must go on.

    Logan Billingley of the Manhattan Board of Commerce, who had quite a setto with the BBB in the 1930s told a committee of the Congress:

    "Many of our citizens lost their life-savings thru speculation in stocks and bonds, and kindred securities, believing they were dealing in legitimate investment securities. More billion dollars have been wiped out thru depreciation over a short period of months. People are dazed by this situation and are seeking to discover the cause."

    E.C. Riegal of the Consumers Guild of America said:

    "The Better Business Bureaus are the militant arm of the NY Stock Exchange. To call this nefarious system a racket is to complement it. A racket at least has the honesty to declare itself, while the professed purpose of the Better Business Bureaus is 'public protection' at the pretended expense of self-sacrificing, self-righteous contributors ... Slander, blackmail, extortion, hypocracy, corruption, terror, timidity, suspicion and business paralysis -these are the results."

    DRUG TRUST APPOINTMENTS

    When President Truman took over the Presidential reins and fired a few Commies and incompetents from high places on the Government payroll, many people were optimistic enough to think that he was going to do a good job. But he stopped far short of that, as recent hearings by committtees of both House and Senate have proven. There is no record of him having cleaned out the Rockefeller appointees in the State Department, nor in any of the public agencies having to do with public health. I list these, as follows, and ask pardon for those which I may have missed:

    The appointment of the head of this latter body is a concrete example of how the Drug Trust is given complete control of all agencies - no questions asked, no quarter given (the public). Listed in the current Congressional Directory as President of the National Acadamy of Sciences is Alfred N. Richards.

    The National Acadamy of Sciences is considered in Washington the all-wise body which investigates everything under the sun, especially in the field of health, and gives to a palpitating public the last word in that science.

    To the important post at the head of this agency the Drug Trust has had one of their own appointed. He is none other than Alfred N. Richards, one of the largest shareholders and a director of Merck & Company, whose inordinate profits have inflated the market quotations of their stock to four and a half times the value of its assets.

    Mr. Richards, who is making huge profits from this drug traffic, cannot be expected to look at at any "scientific" discovery or advance except thru the eyes of the Drug Trust. Whether he knows it or not, his first question will be -

    "Will this, or will this not, make more profits for Merck & Company?"

    That he acts accordingly is proven by the fact that the National Acadamy of Sciences (I ought to quote the word "Sciences") has never lifted a finger to try out the Koch treatment which has cured hundreds of cases of cancer; or any of the various DRUGLESS methods of treatment which should have high rating in any body which calls itself scientific.

    In fact, Mr.Richards is part of the System which has made every effort possible to supress these successful therapies.

    End Chapter 3

    Back to Essays