Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-21
At Chemists Club Dinner De-
Gudeman Accused Dr. Wiley
With Founding One
POISON SQUAT" EXPERIMENTS
Prot Gies of Columbia University Said
Tests Afforded No Data from Which
Deductions Could be Draws.
speclal Correspondence.

special correspondence
Washington, April 17--Much interest
has been aroused in Washington scien'
tlfc circles by the attacks made ON Dr.
Harvey w. Wiley, chief chemist Of the
department Of agriculture, at the Chem
lists club IN New York. Dr. Wiley
DR.. Bigelow and others connected with
the department Of agriculture for some
time conducted experiments with what
was promptly dubbed by the newspa-
pers the poison squad" during which
certain government employees were fei
foods supposed to contain personalities
or adulterants deleterious to health.
Reports of these experiments and other
matters on the alleged wholesale adul-
teration Of foods have been appearing
extensively IN the magaains and other
periodicals, often over the signature OF
DR.. Wiley though sometimse over the
signature OF others These articles pre-
sumably have been paid for by the
periodicals, and their merchantable vail
ue has been largely increased by the
free advertising given by the dally
press to the experiments and Incidental
~ to Dr. Wiley his assistants ana 10
the poison squad"
Dr. Wiley has already been subjected
to severe editorial criticism for the al
legged use I'm periodicals for pay of IN
formation secured by experiments con-
Quoted at the expense OF the govern
ment, In advance OF the official reports
concerning the same, which would be
accessible to everyone, and because
lns "a q "a
with plates either the property OF the
government or made from photographs
taken from such articles, when permits
sion for similar photographs has been
denied to other writer's,
Dr. Edward Gudeman Of Chicago, an
expert chemist and food expert of high
standing, thought il we'll to bring the
matter before the Chemists club of
New York This was done at a meeting
OF the club a few days ago, at which
Or. Wiley and Dr. Gudeman were both
guests and speakers, and Dr. GUIDE
man vehemently denounced Dr. Wiley
as founding school OF yellow chemis-
try" 81 don't believe DR.. Wiley be-
lieves everything he has said" said DR.,
Gudeman, as starter. The great
trouble is that he Is not consistent,
Some Of the circulars being issued from
the department Of agriculture seem TO
have a commercial aspect
Continuing DR. Gudeman referred To
the fact that DR.. Wiley had issued an
order that all whistles containing %
Of one per cent Of fusel oil were i'm,
pure and then had the Pure Food COM
gress at ST. Louis endorse the bottled
in-bond act, to create the impression
that such goods We're pure when they
contained much more fusel oil than
Ill Ia
food law" continued Dr. Gudeman, i'm.
prosslyely but the tendency In DR.
Wiley is toward yellow journalism. We
are creating a class OF yellow chemis-
try Articles are appearing which seem
TO use his name or that OF his assist
ant. and all Of them are highly sensa-
tIonal. We shall soon introduce into
our schools a class OF sensational chem.
istry, II this keeps up. DR.. Wiley Is
doing the best he can to brighten the
public"
Prof. w. J. Giles, instructor In physl-
illogical chemistry at Columbia univer-
sity. said the poison squad" tests af-
forded nothing from which a fair de,
ductlon could be drawn, and w. NJ,
Hough of ST. Louis insisted that every
one wanted a pure food law, but that
there were good objections to Or,
Wiley's bill and his definitions, Mr.,
Hough stated that were the definition
of WhsfS, which Dr. Wiley so yigor-
ously sought to establish, to be legally
adopted it would outlaw 80 per cent
OF the whisky Of the country. He
likened the telling OF the "boarders" ut
the poison table" that they We're beinA
fed 'poisons' TO experiments In Chris
tian Science,
Since the complaints of the activity
of Or. Wiley In behalf of "bottled-in-
bond whisky have become pressing
the use Of his name In such advertising
matter has been stopped IN the east, N
least and the admission by r. NJ. Allen,
that as secretary of the National As
ISOLATION of state Dairy N Food De-
partments, he arranged with the whls-
Ky trust 10 finance tho alleged pure
food exhibit at the st. Louis exposition
and that its product should be officially
endorsed by the Pure Food congress
has made many who vera hitherto
warm supporters of the pure food bin
quite sceptlcal as 10 the motives OF
some of It's promoters This feeling OF
sCepticism has been increased by thu
exploiting In the magazines for pay
OF alleged results Of experiments made
at government expense, and the term.
ing by leading chemist of Chicago. be-
fore one Of the foremost assocla lions OF
the chemists I'm the United states. Of the
promoters ms the creators Of a school "