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Show GOV. SPRY GOES TO FRANKFORT Governor William Spry. Willard Hansen, state dairy and f-od commissioner, com-missioner, and State Chemist Herman Her-man Harms will leave for the east this afternoon, the Governor to attend at-tend the conference of governors at Frankfort, Ky., which begins on November No-vember 21, and the pure food officials t represent the- state at tho four teenth annual convention of the Association As-sociation of State and National Food and Dairy departments to be held In New Orleans, November 2D to December Decem-ber 2. At the Frankfort meeting several Important questions to the various states will como up for discussion, among which will bo the uniform marriage mar-riage and divorce law for tho various states. Among the subjects to be discussed by the delegates to tho, dairy and food convention, the mosi Important will probably be the plaii9 for the securing of a uniformity of laws In tho various state. In the past considerable con-siderable troublo has been experienced experienc-ed by the commlsslcnere. rvs well as tho shippers. In Interstate trade, Irought about by different standards nud laws to the various itates. Under Un-der the present laws, products that conform to the laws of one state can-r.ot can-r.ot be sold In some of the adjoining Mates because of a dlffcrcnco In the state statutes. The subject of requiring tho vclght. name and address of the manufacturer manu-facturer to appear on all original packages, will also occupy much of the lime of the meeting. The puro food bureau has Instructed the Utah delegates to supori any measure tending tend-ing to bring about this requirement throughout the country. The "liquor question" will also come vi tor consideration. Under the rues i cf the agricultural department It Is required that all blended whiskies bo h.beled ns to the blends, but a recent re-cent ruling of United States Attorney General Wickersham states that thl Is not necessary In the case of old-established brands, with the result that many of the commissioners have been i't a loss to know Just what course to pursue. Other western state food commissioners commis-sioners will join the Utah delegates along the way. James H. Wallace, the Idaho commissioner, will join the Utah delegation at Ogden; R v. Burke, the Wyoming commissioner, at Chey-enne; Chey-enne; W. F. Cannon, the Colorado commissioner at Denver, and L. S. Melns. the Nebraska delegate, at Kan sas City. |