Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-27 | Page 6 | Health Measure?

Health Measure?. THZ wnata health and labor committee announce an-nounce public hearing on Senate Bill 9 for Monday at 7:30 p. m. at the Newhouse hotel There I a far wider public Interest in this measure mea-sure than casual reading of it title might Indicate. Indi-cate. It I held out therein that It is an "act relating re-lating to foods; to provide for the public health nd safety by licensing places where food is prepared for human consumption to be consumed on the premises, providing regulation, restriction restric-tion and conditions under which food may be prepared and sold for consumption therein; providing pro-viding for the administration, disposition of fund, and penalties for the violation of the provisions pro-visions of this act" The generalities expressed In the title ordinarily ordi-narily would appeal to all person who want a license to give assurance of cleanliness, whole-somen whole-somen ess and proper sanitation in every respect when they enter an eating place to buy a meal. Reading the detail of this measure disclose that it is lea concerned with providing this assurance than It i with unrelated matter obviously designed de-signed to inconvenience the public, Impose wholly Unnecessary burdens on proprietors, drive some establishment out of business, although they sre m no wis inimical to health, and inescapably increase food costs to those who from preference prefer-ence or necessity est away from their lodging er homes-Here homes-Here is one more piece of legislation rising from the hope that it will create more Jobs. In period of widespread unemployment auch measures mea-sures are likely to win uncaiculating approval, whereas if pains be taken to atudy their provision provi-sion minutely it Is easily discovered that hidden hid-den meaning do not reveal the main purposes of the measures. This Is to be found In Senate Bill I. If passed. It could not help but mean more Joblessness, Job-lessness, the end to numerous eating place and higher prices' for patrons of pi sees which might survive. Thl Is not primarily measure In the Interest Inter-est of public health. If it were, all objectives Stated could be accomplished without penslizing public and proprietors, adding unconscionably to the burdens of record keeping of the state board of health and requiring vest Increase In its office end field personnel. - The bill, excepting hotels and railway dining cars, would prohibit sales of meals, foods, drinks and tobacco in any establishment connected with ny business whatsoever but the prohibition' does not extend to soft drink, ice cream or Ices nd confection. Thi would force the elimination elimina-tion of cafeteria and lunch counters in department depart-ment stores, drug stores, csndy stores, bars snd other pieces where they are esteemed both a convenience and necessity to large element of the public. A very large number of workers would be left with three choices to pack lunches to their work, to eat at home or to patronize high-- high-- pihw restaurants which sre beyond their mean,' Still other would encounter greater difficulties. The bill Itself is crudely drawn, is ambiguous, f highly doubtful validity, conspicuously unjust un-just and unfair and wholly unwanted and unnecessary un-necessary as t measure for the public welfare. A representative turnout ought to be present at the public bearing next Monday evening to shout 1 down. The Telegram 1 proud of It record as a champion cham-pion of sound, needed and vigorously enforced health laws and regulations. . It will support legislation of this sort whenever it can be shown to be desirable. It protests serious consideration of Senate Bill I by the legislature a wait of time. It seek by Indirection end which are cloaked in obscurity In the draft of the measure,