Show I. I Pure Food for foYo You L I U nc e S am S ays Ata Cent a Year e rf 4 a 4 I I 9 Harris a Ewing E DADDY OF PURE FOOD LAWS Dr Harvey W. W Wiley Made Pure Food FootS Hi His Hobby When He Was Wai Head of the tho Bureau of Chemistry Hn Hi Ideas Idea Became Our Pure Food Laws Law is one of a a. series aeries of articles THIS on the inside of the United States government written exclusively for this newspaper by the famous Washington correspondent Hardie Meakin Through personal contacts with the higher officials Meakin is is' is given access to files and records never before made public He tells today how Uncle Sam gives you food in- in insurance in in- insurance for one cent a year By MEAKIN iI YOUR kitchen alongside the err egg eggbeater IN beater potato masher and other such culinary accessories is found the mod mod- modern modern modern I ern magic wand w which outdoes the fabled Aladdin's Lamp It is the can opener A Afew Afew Afew few deft passes with it over oyer the tops cf tins and you have before you OU food of the theto four seasons gathered in every ery clime While performing this magic you OU ma may fail to notice on the cans in in n small print print Guaranteed Under the Pure Food and and Drug Act April 1906 but it is that statement which makes the miracles or orthe ot of the can opener possible And thanks to the efficiency with wHit which the Department of Agriculture functions the cost to you for protection on canned goods other otner foodstuffs and drugs is only one cent a year For the past twenty years ears you have ha e paid 20 cents cen for the privilege of being a D. gustatory magician three times daily days da s 's each year ws R r t v S HEALTH PROTECTOR Technically Trained Men Examine Samples Sample of Food with Powerful Microscopes to Detect Contamination at Its Iti Source I Twenty years ago the good housewife went to the grocery store with buckets jars and boxes Food was scooped out of tin containers dug out of barrels or dipped out of crocks Roaches flies flics and perms germs g lurked lurke in dark darc nooks ks and crannies carried in bulk believing that discounting dirt she sha had secured what she sought But records disclose that about 90 per ent of the time old grocers adulterated the supplies An honest dealer couldn't make a liv liv- living Jiving ing If his com cons competitor competitor made madet t two quarts of milk where here w e ethere r a there formerly I M y Nr J JC J. J H. H and Miss Mill L. L M. M Alexander Testing Bread C Bite and Sip Sib Insured I red f Hungry 1 lung America Y CK h r 7 tair F t 4 a at t of Food Drug and Admin Administration though th u h still controlled by bythe i the Department of Agri Agri- Agriculture culture There are tech tech- technically technically x trained men and w women engaged in this work r Their duties consist chiefly of Uncle Sam It Is Working to inspecting supplies at their Give More Girls the Physical sources They see that tho the Perfection of Elje Elsie Ellie Sutton labels on products are correctly Above Chicago Chicago's Chica os o's Health Hell t marked that the weight is honest Champion and that the food is clean and wholesome When an illegal practice Is discovered dis dis- discovered discovered covered a Notice of Judgment is issued against the manufacturer The trade learns loams that this certain brand of goods is not up to sped specifications spec and the manufacturer loses I lt 1 I MILK GERMS The Magnifying Di Discloses Bacteria in Milk JIlk J Ilk Which WhicK Caused Epidemics Epidemic Uncle t Sam Took Charge harr was Vas but one and then undersold the hon- hon hone honest est et e t dealer by half the only redress was to do the same Canned goods except for salmon sar sar- sardines dines pickles and a few vegetables were practically unknown Buying these was like trading sight unseen the housewife had no guarantee of what would be inthe in inthe inthe the can when it was opened Then following ng numerous cases of ptomaine poisoning and several se epidemics of diseases traced to contaminated milk the Federal pure food laws became tive tl They were brought about by the Bureau Bu Bu- Bureau Bureau reau of Chemistry Dr Harvey W. W Wiley was at the head of the bureau and gave soave official notice to the universal methods of adulteration while studying American food supply problems in jn an effort to help the farmers Pure food and drugs DO- DO became no- no came his hobby and his ideas about them were enacted into laws in ill 1906 and be- be beame beame De Defame ame fame effective in January 1907 The work had grown so by 1927 that thata a n reorganization recently took place In Investigation In- In Investigation Investigation and research h work remains remain under the old hea heading ing but regulatory and enforcement work cornea und under the title tt READY FOR WINTER The Fruits Fruit of All Seasons Season Aro Are Preserved for Any Season Sealon a as 81 Shown by This Florida Peach and Her Peaches r VI L n 2 II I v f j i 4 r 1 t l t I w i 4 f THE WEIGHT TEST a f Health Laws uw Specify Ice Cream III Must Mut Contain Nine Per Cent I Butter Fats One Tot Test for This Thi I Is I. by Weighing a as AI Above L r f During the past 20 years such notices have ha been issued This has given the public con In 1914 canned canne lublic goods pro pro- produced produced produced in this country were valued valedat at 17 but by 1925 this had jumped to I Bakery products increased from in 1914 to 1268 in 1925 Imported foods com com- coming coming ing into the United States in 1914 were valued at and by the end endot of ot 1925 at Watching the imports is a very important important tant branch of the service Frequent trips are made abroad to inspect the factories producing food or other products destined for the United States Inspections are also made at the pier upon arrival These inspections are the same as those thosa applied to American goods Tests are arc made for contamination in handling transit or storage and also for adulteration tion The milkman is not the only one guilty of occasional adulteration Ground around pep pcp pepper pepper per shells are found in pepper chicory in coffee cotTee dilute acetic in cider eider vinegar glue in gelatin artificial extract in flavoring oring and excessive moisture in canned goods Such tricks are nearly always discovered discovered ered before the inferior goods reach the consumer A manufacturer of medicinal products 20 years ago could sell brown sugar at a bottle and get away with it A physician at the bedside of a very sick person could never neer be certain his pre- pre prescription would be filled properly at the comer corner drug store This was true because the corner druggist drugg could never know if his drugs were pure The Federal laws have changed this Drugs as 09 well as foods are arc inspected and jf not properly labeled the penalty is great seat Prosecutions on patent medicines have have ranged from so-called so sure cures for tuberculosis and influenza to candy cathartics and castor oil It doesn't pay in 1927 to label anything improperly for forthe forthe forthe the Government Go is diligent in all 01 lines All pure food violations are arc not in in- V t e s' s r M Y 1 SHIPPED FROM PALESTINE Uncle Sam Inspects Inspect All Food Imported Into the United States State A Shipment of Matzoth or Unleavened Bread Is I. Shown Arriving from Palestine Palatine so the Government is carrying on a great educational work instructing the manufacturers in the proper methods of labeling their goods foods If the improper markings marking are unintentional the penalty Js is Is usually held in abeyance But nut there is one violation which Is Js not tolerated That is is the substituting of an inferior grade or article of food Under such protection the can opener has become the magic wand of 1927 for forthe forthe forthe the food it brings to light is iJ guaranteed The housewife has a confidence in it she sha could not ha e 20 years ago And Uncle Sam gives this confidence this life as assurance as as- assurance on foods drugs and many other things for the small sum of one cent per person annually |