Show e Feeding Oleo to the Ka Navy Considerable of a sen sensation has developed developed de- de eloped over the furnishing to J League Island navy yard Philadelphia of buter butter butter but- but ter er which analysis sis has proven to be he simply oleomargarine colored with coal tar dye Samples were taken from the government receiving ship Lancaster several battle ships and cruisers and from the hospitals of the navy yard by agents of the Pennsylvania Dairy an 1 l Food Commission Dr Warren the State Commissioner declared them to tobe tobe tobe be specimens of coal tar oleo and after considerable controversy at the Instance instance instance In in- stance of President they ther were finally submitted to Dr Wiley th the chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture AgrIculture Agriculture Ag Ag- who in a full report has sustained sustained sustained sus sus- Dr Warrens Warren's findings Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Wilson has referred the report to the President who has hIlS it is stated called the attention of the Department of Justice to the matter Several arrests arrests ar rests have already been made In speaking however of the substitution substitution of oleomargarine for butter Inthe in inthe inthe the market Dr said that at Wiley present present present pres pres- ent the amount of oleomargarine sold in this country whether fraudulently as butter or when marked as oleo Is quite small The government has rendered rendered rendered ren ren- dered the making and sale of the stuff unprofitable by levying 10 cents a pound on all that Is artificially colored and half a cent on on the uncolored Forel Foreigners ners Refuse Colored Butters Coal tar dyes sa said d Dr Wiley are not fatally harmful though by nc ne means wholesome and dairymen are permitted under the law to use such coloring g matter to Impart to their butter butter butter but but- ter a rich yellow color To render this unnecessary the Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture is now trying to educate the popular taste In favor of uncolored butter butter but but- ter and we are making some headway Over ver in Europe one never encounters colored butter In any of the hotels or first class markets The people they theN have learned to distrust it We are coming to this In the United States Today Today Today To To- day first first class class hotels and fancy groceries gro gro- ceries cerles will not buy butter that has a n high color Our epicures and those that live well are also fighting shy slip of ot It it and as a result the dairymen are beginning beginnIng beginning be be- ginning to realize that the bottle of ol coal tar dye is no longer a necessary adjunct to a successful dairy |