The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-18
BUY ALL AT HOME
How to Get Pure Goods in
Kansas.
Board Of Health's Advice to
Retail Groeers.
COMPLY WITH THE LAW
Wholesalers Agree to Walk in
Straight and Narrow Path.
Will Meet in September to Agree
on Rules.
WITH THELAW

o THE retail grocers OF
Kansas: Buy your goods
from Kansas wholesale houses
and Kansas packers and you
will get pure goods and have
no truoble with the pure food
laws"
This is the kind Of an announcement
which DR.. S. J. Crumbine, secretary OF
the Kansas state board Of health
would make as the result Of a confer
aaee with about twenty of the leading
wholesale grocers of Kansas owners
and representatives of practically
every big wholesale grocery In the
state attended the meeting, which was
held at DR.. Crumbine's Office on Kan
The object Of. the conference was to
secure a mutual understanding De-
tween the wholesalers and the state
health authorities concerning the en-
forcement Of the new pure food rules
which were promulgated some weeks
ago by DR.. Crumbine. In the effort TO
reach such an understanding the con-
ference was entirely successful
All of the wholesale grocers OF the
state agreed that they would see to II
that manufa cturers from whom they
buv supplies furnish them hencefOrth
only with goods which can stand the
test of the pure food laws, not only OIL
the state but of the nation.
The only concession or amendment
asked of Dr. Crumbine was that he
should refrain from enforcing the pro-
visions Of the state pure food laws and
regulations against stock of goods al
ready in the hands Of the grocers of
the state. They want until about Jan
uary l. when the national pure food
law goes into effect, to enable the re-
tailers to work off their stock now on
hand and get rid of the goods which
can not be sold under the new rules
Dr. Crumb ine granted this concession
and no samples of goods now on hand
will be taken for analysis by the state
chemists.
DR.. Crumbine said this morning.
1.-THE wholesalers of the state asked
for this conference some time ago. and
now that It is over, we feel that We can
all work In harmony. The grocers
wanted to find out just the attitude
which the board of health would as
sumo in the matter, and since they
have found that we are inclined to be
reasonable. they have agreed to heart
fly comply with all the rules and regu-
lations which we have made They
will all cut out the impure food stuffs
which they have been buying fror1
outside the state. and Will hold the
manufacturers from whom they pur-
chase goods strictly responsible for the
purity of what they get
IT feel now that We have solved the
pure food problem for Kansas. With
the packers working in compliance
with the rules. and about 800 repre-
sentatives of these Kansas wholesaler
out on the road selling none but
strictly pure foods. with the national
pure food law soon to go into opera
ton to protect US from foreign goods,
I feel that there will be little excuse
for the retailer handling goods not
strictly up TO the standard. Every re-
taller who buys his goods from kan
sas holesaIe house can be reasonably
sure that he is getting an article
which can be sold without the slight
est danger Of violating the law.
"A committee representing the
wholesale grocers will meet with the
state board of health in September TO
talk over the pure food rules, and offer
some suggestions concerning new rules
and amendments"