The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-26
CHECK DR.. WILEY
PRESIDENT PLAN
Appellate Division of Pure
Food Court Will Re-
view Decisions.

Any uncertainties about what Presi-
dent Roosevelt may intend to do 10 DIT.
Harvey W. Wiley. chief chemist and
boss knocker on food products. may be
considered stilled. The President wants
DR.. Wiley bottled up.
The Chief Executive didn't say that
much 10 the supreme court" OF pure
food when he received that body yes
terday. but he intimated il so broadly
that there can be no doubt Of his mean
ing. When DR.. Wiley seemed TO threat
en- 10 outlaw everything that people eat
on the ground that II was somehow un-
wholesome. IL wasn't so serious. But
when he got TO be chief administrator
OF a law under which ne could do much
as he pleased, It was different. The
President decided 10 have "a board of
eminent chemists as an appellate body,
20 review the Wiley decisions. He named
DR. Ira Remsen, DR.. r. II. Chittenden.
DR.. J. II. Long, DR.. A. +. Taylor and
DR.. c. A. Herter, all scientists Of inter
national note. II Dr. Wiley decides at
any time that brown bread, beersteak
and pork and beans are dangerous and
must be suppressed, this board Will re-
view mis- decision.
Why He Called Body.
When this supreme court OF pure
food called on the President the latter
explained why he had called the body
into existence. He said he didn't want
the administration Of the law 20 be
dominated by crauks and extremists He
wanted IL to become means Of helping
and strengthening not of injuring and
tearing down the big business interests
5Of the country. He commended 10 them
ito undertake their duties with this idea
in mind.
The business OF providing food for the
sSiu the biggest business Of the
United States and il will be well il this
country shall protect its food standards
assure that its certificate q character
shall have significance the world over
and then use judgment and discretion
about deciding that everything IS dan
gerOus,
Dr. Wlley's name wasn't mentioned,
but the board went away with the dis
tinct impression that Il was expected TO
curb the euthusiasms OF that gentleman.
Board Begins Work.
The board Of scientific experts ap-,
pointed by the President to decide ap-
peals from the decision OF DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley pure food censor, has begun
its work, and IS now wrestling with the
proposition Of whether benzOic acid and
its salts and sulphur and its deriva-
tives are harmful when used in pres
CRYING food,
The board OF referees Will make its
report to Secretary Wilson, but it was
at the latter's office this morning
sion could hardly be reached
Sc for several weeks. as there
IS of data 10 wade through.
calls from the decision OF Dr.
ere formally turned over TO
nittee which met here yeSter-
manufacturers and dried fruit
who employ sulphuriC deriya-
preserving their products, claim
Is not harmful when taken IN
antilles A like claim is made
srs Of Catsup and dealers who
ielly in bulk, with reference to
acid
TIley said this morning that
were the only JWO decisions upon
mich there had as yet been an ap-
peal. so far as he was advised. The
board OF referees named by the Pres
ident will act in future as rather a
supreme tribunal in pure food matters
iu cases where manufacturers strenU-
Ously object 10 DR.. Wiley's rulings.