Life — April 25, 1918 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Why Is My Soldier Sick? Extracts from an Open Letter to Edwin Ralph Estep Those who are looking for the true an- swer to the question of why there is so much sickness among the soldiers, will find it in the fact that they have been pumped full of disease by compulsory serum inoculations and vaccinations! His powers of resistance have been so lowered by this systematic and excessive blood poisoning that any and all disease finds bim casy prey. According to the recent statement of alieutenant from Massachusetts, his resi- ment received “six inoculations in one | 3 day, and the men fell like dead men on the floor, as they were trying to get to their beds.” Not a few, but many, be came dead men. On one train com ing east from Kansas a man reported “THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE” eight dead soldiers. These men were : i husky Kansas farmers — before inocula- EAS $3 $3,50 $4 $4. 50 $5 56 $7 &$s tion! { Rae . The thousands of deaths deliberately \ || W. L. Douglas name and the ! inflicted upon our soldiers and sailors has retail price is stamped on the passed the scandal line—it has become a oa na every pair ws shoes tragedy ! \ efore they leave the factory. || We hear frequent mention made of 4 The value is guaranteed ead i) war profiteers—there are so many already 4 7|the wearer protected against | it is deplorable to have to add another high prices for inferior shoes. name to the long list, but rarely are the : You can save money by wear- manufacturers of disease mentioned in eal ing W. L. Douglas shoes. The this class to which they properly belon: “ Fed é : best known shoes in the world. » the people of this country realize that D : millions of dollars are invested in serum ‘ The ualy of Ws F Douglas product is guarantees y more than years ex- penence in making fineshoes. The smart (i a stylesarethe leaders in the fashion centre: g SAV of America. They are made in a well adit ger ‘ E equipped factory at Brockton, Mass., by $3 $2.50 $2 | the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and 6 ) l g Wwe supervision of experienced men, all working withanhonest deter- S minationtomake the best shoes for the price that money can buy. While“ bound out’’at the age of 11, ¢ retail prices are the same everywhere. They cost no Foot-Easo to Bo Added to Eguipmont of | |} W. L Dovslay yay frecueny, ge: Hos rps 2 rand other pital Corpsiat Fork Wayne. be barrow adistance are always worth the price paid for them. ading the Detroit Free Press, On cee occasion OA UTION — Before you Duy be sure W.L. Douglas name among other things says: ‘The theory is that a Le overs by 8 heed pee and the retail price le at Hed on the botto dnd thet e! iti ci vi ide te n h a o diers whose feet are in good condition can wal Tecaquine bins It proved to be a sige top festne. Inia ts your onty farther and faster than soldiers who have corns and ported to his mother bunions incased in rawhide. h ond his stre The Plattsburg Camp Manual advises men in 5rE3, Wit; Dourlas to perform and | | Tate. tnining to shake Foot=Ease in their shoes each morning. Oue war relief committee reports, of all the things | seat out in their Comfort Bags or “Kits,” Allen’s Foot-Ease received tho most praise from the sol- . diers and men of the navy. It is used by American, vaccine producing plants, that they are Frech and British troops, because it takes the licensed by the government to manufac- Friction from the Shoe and freshens the feet. There ture disease to be put into the blood of ape foot comforter canal to Mier Foot ae te | the race, and that millions of dollars are antiseptic, healing powder to be shake: ¥ ara oH thoes @ sprinkledin the foot-bath, tho standard made each year by the sale of these | remedy for over 25 years for hot, tired, aching, r ring, smarting, swollen, tender feet, corns, one of the smaller disease factories, and Lunions, blisters or callouses, was told by the person in attendance Why not order a dozen or moro 2c. boxes to-day that they had furnished “four million from your Druggist or Dep't. store to mail to your inoculations already and the season was frends in training camps und in the army and navy. Gay Mall over” | -Age- theses Slacase manufacturers in the business for any- thing but profit? N | Why is there so little mention made of this most conspicuous cause of disease | Absol utely Removes amoig the soldices? ; * 3 essica Henverson, | In di ges tion. One package } Recording Secretary, The National Anti-Vivisection Federa- ME LIVES ON “VICTORY LOAVES ” AND KAS Proves it. 25c at all druggists, tion, Incsrporated. more in San Francisco than they do in New York. They Copyright, W. L.Douglas Shoe Co. serums and vaccines? The writer visited TWO WKOTHERS IN FRANCE comicbooks.com