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Show milllllllHUIMII fllll MI Protect Our Food. The doctors inform ua that nlurn ia poison, and that nlum baking powders hould bo nvoidod because tlioy make 'ho food unwholesome. Prominent hvgicn fats, who have git on tho niatto.' most study, regard tlieao powders na nn ovil that should be suppressed by state notion. no-tion. In Minn, nnd Wis. n'utn powders nro not permitted to bo bold unloaa they nre brnnded (o warn consumers of their truo character, while in tho district of Columbia the authorities have under the dircclion'of Congress, adopted regulations reg-ulations lo prohibit tlio use of nlam in bicad altogether. Aro not tho people of other atntes, ns well na those of Minn. & Wis. entitled lo warning of n danger which is apparently menacing them nt closo baud, nnd is'nt tliu wholo country entitled to nbsoluto protection, as tlio pcopte ot the district of Columbia nre protected by legislation which ia entirely prohibitive? Until wc can hnvo protection in the form of ii statute, how can our state bonrda of henlth, state analysts or food commissions bettor servo tho public than by publishing In the newspapers from timo to time tho nnmo of tho baking bak-ing powder which tlioy find to bo mndo from alum? Mcnntimc, it will aid tho housewife in designating tho nlum powders to remember re-member thnt nil ponders sold at 25c or lesa per pound nro of this dangerous class Puro cream of tnrtnr powdora nro usually sold nt 45 & 60 cent n pound. |