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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENINO, AUGUST - 5. 1008 LAWS FOR PURE FOOD Federal Lnwfi flood So Far as Enforceable Ken tucky and North Dakota Lead States Watered Sausages. ALTON 8. PARKER TO IN PORTLAN SPEAK ISy FRKDKKIC J. HASKIN. (Copyright. 190S, by Frederic J Hakln ) Washington. Auk. 5. Turn food lenl.s I it t to 11 bus hnd a hard roud to tnivrl through atato legislatures and through the natlonnl congrenij, but despite ob stacles and oppiiHltlrm the cause has triumphed, and there Is now enough leg islation, If adequatnly enforced, to stamp out all the grouser forms of food adulteration and fraud. Opposition to legislation of this kind Is rarely open, nnd IS therefore, tliu more difficult to fight. Tliu great buttles were fought In the state legislatures, and when the states had succeeded In educating pub lic sentiment to a point where It cuuld force members of congrens to act fa vorably, the federal bureau of chemis try was enabled to do Its worn. Representative James it. Mum of Illi nois was the champion of the food and drugs c.t which was puHsed two years ago. He wna not content to basu bis argument upon chemists' reports and theories, for he relied upon simple ob ject lessons. FYr weeks his committee room presented the appearance or the interior of a fancy grocery store. When lie made his great speech fuvorlng the bill, his desk and llio desks of several of his colleagues were covered with cans, pote, glasses and bottles. He held tip for the inspection of congress jars of raspberry Jam, which were as Inno cent of raspberries as they were guilty of timothy seed. Me showed his fellow legislators three-pound cans of peaches which contained little more than two pounds of frun. He showed how ioal tar dyes could turn simple glucose Into ulmost any kind of fruit preserve. Kentucky Is the Limit. The Mil became a law. The agita tion following the publication of i'p tB Sinclair's novel, "The Jungle." caused a somewhat unwilling congress to eniict legislation compelling the great packing houses to "clean up." The pure food advocates did not get all they asked for in either case. They are still fighting for laws which will uoiupwl packers to print on the label-the time of packing and tho exact weight of the contents of the package. These tilings will come in time, perhaps, but the main question Just now' 1p to obtain enforce ment of the laws already enacted. Since the passage of the federal law, however, many states have hastened to make their laws conform with the fed eral statutes, so that the d'stiuetlon be tween interstate and fntrasiate com merce mav be wipe,) out. i if the ne .v l'tws the one passed hy the l.nst session 'f the legislature of Kentucky Is held to be a model one by imuiv pure food advocates It Is Interesting to note that this law gives the state food con trol authorises ph nnry power to en force the pure fond requirements In the manufacture of whiskeyKentucky's most famous product. I'ntll this time the Kentucky pure food laws have not touched the matter of beverages. Question Is, What Is Whiskay? jOne of the hardest fights made on thes construction of the national food and drug act has been that on the (mention, "What Is wlilskev?" Tho de partment of Justice doci'led that Judge Alton B. Parker of New Tork will In nil probability deliver a political address In Portland at an early date. under the auspices of the Pomooratlc statu central committee, and In support of tho election of the Pernocratla pres idential ticket. Judge l'nrker has been touring; Yel lowstone jark, and will soon be In Koj Angeles for u vlsli with friends and rel atives there. Ho will then go to Be little, where he Is scheduled to deliver nn address before the annual convention I the American It.ir association. In going to that place he will pass through I'oil land Alex Sweek. clmlrmnn of the Demo cratic state central committee, has taken the (1i n1!oii up with the national chair man asking that Judge Parker be sent to Portland to deliver a political ad dress It Is expected that arrange ments oan be completed within e New York Jurist will few days, slid that th be able to appear here In one or trie theatres either before his attendance u the bar association convention or shortly afterwards. John 11. Kyan, secretary of the Demo cratic state central committee, has made arrangements to secure the same suite of rooms In tho Merchants Trust build ing, Sixth and Washington streets, that was UNd liv the Democratic committees In the campaign of last June. Tho new headiiuarters will be opened as soon as in raiigements for furniture can be completed, and the campaign for an Oregon ni.ilorltv for Hrvnn nnd Kern will be actively begun. Offices for the accommodation nf the state chairman, Alex Sue. k. tho state committeeman. M A Miller, and the county chairman of Multiiou.ah. (ieorge H Thomas, will he provided In the headquarters, while there will also be a room which can be used as a committee room. CHARGE GRAFT III STREET WORK East Taylor Pavement De clared Wholly Inferior Contract Violated. regulations This ordor Is being resist ed In the courts, and a long fight Is ahead before the question will be set tled finally. Can Bity Trash If Labelled. In Kentucky the pure food advocates have been working li) years. R. M. Allen nnd M. A. Hoovllle have been at the helm rMr. Allen Is the secretary of the Food Control Officers' associa tion, which Is now holding the puro food congress at Mackinac island. He has resigned his position In Kentucky and Is now nn assistant attorney gen eral of the I'nlted Ptates under Mr. Bonaparte, with especial charge of pros ecutions of the food laws. Air. Allen Is responsible for tho Kentucky theory, which may be described ns the "plain label policy." If the label tells the truth, then the consumer Is at liberty to buv Injurious things if he desires, but ho must be protected from frauds and counterfeits. Tho Kentucky policy of tho plain la bel Influenced the large fruit nnd vege table ii.ickers to hesrin experiments to do nwav with benzoic ocld anl other i frauds rults must he expected. A arrest ma jority of food products that are sus coptlhlo of adulteration are distributed through Interstate commerce, and Only the federal law can reach them with adequate and uniform force. Tho state and local authorities will continue' to exercise authority over purely local af fairs, and to them the people must look for purity of milk supply and cleanli ness of grocery storos, markets and restaurants. The Kentucky Idea followed. It is to be doubted If congress has ever enacted a law which, If adequately enforced, will accomplish mora far reaching practical reforms than the food and drugs act of June 30, 1908. I(retnfore federal legislation control ling the character and labelling of I goods, drugs and beverages has been of a restricted scope nnd has been lim ited, practically, to adjusting tho rights ami wrones of1 Individual litigants. Un der th a ordinary criminal statutes there have been long lists of penaties for act lot in mercantile transa treservatives. Years before the nn- I of Histlce decided that tin" word "whiskey" should be used only for distilled "straight" whiskey, nnd that whiskey made of neutral spirits must be labelled ns a compound or imi tation. As only a small percentage of the whiskey m.nla and sold in the coun try Is "straight" the fight has been a bitter one. The ruling of the depart ment of Justice has been followed in de cisions of the courts Involving trade mark rights, and finally the treasury department directed the branding of whiskey by Internal revenue authori ties, in accordance with the pure food tional meat Inspection law was pass the packers put up a distinct meat prod uct for sale In Kentucky. They had to conform to tho plain label law and there v,er some things about which tho truth might not have been savory or appe tizing. Worth Dakota to Front Bank. North Dakota Is another state which Is In tho van of tho pure food fight. Professor K F. Indd, who Is presi dent of tho pure food congress at Mack inac. Is a believer In publicity as a cor rective and deterrent agent. Ho has obtained the passage of a state law authorizing the publication of his anal vses of food products In the newspapers of the state, tho counties paying the hills for publication. His power over manufacturers of doubtful or question able products has thus been greatly In creased, for thev are willing to conform to the strict letter of the law rather than to risk a general expose of their questionable methods. Mr. Ladd is also lenJinpr a fight RL-ainst bleached flour, a suhlect which is dear to the heart of Dr. Wiley of the fclrrtil pure fond forces. He declares that cen If bleaching does r.ot Injure the flour. Jn the Interest of trade hon esty the lnbel ought to sav that It Is bleached. Dr. James IT. Shepard of North Da kota Is another crusader. He declares that the two grentest Instruments of food fraud are Imitative colors and fla vors, which are used to make imitative nnd inferior articles resemble the gen uine and superior. ITo is particularly opposed to tho use of poisonous ana line dyes. Watered Sansofres. Tn Michigan. Commissioner Bird has been making a strong fight against the use of potato starch In sausage. He has figured It out that Michigan pnv Sl.nnn.ODO a year for sausage. By us in7 potato starch the ma nufacturers are enabled to add 21 to Fhl per cent 'of j water In weicrht and bulk to the prod uct. Thus Mr. Bird declares that the Michlganders pay $200,000 a year for water In sausages, held there by the use of potato starch. Bo the story goes on through prac tically all of the states. But after all. it Is tho federal law nnd the federal authorities from which the greatest ro- der the trade mark regulations. The pure food act announces the broad prin ciple that manufacturers engaged in Interstate commerce shall see to It f.ii ' b fully that every article of food, drink or drug Is exactly what tho label nn the package represents It to be. It Is not tho intention to split hairs In defining labels, but as far as pos sible the "'Kentucky policy" will be fol lowed. The Kentucky pure food au thorities did not ask a court what a certain label meant. They asked the Janitor of the building, a streetcar con ductor or any man in the street. The question Is not what tho manufacturer says he means by his label, but what tho consumer thinks the label means when lie purchases the package at thn grocery store. If tlie Courts Don't Kill It. The two years this law has been on the statute books have not sufficed for more than experimentation, and if It is finally construed by the courts In con sonance with its spirit, so as to permit enforcement, it will have a powerful In fluence upon business ethics of the country. Although delays In construc tion of the law ami tho necessary cau tion of administration were Inevitable, It Ih m fsct (hat no new law eirr had a better sneclnl force at hand to- work for Its enforcement. There If Pr H. W. Wiley and his corps nf chemical assistants with ex perience nf 20 years In federal and state work, at the head of things. Capable nu-n from the state work flolds were taken Into the government service and placed In charge of the work in va rious sections. This force of experts Is at tho head of th pure food en forcement. That undue haste Is not to J Injure tne work Is proved bv the moth- ' eds used In the selection of Inspectors, the men who are to do the actual field work of ferreting out violations of the law and obtaining evidence upon which to base prosecutions. Inspectors Who Will Inspect. Two civil service examinations have been held for inspectorships. Of the 2.300 applicants who took the exam inations, not 100 passed, and so far only 35 have been appointed. These 35 are headed hy W. Ci. Campbell, drafted from the Kentucky food department, and Ar thur Rtingle, a young druggist from Philadelphia, as chief and assistant chief or the force of inspectors. Thirty- There Is too much graft In this street improvement proposition and ws propose to force an Investigation aven If we have to take the matter Into the courts," said George 1L Heaxan this morning apropos of the discussion eon cernlng the street improvements on East Taylor street. 'Some time ngo the contract wu let for tho Improvement of Taylor street from Kast Thirty-fourth to Kast Forty -fourth street." said Mr. Beazan "While the work was being done some or me property owners protested sev eral times ugulnst the Kind of work being done and the materials used, but with no results. Before the work was accepted by the council all the property owners but one living- In the Improved section filed a strong protest against the acceptance but It was Ig nored by the city council. The assess ment notices were then sent to the property owners and the Indignation rose to boiling heat. The assossed members claim that the charges are ex orbitant even for good work, and that different people have been charged dif ferent prices." This evening a meeting will be held at the home of Mr. Beazan at 1100 East Taylor, In order to get the people together in a concerted movement to resist payment, and the Indignant resi dents of the section assert that they will resort to law if no agreement can be reached. Violated Contract. Mr. Beaznn speaks In no compli mentary terms of street paving com panies and makes a wholesale charge of graft. We Intend to force the city to In vestigate this case and maybe It will load to the investigation of other cases," he said. I have never before seen such poor work anywhere. The contract specified the exact kind of work to be done. It called for the first filling of rock to be not more than three Inches, and as nearly as possi ble two Inches, but it is rock anywhere from two to nine Inches. 'The top coating of rock was to be 2V4 inches and this was to be covered with gravel clean cut gravel. Instead there Is only a top surfa.ee of clay gravel and the under coating of rock Is exposed through it. It seems never to have been rolled or pressed down at all. Instead of fho even, hard surface called for the street has a rough, soft surface that looks as if It had merely been dumped off a wagon and spread out and never had a roller on It. "The street has been finished only two weeks and there has been prac tically no teaming on It and the little has been light teaming, yet the top surface is already worn through and the rocks are sticking up. The Soft tired buggies cannot go over It at all and It Is all an automobile can do to get over. Work of Poorest Kind. "At Thirty-ninth Btreet they have not even leveled the street down to Taylor and there is a distinct step up of sev- I ernl inches n Automobile came along there a few evenings ago and it was I having such a hard time to get over the newlv-paved street that tho driver was speeding It up to get over the bumps and not seeing this step he ran into It and the four occupants "were all thrown out over tha hood. The side walks and curbing show no better work artd are already cracking all around. "The contract gave the entire cost at $19,000. but in adding up the Indi vidual assessments we find thoy amount to $26,000. For mv frontage of 22 1-3 feet I was assessed $182.87, while mv neighbor across the street with e-xaotlv the same frontage, was as sessed $167." The Job was done hy Joplin & Gei bish. contractors. At a preliminary meeting last night a few In attend ance snowed their unanimity for pro test and tho larger meeting was called tonight. They expect to reach some definite decision and a warm time is planned, for the residents as a body have declared war. riSsioV' stA bv- ; Hlexan&er Hamilton. NO man not even George Washington has left a more lasting Impression, upon our higher laws and institutions than this romantic and handsome young Revo lutionary General and Statesman, who died so tragically in a duel at the very zenith of his fame. Upon every clause of the Constitution of the United States his individuality is indelibly stamped. Daniel Webster says of him: "He smote the rock of National re sources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth; he touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprung upon its feet." He believed in protecting the brewing industry, and drank good beer all of his days. REFERENCES: Appleton'i Encyclopedia; Bbouler'i ilijtory U. B.. p. 71. etc, Sumner's Life of Hamilton, p. 102. o Mm diwceiisceff The Natural Drink of America In every glass is health; and what is health but efficiency and power? It comes to your table a delicious sparkling food a wholesome malt beverage exhaling the aroma of hop gardens and the fragrant scent of new mown northern barley fields. The little alcohol in it promotes cheerfulness of iind which is the best of all medicines. The Lupulin in the hops soothes the nerves a acts as a digestive tonic; while the juice of the barley contains a high percentage of substantial nutriment. THE KING OF ALL BOTTLED BEERS BottUd Only ml th Anheuser-Busch Brewery St. Louis, U. S. A. 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In the force which Is administering the food laws. The board of food and druR Inspect Ion, appointed by the sec retary of sericulture, has authority to construe all cases arising under the act This board Is composed of Dr. Wiley. Dr. F. W. Punlap and Solicitor i McOabe. Dr. Wiley believes In re- i solving every doubt in favor of the con I sumer. The other members of the board I freouentlv out-vote him and more than once have prevented taking; a question to the courts in which Dr. Wilev and the other pure food experts believed there was merit. There have been charges and count er-cnat'Res concern ing affairs 1n this board and until this source or rri' tion is removed mere is , considerable doubt about a general en- j forcement of the lav. Pure food au- thorities of th states are a unit In ! supporting Dr. Wilev's position, but he has the forces or conservatism an well as those of the opponents of the en forcement of the law against him. FATHER VILLA III m CHARGE father Anthony Octavius Villa, S. J., arrived this morning to take over his new charge, St. Michael's church, at Fourth and Mill streets. He has been Instructor the past year at Santa Clara college and this Is his first pastoral Father Villa Is of the Society of Jesus, commonly known as Jesuits, whioh does not ordain Its members for the ministry until they have reached the age of 33 or 34. In the meanwhile they are flven all opportunity for study. Father Villa was graduated first from I'ledmont college In northern Italy In 188 S. Te was then sent to St. Louis university for three years and then to Montreal, Canada, at the College of the Immaculate Conception, for four years. Then he tauKht at St. Ignatius' college fn San Francisco for three years, and was then sent to St. Andrew's college on the Hudson. In New York, for special; work for a year. He then took a chair I at Santa Clara college for a year. His major has bean philosophy and econom ics, but he Is also a versatile linguist. He speaks with equal ease French, Ital ian, English. German. Spanish. Portu guese and Slavonian, and besides Is well versed In the classic languages. St. Michael's church feels that it has secured a strong man In Father Villa. He is an earnest worker and Is deeply Interested In his own people. low Bates to Chicago. Extremely low round trlD rates tn Chicago and other eastern points on sale August 6 and 7 via the Chicago & Northwestern line. For full Informa tion apply to R. V. Holder. General Agent, 122-B Third street CONCERT TONIGHT II0LLAPAY FA UK That's enousrh to run vou until noon. Qra pe - Nuts food is made of selected parts nf Wheat and Barley, retaining the Phosphate of Potash grown in these grains by Nature for rebuilding the brain and nerve centers. PI? De Caprlos band will play at Holliday Tark this evening, the concert to hepln at 8 o'clock. Following Is the program: March (Mascagnl): overture. Akxanuro Mraoella (Flowtow); en tr'nr'.p et valse Coppella (Dellhes); par aphrase, "Annie I.aurle" 'Itennettl; se-l-.tion. "The Idol's Kye" 'Herbert); "ljusrtette of the Rises " tPe Caprlo; Mr. Coomer. cornet: Mr Talt. trombone: Sljrnr Pe Nobll. baritone, Signor l arei;. basso; waits. "I'nder the Rose" ilUnnkei; selection. "The Daughter of the Regiment" (Donizetti . saxaphone nn, "In the Dear Home" dlrel !ngcr . Mr Adrian, march, "Capital City" (J. Krc er). A-f Nil O Tl UHOCS irar dellfs I here's a Reason" for Qr peNmts Huildlng Permits. Adam Obrrmlilar ereet dwelling East Seventh between Shaver and Fa I II n sr. J3. :('i: T. M. Hallar. erect dwelling. Schuvler between Kast Twenty-first nnd F.ast Twentv-secnnd. I'.om. W. u ; Schmidt erect dwelling. Hilsey bet wn 1 Kast Twnt v-second nd Kat Twenty-fo-irth. It.". A. KWmsn. erect dwel lirT. Ash between F.it Twmt v-elhth end East Twent v-nlnth. Jl . N'adl Swet. erect dweMir.r. 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