Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-21
TRAVELLING MEN ASI|R
Meeting of the State Association
at Des Moines to Be a
Hot One
ADMISSION OF NEW MEMBERS
Claim Is Made That the Board Has
Exceeded Its Authority in Allowing
Enrolment Of Many Persons Who
Are Not Properly Chased as Travel.
ing Men.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. 21.-The fight that
will take place at the annual meeting
of the Iowa State Travelling Mems As
ISOLATION next month will be conferred
chiefly in the question of whether or
not the board of directors has kept
within the limits Of its authority in the
matter Of admitting applications for
membership. Some of the candidates
for position as secretary and director
of the association are alleging that the
bars have been thrown down and that
the membership clause of the constitu-
ton has been interpreted to admit
anyone who travels on a railroad. 1t is
admitted that some of those who trav
ell and are members don't travel more
than about once a year when they
take vacation. Such persons have
been admitted for. some years and the
situation is complicated for if they
have no right to be members then their
money which has been accepted by the
association should be returned to them.
But there are some 5000 and they have
been paying in SO a year each or $27,-
600 altogether and it would bankrupt
the organization If this mol@y had to
be returned.
Here is the membership clause of the
constitution which is in question: ANY
male person Of good moral character,
over eighteen and not over forty-five
years of age, enjoying good general
health, who, at the time of his election,
and for at least one year prior to the
date Of the application for membership
herein, has been continuously engaged
in selling any kind of goods wares or
merchandise at wholesale as a travel
ing salesman, or any person who has
been SO engaged in the business of
travelling by public or private convey
ance. as a buyer, collector or solicitor,
for himself or any other for said per-
iod, provided he is not also engaged
at the time of such application in
business more hazardous than that of
travelling salesman, is eligible to mem
bership in this association"
A*A
Under the name of solicitor State
Dairy Commissioner II. r. Wright,
his deputy and any number of state
officials have been admitted to mem
bership. But the state officials are on
ly a small per cent of the total ques-
tionably admitted to membership. The
association has altogether. a member
ship Of some hing like $4,000. The adj
mission Of the 5000 of whom there is
some questions AS to their qualidca-
tions Tor membership is laid to the
doors Of the board of directors. The
secretafy solicits members but the di-
rectors must pass upon them. Haley
introduced the policy. The directors
argue sthat such nleh as State Dairy
Commissioner Wright are solicitors of
information and that state Oil inspect
ors. bank examiners and others come
in under the same interpretation
As1s
Those interested in framing the pure
food bill which will be introduced at the
coming session of the legislature be-
lieve they have discovered method
of reaching the mail order house and
the box car peddler, two bugaboos in.
the minds of the local retail grocer.
That the mail order proposition is a
serious one was shown In this cores
pondence some days ago when the re-
suits Of the Investigation of Editor Pill
kington which shows that in any num-
Der Of towns in this state the freight
shipments from mail order houses is
Ill al
In the proposed pure food law it is ex-
pected to require the food commission
er to secure samples of all foods COM
ing into the state and to analyze and
publish the results of such analysis.
Just this sort of thing is being done in
Minnesota. Bulletin No. IA which is
published on page 10 Of the Dairy Rec
ord Of December Is, says, among other
things: Below will be found a list of
those food articles which have been
analysed by the state chemist recently
and which are the most serious adult
terations. It will be noted that the
first three were procured from well
known mail order house, while the fol-
lowing three samples were procured
from travelling peddler. OF the goods
procured from these parties at the time
all proved illegal:
LAB. No. 25.-Strawberry Jam, Car
land brand Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chi
cago. Illegal. Colored with coal tar
dye.
Lab. No. s7.-Current Jelly, Glover
leaf brand, Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chi
cago. Illegal. Sample is glucose
compound and 10 not labeled Mixed
and adulterated.' az required by law.
Lab. No ss.-Chocolate,. Iris brand,
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago. Ille-
gal. Sample is adulterated with corn
starch.
Lab. No e5s.-Lemon extract, S. F.
Baker 4 CO., Keokuk, Iowa, Ira Cary,
Austin, agent Illegal. Colored with
coal tar dye"
1t is just such publication as this that
is proposed to be required by the Iowa
law and the public will then have the
information. The retail grocer can
show these reports to his customer and
will thus not be forced to sell pure
foods in competition with adulterated
articles from the mail order houses and
box car peddlers. 1t is recognized that
the outside men such as the mail order
men cannot be reached by the law In
the matter Of punishment, but there is
no question but that they can be reach
ed with the publication clause as eff