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Show ;PURE MEAT HER AIM Woman Jolts the Government's: Inspection Service. Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane of Michigan Mich-igan Offers at Health Convention Proof of Laxity in Uncle Sam's Work. Kalamazoo, Mich. Rev. Caroline Rartlett Crane of Kalamazoo, the reform re-form worker who threw a combshell into the meeting of the American Public Pub-lic Health association at Richmond. Va., recently, by declaring that there-was there-was rottenness in the government -system of meat inspection, came forward for-ward with proof of certain challenged statements regarding the issuance of "service announcements" by the bureau bu-reau of animal industry in which regulations reg-ulations of the bureau are annulled. These. proofs are in the shape of photographs of pages of these "service "serv-ice announcements" which Mrs. Crane-made Crane-made from pamphlets procured from a federal inspector, which she returned re-turned to him after having them photographed pho-tographed by a professional photographer. pho-tographer. Mrs. Crane presented these photographic photo-graphic proofs before the executive comomittee of the American Public Health association. She stated emphatically em-phatically that she would substantiate her charges in every particular just as she had done in reference to these "service announcements." The latest of the "service announcements" announce-ments" is No. 29, issued September 15, 1909. It is headed by a bracketed note which reads: "This publication is designed to disseminate information and instructions instruc-tions to persons in the employ of the bureau of animal industry and to proprietors pro-prietors of establishments at which the federal meat inspection is conducted. conduct-ed. It is not intended for general distribution dis-tribution to the public." The pamphlet contains instructions as to certain changes in minor regulations regula-tions concerning brands and it paragraph par-agraph on how to make out expense accounts. As soon as the session convened the secretary read the following resolutions resolu-tions from the executive committee: "The executive committee, having-been having-been directed by the association to consider the advisability of appointing Kev. Caroline a. urane. a committee to investigate certain charges made in an address before the association (which alone they can. consider), against the meat inspection inspec-tion under the direction of the United States department of agriculture, beg leave to report that, inasmuch as the giver of the address appeared before be-fore this committee and submitted certain documents, and inasmuch as neither those documents nor her statements, in the judgment of the committee, substantiate those charges, they recommend that no such committee com-mittee be appointed and that the motion mo-tion calling for it b4 laid on the table." Rev. Mrs. Crane began her work in the interests of clean meat in Michigan ten years ago, where she led a campaign for a state law regulating regulat-ing slaughtering by farmers and got her bill through the legislature only ater much opposition from the farmers. farm-ers. One afternoon when it became apparent the bill wouid be killed the following day unless it made new friends Mrs. Crane hurried from Kalamazoo Kala-mazoo to Lansing, where the following follow-ing morning she won over by her arguments ar-guments enough of the bill's farmer-opponents farmer-opponents to save it. Among her olher activities during her long pastorate pas-torate in Kalamazoo have been a successful suc-cessful campaign for a cleaner city, physically and morally, and the organization organ-ization of a civil leaguew which goes Into the life of the town's inhabitants inhabit-ants even to the extent of bringing together to-gether married couples who have separated sep-arated and forcing wife deserters to contribute to the rapport of their families. |