Show M P dersons ed tf if we were he hiring ir 1 ng a certa bertam I 1 n weekly we eldy paper to abuse abase us MS of course course every time a spot light is turned on from any source tt offers a splendid chance to talk about the merits of the products prodoc ts butron but pon honor now we are not hiring that weekly the general reader seldom cares much for the details of scraps afew may have read lately some articles attacking us and may bo interested in the following some time ago a disagreement arose with a weekly they endorsed our foods by letter but wanted to change the form of advertising to which we objected the weekly discontinued inserting our advertisements while they were negotiating for some changes they wanted in the wording and shape of the advertisements and during this correspondence our manager gave instructions to our advertising department to quit advertising altogether in that weekly quite a time after the advertising had been left out an editorial 1 r 1 i A 1 it so an attorney from new york spent more or less time for months in battle creek hoping to find impurities in our foods or dirt in the factories after cr tireless spying about he summoned twenty five of our workmen and took their testimony every single one testified that the foods are made of exactly the grain find and ingredients printed othe on the packages the wheat barley and corn com being the choicest obtainable all thoroughly cleaned the water of the purest rind and every pa part of the factories and machinery kept scrupulously scrupulous lv clean that all proved disappointing to the weekly there are very few factories hospitals private or hotel and restaurant kitchens that could stand the close spying at unexpected times and by an enem enemy paid to find dirt or impurities of some kind in any ordinary kitchen or factory he would find something to magnify and make a noise about but he failed utterly with the works and products twenty to thirty thousand people go through the factories annual iv narl wr never ne ver enri tArp whether chev are there tn nr ant tt it some facts battle creek michigan D december 30 1910 we the undersigned undersigner under signed certify that never to our knowledge has a testimonial letter been printed by the cereal co ltd which did not have behind it a genuine letter signed and believed to be an honest statement to the best of our knowledge and belief the company has receive upwards of fifty thousand genuine testimonial letters this company has never knowingly made nor permitted an untruthful statement regarding its products or its methods M K X HOWE treasurer with company about 14 years L J LAMSON inspector of advis with company about 9 years yeam 1 I 1 |