"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, M. D.

Professor of Medicine at Harvard

Thirty years ago the Standard Oil Company became impressed with the methods of the big packing houses which used, processed and sold every part of the hog but the squeal.

Their sales research department went 'way back to the 1860's when "Old Bill" Rockefeller, the itinerant pappy of John D. (the first) and a patent medicine showman, used to palm off bottled raw petroleum on the yokels as a cure for cancer.

"Old Bill" was an upstate New York farmer until 1850. He moved to Cleveland then, entered the patent medicine racket and had himself listed as a "physician" in the city directory. In selling raw petroleum in a pretty bottle "Old Bill" did nothing new.

He merely took a page out of the book of other patent medicine fakirs who were then hawking their wares from the backs of wagons — covered and uncovered. When oil was discovered in northwest Pennsylvania (1850) the jackals of the oil trade found there was more gold in the jeans of the gullible yokels than there was in working for it in the oil fields.

They began to bottle the raw petroleum and palm it off under various names as a cure for everything under the sun. The popular maladies of the day were liver complaint, cholera morbus, consumption and bronchitis. Among the names given this raw petroleum were "Seneca Oil," "Rock Oil" and "American Medicinal Oil."

"Old Bill" opened up a new field for himself. He called his bottled petroleum "Nujol" (meaning new oil) and sold it to those who had cancer and those whom he could make fear they would have it.

This sounded good to Standard's researchists. It sounded even better when they found it cost but $2.00 a barrel to concoct Nujol from crude petroleum. And that from one barrel of the raw stuff they could make 1,000 six-ounce bottles of finished Nujol. Instead of calling it a cure for cancer they called it a cure for constipation.

The latest trade catalog lists Nujol as going to the druggist at 28-2/3 cents a half pint (8 fluid ounces). The druggist thus pays about 21 cents for a 6-ounce bottle of Nujol which costs Standard Oil 1/5 of a cent.

These breath-taking profits from Nujol make it inevitable that America's largest and most ruthless industrial combine (the Rockefeller Empire) should soon add the drug traffic to its already vast production and sales domain. It wasn't until 1939, however, that the Drug Trust was formed and the upward curve in their drug profits began to assume the present gigantic proportions which today make it a macabre $10,000,000,000 a year business. How the American Drug Trust was formed by an alliance with its opposite number in Germany is almost a story in itself.

Soon after the present-day Nujol was put on the market it was discovered by physicians to be harmful. It robbed the body of fat soluble vitamins and caused serious deficiency diseases. Standard Oil checked the loss in sales by adding carotene (one of the fat soluble vitamins) to Nujol and claiming this overcame these injuries. Physicians disagree with the sales department of Standard Oil on this point.

And what of Nujol, now being sold to the public as a laxative. For some years before his death Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York used to set up a radio microphone every morning in his Senate Office Building quarters in Washington, furnished by the American taxpayers, and plug this greasy concoction — at $75,000 a year.

The New York Senator was a doctor of sorts. Although he possessed a medical degree he was never able to make a living as a bedside practitioner. He went into politics and made medicine pay in a big way. First he became health commissioner of New York City, then a Senator from the Empire State where he used the prominence thus gained to ballyhoo Nujol to unsuspecting radio listeners.

Today Nujol is made by Stanco, Incorporated, 216 West 14th Street in New York, listed in Moody's Manual as one of the many subsidiaries of the Standard Oil Company. Stanco's only other product is Flit, well known fly killer and insecticide, made from the same raw materials and by pretty much the same process.

When a German beer hall bum named Hitler began to plan his 1,000-year Reich, the powers-that-were in Germany didn't actually know that American politicians were going to solve their acute employment crisis by forcing us into the second world war to again save England's hide and Rockefeller's oil. But they weren't taking any chances.

Germany's huge dye trust (or chemical cartel) known as the I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, enjoyed a monopoly on all chemical products manufactured in Germany. German IG made an alliance with American Standard Oil in order to control important patents. The general idea was that the two were to pool their processes. This was done — in a one-sided way.

With the help of Standard Oil the German behemoth prevented American chemists from learning how to make synthetic rubber until after the Japs took the Malayan Peninsula and its vast rubber plantations. This almost lost war for the United States.

So, in 1939, when it became apparent that Germany would soon be unpopular in the United States, Standard Oil helped Hitler's Reich cover its American holdings in the drug and chemical field. The American IG was formed, by taking over the Sterling Products Company, the Grasseli Chemical Works (alias the General Aniline Works), the Agfa-Film Company, the Winthrop Chemical and the Magnesium Development companies.

Standard Oil took 15 % of the stock in the new German-American chemical trust. Efforts to hook the duPont company into this situation partially failed. Among the directors of this "cover up" company were Walter Teagle (President of the Standard Oil Company), Paul Warburg (a Roosevelt-Rockefeller stooge), and Edsel Ford.

Five hundred thousand shares of stock were issued to Walter Teagle. At a later Securities & Exchange Commission investigation Mr. Teagle denied his parentage of this stock, claiming he was holding it as a dummy for someone else.

When asked by the examiner who this "someone else" was he blandly replied he did not know, although he was under oath. Everyone else knew it was either one of the Rockefeller clan in person, or the Standard Oil Company.

The war was getting pretty close to this country. President Roosevelt was setting up the Pearl Harbor disaster, and had ordered our radar defenses let down at 7 o'clock every morning. History records that the Japs accepted this "opportunity'- to destroy most of the American Navy, made defenseless on orders from Washington.

At this jucture American IG Farben decided to camouflage its German parentage and sympathies, with the help of Standard Oil. It changed its name to the General Aniline & Film Corporation shortly before the Pearl Harbor attack. Before doing this, American IG purchased an undisclosed number of shares in the Ozalid Corporation, Schering & Company, Mission Corporation, Monsanto Chemical, Aluminum Corporation, Drug (Incorporated), Dow Chemical, Antidolar Company, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of Indiana, Standard Oil of California and the duPont Company. It took over bodily the privately-owned Hoffman-LaRoche Company.

Meanwhile, Sterling Drug gobbled up Winthrop Chemical, the Bayer Company, General Drug, Vegex (Inc.), Cook Laboratories, the Centaur Company and Alba Pharmacal Company.

Drug, Inc., owned by Louis K. Liggett (a powerful Massachusetts politician during the Hoover administration), had in 1929 taken over the Bristol-Myers Company, Vick Chemical, United Drug, Life Savers (Inc.), and the Liggett chain of "RX" Retail drug stores.

With Vick Chemical, Drug, Inc. (and the Rockefeller-Standard Oil-German IG Drug Trust) got the J. T. Baker Chemical Company, the William S. Merrell Company, the Jensen-Salsberry Laboratories, Prince Matchabelli (Inc.), Alfred D. McKelvy Company, Loeser Laboratories (Inc.), Taylor Chemical and the Sofskin Company.

When the American doughboys sloughed into Germany, and reached the industrial city of Frankfort, they were amazed to find intact all of the buildings and the huge plant of the German IG Farben Chemical Trust. American aviators, pinpointing their targets, had demolished every other structure in town.

What the doughboys didn't know was that the Secretary of War, one Robert P. Patterson, was a Rockefeller lawyer, appointed by President Roosevelt upon Rockefeller orders, fresh out of Dillon, Read and Company. The Dillon-Read concern not only is a Rockefeller subsidiary, but was the banking house that financed German IG Farben and attended to the financial details of forming the American "c6ver up" firm for the German chemical cartel.

American aviators, who gnashed their teeth at their orders to miss the biggest target in Frankfort, have never accepted the weak alibi given them from headquarters. Which was that this juicy and IMPORTANT target should be saved because the American Expeditionary Forces would "need an office building" when they got into Germany proper.

To show how the German Chemical Cartel and the Rockefeller Drug Trust affect the lives of most American people, Sterling Drug's 66 subsidiaries manufacture among other things Phillips' Dentrifices and Cosmetics, Double Danderine, Ironized Yeast, Andrews' Liver Salts, Ross' Pills, Mejoral, Astringosol, Campho-Phenique, Molle, Energine, Diamond Dyes, and many anaesthetics, vitamins, anti-malarials, sulfa drugs, analgesics, arsenicals, barbiturates, antiseptics, anti-bacterials and digestive ferments.

The Bristol-Myers Company makes Ipana Tooth Paste, Sal Hepatica, Vitalis, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Mum, Minitrub, Trushay, Peterman's Insecticides, Benex and Ammer's Powder.

Dow Chemical makes Epsom Salts, bromides and many other USP (U. S. Pharmacopoeia) products. Monsanto makes glycero-phosphate, vanillin, aspirin, saccharin, benzoic acid and many medicinals and "fine" chemicals. The Centaur Company makes Castoria.

Hoffman-LaRoche makes Allonal, Alurate, Antihistamine, Cal-C-Tose, Citro-Thiocol, Digitalis, Pantopon, Sedulon Cough Syrup, Presidon (sedative), Thephorin ( a phony hay fever nostrum), ViPenta Drops and Vitaminets. Hoffman-LaRoche is privately owned, and is part of the Swiss branch of German IG, set up in 1939 to prevent confiscation as alien property.

With these Rockefeller concerns having all of these things to sell, plus thousands of the 12,000 drug items described and advocated in medical text-books, it was the most natural thing in the world — human nature and human greed being what it is — for the Rockefeller Foundation to be changed into an instrument for "educating" medical students into the excessive use of drugs.

The Rockefeller Foundation was first set up in 1904, and called the General Education Fund. An organization called the Rockefeller Foundation, ostensibly to supplement the Fund, was formed in 1910 and an effort was made to get a charter from Congress.

Senator Nelson of Colorado smelled a mouse because the Rockefeller depredations in the Colorado coal fields were still a stench in the nostrils of all decent Coloradoans. When

Senator Nelson brought out the fact that the proposed Foundation had $100,000,000 for propaganda at its disposal, President Taft and his Attorney General vigorously opposed the charter and it was defeated in the Congress.

For three years the Rockefeller lobbyists besieged our national legislature for a charter and official respectability. Congress turned them down year after year on the ground that they would give no sanction to an organization with $100,000,000 to spend for commercial propaganda.

They gave up hope and did the next best thing. They got the New York legislature to issue a charter on May 14, 1913, through the "good offices" of the then State Senator Robert F. Wagner. With Rockefeller money and political influence this German born ideologist later became a Senator of the United States and one of the hammiest humbugs in the entire "New" Deal set-up.

It has long been demonstrated that the Rockefeller interests have created, built up and developed the most far reaching industrial empire ever conceived by the mind of man.

Standard Oil is of course the foundation industry upon which all of the other industries have been built. The story of Old John D., as ruthless an industrial pirate as ever came down the pike, is well known.

The keystone of this mammoth industrial empire is the Chase National Bank with, 27 branches in New York City and 21 in foreign countries. It has assets of $4,631,471,581 and outstanding loans of $1,511,607,158. The Rockefeller Empire now owns millions of shares of stock in America's leading steel, railroad, oil, tobacco, whisky, automobile, insurance, power, utility, drug and other manufacturing concerns.

Not the least of its holdings are in the drug business. The Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world, and use all of their other interests to bring pressure to continue and increase the sale of drugs. The fact that most of the 12,000 separate drug items on the market are harmful is of no concern to the Drug Trust.

In addition to the companies controlled from Rockefeller Center, there are hundreds — maybe thousands — of others, indirectly but just as tightly, controlled through bank loans by Chase National. One of these is the Hearst newspaper empire. It doesn't take much "stepping out of line" to bring about the calling of a bank loan.

Advertising media records for 1948 list $1,104,224,347 as expended for national advertising on the radio networks, and in the larger daily newspapers and magazines. The aggregate estimate for all mediums is estimated at $1,500,-000,000. How 80 % of this sum is utilized and manipulated to control information on health and drug matters which finds its way to the reading public is told in another chapter (The Spider's Web).

There are many newspapers owned by independent-minded publishers or publishing corporations. There are others of course whose owners are of the milquetoast type, who like to straddle every issue and suppress altogether anything which might cause a controversy.

The most independent of newspapers are still dependent on their press association for their national news. There is no reason for a publisher or a news editor in Kalamazoo or Walla Walla to suspect that a story concerning health matters, coming over the wires of the Associated Press, the United Press or the International News Service is garbled, partly suppressed or only half true.

Yet it is an amazing fact that this is what does happen time after time, because all Associated Press "news" on health matters is censored, suppressed or garbled. The Drug Trust has one of its directors on the directorate of the Associated Press. The Rockefeller Foundation Director in question is Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times and therefore one of the most powerful of the Associated Press directors.

It was thus easy for the Rockefeller crowd to "induce" the Associated Press Science Editor to adopt a policy which will not permit any story to clear that is not approved by the Drug Trust censor, and the Drug Trust censor is not going to approve any article that can in any way hurt the sale of drugs.

The Journal of the American Medical Association on January 20, 1940, bragged that the United Press had been induced to issue a directive requiring all articles on cures and human health to "clear" through its New York Bureau and so-called science editor. The most ironical feature of this program is that these so-called "science editors" accept Morris Fishbein, dictator of the American Medical Association as an "expert" on medical matters.

The record shows that Mr. Fishbein never practiced medicine a day in his life, did not complete the internship part of his medical course, and could only make 48 in anatomy when he tried to pass the state board medical examination.

William Randolph Hearst was once a very independent publisher and amenable to no man's will but his own. But in the depression year of 1932 his great newspaper empire hit financial rock bottom. Result was that Chase National Bank took over many loans to "WR," including $25,-000,000 debt to International Power and Paper, and foreclosed on the Sage of San Simeon.

Because of the name he had built up over the years of sensational journalism, Willie was given the title of editor, $100,000 a year in salary and allowed to write any editorials and direct the chain's editorial policies in any way that didn't conflict with Rockefeller interests.

One concession was made to the Hearst ego — one which has done little harm to the Rockefeller serum interests because of the careful way in which it is handled. Once a year he is allowed to bellow and fume and rant at the cruelty of vivi-section, but not at its futility and the harm done the human system by serums.

Since the Hearst empire owns the International News Service this sews up 100% the press associations for the Rockefeller Drug Trust, and accounts for the many fake stories of serums and medical cures which go out brazenly over its wires to all daily newspapers in the land.

Emanuel M. Josephson, M. D., a New York physician whom Fishbein and the Drug Trust have been unable to throttle or even to intimidate despite many attempts, points out that the National Association of Science Writers was cajoled or bought into adopting as part of its code of ethics this:

"Science editors are incapable of judging the facts of phenomena involved in medical and scientific discovery. Therefore, they only report 'discoveries' approved by medical authorities, or those presented before a body of scientific peers."

Since the medico-politician (Mr. Fishbein) who doesn't know where half the bones, organs, nerves and tissues of the body are located — or even what they are — is ranked by them as an "expert" the ridiculous nature of this code is apparent.

While each separate trust under Rockefeller control enjoys the best in press agentry, the propaganda of the Drug Trust stands out above all the others for sheer bunkment of the American public. Newspapers are fed with reams of propaganda about drugs and their "value," in spite of statements by honest and courageous medical men that few of the 12,000 pharmaceutical items made are of any value and most of them are downright harmful.

The truth about cures without drugs is carefully suppressed, unless it suits the purpose of the censor to garble it or just tell part of the truth. It matters not whether these cures are effected by Chiropractors, Naturopaths, Osteopaths, Christian Science Practitioners or Medical Doctors who use the brains God gave them. You never read about it.

In order to teach the drug and serum ideology it is necessary to teach that God didn't know what he was doing when he made the human body. Statistics issued by the Children's Bureau of the Federal Security Agency do not bear out this ideology. They show that since the all-out drive of the drug trust for drugging, vaccinating and serumizing the human system, the health of our nation has declined enormously, especially among children

Children are now given "shots" for this and "shots" for that, when the only immunity known to science is a healthy human body and a pure blood stream. Ponder these government findings:

Nearly hall a million children are affected by rheumatic fever.

Ten million boys and girls under 21 have defective vision.

A half million have orthopedic or spastic conditions.

Two million have impaired hearing.

Seventeen thousand are deaf.

Four hundred thousand have tuberculosis.

Seventy-five percent have dental defects.

Three out of every 100 draft registrants (18 and 19 years old) had heart trouble.

Three out of every hundred had a mental disease.

Two out of every 100 had a neurological difficulty.

Ten out of every 100 had defective vision.

One out of 40 had defective hearing.

These conditions didn't exist in the youth of today's middle aged and old people. Vaccination was the only unnatural practice then and most of us had enough vitality eventually to throw off the effects of this blood pollution. But if we had quadrupled or decupled this dose, as is being done to children today, our present middle aged people probably would be old and our present old people dead.

Under the aegis of Rockefeller Foundation funds medical colleges for the most part teach the names and supposed uses of 12,000 drugs. The medical student has to waste days and nights and months of his course learning the names and supposed uses of these items, when he could better be studying the human spine and ganglionic nervous system as chiropractic, osteopathic and naturopathic students do.

There is an old and true saying that he who pays the piper calls the tune. The Rockefeller Foundation pays the medical college pipers from the profits made by the Rockefeller Drug Trust and of course the Drug Trust calls the tune.

In its last annual statement the Foundation reports that, up to December 31, 1948, colleges and public agencies had been given gratuities totaling $446,837,527. During 1948 alone this vast sum was swelled by gifts of $32,930,458.91.

One cannot criticize a college president for accepting huge sums for educational purposes, but, college presidents are supposed to be smart. Obviously they are not. A smart college President would look behind gifts from a Rockefeller, for Old John D. was never known to give away more than a dime unless he saw big profits coming back.

He would find that all of these gratuities are given colleges which teach the use of drugs. If he went deep enough, if he asked courageous, intelligent and honest medical doctors they would tell him that about 11,990 of these drugs are useless and about 11,950 of them downright harmful to the human system.

He would also find that not a dime of Rockefeller Foundation money has ever been contributed to drugless colleges, whose students are effecting cures every day that hidebound foot-in-the-mouth medicine considers impossible, or at least miraculous.

The college president would ask himself why and he would come up with but one answer — the Rockefeller Foundation is promoting the excessive use of drugs while pretending to be engaged in philanthropy. He would also find that the Rockefeller Institute (endowed with $50,000,000) is part of the Drug Trust team.

This "institute" engages in research and employs many high class and capable technicians but its activities are devoted mainly to finding new uses for Rockefeller drugs, to the end that more drugs may be sold and more profits made for the pharmaceutical houses.

The profits of some of these drug factories, especially those controlled by the Rockefeller industrial empire, are fantastic. The E. R. Squibb Company, during the war year of 1945 (when the serum racket was at its height, and the American armed forces were loading the blood streams of all draftees and volunteers with "immunizing" poisons), made net earnings six times its physical assets.

Moody's Industrial Manual for 1945 showed tangible assets of $7,366,488 for Squibb and net earnings for 1945 of $42,432,472. The profitable war had stopped in 1947. With the war profits, or else by book-keeping entries, the physical assets had increased to $14,416,783. The earnings had been reduced to $9,601,389.

By watering their stock, they had parlayed this $14,-416,783 of physical assets into 1,750,000 shares of stock, quoted on the Stock Exchange of July 1, 1949, at $28.00 a share. Squibbs thus has a paper value of $49,000,000, or 333% of its actual investment.

Take Parke-Davis & Company. Their operating income for 1947 was $16,766,060; their physical assets only $14,-990,626. These 15 millions of actual value has been parlayed into 4,896,700 shares of stock now traded at $28.87 a share, total $141,391,200 — almost 1,000% of its assets.

And Sharpe & Dohme. Their 1947 operating profit was $5,263,236; their actual assets $6,247,552. Their 1,020,712 shares of capital stock was selling for $27 a share. Total — $21,559,224.

Lederle Laboratories, one of the larger of the biological manufacturers, in 1945 had an operating profit of $29,324,-525 and property worth $35,138,908. Common stock totalling 2,707,026 shares was so valuable that it was not listed or traded in on any known stock exchange.

In 1946 the entire concern was purchased by the Rockefeller-controlled American Cynamid Company and it helped to swell this chemical behemoth's 1948 income to $37,-491,894.

Sterling Drug, Inc., the main cog and largest holding company in the Rockefeller Drug Empire, and its 66 subsidiary companies, showed operating profits in 1948 of $20,-742,382, and physical assets of only $23,979,428. Its 3,890,-647 shares were being hawked on the exchange at $39 a share. This totals $151,735,233 of paper value, or seven and a half times the combine's aggregate assets.

Merck & Company had an operating income of $10,-120,053, according to Moody's, and physical assets of only $19,965,805. Its 2,200,000 shares of $1.00 par value common were quoted July 1, 1949, at $31.75, and its 190,000 shares of preferred at $106.50. Total $90,140,000.

McKesson & Robbins showed an operating profit of $16,807,476 on physical assets of only $6,628,342. Its 1,-832,426 shares were quoted at $33.50 — $61,386,237.

Charles Pfizer & Co., Inc., is a drug trust unit which makes "fine organic chemicals" for other units to process into various items. Its statement shows a 1948 profit, of $16,917,118 and physical assets of only $15,421,633. Its profit was 109% of its actual investment, which has been parlayed into 50,000 shares of 3½ % $100 par value preferred, and 1,480,050 shares of common. The latter was quoted on the New York Stock Exchange July 1, 1949, at $45.50 a share. This gives the company's inflation, value as $72,342,275, or 475 % of its investment value.

A business which makes 6% on its invested capital is considered a sound money maker and its invested capital can usually be judged by its actual physical assets. Watering the stock can make its assets look as high as waterers want it to.

Here is McKesson and Robbins making, not 6% but 254 % of the actual value involved — when you don't consider the water or inflated book value.

Squibb in 1945 made, not six percent, but 576 % on the actual value of its property. But that was during the luscious war years when the Army Surgeon General's Office and the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were not only acting as promoters for the Drug Trust, but were actually forcing drug trust poisons into the blood streams of our soldiers, sailors and marines, to the tune of over 200 million "shots."

With the war over we find these profits reduced, but still many times higher than the "take" in any business this side of the numbers racket. For instance, in 1948, Sterling made 87% of its physical value, thus inflating its stock structure and quotations to 632 % of actual assets.

Squibb showed an earning of 66% and inflation of 338%. Parke-Davis earned 112% of its assets, and showed inflation to 956 %. McKesson & Robbins, while earning only 39% of its assets nevertheless, by stock market manipulation, increased its paper value to 926 % of its actual assets.

An extended list of these inordinate profits from the drug traffic is given in another chapter of this book. Is it any wonder that the House of Rockefeller, the most rapacious industrial empire ever conceived by the mind of man, should take to drugs as a money maker, even if in doing it eventually makes the United States a nation of invalids.

Is it any wonder that the Rockefellers, and their stooges in the Food and Drug Administration, the U. S. Public Health Service, the Post Office Department, the Federal Trade Commission, the Better Business Bureaus, the Army Medical Corps, the Navy Bureau of Medicine, the Wagner-Murray-Dingell type in Congress, and thousands of health officers all over the country, should combine to put out of business all forms or therapy that discourage the use of drugs.

We have not gone to drugless practitioners for scientific information on the harmfulness of most of those 12,000 drug items which in the drug traffic the House of Rockefeller and its colleagues have for sale and is plugging with might and main through all of its high powered and well-financed publicity avenues. Let's go into the ranks of outspoken medical practitioners for our information.

The American Dispensatory lists over 12,000 items of drugs on the market. I am told by medical practitioners that to teach a student these 12,000 drugs or any more than (say) a certain selected 100 of them, is 99-44/100% a waste of time. But it DOES help swell the profits of the pharmaceutical houses.

Let us quote an authority on this subject, Dr. David L. Edsall, who was at one time Dean of the Harvard Medical School:

'I was, for a period, a professor of therapeutics and pharmacology, and I know from experience that students were obliged then by me and by others to learn about an interminable number of drugs, many of which were valueless, many of them useless, some probably even harmful, some others relatively valueless — all because they were still discussed in some text books, had never been discarded and were some times asked about by state board of medical examiners."

Arthur Robertson Cushny, M.D., former Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University of Michigan, is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Pharmacology. His text book "Pharmacology and Therapeutics" is recognized as the leading work of its kind in the world. In it, Dr. Cushny says:

"The more advanced teachers of medicine have very properly abbreviated their lists of remedies, but the student on going into practice meets numbers of drugs previously unknown to him and not appreciating that these have already been tried and discarded by his teachers is tempted to fall into the slough of unreasoning empiricism.

"There is still a tendency, even among the educated, to ascribe therapeutic virtues to every new weed and every new product of the chemical industry.

"As long as the medical student has to learn the supposed virtues of a host of obscure substances, he will tend to use them in practice. This, in turn, necessitates their inclusion in the pharmacopoeia, which again perpetuates them as subjects of teaching."

There are a few outspoken Medical Doctors who will tell you point blank that, under this Drug Trust aegis, doctors are turned out of these subsidized medical schools like machines. From his earliest student days he is not allowed to use his mind or to think for himself.

He is made to follow certain well-formed grooves. He is not given time to discover whether the medicines and drugs he is taught to prescribe are of any benefit. He is told that "A" says this should be done in "X" illness, that "B" says such-and-such a chemical combination has beneficial effects when the patient is suffering from "Y" disease. Again let us quote from Dr. Edsall:

"Almost all subjects must be taken at exactly the same time, and in almost exactly in the same way, by all students, and the amount introduced into each course is such that few students have time or energy to explore any subject in a spirit of independent interest. A little comparison shows that there is less intellectual freedom in the medical course than in almost any other form of professional education in this country."

It takes courage for a medical doctor to come out and say such things. The Drug Trust has the American Medical Association so well organized, and it has such a dynamic spokesman in Mr. Fishbein, that a whispering campaign of amazing intensity is immediately started against him.

If he is a young doctor his practice is ruined. He can be kicked out of his county medical society on trumped up charges and the resulting publicity can make him look like an incompetent practitioner.

Among medical practitioners who have helped compile the technical information in this volume are the late Dr. Charles L. Loffler of Chicago, Dr. George Starr White of Los Angeles, Dr. Christopher O'Day of Honolulu, Dr. Carl M. Frischkorn of Norfolk, Va., Dr. George Franklin Smith of Chicago, Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit and Dr. Josephson.

Dr. Frischkorn says he never uses but two drugs — sedatives and opiates, and these sparingly. He avers that there are times when the lack of them may do more to the patient's nerves than the harm the drugs themselves do.

Dr. Loffler often said that serums and vaccines put more toxins in the human blood in one administration than injudicious eating habits do in a year. Dr. Loffler was a blood specialist who eliminated toxins by the oxychlorine method.

Another progressive and intelligent medical doctor of my acquaintance has just been put through the wringer by his county medical society for espousing the principle of praying "for the millennium when the one-school-thought therapy may at least be broken and dethroned for all time." This particular doctor is no big help to the Drug Trust. He uses as few of these concoctions as possible and those only to meet ordinary medical emergencies. He lists them as:

1. Digitalis and other cardiac (heart) drugs;

2. Sedatives (relaxers, rest producers);

3. Hypnotics (sleep producers);

4. Analgesics (pain relievers).

Dr. George Starr White has built up one of the largest medical practices in the United States by using the brains God gave him. He is independent of the Medical Chamber of Commerce, the Drug Trust, the Fuhrer of Medicine and all of their satellites. He doesn't give a hoot what they think of him, or try to do to him.

He says in plain words that the "benefits" of sulfa and penicillin have been misrepresented. That the term "strep throat" is hokum. That the socalled viruses are merely fancy words for the common cold — words use to extract more money out of the victims of allopathic greed. I quote him:

"During the past year (1943) the medical profession has received warnings from practically all of the large drug houses, who manufacture sulfa drugs. These warnings state that the more widely these drugs are used, the more experience the profession has gained which is not wholly favorable to them.

"These tablets have been openly sold in drug stores. I have seen many an auto driver unable to steer his car, taken in as a 'drunk', when upon examination it was found that he had simply lost his power of orientation, from taking two or three sulfa tablets the night before 'to ward off a cold'.

"Many an airplane pilot has steered his plane into a mountainside, causing deaths of all on board. I have learned that, at least several of these dead pilots, had taken sulfa tablets to 'ward off a cold' the night before.

"Sulfa drugs have a tendency to cause the victim to lose his powers of orientation. He cannot reach with his arms and legs where he thinks he is going to reach. He cannot steer his automobile or plane where he thinks he is going to steer it. He cannot gauge depths above or below the surface of the earth. These drugs temporarily destroy a person's ability to judge direction or distance.

"Penicillin is nothing more than a bread mold, that our grandmothers used to grow in earthen crocks for making poultices to cure infected sores and sore throats, now known as a 'miracle drug.' The pharmaceutical cartel, in order to start a fad, took a short cut to make the mold and used it by way of the hypo needle to make it look more 'professional.'

"In making it quickly, with expensive machinery, they turned a natural curative product into a poison. By injecting it into the blood stream they contrived to poison the whole system, whereas ordinary bread mold, placed on the outside as a poultice, drew the poison from the blood.

"They have taken natural bread mold, and so 'refined' it that it becomes poisonous — causing blisters, hives, arthritic pains and deposits of colon bacteria that never existed before."

The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation itemizes the gifts it has made to colleges and public agencies in the last 30 years, and they total just short of a half billion dollars. These colleges, of course, teach their students all the drug lore the Rockefeller pharmaceutical houses want taught.

Otherwise, there would be no more gifts, just as there are no gifts to any of the 30 odd drugless colleges in the United States. The amounts outlined in the Foundation's report cannot be ignored.

Harvard, with its aristocratic background and well-publicized medical school, has received $1,683,621 of this Drug Trust money. Yale got $674,743.

Johns Hopkins, down in Baltimore, Maryland, and its famous medical school has benefited since 1914 to the extent of $8,750,000 of Drug Trust largesse. On the Pacific Coast, Leland Stanford University in California leads the Rockefeller parade with $912,615. Washington University in St. Louis received $435,184.

Columbia University in New York City, which is so big the teachers don't even know each other, took $849,578 from its neighbors in Midtown Manhattan. Duke University in North Carolina got only $66,983, but then Duke didn't need any more because when power trust tycoon "Buck" Duke died, he left $40,000,000 to little Trinity College provided it changed its name to Duke University. It did.

Tufts College in Massachusetts received $151,817. Vanderbilt down in Tennessee $67,911, New York University $65,116, Memphis' colored Meharry Medical College $335,-000, Iowa State's corn belt knowledge factory $83,556, and Cornell University $465,607.

Many of our leading state universities, with tax supported medical schools, have their hands unnecessarily in the Drug Trust till — and of course tailor their medical courses to suit the Foundation. We can mention the Universities of:

Alabama $ 40,000

California 1,160,712

Colorado 18,110

Illinois 161,000

Indiana 85,000

Michigan 11,406

Minnesota 216,643

Missouri 17,250

North Carolina 35,000

Ohio State 45,000

Oklahoma 50,000

Oregon 9,000

Pennsylvania 363,390

Southern California 4,000

Tennessee 1,000

Texas 66,000

Utah 6,000

Virginia 72,781

Washington 383,900

Wisconsin 334,800

This "missionary" work of the Rockefeller Foundation paid off handsomely — to the Grim Reaper — on February 18, 1950, when Death and Drugs rode at the controls of a Long Island (New York) Railroad commuters' train. Thirty-two passengers were killed and 116 injured, in what was up to that time the worst railroad wreck in recent American history. On September 11th, 33 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen were wantonly murdered, and 248 injured, near Coshocton, Ohio.

Both wrecks were caused by a drug. The lethal dose in the Long Island catastrophe was given the motorman by a railroad medic. In the case of the Coshocton wreck, the Drug Trust's culpability may never be definitely known. Within 24 hours the Pennsylvania Railroad retired the engineer who had passed five signal lights at 75 miles on hour ON A FULL PENSION and told him not to worry.

It is very significant that the Pennsylvania Railroad is owned and controlled bodily by the Rockefeller organization — which also owns the Drug Trust. Interlocking directorates help in the control, but the fiscal agents are the clinchers. The last 13 bond issues of PRR, totalling $514,603,000 — were all handled by such stalwart Rockefeller affiliates as Halsey-Stuart & Co., Lehman Brothers, Harriman-Ripley, Brown-Harriman & Company, Saloman Brothers and Hutzler, and the Evans-Stillman Company.

Thumbs down on any or all of these bond issues by the Chase National Bank would have simply meant there would have been no bond issue. Thus the Rockefeller controlled Railroad is complete and there will be no embarrassment to the Drug Trust because of the Ohio wreck.

The motorman — who was the goat for the Long Island catastrophe — has high blood pressure, so the Company medic said. Instead of cleaning the toxins out of his arteries and eliminating the disease, he was given capsules containing phenobarbitol, aminophylline and potassium iodide and then sent back to duty. Fifteen minutes before he reached the protecting automatic signal he fell asleep at his controls. And no wonder.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary lists phenobarbitol as a hypnotic (sleep producer). Its trade name is Luminol and it is the most popular of all sleeping pills. Many people take them and never wake up. Aminophylline is listed as a diuretic (to promote faster flow of urine). Potassium iodide is listed as an alternative for syphilis. The medic who did this listed in the Directory of the American Medical Association as a "specialist" in internal medicine.

In the Ohio wreck the story given this author by the engineer is the most fantastic he ever heard. This man piloted the Pennsylvania Railroad crack overland limited. ("Spirit of St. Louis") which crashed into the rear of a stalled troop train with horrible results.

In doing so — he admits — he passed a caution signal (which meant 30 miles an hour) two miles from the wreck, at 75 miles an hour and kept going until he was almost on the troop train. This in spite of a red fusee dropped by the troop train's flagman 500 feet before it stopped. Then the flagman was waving his red lantern, and threw a red flare. The near signal was red and visible for two miles but the engineer never saw any of them until (as he aptly said) it was too late.

An exhaustive investigation of the wreck scene by this author, and a complete examination of the Interstate Commerce Commission's record, indicate that the engineer was sound asleep when he passed all these warning lights.

He denied he had taken a cold tablet or sulpha drug. In fact he denied he had ever taken a doctor's prescription or patent medicine of any kind during his 67 years of life. The facts speak for themselves, as Drug Trust agents well knew when they had their railroad take care of things so promptly.

The Pennsylvania Railroad is 20 years behind the times. The major airlines of the United States found, the hard way, what used to cause their major disasters in which pilots ran into mountainsides, often in broad daylight. It was sulpha pills "to ward off a cold" or cold tablets to "cure one."

From August 31, 1940, to March 12, 1948, they had 19 of these "mysterious" wrecks which took the lives of 438 persons, according to the Civil Aeronautics Board. At that time the airlines issued orders grounding all flight personnel from 48 to 72 hours after they had taken a drug of any sort.

The results were more than satisfactory. There hasn't been a major disaster on an American commercial airline since.

With a nation still shocked at the Ohio tragedy, the Pennsylvania Railroad pulled another one out of its hat on November 23. This was the worst of all, for 77 LIRR commuters were killed in a rear-end collision at Richmond Heights and 332 were injured.

It was a replica of the other two. The motorman of the Death Train ran past red and amber lights of an automatic block system without slowing down. He ignored the red fuse and the red lantern of the flagman who had dropped off the rear of the stalled train. Obviously, he was sound asleep. This motorman was killed and cannot talk. This author has information that he had been loading up on sulfa pills or cold tablets, or some such concoction, which put people to sleep at high speed.

The PRR went into action almost as quickly as it did in Ohio. The Rockefeller Center crowd had its stooge in the State House at Albany (Governor Dewey) announce from a vacation spot in Cuba that he had "ordered" a complete and thorough investigation of the wreck. The little man with the Charlie Chaplin mustache got plenty of publicity for his next election campaign.

But here is the pay-off. Dewey announced that he had turned the entire investigation over to Robert P. Patterson, a staunch and able Rockefeller puppet who has spent most of his private life on the Rockefeller payroll.

Chapter 2 The Spider's Web

"If you tell a lie big enough, and loud enough, and long enough, and often enough, the people will believe it."

— Adolph Hitler

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Many readers of my books and magazines of the past have asked me how it is possible for the Drug Trust to prevent the printing of news about drugless cures, to exaggerate the efficacy of drugs, to falsify the record in the serum field and to send out garbled press stories at will.

I do not blame the average publisher for this as much as I blame the "system" which was created and developed, even before Upton Sinclair wrote his famous book on the press and press associations called "The Brass Check." Many times I've heard bewildered citizens say "you can only believe 50% of what you read in the newspapers."

I've heard others go beyond that and say you can't believe 25% of what you read in a Hearst paper or 5% of what you read in a communist sheet — Marshall Field's papers, the former Stern papers, the present New York POST, COMPASS and DAILY WORKER.

It is the average American newspaper and the way it is taken for a ride by the Drug Trust that we are dealing with in this chapter. So, don't blame the publisher. Much less should you blame the reporter or editor if your paper let's you down as they did, say, on the Columbus polio story (described in this book) and on many other such items which never saw the light of day.

Many years ago a high pressure and high powered advertising agent named J. Walter Thompson began the system of influencing news thru huge advertising appropriations. Mr. Thompson tied himself up with the Rockefeller interests and the Morgan interests.

These two financial behemoths controlled so many companies between them that the Thompson Company, with the founder long since passed to his celestial reward (if any) now has the most stupendous business of any advertising agency in the world.

Standard Advertising Register for 1948 showed this firm having 95 large industrial accounts. Any agency having half a dozen considers itself lucky and well-to-do. To handle this business the J. Walter Thompson Company has eight branch offices in the United States and eighteen in foreign countries

— branches in nearly all lands where Standard Oil's derricks rise.

Included in these accounts are Lever Brothers ($18,-686,329), Shell Oil ($1,221,183); Standard Brands ($3,962,408); Eastman Kodak ($1,861,493); Ford Motors ($11,-242,212); Johns-Manville ($955,398); Nash-Kelvinator ($3,721,529); Libby, McNeill & Libby ($4,180,338); Pan American World Airways ($1,027,569) ; Radio Corporation of America ($3,755,902) ; Kaiser-Frazer Motors ($5,048,934) — to mention just a few.

Because appropriations advertising manufactured products nationally has reached an aggregate of a billion and a half, a number of other agencies are now participating in the business of the Rockefeller Empire, and of what is left of the Morgan Empire since J. P. (the Last) died.

A recent compilation by the magazine ADVERTISING AGE showed that the larger companies expended in 1948 for newspaper, radio and magazine advertising the aggregate sum of $1,104,224,347. For many years it has been estimated that the Rockefeller-Morgan interests controlled about 80% of this business.

This control is vested partly in those companies owned in whole or in part by the Money Trust, which also has its headquarters in Rockefeller Center. An even larger part of this control is represented in the hundreds of large corporations and combines that have to go, from time to time, for financing to the Chase National Bank, Guaranty Trust, National City and other banking houses controlled by, or closely affiliated with, the Rockefellers.

This huge advertising figure (over a billion and a tenth) is only a part of the story, but it is the only complete figures we can put our fingers on. It is broken down as follows:

$389,261,000 to the larger of our 1.873 daily newspapers;

$430,573,399 to 97 national magazines;

$46,709,683 to six magazine sections for Sunday newspapers;

$38,684,523 to 50 farm publications;

$198,995,742 to network radio stations.

This does not take into account the hundreds of non-network (independent) radio stations in the country, nor any of the 10,056 weekly newspapers, very few of which lack a quota of national advertising accounts. A conservative estimate of the total sets it at around $1,500,000,000.

Eighty per cent of this will add up to 1,200 million advertising dollars annually which apparently are controlled from Rockefeller Center by the owners and management of the Drug Trust, the Steel Trust, the Oil Trust, the Power Trust, the Insurance Trust, the Utilities Trust, the Metals Trust and hundreds of other powerful combinations in restraint of free enterprise.

The American Thought Controllers pay plenty of attention to the weekly newspaper. I well remember 15 years ago when I was running a county seat newspaper in Maryland, contiguous to the nation's capital. The metropolitan power company serving my community used to run a quarter of a page advertisement every week. They paid promptly and well, and this account took quite a lot of worry off my shoulders when the bills came due.

One day we took up the cudgels for some of our readers who were being given poor service and insulting treatment from the power company. It was our first experience in the realm of Hell breaking loose. The issue was in the mails only a few hours when the telephone rang and I received the dressing down of my life from the advertising agency which handled the power company's account.

Briefly and plainly they told me that any more such "stepping out of line" would result in the immediate cancellation of this contract, as well as that of the gas company and the telephone company.

I still remember what a tremendous letdown this was for me; how it opened my eyes to the meaning of a Free Press; how I then and there decided to get out of the newspaper business; how I began to seek a buyer and finally sold out at the best figure I could get and, of course, at a huge loss.

When I realize that this is what every newspaper owner is up against, and that where I had only a few thousands tied up most daily newspaper publishers count their investments in the millions, I really feel sorry for them. That is, all except the worms, of which the newspaper business has its share.

Now that I have made it clear how the Rockefeller interests handle the various mediums of public information, I am going to give a list of the 25 largest advertisers in the country and the amounts they expend with the various mediums. I am then going to show you how Rockefeller Center controls each and every one of these concerns thru what is called interlocking directorates. You have already seen how the well trained (in Rockefeller Methods) advertising agencies can handle "properly" so many newspapers, magazines and radio stations.

Here are the Big Twenty-Five of American Business:

Proctor and Gamble $34,993,341

General Motors 27,086,514

Colgate-Palmolive-Peet 18,773,213

Lever Brothers 18,686,329

General Foods 17,303,872

General Electric 15,058,P18

Sterling Drug 13.624.287

General Mills 12.098.061

Swift & Company 11,355,551

Reynolds Tobacco 11.271,136

Seagram 10,009,967

Ford Motors 11,242,252

Gillette Razor 9,497,820

Liggett & Myers Tobacco 9,243,336

Campbell Soup 8,992,115

Chrysler Motors 7,833,735

American Home Products 7,695,340

American Tobacco 7,479,755

Philco Radio 6,992,155

Westinghouse Electric 6,756,016

Miles Laboratories 6,410,513

National Dairy Products 6,839,995

Bristol-Myers 5,703,862

Kaiser-Frazer Motors 5,048,934

Borden's Milk 4,179,664

Of these top flight advertisers Lever Brothers, Sterling Drug, American Home Products, and Miles Laboratories manufacture drugs and proprietary medicines. Borden's and National Dairy Products are the two largest units of the Milk Trust, and the greatest beneficiaries of the pasteurization racket. This pasteurization racket is so lucrative that NDP can pay its president (L. A. Von Bomel) $150,000 a year for doing nothing much except going around and registering horror at the thought of anyone drinking raw milk.

No one claims that Rockefeller owns any of these companies outright except Sterling Drug. But that the House of R. has large stock holdings in most of them is attested by the personnel of the several directorates. When a Financial King invests money in an enterprise he always arranges to have a stooge