The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-20
TALKS ON PURE FOOD.
THOSE MADE AT NATIONAL CON-
 MENTION IN HARTFORD.

One Speaker Said Conditions Were
 Never Better Than Now for RecOg-
 nized Brands of Good standing-
 Effect of Publicity.
 Hartford, July 10.-To-day's session of the national pure food convention at the capitol was preceded by an auto mobile trip around the city and trip to the dome of the state building. The scheduled exercises were opened by Miss Alice Lakey, chairman of the food investigation of the National Consumers league of New Jersey. In discussing the work of the league she said:
 We now wish to hasten the day when the dweller in the tenement house can have not only pure food, but clean food, and we look to you to tell us who will furnish pure clean foods. The league asks you for information for bull letins, for satisfactory inspection of food factories, for dated cans and for a time limit for cold storage Tell >the packers and canners to so label their goods that the league can tell which are pure and clean from those that are not. Give us all these improvements and see how quickly the league will help the work of the interstate pure food com- mission"
 Hon. E. F, Ladd. food commissioner of North Dakota, in discussing canned food products, said that conditions were never better than now for recognized brands of good standing. Every conner meets food manufacturers who desire sanction for misleading and false la bels. It may also be said that certain jobbers and brokers who have thus far escaped publicity in food matters are the ones whose names should in this connection be placed before the public, for they have created the demand for cheap and inferior slop in place of lend ing their influence for educating the trade to care for better grades of prod- ucts.
 Dr. H. E. Barnard, chemist of In- diana, who spoke on conditions past and present in that state, said that he Anticipated more success from publicity than from prosecution in the enforce ment of the pure food law, adding: Tn year the markets of our state have been cleaned out and the moral of the manufacturers wholesalers and retail CTS so elevated that they are now won dering how they so long suffered them selves to believe that honesty is the best policy might have been true maxim for poor Richard'-it had no place in modern commercialism."
 Secretary Robert Mcdowell Allen, chief of the division of state food con- trol, of Kentucky agricultural station, Lexington, Ky, spoke on "The Pure Food Issue-Some of its Problems" He said in part:
 "The passage of a national pure food law places the agitation upon safe and sound basis. It is now time for the state and federal officials and man. ufacturing interests to get together in honest conference, for it is only through frank cooperation that the legal and scientific questions in the pure food is- sue can be successfully dealt with"
 Misbranding was discussed at some length by MT. Allen, and he quoted catsup as one of the concrete examples of this abuse. He said that the whole pure food issue is a matter of correct Identification regarding every fact where a product was made, when il was made, who made it and its true nature and substance. Another prob. lem is that of standards which may be the source of some misunderstood. ling.