Show ANOTHER FIGHT FI FIB HI HION ON E Benzoate of Soda Coming in for Good Share of Attention From Congress PRESIDENT TAFTS ATTITUDE Forces Fore Lining Up Against Use of or Chemicals for tor Preserving Food Foodstuffs stuffs stu Women Protest Washington D C Dec 1 On Dec De DeG 6 G Congress will wi meet mem in Jn regular sos ses session ss sion and as ill tho the house was organized at It the extraordinary session last lat March Mach there will wi be no delay in getting to work Usually tho the presidents pr d mes mc message message sage Is withheld the second day day of or the session cession but as a there will be b no preliminaries this time It will go in inon Inon inon on Monday There Thero Is 18 considerable spec speculation as a to what specific recommendations recommendations he will wU mako malta and keen Inter est is ia being manifested in certain quarters aa as a to President Tafts attitude on pure food questions From a a largo large aga number of ot sources comes tho the demand that the pure food od law be strengthened Those who claim to be well Informed say sy that the president is 1 as a deeply im impressed impressed pressed pr sed with the time necessity of or strength strengthening ening enung the law as a he might be and his utterances on this subject in his hL an annual annual annual nual message will wi be more In the na nature nature ture Sure of o commendation than recommendation dation Rightly or wrongly the Im Impression impression daton Is gaining ground goud that the administration has ha been ben something more than lukewarm toward the pure food law Ian This construction placed upon tepon the attitude of ot the te administration is doubtless duo due to the strong support given by b Secy Sec Wilson Wison to the report or of orthe orthe the Remsen board which led to the lifting of or the ban on benzoate of ot soda This preservative can now be 0 used use in unlimited quantities provided provide the amount used uso is stated on the label and as a in most cases pases es the tho amount can be 10 determined only by a quantitative chemical analysis the te label is general generally ly accepted although It never gives give more than of 1 per pr cent cant Un Unless Unless less les Congress acts unfavorably there Is reason raon to believe that the tho to other pre preservatives preservatives are preparing to t creep crep from under the tho ban and the situation will wi shortly be as a it was wa before The forces lining Illing up against chemical preservatives are such however as a not notto notto notto to be reckoned with lightly Only a afew afew I few fow days das ago action aton was wa taken token by tho the National atonal Grange at t its annual conven convention convention tion In Des Tes Molues Io nes which showed that tho the farmers are ar taking an active and Intelligent Interest In the battle over Or preservatives Time The he Grange has ha always been be n one of at tho the standbys of or Secy See Wilson Ison and the passage p S of at resolutions applauding Dr Harvey Rne IV W T Wiley Wie and amI falling ailing taing to mention Secy Seey Y Wilson Wason In the same connection is regarded as a one of 01 the time signs of his waning Influence Pointing out the time unanimous condom condemnation nation naton of f benzoate of soda by the phy physicians ph of the country the Grange rc re resolved solved That wo we vigorously protest against any laws or rulings that will permit the use of benzoate of ot soda soda or similar preservatives in our foodstuffs and ad that we WI heartily hearl commend command the stand taken by Dr Harvey Hrey W Wiley chemist chAm 1st of or the national department of or agriculture in opposition to their use uso us Tho The National Grange Grange sends Rend its It exec executive committee to t Washington every winter to look after acer various legislation of ot Interest to It I and ad one of ot tho time mat matters matters mattens tens to be urged urge by It this winter will willbe wi willbe be the strengthening strengthenIng of ot the pure pur food law the Grange having been ben almost the first organization to move moo In behalf 0 of or such a law ANOTHER ANOR PROTEST Announcement Is 18 also alro made t by y Miss Alice Alce Lakey Laitey chairman of ot the food too com corn committee of ot tho the National Consumers league that resolutions have been adopted urging upon Congress the ne ime necessity necessity of amending am the tho pure food tod act and un on unqualifiedly so as to prohibit absolutely qualifiedly 1 the uso u of or of ot soda soda and similar preservatives The lan language language guage of or the resolutions adopted by bythe bY bythe the committee of o the Consumers league leagle closely follows that of ot the th resolutions adopted by the tho American Medical as association tj and the American Institute this of o Homeopathy The Consumers league legu leguIs is an organization composed principally principal tily of ot who arc ly I if ii not exclusively women 0 Interested in pure food from the stand standpoint point of ot wives and mothers mother and who sub mb subject subject are perhaps more interested in the time than the average man manIt 4 It would be Impossible lp s to enumerate en tl f at this time tm all al of or the tho organizations which have allied aled themselves to over overturn ov r turn Secy Wilson on his benzoate of or soda decision but a few tew of the the mop mon important soo arc are The Tho American Mc cal association the Pennsylvania Medical association th the American Institute of or Homeopathy the National Grange Grage and ammil al the National Consumers league legue As most of ot these are ae national organizations It Is expected that the thc state or em organizations rat tons will wi fall In line lne and that Congress will be flooded with wih petitions petition favoring the amending of or tho the law la 50 so 0 as asto asto to prohibit the use ne of or chemical particularly those thole made coal coal tar tr such as a the synthetic S fl of soda now in use uso u tha |