The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1909-01-29
Inspection Of Weights.

One OF the crying needs OF Mis- i
sissippi today is a system OF in I
spection for weights and measures.
There are statutes on the books /
prescribing a standard for weights I
and measures Of all kinds, but they
are not enforced because of the /
lack Of a system Of inspection.
As consequence, Mississippi 3 |
standards are anything your butch /
er, your grocer, your produce |
dealer, or other persons from whom |
you purchase the necessaries Of life /
may SEE fit to set.
Make inquiry in any town in this
State and you will hear multitude
Of complaints about shortage in
weights and measures.
Unless you have scales and meas !
Ures in your own home. it is next
to impossible to tell when you are
getting a square deal. Buy a
twenty fve-cent steak from your
butcher, and as likely as not you
viii get a bare twenty cents worth
Invest in ten pounds Of sugar and
you will frequently find that you
have barely nine pounds.
These shortages are not always
due to intentional dishonesty on
the part of the dealer. The Daily
News believes that a large majority
Of the business men Of Mississippi
are thoroughly honest, and would
not knowingly take advantage Of a
customer. At the same time we
believe that a majority of our bust
ness men are VIGOROUSLY careless
about weights and measures, es-
pecially the farmer, and their scales
are rarely, if ever, submitted to
test for the purpose OF determining
their accuracy.
For instance, 60 into the average
meat market and you will find in
use the ordinary coil spring scale
purchased by the dealer through the
large packing houses. Did it ever
occur 10 you that this spring viii
become weakened by constant usage.
Have you ever stopped to think that
steel contracts in winter and ex-
pands in summer, and as result
you often buy "A liberal quantity Of
weather with your morning steak
or dinner roast2
We have railroad commission
in this State to see to it that we are
not imposed upon by the common
carriers 1t is ten times more i'm
portant to the average citizen that
he get a square deal from the man
who furnishes him with the neces-
saries of life. and he cannot reason
ably expect square deal unless the
business methods of the man from
whom he makes purchases are
given reasonable supervision.
The saving to individuals that
would quickly follow a first class
system OF inspection for weights and
measures would amount to more in
one day than the system would cost
the taxpayers for an entire year.
1t is useless to have statutes on our
books unless we also provide means
for their enforcement. The next
legislature should give this subject
its very careful considerations
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A certain writer has said that no
newspaper which took truth for its
standard would make a pecuniary
success. The press might return
compliment by remarking that no
minister who told the truth about
his congregation, alive or dead,
would occupy the pulpit much
longer than one Sunday afterward
The press and clergy go hand in
hand with the whitewash brush,
rosy spectacles magnifying little
deformities into oblivion. The
pulpit, the pen and the gravestone
are partners in saint making =
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