Show lAW MAY COVER GOVER A ADVERTISING 1 1 FAKES i State Dairy and Food Bu J 1 After Worthless f Medicine Makers B Believing that are aro helm being conell consistently con con- ell duped by false falso medicine advertisements adver adver- and that thousands of ot dollars are Aro sent out of ot tho the state each year car to food and drug firms who ho aro worse than confidence men mon members of tho the Utah state dalr dairy and food bureau J are ire preparing ing ng a strong strom false folso ad bill to be presented to the coming le legislature lature Although u u tato at present has such euch eucha sucha a n. law Jaw it ba has baa been found too weak cule to be I effective s 's of ot the state dairy an and food department have o found that they were Je-alJ Je legally unable to prosecute offenders who have ha their places place of ot business outside the state and yet ct s 1 t goods gooda In Utah Responsibility Placed Tho The proposed bill will wm bo ho Modeled after of or IllinoIs tho the famous Printers Ink Ja law lan and other states This This' Ja law places s tho responsibility on the newspapers ma maga magazines inan- inan zIne or other publications co advertisements advertisements' which Are iro ro proven pro false However Howo the publications do not e 8 as 15 a provision Is made that all nd ner- ner er- er mUl must t give Sl the papers a n sufficient bond to cover an any possible monetA monetary penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty for tor an Infringement of or tho lie law Jaw Inthe In the thai event e that n n. newspaper Is found guilty of ot runnIng a R spurious advertisement advertise nd emente e- e I meat ment the bond of or tho the advertiser Is for for- feltEd According to tho the board boar members such u h deception Is now now- being practiced especially espe espe- daily b by manufacturers and dispensers of ot various arlous alleged cures and drugs dregs They say that their advertisements In the papers claim wonderful qualifies for the products product but that the medicines th themselves them them- melves m- m selves elves are Libeled lcd within tho the law JaW and do donot donot donot not bear out the publicity Sees Need of It Hober C. C Smith chief deputy state dairy alry and ond food commissioner believes that the proposed legislation Is badly needed Discussing the bill now planned he f said ald th this Is morning When a man Is tick sIck and tho lie doctors octoN do not Rive give him much hope ho eagerly grasps at a straw draw and when he reads advertisements for a cure cuie for which wonderful wonderful won von erful things arc promised he I Is willing willingto to lo p pay pany any price for or It When he buys huys It ho does dos not realize that tho tIm label falls taUs to po go o as stron strong In lii Us Its claims as did tho the ud ad This Is lie tho worst sort fIOrt of or false tale advertIsing adver- adver and It tt 18 Is tho the kind we wo Intend to hit hardest with our new law They not only take tak money out of or tho the state but they y give s1 nothing In return to the duped customers custo custo- m mers s TS except faith that Is rounded founded on nothing whatever Jf It the food or dru drug products aro labeled to contain something they do not contain or or cIa claim Ie to be able to do o Impossibilities tho the federal fool food and department can ean prosecute them What hat we want Is tho the power to prosecute these crooks who t havo o their he headquarters outside the state and are grabbing honest Utah dollars and giving sl no return I |