Sodium Fluoride as pointed out in the first part of this chapter,
has the potential power to harden or paralyze the muscles,
hence Dr. Hueper's expert opinion is apropos.

Since the publication of the first edition of Age Of Treason, the magazine, The National Police Gazette, March 1958 issue, offers the reader further information on this vital subject of water adulteration, part of which is here reproduced, indicating that public is awakening to this dangerous practice and to warn against the use of such adulterated water for drinking and the preparation of foods for human consumption.

"How many glasses of water do you drink daily? Regardless of the amount, it doesn't take any scientific formulas to reach the conclusion that all of us need water. It is considered as our most important foodstuff, and as such it deserves the greatest protection that the government can give.

"Now comes a shocking and spine-tingling revelation by a leading Government cancer expert. This exclusive information is revealed by the Police Gazette in order to spur governmental action while there is still time to curb this tremendous peril to the health of the whole nation.

"The threat is exposed in a report never before published. Dr. W.C. Hueper, chief of the experimental cancer section of the U.S. Health Service, National Health Institute, compiled the report. This is what Dr. Hueper says:

"The growing pollution of the human environment with chemical and physical cancer-producing agents poses a serious threat to our health.

"‘This pollution stems from modern industrial development (without proper safeguards for the disposal of dangerous chemicals - to the health of the people) and creates a particular dangerous threat to our drinking water....The possibility of cancer hazards from water deserves serious consideration.'

"The cancer expert...pointed out that cancer-producing agents from factories and other industrial plants may enter (almost every one is aware that it does so in many instances) the drinking water supply. These dangerous Chemicals are also absorbed in vegetables, fruits and food animals.(1)

"The various materials which can produce cancer threats through water are listed by Dr. Hueper as: arsenicals, aelenium, radio-active substances, waste from coke ovens, tar refineries, gas plants, oil refineries, textile dyeing plants, paper manufactures and cellulose factories.(1)

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(1) All this, dangerous as it is to welfare - physical and mental - of the people, would not offer a serious problem if the people living in the vicinity of such manufacturing plants were alert, and immediately on becoming aware of such pollution taking place, would take positive steps to halt it, and see to it that these manufacturers would find proper means for the disposal of such residue. This is the only means to prevent pollution. It is a simple method and can be followed by every American citizen who has the welfare of his own, and his fellow man's well-being in mind.
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"The doctor (Hueper) explained that the cancer threat associated with exposure to cancer-producing agents represents a segment of the general toxic health hazards connected with the production, distribution and consumption of industrial products and the release of industrial wastes into the environmental air, water and soil.

"The most important factor is that with industrial activities rapidly expanding there is a good chance of the poisons being emptied onto the environment also increasing (while coincident to this increase the life of the individual is constantly considered as less and less important except as a customer for the products).

"So the doctor warned that the ‘complex problems created by these developments deserve serious and urgent attention by all parties concerned so as to keep them within controllable limits.'

"Because of lack of factual knowledge on just how many cancer-producing agents are already present in the environment, an all-out push should be made to prevent the addition of any new cancerous agents to the human environment.(2)

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(2) This is only possible if the mass becomes alerted to the danger, and act in unison to prevent the possibility of such pollution, by helping producers to find a means to destroy at its source, this dangerous residue of manufacturing processes. The efforts of a few cannot be successful in bringing about this change.
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"Dr. Hueper explained that contact with many of the cancer-producing agents sometimes ‘start with birth and may last uninterruptedly for 24 hours a day until death.' Carcinogenic air and water pollutants are most prominent in this respect.

"The doctor explained that the safety of many cancer-producing agents cannot be adequately made by observations in experimental animals.

"The so-called (fatally erroneous) safe dose arrived at, he stated, ‘represents one-tenth of less of the minimal dose capable of eliciting cancers in the species of animals used in the test.'

"Apart from the fact that there does not exist a safe dose of a human carcinogen, it is important to point out that such deductions made from effects elicited in animals carry along several potential miscalculations.(3)

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(3) A method must be found impressive enough to awaken the minds of the mass to the fact that a physician prescribing a Toxic drug of one-tenth of a fatal dosage, would be certain to do several things: He would keep the patient under careful observation. He would discontinue the medication immediately if any unfavorable symptoms appeared, or it had served its purpose. In water pollution, deliberately done for a supposedly desirable purpose, or with evil intent, the ingestion by the individual may be continuous, and in addition t the many other additives of an injurious nature to various foods consumed, and without any control whatever in so far as the individual is concerned.

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"Dr. Hueper also warned, Under no condition should a cancer-producing agent be considered safe for human consumption because it does not cause cancer when given by mouth to mice and rats, while it produces cancers when introduced by another route such as skin implants.

"Any chemical which is capable of producing cancers of any type in any tissue or organs of any species when introduced by any route and in any dose should be considered as a potential human carcinogen. It should not be allowed or made available until it has been definitely proved safe for man.(4)

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(4) The first and most important step should be to make such Toxic substances unavailable to any but physicians, until such time as proper safeguards have been established.
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"From the great amount of cancer producing agents that have been reported by Dr. Hueper the average citizen must wonder whether we are just helpless pawns in the game between government and industry.

"The answer to the whole problem can only be found in the point stressed strongly by the cancer expert:

"We must step up our safeguards and demand increased government protection for our food, air and water.(5) It will mean the difference between good health (physical vitality and sanity) and bad...it may even save your life."

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(5) This will require the absolute prohibition by simple but enforceable legislation, of the use of poisonous or Toxic substances in the feeding of animals, and the processing of all foods for human consumption. There can be no middle ground.
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