Show PUBLIC HAS RIGHT TO KNOW truthful labels on canned goods Is a requisite determined effort Is being made by the manufacturers of canned goods throughout the country to induce the secretary ot of agriculture to deter defer the enforcement of 0 the provision of the pure food act which requires the label on canned goods to state the substance of the product and the place ot of manufacture the chief argument used in making the appeal is that the manufacturers have already had printed labels costing it at least that would be lost by the enforcement ot of the act the argument of the canners will not dot hold they have had ample notice ot of the operation ot of the law and aid all of its provisions and it must be their loss if they have not made preparations for observing the federal act incidentally the tact fact that the Ir present labels do not meet the requirements ot of the law in other words do not state in substance Bub sub gance sance the contents of the can is the best argument in the world for the destruct destruction Jon of the labels and the pr printing i of 0 now ones that will give th the customer some substantial bilut ot of what lie he is buying the time is past when a manufacturer can mix a little water and glucose and label it pure velmont A maple syrup or pass canned rabbit ok off for select canned chicken the man or woman who buys choice canned veal wants some assurance that tile the can is not filled with goat meat or something less palatable when the purchaser rays pays tile the price tor for a big tin of york state apples lie he does n not ot want to be disturbed and angered angere d by opening it to to find it filled with parodies on on the original garden carden of eden fruit the label question la Is a simple one it the manufacturers have supplies ot of them that chati do not meet all of the requirements quire ments of the federal law tile the defect way may be remedied by the use of stickers supplying the omissions it the labels prepared tor for the deception caption of the customer they should have never been used at all and the sooner they are destroyed the alio better for all concerned in the matter ot of canned goods most ot of the americans aro are from missouri |