Part IV of VI

The Fattening Of America

A Vermont blacksmith, John Deere (1804 – 86), thought that the Illinois frontier was the place of the future of agriculture. As soon as he arrived there & observed primitive tools belaboring the heavy soil, he decided to use iron plows with heavy cast – iron plowshares. They cut deep into the Prairie sod which was frozen that time of the year. Turning a huge portion upside-down, made later harvesting a rich reward.

His Deere Co. continued to lead all the way through obvious progress, the production & over-production. In these vast farmlands, grain, grass & everything else grew well without being spoiled by killer – fertilizers. “Progressive” farmers eventually used buffalo cakes, cowflakes & cesspool nutrients, all considered organic fertilizers.

Without buffalo chips & mulching the thousands of tons of wasted vegetables & grass cuttings, we now love to lose most farm produce & buy them at low & lowest prices abroad. Dieting is becoming expensive if fat-fearers buy thinning products or huge pharmaceutical plants.

Once upon a time, agriculture anywhere was the national basis of any economy & its pursuit the occupation of the masses. However, few farmers owned their land & still fewer farmers belonged to the social, economic & political leadership.

Armed bandits &, especially, their leaders assumed the power to rule the hardworking soil-toilers. Unless they delivered the larger part of their product & animals to their “betters”, they were massacred by marching armies of marauders. In time, their local protectors also requested their booty which we may call taxes.

Only the richest land owners with thousands of work slaves to handle an axe, a fork or flail managed to defend their independence. The vast majority of rustics sank into serfdom & the duty to remain on “his” land as part of someone else’s personal property or serf.

If someone in “high position” fancied a slave’s looks, attitudes or secret self – education, he might escape into the untouchability of a cleric, a person of the gifts of reading & writing & could become a monk or priest where religion was wielding its powers. No wonder that many poor, hungry & ambitious souls hoped to find a sponsor for his get-away from desperation and perpetual starvation.

Ever since, a church person was described as a fat, happy & powerful leader on various levels of piety, educational rank & position of power even if his ancestors were starving ploughmen (plowmen). A cute & sexy girl could be taken by any superior man, to marry or be put away again. But she could help a brother to escape misery & become somehow secure if he made the grade.

In case of armies threatening, the owners of peasants (farmers without land) could be trained to ride & thereby become knights & owners of their soil. Once towns were built on former farmlands or cut-down forests, peasants could become freemen after their escape to these walled townships. Freemen formed free cities under mayors, knights, aldermen, abbots, bishops, counts & dukes. Some of the smartest & most courageous town fathers sought a king or emperor to become their only overlord. However, to supply food on a steady basis, servants in town & peasants near town could hardly ever be called free.

Once the feudal lords had killed many of eachother & more yet lost their lives in foreign wars, well – to – do citizens or clever landowners could prosper, eat their fill & pay their workers in town, near towns or a 2^nd residence. As long as tools were primitive, long hours of work kept every-one down.

Ignoring local struggles, some astonishing revolts & great rural upheavals, the greater freedoms, the grander hopes & surprising organizational skills were enhanced in consequence of industrialization. Those former peasants who worked hard for themselves, sold crops at fair prices, saved a lot & invested in more land could prosper. Often, those with many children at work-age could strike it rich. Some of them survived nature’s & man’s destruction to become owners of huge farms, estates, ranches, haciendas & were considered gentlemen. But most of the largest landowners owed their prosperity to trickery, thievery & lots of good luck. In our Nation, the proprietors of agro-business are mostly speculators, corporations & taxevaders.

Every year, more of our small farmers get out of the toils of agriculture. Whenever suburbian settlements intrude on their neighborhood, they can be taxed out of business. There even are mayors, originating from farm families who seek the government power of “eminent domain” to buy out farms for the benefit of friendly (wealthy) developers. But they never touch the biggest farm biz & their political friends.

To them honesty is only a policy; it can be demeaned, deranged or deceived. Governor of California Ronald Reagan helped his supporters, the Armenian fig, orange & grape growers of the Southern Central Valley & also the Imperial Valley in 2 ways. He had used deception, when he was a minor radio announcer of sports. When his connections with the sports arena were interrupted, he invented a part of the match with an actor’s gift. In his case that fraud invited his movie career. We remember though how many blacks & other minority members lost their newspaper, radio or T.V. careers for cheating. Reagan was eligible for highest office of big cheaters.

In public, Governor Reagan maligned a Democratic Federal Government for allowing Mexican illegals to cross our southern border. In secret, Reagan helped big land owners to hide thousands of those invaders to be hidden in filthy huts & work for sub – subsistence wages up to 18 hours a day. He also used those illegals as strike breakers when Cesare Chavez tried to organize a fruit pickers’ union of citizens & legal immigrants to fight for living wages, reduced work hours, all necessary insurance & livable housing & education for their children.

Ronald didn’t change when Republicans voted for meanness, dishonesty & deceptive oratory. I can’t forgive his revolting talk about a welfare cheater who was supposed to have become rich on her government gifts when his tax-deduction for the haves became Republican socialism for the rich.

Reagan supported the nicotine lobby: When our half-ally Egypt was starving while invading Israel, that President continued to support it with over a billion $ but forced it to accept loads of cigarettes when called “food”. He tried to force Washington apples on Germany (as a most favored nation) although the Germans refused to eat them because they were inoculated with cancer – causing hormones. He lost that battle even while he favored their Nazis by honoring the cemetery of the Nazi Black SS Guards who had lynched American prisoners during the Battle of the Bulge. He battled Soviet Russia even after Gorbachëv had started his 2 great reforms to fulfill his religions mother’s will to slowly discard communism. How great a hero this Re-Publican was!

Archer Daniel Midland pretends to be the farmers’ farmer even as he is a great processor of farm products & destroyer of natural foods.

For a few years his big TV ads praised the boss for feeding his corn to a famished world. It could have been less expensive if not processed & his advertizing had not doubled the cost.

Suddenly he changed his expensive T.V. advertizing tune. No mentioning anymore the feeding of the famished folks. Now he wants to make expensive fuel more expensive by his adding methanol or ethanol into the gasoline tanks. How dishonest can this Texan liar be! Only one thing is certain about the Bush Midland neighbor: He helped elect a few Democratic Southern Conservatives. But that amount of contribution is less than a half, 1/3, or 1/5 of what he donated to born-again Re-Publicans, including his Bushy neighbor’s 2 elections to our Presidency.

People like this racketeer make life difficult for struggling farmers who work the fields but not the publicity people.

Bush II, too, is trying to emulate Reagan while mentioning also F.D.R. as his hero. He, like Clinton, praises our GAP & all favored nations’ custom – freed exports & imports some farm biz with secret & illegal support. But do we cheat more than Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands or France?

Yes, Bush lost more than a million jobs in 2000 & 2001. But he gained a million more since he started his war against the world. The statistics look good – on an average. A thousand now make billions, a hundred thousand make millions. Another 100,000 make good middle-classlike money. But the hundred thousands in national security earn minimum rates. The few 100,000 in the health industry earn less than the minimum pay. But we need hundreds of thousands more for nursing alone.

Wouldn’t you know that most of his new business creations are restaurants & thousands of smaller fast – food places all over America? They all get some tax support & all do well – unfortunately so for our health. Think of “Colonel” Harlan Sanders (1890 – 1980). The odd fellow did odd jobs. His “gaser” station with restaurant got Kentucky publicity. Damn his secret seasoning of fried chicken as a crumby fraud. But thousands of franchizes made him rich & fat. His grease runs over all continents & caused lousy – rich imitations, first in fat – blessed America & soon everywhere else. Burger King, Wendys, Taco Bell, McDonalds, Subway, Arbys. Their ads are as crazy as their spoiling potentially edible foods.

Because Gustavus F. Swift (1839 – 1903) learned “where is the beef.” He majored in buying up, dressing, peddling & promoting every bum steer around Cape Cod to become Boston’s beefy business monopolist. Moving his enterprise to Chicago, he could ship back home meat packs because his engineers “invented” the refrigeration railway car. He also pioneered the merchandizing of by-products from what was not salable as food. The man made money with his soap, glue & cheap margarine. He made it bigger yet by suppressing the stink in his fertilizer – all developed by a fertile mind.

Equally productive became a progressive George A. Hormel (1860 – 1946). Using his name to good advantage, he offered butchers, cutters & packers higher wages & slightly cleaner work conditions. That was the nicest way to climb the greasy pole to the top.

His son Catherwood Hormel (1892 – 1954) brought on success to canny canning of beef stew, ham & Spam. The latter became a Hawaiian favorite while it was cheap though hardly tasty. But the term “Spam” alone conquered also advertizing literature among the barely literate.

Suddenly Argentinian Pampa bullishness began to compete with our Prairie cattlish substitute for the American Bison which was temporarily pushed back to bleeding Kansas. Latin beef was underbidding proud American loins for steaks due to British investments in refrigeration miracles. Eventually Spanish Corned Beef became & remained a best-seller while America’s steak became the pride of fat swallowers of juicy half-fried steaks. Now Australians swallow Texas Longhorns in that or any other shape. No economy is involved. The crazy cow outdamages bird flu chickens.

Germans were always America’s bakers, butchers & sausage makers. The exception was Nelson Morris (1838 – 1907). He became big, fat & leading at the Chicago Union Stock Yard. Eventually, his several alliances bloomed into Morris & Co., the leading packing house with several branches farther South.

The way he shipped dressed meat to New York & Europe became the model of imitators. Near his plants, he bought up cheap lands to raise his imported “Angus”. Where there was no nearby grassland, he established feeding stations. He became over-rich & employed many Germans, Scots & other immigrants. All worked their way into our economy. But German Blutwurst, the British Black Pudding, was not his invention. Germanics have always loved blood to shed, drink & eat while blaming it on Jews whose blaming religion didn’t allow such non – Delicatessen.

Mike Harper worked into the top layer of Pillsbury Co. before he CEOed ConAgre. He hit it bigger after acquiring Banquet Frozen Foods with their awful, frozen T.V. dinners & Armor Foods with all the fattening consequences. There are also Swanson & other freezer foods of higher quality available for more money.

Also, whole sides of beef & pork & game birds are sent in freezing containers, freighted by special container ships or airplanes. We wish only that stockyards, slaughter houses & meat freezer be more frequently & more reliably inspected by bonded inspectors.

From Berkeley I took students to Safeways slaughter – house in Manteca. They watched in disbelief how the hindquarters of cows were moved on pullies right through the piles of fresh cow manure. I got everyone’s attention when I said to one on this dirty assembly line: “I guess you can take your beef home at wholesale price.” The man shot back: “My family wouldn’t touch this dirty meat”.

All present lovers of beef – hamburgers turned vegetarians. I had already been vegetarian for 8 years but was weak enough to long for dirty- cheap chicken & turkey for the holidays. So I had learned to wash my frozen poultry dozens of times in boiling water. I disinfected my hands a few times & continued to rinse the meat. Eventually I preboiled my food for 10 minutes, poured off the fat-eyed water & tore off most of skin &, certainly the hindest part plus kidney & stomach.

I learned to kill every germ in the house which once belonged to “Paladin”, Richard Boone. For me electricity cost nothing after I was the first to build in Kona solar equipment. Of course, when I donated house & orchard-like surroundings to our Hospice, the volunteer architects dumped all my expensive solar heaters; for charity pays all expenses. Also trashed were my fruit driers.

In the beginning of Hawai’i’s tourism, visitors arrived by boat to enjoy local pineapples & sugar cane. Hardly anyone was aware of the millions of rat bites into the sweet cane. They just continued where the rodents had left off. The lack of clean water was not what drove daring tourists’, teeth into this tall & thick grass which was also covered with Pele’s tears & other harmful products of our active volcano. Why? Even when all local prices were low it was cheaper to steal a bit in the field. That was, & still is, the American way & everyone else’s.

Likewise, our pineapple, called ananas elsewhere – Poor but gracious Hawaiians would give them away like other introduced tropical produce. Dole, missionary progeny, started to make real money by exporting Sandwich Islands’ pineapple or canning them for export. Honolulu has a sort of museum where the processing plant with the other commercial establishment was housed. But his successors no longer grow pineapple here because they buy them more cheaply in the Philippines, Central America & elsewhere. Likewise sugar cane.

But the Dole owners are not on the dole. They prosper.

New England’s Andrew W. Preston grew pesky & fruity when his small Boston company had to merge with a colossus, the later United Fruit Co. He stuck to his guns & began to control these controllers of fruit growing in the tropics. Pressing by Preston, he overdeveloped his empire in Latin America. His import & export power waxed into power politics & its social, cultural & political rewards.

In Cuba alone, he controlled 90,000 acres of sugar cane. How sweet it was! He added pineapple & other fruits here, there & everywhere. In order to have ready cash, he took over banks with their bankers, refining groups without refinement, melting & smelting & what not?

His influence over governments corrupted all, caused revolts & revolutions and enormous costs. While he lived, “United Fruit” ruled vast parts of our world. His successors were poorer investors, more corrupt without his balanced & balancing administrative skills. They mined the great one which once ruled our ruler, our Armed Forces &, especially, our Southern Command. I don’t remember if any of these wealthy criminals ever received punishment for obvious crimes. Worse yet, their corpses still make every Latino hate US.

Dole saved a bit of United Fruit & learned to be cautious, even if the billions have shrunk to millions. And they are controlled by San Francisco & New York. Del Monte, Green Giants, Libbys & others do also well.

The Nazis could go to the Territory of Alaska & from there to Territory of Hawai’i. They brought with them organic farming and gardening. In the wine – growing areas of the Rhein and Main, the small farmers would carry or transport otherwise barrels full of urine from toilets and animal manure storage to irrigate their vineyards, orchards and nursery gardens. The solid human and animal waste was transported for its desty – nation to its destination, if necessary in buckets and jackets when the growth area was steep. Their original purpose was to avoid buying chemical fertilizer although its pollution side effects were not well known yet or deliberately ignored.

Since those golden days were recapitulated after W.W. II, lots of infectious diseases have spread with human & other animals’ feces. When I saw this lamentable shit thrown over acres of ripening tomatoes, I didn’t touch any of those vegetable – fruits for years. I also recommend decrying the dear dear nitro-fertilizers. I rather see them go to suicidal bombers to blow themselves up if that can be done without taking with them civilians, especially women and children. Let us take out the leaders of such pious gangsterism together with their shitty fertilizers and organic hells.

But ignorance still controls the market place. When I tried to donate all the passion fruits I started to grow, our kitchen chef thought that these most wholesome life savers grew because of chemicals for their diet. Real nonsense, Ann! The vines of passion fruits are hated ropes because they strangle even big trees. They grow well even where it seldom rains. The passion drinks you buy in bottles have but little juice squeezed out their delicious seeds which look like tadpoles. Their small quantity is stretched (like turkey with bread crumbs as wanted fittings so everyone among the poorest & largest families can have his, her, slice & eat it too.)

Not long after our nice chef had shocked me with her revelation, a phone caller who may have learned to read the small print of labels laughed: “The bottled liliko’i juice contains some additives & preservatives added, so the content of these glass & plastic vessels with long necks can last for a few years if well sealed.

Who gives the seal of approval to the thousands of ever stranger additives to our daily food? Just watch the purchases for a large family on a good day: Up to $20 for real “food” like spam, ham, vegetables etc. and at least $80 for dangerous trash, sauces, liquid fats, and whatever has been advertized for the last 50 years as making the solid food more edible.

The old Hawaiians swallowed their half-cooked porker in a lua (hole [or toilet] filled with heated stones). They ate it with loads of rocksalt which kept all his water from leaving his body until his heart said “no” to this. Now his Kooks (no “C” in Polynesia thanks to our missionaries) buy hundreds of educated trainers’ expensive side-effecters. They throw their stale bread out for the rats, birds and mongooses, buy & to swallow croutons for double or triple the price of non-home-baked bread & learn one French word of luxury nonsense. Consumers never beware of con-men’s advertizing if supported by bribed teachers & government home – makers. Ours is the fattest state with the most rapes & teenage motherhoods. And most of these young mothers smoke before, & during pregnancy & nicotinize their babies into moronism, school absentiism & on the rolls of all possible & impossible organizations toward pride in their race, state & nation from here to eternity.

Tomatoes, onions & strawberries are huge & large when advertized as organic. “Natural” lovers are glad to pay a double of the regular price. Eaten with hamburgers & other grease – gross feed, they can cause destruction & death to ordinary eaters, children & greedy legionaires. Legionairs, E-Coli could kill.

Organic gardening was imported by the first 1000 of Hitler’s scientists & the 5000 anti-Communist experts, mostly former Nazi strorm troopers & similar hoodlums. Reinforced by unspeakables who had infiltrated via the Territories of Alaska & Hawai’i so they didn’t have to lie about their forbidden party leadership. One of them, in charge of our Civil Defence Corps in the State of Washington told me that he was told to teach our boys discipline & good citizenship.

Next arrived thousands of German-refugees from lands occupied by the Commies. As a teacher in Montana, I was made official interpreter for these Germans, sent to rural areas to help our agriculture to feed the hungry world. Several talkative teens told me laughingly that their fathers had helped to round up the evil Jewish shop & factory owners & took over their properties or businesses.

All the above knew a lot about organic farming & the dangerous diseases human feces & chicken manure could cause as German revenge against US for joining those Communists.

Kona’s biggest tomato grower started the bold way with the advice of one of those who still wore his black SS pants with high jack boots. Even though it no longer advertized organic fruits & vegetables, he told his workers, as 2 of them told me to throw the human excrements on the top of already reddening half-ripe tomatoes & on strawberries too.

The owner’s daughter told me that all their produce was well-washed. Thank you, girl. I don’t wash my own feces or urine. Don’t you know that most microbes multiply fastest when they float in water or human blood & intestines? After I stopped harvesting my own unpolluted produce, I didn’t buy strawberries, tomatoes & any poison stuff. Cucumbers I washed in ever clean water before leaving them sliced in vinegar, a good germ killer. Other vegetables I cook & overcook even if that process destroys good vitamins, proteins & filler food. I start my watery big pot (I cook for 8-12 days) with well boiled turkey or chicken etc. These lines tend to hurt the small-time entrepreneurs who are mostly in our huge & rich feeding fat & germ sales to innocent buyers who don’t read about the many deaths from “natural causes”.

George Campbell (1817 – 88) hated the American “grapes of wrath”, sour grapes, of all who preferred Hungarian, Tokay, Italian, Greek & French sweet table grapes. George decided to develop the perfect American grape. Only he thought he had almost achieved that miracle growth. It took our Italians of Lodi & Napa, California, to just import the best Mediterranean species to have their wines often trump the best French ones.

A remote relative got on cannery row with some success. Like all the already famous fruit, vegetable & meat canners, Van Camp initiated the infamous, but usually lowest price, pork & beans. I hated these from the very beginning. Many people agreed it contained no meant at all except for 1 or 2 cubes of sheer fat. The sausy substance cannot be called gravy. And who likes those ugly beans?

During my summers in Central California, the #1 Campbell accountant & her family swam with me many times & treated me with many business secrets. She “predicted” that her Campbell entrepreneurs would soon meet all exigencies of an inflation. Beginning with their delicious chicken – noodle soup, the price would double while the content of a can would first fall from 16 oz (a pound) to a 12 & later a 10.5 oz. Their T.V. advertizing would beat down criticism by demonstration how the content of this smaller can could feed a family of eager eaters. And so it happened.

As I lived about a year in Hawai’i, their nice son whom I had trained to become a great ping pong champ wrote me a sort of “letter”, describing his entrance into high school in almost acceptable English. His P.S. mentioned that his sisters 15, 13 & 11 of ages, had all become pregnant at the same time by a good friend from Santa Rosa. To my horror the eldest of them announced her visit. I let her know that I could be on a different trip with a group of teachers from her area. I hardly ever got my travel tickets any faster than in that escape.

Hunts and Knotts Berry Farm seems to have new owners, no longer members of John Birch Society. They may be in the silent majority of Bushmen.

Of all the canny money makers I like only 2 products. Progresso soups I found to taste much better than Campbell’s. Equally great but even more expensive are the vegetarian foods canned by the Seventh Day Adventists when they don’t train missionaries who doctor the sick of 3^rd-world new nations that were educationally neglected when they were still colonies. Long, long ago I was on a tour of this campus with its various industries near Redland in South California. They have more religion than the hypocrites who use faith to possess power & wealth. They are the truer image of non-robber economics. If God loved them, he would take them onto himself to make them really happy.

As already mentioned, I didn’t like the fruity products of Knotts Berry Farm. Those German – originated Fascists didn’t treat their visitors well unless they bought all the expensive junk for sale, the junked foods & the silly rides.

Hunts also have new owners who probably never heard of the originators’ faith in the John Birch Society. The fellow I dared talk to half a century ago looked like a birch tree. With some of his white bark breaking off his Aryan skin. I may have barked up the wrongest tree, or its branch.

A dozen other canners compete for mass consumption & collection of millions of customer & billions of free spending. Let us only include Del Monte, Green Giants & Libby. Many fish & mercury canners populate the wide world. Ours may be partial to Starkist & Bumble Bee.

Was Frank Gerber (1873 – 1952) the man who made baby food generally accepted, so the mother could become a workma soonest after giving birth? Since he owed his investment dollars to the family tannery, cautionary food specialist some-times wondered whether the inside of the tiny glass or plastic jar might just be the leftover by-product of a pelt – and – hide priority waste material. Do babies like Gerber’s rice?

His son of the same name (1898 – 1974) was told that he used his own daughter as a test baby along with other new kids on the block. But does father always really want to be the best baby bibbat?

These days fathers are often guilty of mistreating their girls as much, or more, than their wives. Who can tell? Who really wants to know? The fact is that since the expansion of Gerber (German for tanner), a wee-bit of baby – buttered finely ground food compares only with the enormously high price of baby bare weanies.

That should make child production almost forbidding but is no defense against sexual aggression. The poor are forced to forego everything to make their little ones survive. Have the parents the right to eat to their satisfaction? Anyway, here may lie the real reason why so many adults cannot afford decent health care & have no insurance for their own security& that of their little ones.

In the meantime, the poorest grow the biggest bellies, the most cholesterol & the sickest hearts & lungs.

Condiments are usually welcome as not needed, not fattening & once not expensive. Prices shot up since Condi became famous as an enthusiastic supporter of Bush.

Gail Borden (1801 – 74) was a man of many talents. For Western pioneers he reinvented pemmican which kept its meaty substance edible even through a hunting summer. With the help of Shakers he invented the safe condensation of milk in a vacuum. General Grant was sure that this evaporated milk kept his Union soldiers healthier than those of the slavocracy. He also got a patent for his juice concentrates. I loved Borden milk before I discovered Carnation cans & the nourishing milk of a hundred more canners who sealed it in cartons of many sizes. Who in carnation wants to enumerate all the canners & those who are no-canners?

In our plastic age, many dieticians & their true believers use creamless (fatless) creamers to milken the appearance of coffee & tea. I have tried our local Western Creamery imitation milk powder & went back to lowest – fat milk. The substitute powder looks & tastes just like my tooth powder which I once swallowed by mistake. Natural skim milk is bluish. What makes it look white & taste like milk? Additives?

Decades ago, some used saccharin as a sugar substitute for no good enough reasons. Ever more similar sugar substitutes are invented, advertized & sold. A tiny bit of sugar would be safer if not sweeter. There are too many substitute foods offered which look as they had been tasted first by professional taster – testers. Some always reminded me of not eating animal tongues because they had been in somebody else’s mouth, & eating the tough lobster, may be a shell game. But all the above cost money, make money & may be representative of some industry.

Charles A. Pillsbury (1842 – 99) followed the floury tradition of his father & politically powerful uncle to get into the milling of flour & other edible cereal industry in Minneapolis. Managing special freight rates for his grain growers, he began to control rail lines & state politics along with a handful (10) cereal numbers. Even when English shareholders bought out the Pillsbury Co., they needed the savory former head to manage his former enterprise. He even could afford to gamble at high stakes without giving “his” products a bad name.

As a Seventh Day Adventist & noted surgeon, John H. Kellogg (1852 – 1943) was certain he cerialized health foods which shouldn’t be left entirely to the pigs for their nutrition. His Battle Creek “idea” about wholesome feed for human consumption eventually became famous for the famished. Obviously, in competition with the Kelloggs, wheat, rice & corn flakes were becoming popular over a century ago, long before hippies made cereal their sole soulfeed.

W. Keith Kellogg (1860 – 1951) had to fight his own family in order to apply their common name for his novel toasted cereal. As one of the pioneers of modern advertizing, he never used religion, his or that of others, as hand maid.

Soon, also Charles Post (1854 – 1914) invaded the filler industry with his Postum, coffee Ersatz, Post Toasties, Grape Nuts etc. Feeling their oats, Quakers half – cooked or roasted their flakes.

More popular, all these & many similar products, drove prices sky high after 1990. Tough competition downed them slightly although cartons “grew” smaller & lighter for the sake of high profits – the American way in our wayward commercialism.

Even when your electricity browned out because of Arabic oil delivery boycott, those in – time – frozen TV dinner saboteurs of their own country continued to ask for the greatest waste of electric power: Keep frozen until ready for use. Preheat stove to 400°. Don’t remove the tinfoil, etc.

I scolded the University-Extension Agent when she copied these moronic directions in her weekly newspaper garbage. When she apologized over the phone for such expensive crime to her Nation, she brought small gifts for 9 students. I showed her how to do the get-ready for-eating job at half the time while using little electric power.

I had defrosted 12 of those trays in the refrigerator for 24 hrs. & taken them out 12 minutes before warming them up. Put the first one for a truly hungery kid on the smallest rangetop electric ring without its aluminum cover & put all the others, tinfoil covers removed, on top. As the lowest meal seemed hot after ½ minute, the hungry one pulled it out & swallowed it with a piece of twiback. The second needed less time for getting heated. The last 3 kids took to the sparse meal without letting them first go to the bottom of my carousel. They didn’t like food to be hot. Just warm & the icy air defeated, was all they wanted & got. The extension lady learned a lesson she hoped to apply practically if there ever was a national oil crisis again. The time is now – always now! Learn that from one of the oldest teachers, wherever you are.

The lost World War II, made Germans hungry & hungry for U.S. jobs which included all the food they could swallow. I met the founder of Orowheat, now a huge American billion dollar success, through his sister whom he sponsored while immigration for top Nazis was still illegal. As my fellow hiker, she confessed that her Ph.D. in Chemistry had made her a leading researcher in the Ruhr of deadly poisons. She wouldn’t say which. I hope they didn’t contribute to her brothers riches.

In Hawai’i Love’s bread is preferred especially the cheapest white flour, half-baked, loaf. Why can’t the Germans offer more black – rye pumpernickel, well-baked & delicious with strawberry jam? Those who love 100% fat butter may smear a tiny little bit under the fruit squash. So little protein & fat may not just taste good but be good for you. All the Mexican & other substitutes are half – baked.

Strangely, the Westphalian super bread “Pumpernickel” has often been introduced by many German breading companies. Still it is impossible to get that darkest Schwarzbrot, the only rye bread which was well – baked &, therefore, expensive. All other bread is half – baked, like its manufacturers. Most flour is of the poorest & cheapest variety. Take your magnifying glass & see how many hairs of rats were not ground as well as the rodents that love to swallow, bathe in & enjoy sugar, syrup, milk, flour, sausage & also most other feeds for folks.

For 3 days I dairied for Tillamuck Cheese & thought it was the cream of their world. 20 years after, when I dared eating American cheese again, it was all Kraft, even when called Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Since the real thing is 100% cholesterol, the weight watchers & bloody-circulation handicapped eat occasionally such creamy stuff which claims to include 0% cholesterol.

All dairies say the same about skim milk. I hate it. For a few days I serviced the centrifugal separator. With all its fat separated out, the watery substance left looked slightly bluish. Not even piglets & calflets would sip that dirty water unless a bit scent of their mamamilk was added.

The skim scum adds a few vitamins you can get from the sun & your vegetables. None of these produce the slaked – lime white. What is the chemical secret? Yet, some colleagues in our home for the aged are addicted to it. Some add honey as they do to yogurt when it is just soured milk without the tasteful & nourishing fruits addition.

I personally take in 1% & even 2% milkfat left for a decent milk taste. How much can that be in a tiny carton?

But trashed food & drink earns the producers their billions of profit. That also provides a million, or so, with “good” jobs. What would our economy be without milk & cheese? Perhaps a colony of Dennmark, Switzerland & Ireland united?

The Heinz family sank family enterprise into Jewish Passover – holiday horse radish. Grating the condiments almost bank – rotted them. Their tomato richness, converted to Ketchup, made the H.J. Heinz Co rich & politically influentially. As Republican Senator the last scion sealed great deals. But his Black Widow from Portuguese Africa betrayed his love to a Democratic Senator whose indirect catch-up vied for the U.S. presidency. We all remember his half way warriordom was defeated by non-combat Vietnam liars with the ultimate victory of our greatest corporate cheaters.

The pickles industry is most tasteful to American political tastes. Small beginners don’t get pickled but swallowed. They can get easily into a jam be it Smuckers (selling 2 lb. strawberry jam to me at low rewards) or Knotts Berryfarm. I visited them in the rightwing quarters of Los Angeles. They may be more honest as top “John Birch Society” fascists than the dieting of their marme –lades

Their fellow – true – believer in anti – people racism, Hunt jammer & Ketch-up tomato juice found less rightwing ownership. Whatever we find wrong with over-sugared preservatives in the pickles – condiment & jam powerstructure. I will never recommend the margarine industry & their very claim of “tasting like butter”. If they want such elitist taste, consumers should buy a quarter pound of real butter & use only a fraction of a quarter ounze as sandwich taste bedder with a little jam cover. Instead young idiots ruin their fat future with oleo – mayonnaise & tell themselves that the meaty fat on top of trash tastes fresh & greasy, a taste they have been trained to by a vicious advertizing industry. But billions of paydirt & millions of dirty merchants form this so-needed all-too big section of our national economy.

The moutard, mustard, is a French thriller, not the best for tender stomachs. Most of our mustard, musty art, is rat – proof – they don’t like it either. The German word for mustard is Senf. They use that word colloquially – “Das ist alles Senf” – to express the meaning “That is all nonsense” - Es ist terrible nonsense or stupidity.

Excuse me if I apply this to what Jesus expressed in one of his numerous parables. The best – instructed will remember Jesus Christ really maintaining that the mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds, but from it grows the tallest tree. That idiocy proves to some believers that he was not devine, not knowledgeable in Botany or not honest. That was true Senf – mustard, like the yolk, or joke, of an egg in his face. From devine to the ridiculous to convince Russia & China that Iran must not be allowed to have the slaughter – atomic bomb which gives some degree of security to the dozen, or so, nations that own some or even a lot, to repel mass attacks. This is no Senf, no stupid nonsense: Only responsible, civilized & even pacific nations understand it as protection against irresponsible, aggressive, mean & murderous fanatics – their nation or their dictators.

“How sweet it is” that someone without much education can do so well & good in the candy business! Milton S. Hershey (1857 – 1945) started with a small sweets shop in PA. After several trials, he managed to build his own factory with shop outlet for his 5 & 10 cent chocolate bars.

In spite of the powerful English Quackers, Cadbury, & their African cocoa tree colonialism, Hershey developed his own town. Soon he had schools, all sorts of shops, amusement parks, an orphanage with its trade school, swimming pools & all else which made Hershey a respectable “company town”.

When Father Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame, made the summer school of Montana State University (Missoula) great & famous, there were always some of Hershey High School’s best teachers who wanted to become still better. Their bandmaster & his “band aid” (my coinage for assistant to the band director) wanted to be the foremost in the country. But I prefer the taste & coolness of Cadbury even if that is an unpatriotic pronouncement. Knowing several Hersheyers & all the Cadbury Quakers personally, I asked these cosmo-political Brits around 55 years ago whether President Hoover was still a Quaker. All 3 smiled, looked at eachother & at me & said nothing. One pacifist professor reminded me: “Well, he used Cadbury chocolates and money to help the starving Belgians during W.W. I & hungry German kids after Versailles Peace Treaty. That made him a “Friend” even if he was no longer registered as such.” I thought that the dumb smiles presented a better answer to my question. The more important question is: How many billions of world industries are involved in the sweet – tooth economy?

Forrest Mars started away from home, in England, the pet food industry which found dozens of imitators in his USA. Purina, Pedigree, Friskies & Whiskers are its leading millionaires. While these products multiplied the dogs & cats by the millions, the producers made their billions. Once rather inexpensive, many of the old & poor tried & liked pet food. The good American is more charitable to his cats, dogs, rats & birds than to poor or aged folks.

Forrest Mars, however, indulged his & everyone’s sweet tooth with ever more varieties of chocolate & other candy bars. His Mars & Snickers & all the others made him a few billions without becoming as outrageous as other wealth & power seekers. Let us just call his an American success story. Who knows what his sons & later successors will do for the teeth of growing kids?

Chlorodent & Pepsident claim in their telling ads that when a stupid kid empties half of the expensive tube on his toothbrush & rubs, scrubs the junk in his teeth, the dentist is not needed. If he watered his brush with a little tapwater, he would be kinder to his teeth. And mouth-wash, now highest-priced, does less germ killing than a gargling with H2O2 hydrogeneperoxyde, which soon deteriorates into H2O, water, which harms nobody.

The Lipton Tea totaller remind me that long before Vienna small business was handled from one phone in each of the small coffeehouses. That method had begun in London almost 2 centuries earlier. Even Lloyd’s of London had begun its world-insurance underwriting in one of those small coffee shops. England’s middle class carried on that coffee habit. Even 5:00 o’clock tea was a coffee affair which produced lots of gossip & neighborly slander.

Then came the threat of disaster to the East India Company. Too many of the leading parliamentairians were share holders who feared that bankruptcy might destroy their private empire. Their profit from coffee beans was minimal, especially when too many world conflicts cost much tax money. In spite of partial recovery, a vast part of the empire was lost though soon replaced by Asian & African occupation policies.

Don’t we all remember the American colonials’ vexation over having to contribute a little of what the motherland wasted on our defence? Why should mere subjects have to pay taxes at all? In short, England’s tea replacement politics for the more interesting and scantier coffee caused our independence a century before Canada followed half-way suit.

We don’t care who used the first Lipton brand of tea. Our problem is the multiplication of herbal drinks. Few of them are really tasty. Some are even dangerous to your health & longevity. Especially those which empty your stomach & intestines in seconds. You can have an equally strong laxative effect if you consume a bit of the Monstera which resembles our acid-rich pineapple without near-death experience. Natural medication has to be tested by qualified government biochemists. Don’t desire to depend on these whose greed makes them slaves to the greedier & wealthier big pharmaceutical monsters. What is missing in healing practices, is the deeper insight & experience which, long ago, understood that medication good for one may be deadly for another.

Once Folger coffee was advertized as the best of hot drinks. Ice coffee & “Schlagoberst”, this hot drink with cold icecream & whipped cream in Vienna’s many small café-houses which also served as offices for the small businessman of Austria where telephones were rarities only for big shots’ private lines.

Then came the ad infinitum daily ads for Maxwell House Coffee “good to the last drop”. Was it from Brazil or Colombia? I didn’t like coffee at that time & told the thirsty people “until you drop dead”. Mormons seemed to like my version of the dream coffee.

I tried Mocca which had not grown in Mokka Province in the Horn of Africa or Coffee which had not originated in Arabian Kofa. Likewise Turkish coffee while Turkey grew no such weed.

The Italians who stole the recipe for icecream from old Turkey & had forgotten its Turco-Armenian name, just named it the frozen, gelato. They were equally lucky when they centrifuged milk-cream in an electric vibrator – mixing bowl. Café Expresso conquered the world & restaurateurs attracted millions.

Now Starbuck Coffee is a great monopoly which earns a billion & embraces our entire economy. I can’t find Starbuck on the map. What country grows it? My guess after tasting it once is that it was carried by José from bloody Colombia. Cheap & poor as it is, the name of Starbuck makes it tasty & rich, worth $4 a cup.

Once Brazil owned the coffee monopoly but controlled by Yankees. The great coffee blight ruined their mass production & number 1 export. I always loved Kona Coffee. It is the best in the lava world. I was offered it at International Dateline Hotel in Mid Pacific, at Sheraton Hotel in Agra, India, & by the Hawaiian – born co-manager of Great Wall Hotel, Bejing. Her husband, a Red China General trained at Annapolis & West Point because he said he came from Taiwan. He had married the Honolulu – born student while learning pidgin English at the University of Hawai’i.

These days 10% of Haw. Harvest & 90% from Colombia makes it legally Kona Coffee & demands its price.

Henry C. Folger (1857 – 1930) was chairman of the board of Standard Oil for many years. He is well known for his Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C.. Which Folger was made famous by giving Brazilian coffee his name? I really don’t wish to know it.

What if the entire West becomes Mormon & ends coffee & tea as daily drinks? The Arab world once knew Turkish coffee but now takes to tea, however, not as a healing medicine for worldschmerz. Kona Koffee remains best & most expensive.

It seems that these days water is the drink for tourists, streetwalkers & sunbathers. But they imbibe it only because watered down corporations made it expensive & often poisonous too. May I recommend the local drinking water if all its germs are neutralized by a small weekly dosis of chlorine. Let them use fluoride as rat poison or, in minimal solutions, only in grade school fountains. Bottles, plastic, glass or Chinaware bring their own dangers & millions of tons of litter where recycling is not possible. Are these billion-dollar industries which employ a million men, women & kids?

Most Americans have problems with Busco when spelled the German way (ending in “sch”), except when it is all about German beer which made Milwaukee & St. Louis famous.

Our Civil War gave two brewing Busch brothers the chance to wed two Anheuser girls, also brewing well enough, in the old German tradition of combining family properties & institutions for their common welfare.

Adolphus Busch (1839 – 1913) gets some credit for inventing a drier & lighter beer for the Anheuser – Busch Brewing Association of St. Louis. Not only that & these. He involved himself in the reconstruction of freezing devices which eventually worked by electric heating. Pasteurizing made it more alcoholic than less. Why he called it Budweiser, seemed to me an invasion into the former Austria – Hungary which sponsored beerology named after the Czech town of Pilson (now Plzen) & Budweis which was reborn as Czech Caske Budejovice.

Adolphus didn’t transplant these 2 cities to St. Louis although he was quite capable of doing what newspapering Hearst did a few decades later. He established his own railway to get coal from his own mines in Illinois before electronics conquered his world with the help of Diesel motors which he sneaked out of Switzerland. When he got too tired from overwork, he became another philanthropist.

August A. Busch (1937) expanded the family firm to its leadership over all other beer-bellies. He advertized the big & expensive way, a trick his father of the same name (1899 – 1989) had begun with the attractive Clydesdale – horses of great overweight (with all the beer in barrels & casks, nobody can be “on the wagon”) & the ownership of his baseballers, the St. Louis Cardinals.

Billions are burned in the combustion system of exhumans but all drunks want to terrorize women, children & the aged in the street & at home. They kill almost 100,000 on our “safe” roads, but affect a 100 million of US in many ways of Evil.

Adolf Coors (1847 – 1929) was a Prussian beer body who took his boozer idea to Golden, Colorado. Apparently, he bribed his way to prosperity during the Prohibition period & did better than the Mafia & other alcohol – connected murderers. Edgar Hoover never bothered the rich seducers. His successors’ advertizing causes vomiting.

Budweiser seems to appeal to all sports fans. That tricky booze company’s advertizing gets into schools & is the beginning of addiction to drunkenness & lots of violence connected with that. The victims of drunk driving alone are sometimes 12 times the crimes Muslim – Arab hoodlums have done to US. So why should we dwell on this subject & the thousands of its victims? Unfortunately the ones crippled & maimed for the rest of their lives burden a decent society for ever.

I made the mistake, some 55 years ago, to sign up as an unpaid pick-up helper in San Francisco when I cold still carry drunk war heroes on my shoulder. My attempt to rehabilitate a Texas Attorney General, some outstanding education students & other practitioners failed. I was always successful for a month & once even half a year until I found one after the other in the gutter on Mission Street.

When Bob Crosby became my ward for an hour, he was the only one to thank me for saving his soul. He pulled me out of Linkletter’s “Houseparty” to M.C. his show for the rest of the week. I pleased the audience beyond my expectations but had to go back to Berkeley, my place of pleasure in education – sometimes. I remained puzzled about the influence a non – entrepreneur can have over the masses until Bing Crosby sent me $100 bill for the secondhand whig he had handed me. (Bob & myself had thought it was a souvenir for getting his well-trained bandmaster & singer brothers back on his job.) I also saw him back on S.F.’s Mission St. after I had stopped playing A.A.’s game of piety plus patriotism. I never saw it work permanently except for those big directors in charge of charitable contributions. Is A.A. dead? I haven’t read much about their heroic elderly women, washing, feeding, housing the drunks quite professionally.

As an anti-alcohol loner I was never introduced to Ernest & Julio Gallo’s gall. They may be the initiators in their former homeland to convert most fields of delicious vegetables to better-paying vineyards. The vino industry is also enormous, addicting & catastrophic. Do the Christian Brothers, also in the same neighborhoods of California, still have a mass of masswine lovers? Nobody can tell how many millions of once useful workers are still dreaming of striking it rich when they can’t recognize the highway under their torn tires.

The Destroyers

Elisha K. Root (1808 – 65) invented tools for the killing industry. He custom-made the first revolving cylinder firearms & added more gadgets when he stepped into the presidency of the Colt Firearm Company where he worked himself to death.

Samuel Colt (1814 – 62) patented his improvements of the first revolvers. His six-shooters put him into money & influence on our hunters, Indian killers & the conquering of the inhospitable West. For Native Americans, called Indians by Christophoro Colombo (Christ-bearing pigeon), the Wide Wild West became the slaughter house of those Indians & their Bison (spelled Buffalo) life support system.

Good arms in the hand of bad people may have been the fault of U.S. Army for not buying from the Colt cultists. During the Mexican War, US ordered only, & too late, 1000 of Colt revolvers. His factory failed him. So he haggled for a big commission from Eli Whitney whose exchangeable parts factory could adjust to any requests of the moment in a moment. This cash from no labor of his own put Colt to the labors of being born again & to stay in business for the killing

We could add a dozen eager merchants of death beginning with the Henry rapid firing fusil which finished the colonization of the West. More important to the murder industry of Mafia, F.B.I. & many police forces are the likes of Charles Heston who played Ben Hur, & God thereafter, excusing the deaths of a hundred thousand innocents the human – life sacrifice by the devilish National Rifle Ass. These Asses & their million fellow – murderers prevented all democratic & decent legislation while lying their vacant hearts out in protection of the right to life which causes earlier death to the afflicted, fearful & borderline, bearing mothers.

Our Rotary Clubs reflect the radical change from benevolent capitalism to robot – robber fanaticism. Paul P. Harris (1865 – 1947) was a good guy when he worked as the founder – leader of Rotary International. Born in Wisconsin, grown up in Vermont, he went to Chicago via Iowa, imbued with great, secular – solid humanity. What was originally rotation of meetings spread all around. But Harris was left as the president for all. He still keeps presiding since his death as President – Emeriters.

Unfortunately, his gospel of secular behavior & being of service to humanity was lost when our buzzing biz men grew savage in methods of trading in cheating beyond what they claimed was honest advertizing. The rabid dogs of canine capitalism inherited their trade’s selfish greed. Ayn Rand led them over the abyss into the swamp of corruption, daylight robbery of the poor & powerless too often with the approval or real partnership of Church & State. The teaching & preaching of a new Harris couldn’t tame the sharks & hyenas of present – day caput – talismanship of our capitalism.

The Lions Club, originally perceived as a benevolent parallelist of Rotary, still donates eye glasses & some other service acts to the ones who confess their incapacity to pay for their needs, especially school children of eye – troubled family problems. They can have my whole body & any urgently needed part. But since my prostate cancer would almost surely infect the blood of men recipients, I would suggest only women as beneficiaries since they can’t poison what they don’t have. If unwanted as usual, Medical schools may use me to train physicians, as stated in my will. This is no George Will.

Healers?

When thinking of the famous women who fought for equal rights for themselves & all the suppressed ethnic groups, we must recall the difficulties of Dr. M. Elizabeth Zakrzewska (1829 – 1902) of a Polish family in Germany. Her style of midwifing was not welcome by the Aryan machos.

In the U.S.A., her ambitions let to a M.D from the tolerant Cleveland Medical College (1856); she struggled to establish herself somehow somewhere. There also was the English Elizabeth Blackwell who was a mere kid, when all her brothers moved to the USA. She received her medical degree after being pestered all the time for her abolitionist views (1849). No hospital or medical practice accepted her in the USA & Europe.

After a bit of private doctoring, she tried in vain for success in her own New York Infirmary for Women & Children. There the Zakrzewska & Blackwell currents flowed into eachother. While Blackwell also founded a sort of women’s medical college together with female infirmary, the Polish – German – American got herself a great name as a first US. – educated female practitioner of medicine. She continued her fight for Abolition of Black Slavery & Women’s Suffrage while Blackwell found her final glory back in England.

Those who fought against the glass ceiling over female ambitions in equality in our economy are too numerous to mention. There are more stars in the new heaven than ever before, but, on an average, women still earn much less than their male counterparts. And the huge corporations & universities have still a small minority of the majority in ensuredly powerful positions.

William J. (1861 - 1939) & brother Charles H. Mayo (1865 - 1939) are the medical giants who with their father, William, (1819 – 1911), as teacher & model, founded the clinic St. Mary’s Hope, Rochester, Min. Their special operations became less dangerous. They worked together, founding their own Mayo Clinic; collecting riches at home & abroad; they invested in their own Mayo Foundation for Medical Educational Research but affiliated it with Un. of Minnesota. They lived & died closely together in 1939. They were already aware of young followers who would place health at the peak of Western Culture.

But can their successors inspire into patients the élan de vie which can keep the afflicted alive through “terminal” maladies, among them cancers? Among the over 100 cancer patients I met at hospitals in Kona, Honolulu & Hilo was a mere visitor who wanted to meet me, a fellow sufferer from prostate cancer, as I received my daily radiation for 7 weeks at Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu.

He knew that I had fought for the election of my friend Patsy Mink while my former friends, the Kunitakis, lead the male opposition in favor of Senator Matsunaga. When Japanese men run for high office against a Japanese woman, the women are doomed to defeat. Besides, she was too liberal, too Western & too well educated; the only one with her Ph.D. in the Laws of the Sea. Unappreciated by President Carter, he made Pasty only assistant to the Republican legal vernagler at the oceanic summit. With the help of my Smyrna figs for her good husband (a hydrologist of highest repute) & lilikoii for her grief she was soon reelected to the House of Repr. & reelected repeatedly even after she died in 2004.

Junior Senator of HI, Matsunaga, told me that his federal medical insurance got him topmost treatment at Mayo Clinic. Still he cried over my shoulder like a doomed criminal without hope for life. “You are 7 years younger than I. Forget about Washington, D.C. offer your job to Patsy. Take this bag of passion fruits. Eat one a day. Go & dance, walk a mile every day. Let go of fat, fast food & learn to smile. You cold outlive me if you have the will.” - Poor guy with best medical treatment, reasonably weathly & absolutely secure which I never was, he kept living for a few more months. But so did over 100 patients I had known to have undergone the same treatment after having suffered thru the Dr. Rodger & imitators cutting through the urinary channel & having urine mixing with their blood to serve as feeding ground for the virus, causing the prostate to become a swollen ball of bacilli. One of Matsunga’s age lives on after 3 operations of his cancer of the brain.

Chiropractic (hand practice) was Daniel D. Palmer’s “bright” idea; this school became the joy of Davenport, Iowa, as it & he lost their Canadian birth right. In Europe it became the poor man’s poor medicator before Asiatics thought of acupuncture’s human pin cushion as equally healing. But how could any other similar business on the human race compete with the M.D. machines & their bio-chemical allies?

George Papanicolaon’s “pap” test didn’t remain Greek to women & their cancer doctors. His long life (1885 – 1962) brought him recognition along with Dr. Salk & Sabin.

While the above seemed above reproach in their monumental findings & applications to keep humanism alive, Linus Pauling’s (1901 – 94) fantastic thinking & lab – doings always had a bit of a controversial sound. His X-Ray studies of crystals discovered new forms of chemical binding & ever new ideas along with deep insight. He gave present – day Chemistry the greatest inportances. As he had guessed, antigens were complimented by their antibodies in shape. Through his laboring on proteins, it was discovered the Negroes’ sickle cell anemia was hereditary.

Instead of a deserved Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the good man earned his big-money award through making 1,000 scientists demand restricting nuclear freedom to destroy this good earth. After that he became convinced that vitamin C was the great medical wonder drug which people now ascribe to the sun’s vitamin D although in form of pills it may produce cancer in some or many. I like to short shrive the Topeka Mennigers. Father started his Germanic homeopathy before he & his sons concentrated on practical counter-Freud psychiatric care. Having helped to make children of psychiatrists normal kids, I think, the value of this sentimental science in medicine as a pseudo thing. Grandmothers could do equally good jobs when grand-children return as psychological, or worse, war victims. It is usually up to the war hero to become a peace hero if he has a strong-enough will.

The Merck family expanded father’s bit of medicine store in a great modern World War II winner take all. Vitamins became their pride & easy money makers. Sulphur drugs were still the only prescription drugs for soldiers. Those who raped a lot contracted sex diseases. Weak hearts were still attractive to cortizone. The Mercks have bigger, more aggressive mints for competitors.

The bigger Scherings & Bayers remained centered in Germany although their patented medicines (copyrights) were lost to U.S. competitors at the end of our 2 “great” World Wars. Marching arm in arm with our top generals, our war booty became the sole possession of the ones who got us into crusades which always sacrifice the poor, the common draftee, the women on both sides of the drawn battleline &, above all, every language spoken by the young worsens after every act of violence, after each cruel newspaper & magazine report, by every eyewitness film on this subject & every chaplain’s preaching of peace & love as mass killing becomes the national duty.

Some oldsters remember silly congressional hearings on the price of aspirin. Our biggest imported the 100 pill boxes from Bayer but sold 10 for their price of 100 or more. Our crooks had always the ready answer; “We still have to continue an expensive research about the good & bad effects of aspirin on people of various backgrounds & conditions of health etc. The pricing bandits always get away with usury and exploitation of the suffering masses. The result remained plain for the last centuries. The poorest are forced to make the richest richer with the blessing of heaven and all godly angels on earth.

I remember too little of my ancient medical studies. However, wartime in China put me at the head of all Western physicians there & local healers. I don’t wish to find fault with modern doctors but can’t help to think of indignities & great physical & psychological harm due to their operating at the slightest or no good reason for such blood letting procedure.

I was not yet 60 when our only doctor in Kona suggested that I was old enough to need the operation which stops the increased urination of older men. Within a year there arrived half a dozen physicians with expensive habits (boating, surfing, fishing, night clubbing). Two of them maintained that I had suffered a heart attack. The 1^st thing they told me was that I needed the cut through my urethra to relieve my bladder. Soon Prof. Dr. Rodger retired here but wanted to use his skills for the extra earnings expensive Hawai’i required.

Sent to him by 5 or 6 old & new physicians, I believed he had invented that procedure & that it would solve any prostate problems. Dazzled & befuddled, I submitted to him under anesthesia by a Hilo specialist who was supposed to have come to the Kona Hospital just for me. Al kinds of life support was in my mouth & nostrils, & Filippino nurses forced me to pray. It was a very late awakening during which I was pestered & touched a hundred times by a “harmless” young man who held me by the throat whenever I