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Show The "We Don't Eat Meat, Do You?" propaganda propa-ganda in the central southern states is experienc- ing a slight set-back as the result of a wreck -a week or two ago on one of the big southern transcontinental lines. Unfortunately the wreck occurred in a thickly settled district and when two carloads of peanut shells were found scattered over a city block of space from the smashup, inquiry naturally turned to their destination and it didn't help meat prices to a lower level any when it was discovered that the cars of peanut husks were consigned to a very large and prominent breakfast food and cereal manufacturing concern in the south, the shells having been shipped from a California peanut pea-nut oil manufacturing plant to the breakfast food company. In this connection there comes to mind two or three recent "magazine articles which declare emphatically em-phatically that tho pure food law has been punctured in so many places by the prepared food stuff companies of the country since its passage that it is about as effective as a sieve for handling water. Investigators state that scores of ways have been devised of eluding the provisions of the law regarding the use of chemical preservatives in the preparation of food stuffs and that at least fifty per cent of the latter now on the market is but litle better if any than was foisted on the ( public regularly before tho law went into effect. |