Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-03
Little Matter in Dispute Be
tween Dairy Commissioner and
Makers Goes to Courts
SEED OIL AND BEEF FAT TABoED
Manufacturers Claim Their combina-
tion is a Food by Itself and Not an
Imitation = State Department In
sists Bogus Lard Shall Be Properly
Labeled.
pecial to 1,mes-Republican.

Special to mes-Republican.
| Des Moines, Jan. 3.-Is a compound
of beef fat and cotton seed oil an imi-
Etation of lard? The manufacturers
claim that it is not, and II. r. Wright,
state food and labor commissioner, on
whom the Legislature placed the re-
sponsibility of enforcing the pure food
laws, says that it Is. The courts will
have to settle the matter and a suit
test the law.
None of the provisions of the pure
! food law have yet been tested in the
higher courts. The manufacturers
have for the most part obeyed the law
/ but some refuse The first case will be
somewhat in the nature of test case,
and Mr.. Wright is looking forward to
! the trial with great deal of antici-
patton, because tof it's great impor-
tance.
/ The pure food law prohibits the sale
of adulterated articles of, food unless
branded with the name and percent
age of each ingredient, and declares
/ that food shall be considered adulter-
| ated eff it be an imitation of" an
other article of food.
Right here is where Commissioner
| Wright and the manufacturers of beef
fat and cotton seed oil clash. These
manufacturers claim that their stuff
is compound. 1t sells under various
| packing house names and they main
tain that it is not an imitation of any
thing. but a food all by itself.
Commissioner Wright maintains that
| it is All imitation Of lard, made to look
like lard. sold for lard at times and
sold to be used for all the purposes
for which lard is used. He claims
therefore that it is a direct imitation
of lard no matter what the name by
which it is called and for that reason
proposes to force the manufacturers to
brand their compound with the per-
centage of ingredients. He takes the
position that lemon extract tho 1t con-
sists Of compound of alcohol and
lemon oil, is not an imitation, but for
the purpose Of the argument if such
a thing as lemon extract, being in fact
an actual extract from lemons, then
the stuff sold consisting of alcohol and
lemon oil would be an imitation.
When the suit comes to trial one Of
the strong claims for the state will be
that the purpose and intention of the
law is to protect the public and that
these various packing house products
made as substitutes for lard are some
times sold in packages labeled by the
manufacturer and some times sold
from bulk. Therefore it is maintained
that for the protection of the public
the goods whenever sold should be
labeled, because since 1t looks like lard
and is sold for the same purpose as
lard the public has right to know
what it is buying and when the stuff
is sold from bulk without label the
public will not know.
Governor Cummins went on record |
for better high schools in his address
at the normal banquet in Shrine tenn
pie last night. He said that the courses
in the high schools should be so ar
ranged as to provide for the final !
training Of the young instead of being
a mere preparatory school.
The governor said that the Iowa |
schools are better than those in any
other state in the country He espec- |
tally praised the rural schools of this |
state. but stated that they should be
fewer, so that each one might have
larger attendance, thus making it pos
sible to give the pupils the best pos
sible attention. Governor Cummins
hot f1o fno of
are not paid enough, but in order to
increase their salaries the school
houses should be fewer and of better
grade.
The governor closed his speech by
asking the normalites to stand by the
state certificate law, which has recent
ly caused some trouble among the ed
ucators of the state.
Besides Governor Cunnmins Attor-
ney General H. w. Byers and State
Superintendent Riggs were guests at
the banquet. but the latter two did not
speak. President H. II. Seerley, pres
ident of the State Normal school,
greeted the guests
More than one hundred alumni and
friends of Grinnell were present at !.
the banquet at the Chamberlain last
night, marking one of the most sue
cessful occasions in the history of the
Des Moines association. Arrangements
were complete and elaborate, having
been looked after by DR.. Geisham H.
Hill Alumni and friends were pres
mt from many points of the state,
and enthusiasm for the college was at
he flood
Many toasts were responded to. all
,reathing hope for the future. This
vas especially true in the response of ;
President Main. who handled the top ;
C of the raising of the new increase Of ,
10000 in the endowment of the col ,
ege.
The toasts We're as follows, I. K.
wilson presiding as POSTMASTER: