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Show North Dakota Solves the Adulteration Problem. I North Dakota seems to have fount tho key to tho question, '.'How shad wo protect tho peoplo from frauds lb I manufactured products?" A new law jai rccontly gono Into effect deslgncJj to mako It Impossible to deceive pric-ple pric-ple Into buying Inferior and adulterated adulter-ated paint under the Impression tJiat they aro getting real paint, viz.: p,ur whlto lead and llnsood oil. , Tho North Dakota lawmakers (lid not attempt to absolutely prohibit th Inferior pigments, or mixtures of pigments. They adopted tho slogan, "Let the label tell." and then left to ihe people to buy whichever they wished. lndcr this plan, It any one wlshei to buy a mlxturo of rock-dust, ground quartz and other cheap elements which are found lu many paints and no called "whlto leads," no ono can object; for thoy do It with their oyes open. Hut If they prefer gonulne whlto lead and Unseed oil, they can bo sure ot getting It, for none but tho genuine artlclo can bear a label which says "puro whlto load." In ali othor States mixtures aro often of-ten sold as pure whlto lead which contain llttlo somotlmes no real whlto lead. It would seem that wcro this same principle nppllod to food, bovoragei and all other propared articles, where doccptlon Is prnctlcod upon tho buy )r, tho question .would be solved. It would leavo us free to buy what we pleased, but would protect us from unwittingly buying what we did not want. - |
