The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-09

Washington, d. c., July 9.-Secre-
tary Wilson is rapidly perfecting the
organization of the meat inspection
service and within the next two CT
three weeks every one Of the larger
packing houses from Boston to DEN
yer will be supplied with a force Of
inspectors 10 pass upon the healthful-
ness OF everT puG:!d of meas which
enters into commerce between the
states.
The secretary, who has absolute
discretion in the matter of liking the
compensation OF the inspection force,
has not yet announced the salaries to
be paid, but this has not caused de-
ficit OF applicants, and there Will he
no dearth of men willin, to serve their
country, even in such unattractive
places as the slaughter pens and pack
ing house plants OF the great centers
of the trade. When the committee of
agriculture of the house first voted to
suspend the civil service law SO as
to enable Secretary Wilson to make
appointments promptly, it was with
the understanding that the civil serv-
ice commission could not supply the
plOyment. 1t must be understood that
no one is eligible for appointment as
a meat inspector who has not been
trained in college of veterinary sur
gerry. But nearly every member of
the committee declared that he, in
dividually, had no desire to he con
suited in the matter of appointments.
Just as soon as the president declared
his opposition to the anti-civil service
clause of the bill it was promptly
stricken out; there was not dissent
ing vote. 1t is now announced that
the civil service eligible list is suf-
ficiently we'll equipped with the names
of veterinary graduates, who have
passed the examinations prescribed, to
insure the appointment of an adequate
force as fast as the other necessary
preliminaries can be complied with.
1t will be some months, however,
before the new law can be put into
full effect in every city in the country.
But before the end of July, the shelves
of the retail stores, in the larger cities.
at least, will be supplied with canned
meat products bearing upon their
labels the stamp OF the federal gov
eminent showing, first that the ami
mails from which they were made were
healthy when slaughtered, next that
the carcasses exhibited no signs of
disease and most important of all, per-
hays, that the contents of the cans
we're prepared in an absolutely sani-
tary manner
No other country on earth has en-
acted such stringent regulations to
govern the killing of animals for hui
man food or the preparation of food
products. 1t will take some months to
retake the European markets which
have been lost and in the interim
hundreds of tons of American canned
meats, now in European warehouses,
will be destroyed or sold for a song,
but once that label of the U. S. de-
partment of agriculture becomes re-
cognized as an absolute guaranty of
whOlesomeness and healthfulness the
meat industry of America will have
obtained a standing throughout the
world of which it cannot be deprived
again.
Regulations for putting into effect
the pure food bill are also being per-
fected and these two measures. af-
fecting as they do, practically the en-
AC AOou supply VI Tue country, ought
to relieve the fears of the squeamish,
especially when it is recalled that the
federal legislature now taxes OLE
margarine and renovated" butter;
compels the branding of filled"
cheese and mixed" flour, by four
separate statutes. Permits whiskey to
be bottled in bond, including all its
fusil oil, and has just enacted another
law to permit the fertilization" of
sweet still wines.
Within few years one may hope to
have potatoes labeled by government
experts and onions deprived of their
scent through the efforts of the bureau
of plant industry and perhaps the day
will come when a chemical analysis
OF the contents of every egg will be
required to be stamped on the shell
before Mrs. Farmer trades here hen
fruit for sugar and tea at the general
store at the corners"
BY the time congress reconvenes in
December, the department of justice
will probably be in possession of all