Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-04-30
IMPURE FOOD AND CRIME.
TWO Acres at the Worlds Fair De-
voted to the Display Of Good and
Wholesome Things TO Eat-Process-
es Along with Finished Product.
BY Paul Pierce, Superintendent of
p Al Food Exhibits. NJ \ %.,,.,

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BY Paul Pierce, Superintendent Of
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The Industrial Food Congress, I'M
der the auspices of the National AS
ISOLATION Of State Dairy and Food
Departments will be held in the hall
Of the Palace Of Agriculture on the
Worlds Fair grounds at St. Louis dur
ing the week Of September Goth. It
will be q congress Of officials in
charge of the enforcement of laws that
control the purity of food products, of
chemists conducting Investigations of
food products Of manufacturers and
dealers in foods, and of all persons
engaged in the preservation and dis
tributing of food products. Among the
topics to be discussed are:
Adulteration, misbranding and fraud
in the sale Of food and drink products;
the practical problems connected with
the preservation, packing and distri-
buting Of the different food and drink
products; the use Of antiseptics and
coloring matters in foods and their e.
feet upon the health; uniform stand
ards for the quality and strength of
dairy, food and drink products; uni
form state, national and international
laws to control the adulteration of
foods, and fraud in the sale Of foods,
and the best methods for enforcing
these laws; methods of analysis for
the detection Of food adulterants, and
the best methods to expose such
specific authorizations and frauds as
may be brought to the attention Of the
congress, and to recommend methods
for suppressing and controlling them.
The demonstration to be given by
the various exhibitors in the food sec
ton will be of educational value. How
to raise the standard of living among
the wage-earning classes will be
shown, and the wage-earners will be
taught now to spend their means for
an ample quantity of food of the high
est nutritive value. The gospel sim
plicity and economy will be- taught.
Visitors will learn something OF the
chemistry of cooking. Food values
will hn o1ovn |tF' : ~
| The food exhibit of the National AS
ISOLATION Of State Dairy and Food De-
partments of the United States will
expose many frauds and authorizations
in food and drink products, and will
be of value to the public by illustrat.
ing how adulterants may be detected
! Domestic science teachers will DEM
onstrate that everyone needs the pur-
est and most nourishing food to At
him for the e-wrechng environ
ment of the modern business life. In
sufficient nourishment means under
mined systems, weakened nerves and
impaired brain force. Il the adultera-
ton Of food be- stopped and the food
manufacturer be required to label his
food product tiuthfully,5 and the food
properly selected and cooked, the
poisoas that undermine the system
will cease. 1t is the hungry. illfed,
overworked man, with nerves beyond
control, who commits murders and
thefts and drinks himself and his
family to ruin. A man seldom arises
from a well cooked, nourishing meal
and goes out and commits crime.
Worlds Fair visitors may not only
see Touring mills in operation, but
may. watch bakers making -four into
bread, cakes, pastries AL the ma
chinery and the processes involved in
the making of the manufactured pro
duct are shown. @ @g~& ~,
4 More than: two acres of space are
devoted exclusively to foods, including
the cereals and their products. The
chocolate manufacturers expect to
astonish the world with the clever way
in which their products are displayed
Machinery in operation shows how
chocolates are made. Young women
demonstrators give lectures twice q
day on how chocolate should be pre-
pared. Sugar is made from sugar
cane, and candy factories attract the
| little ones. The public is. taken be-
hind the scenes in "a bake shop and
sees all the machinery, the pans,
molds. and the ovens Il T.
sTockMEN's RETURN PASSES. /