River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-08-14
THE DEMAND FOR PURE FOOD.
Governmental Action to Remedy Ex-
listing Evils in the Various
States Sure to Come.

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eddy be the era of pure foods through
cut the civilized world, for there has
been a general governmental awak-
ening to the fact that markets are
flooded with the most injurious adult
terated food stuffs, both solids and
liquids, a menace to human health.
says What to Eat. The United States
is studying the pure food question,
and congress will doubtless take ac-
ton in securing a national pure food
law which shall regulate the selling at
limitations and authorizations In the
various states. Individual states are
being awakened to the great need of
suppressing fraudulent foods, and the
popular statesmen are those who adj
vocate pure food laws and the correct
labelling of authorizations. 1t is the
duty of the state to protect its homes
and that state which sends forth
the strongest and best men and wom-
en-, physically, mentally and morally,
is the best representative of great
nation.
Countries and states can do little
toward educating the people without
the cooperation and assistance of the
individual home makers. "Pies like
mother used to make" stand for the
best of all foods in all times. for 1T is
the home cooking of his mother that
stays in the memory of every boy and
man, whether he end in cabin or white
house. 1t is the mothers and the
teachers of domestic science that are
most awakened to the fact that little
men and women, as well as big ones,
need the purest and most nourishlng
food to fit them for the nerve-wreck-
ing environments of the modern bust
ness life. That man will make his
mark in any business who has clear,
active brain, vigorous bodily strength,
perfect health and calm nerves. He
whose system knows no poison has
every advantage over the one whose
system is undermined, nerves weak
ened and brain force impaired by in
sufficient nourishment.
Heretofore people have gone blind
" through life, knowing less about
the A 3 C of health than of any other
subject. The child learns in some
schools, not all, that he has bones,
muscles, veins and arteries, flesh and
cuticle, and gets a smattering idea of
the proper foods. What he does not
get, but what the new century will
see him learning, is perfect knowl-
edge of the nutritive value of different
foods, their effects on the human sys-
tenn. how to detect adulterated foods
and a true knowledge of their injurl-
Gus effects. Danish the adulterated
food that does not nourish and the
poisons that undermine the system
and much of the crime and misery Of
the world will go with it. 1t is the
hungry, ill-fed, overworked man, with
nerves beyond control who commits
murders, thefts and drinks himself
and his family to ruin. man seldom
arises from good, square, we'll
cooked meal of beefsteak and goes out
and kills a fellow man. The working
man who has nourishing soup, meat
and good coffee at hcme has little eX-
cuse to patronize the corner saloon.
The food question is vital one, and
people have awakened to the fact.
That the pure food movement will
succeed is best indicated by the fact
that the manufacturers of pure foods
have enlisted in the cause of health
and have given the food subject long
and careful study Men of science and
learning and wide experience in the
manufacture of foods have expert
mented and tried until they have
found the ideal nourishm ents.
Throughout the United States the
pure food factory sites dot the rail
road lines and big manufactures run
hundreds of carloads behind in their
orders during the busy season, show
ing that the demand for pure food is
becoming universal. The pure food
manufactures are an education in
themselves, for they stand for we'll
lighted, perfectly ventilated, immac-
ulately clean plants, where the en-
p1oyes enjoy blessings unknown to
most employees in other large fac
tories.