The Golden Age, “Truth Sometimes Comes to the Surface Quickly”
“Manufacturers of aluminum kitchenware continue to advertise that those opposed to the manufacture of aluminum cooking utensils are wrong, in spite of the fact that the reports show that such ware is used previous to 99 percent of all group poisoning cases.”
Betts recounts writing to a family in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, whose New Year's Day illness had been reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and printing their reply, which mentions soup carried in an aluminium pail.
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Provenance and verification note for The Golden Age, Truth Sometimes Comes to the Surface Quickly
Confidence note. Read in the OCR text layer of the archive.org scan on 19 September 2026 on the leaf mapped to printed page 442, in the issue whose masthead reads 13 April 1932. Scanner hyphenation closed up.
Scan provenance. Internet Archive item '1930-1934TheGoldenAgeMagazine'; page number from the _djvu.xml leaf mapping joined to _page_numbers.json, cross-checked against the issue masthead 'Volume XIII ... Wednesday, April 13, 1932 ... Number 323'.
Notes. Establishes that Betts was still writing for the magazine on this subject in 1932, six and a half years after the magazine's December 1925 undertaking to restrict what it published.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-hlth-ga-1932-0413-betts-truth-surface