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Show HEALTH RACKETEERS. Medical quackery, which for several ' years gradually lost ground because of the growing tendency of newspapers newspa-pers to reject quack advertising, seems to have found a new and poten-: poten-: tial aid in the radio. I Much advertising which no self-; self-; respecting newspaper would print is j freely broadcast over the air, evident-: evident-: ly witli some success in attracting ; suckers, because it is being continued ; in undiminished volume. Those who prey upon the public by fraudulently cashing in on the uni-j uni-j versal desire for health are charac-j charac-j terized by Dr. E. P. Lyon, dean of I the medical school of the University of Minnesota, as "health racketeers." .He says of this type of faker: "His health patter is psuedo science. His eye is on your check I book. In these days especially he prostitutes pros-titutes the radio to his uses. Quacks and quackery, fakers and fakery of j all kinds appeal to a bewildered public pub-lic between .jazz and the nasal tenor, I with blatant advertisements, that no . reputable journal will print. Oh, I health, what crimes are committed , in thy name!" Even some of what appears to be legitimate advertising is very deceptive. decep-tive. The doctor says further: "Brushing "Brush-ing the teeth is a nice habit; but no one has proved that it saves teeth, and all the flamboyant' advertising about tooth pastes is rottenest tommy-rot." tommy-rot." We often wonder if Bill Hay doesn't ! reel off his chronic radio, spiel about j "film" with tongue in cheek. |