Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-24
LEAD SAUCY TO HOUSEW|VESGEYSERS ALL D|FFER|
Speed Dr. Wey Calls Them vertabe No Two in Yellowstone Park
Course Lucretia Borgas. Exactly Alike.
NcHMEN IGNORANT OF HEALTH LAWS LAWS GOVERN THEM ALL
Dairy Association Regular Intervals
FLIGHT ANNUAL THREE
muo "oicano 'nos ih-
Dr.. Wiley Calls Them Veritable
Lucretia Borgias.
IGNORANT OF HEALTH LAWS
Address Before Pure Food and
Dairy Association.
ANNUAL SESSION IN DENVER
President Emery Criticises Ofcial
Report on Benzoate of Soda.
Notables Present.

DENVER, August 24-The modern
housewives are veritable Lucretia Bor-
gas. declared DR.. Harvey NJ. Wiley,
head of the United States chemistry bu-
reau today. DIR. Wiley is here to attend
the national convention of pure food and
dairy commissioners.
The modern Lucretia' he said, sis
here in fiocks, using the telephone. hand
ing out poison from the ice box, from the
broi1er and the skillet and the little tins
of dinner she buys when breathlessly
rushing home after her exciting bridge
games at the club.
1T is the duty of every woman wheth-
er she is a housewife or not, to inform
average ice box is a charnel house which
not only holds death but spreads It,
And, too, many housekeepers allow dis
order and uncleanlineSs to prevail in their
kitchens and larders through ignorance
or indifference.
They'd rather pick out Beethoven
sonata, read an Ibsen play or memorize
bridge rule than trace ptomaine to its
lair and eradicate it i'm the interest of
family safety.
Every Section Represented.
Food experts from every section of the
country. including Secretary of Agricul-
ture James Wilson. Chief Chemist H. w.
Wiley and representatives of the United
States dairy commission and the bureau
of animal industry, were present at the
opening today of the thirteenth annual
convention of the Association OF State and
National Food and Dairy Departments.
Before the convention adjourns next Fri
day it is expected a definite plan for
more drastic enforcement of pure food
regulations throughout the country will
have been drafted.
Scores Benzoate Of Soda.
In his annual address President J. Q.
Emery scored the use of benZoate of soda
as a food preservative. and vigorously OPP
posed the finding of the referee board
appointed during President Roosevelt's
administration, that the preservative was
not harmful He pointed to Secretary
Wilson as having recommended to the
President that the finding OF the ooard
he not reinvestigated. although COM
mittee of the association applied for
reconsideration of the subject. That
benzoate of soda is harmful in whatever
form it is used. whether in soda water or
in pickles. was the emphatic conclusion
of the speaker.
the federal pure food laws as not meet
ing the necessities Of the Individual
states Mr.. Emery urged wide breach
between the state commissioners and Sec
II.
sion to each state legislature OF the
..model" pure food law proposed by DR..
r F. Laid, state food commissioner OF
North Dakota.
Meets With Opposition.
No sooner had these views been ex-
pressed than dozen other speakers con-
tended that a breaking away from the
federal laws would result In chaotic
multiplicity of state laws all out Of har-
mony with one another.
The housewife would be unable to de.
termine from the variety of labels just
what she was buying" declared one
speaker.
It was determined that the whole SUBJ
ject should be threshed out and reported
upon by special committee. On this COM
mittee are Dr. Ladd, DIR. Scovelle, James
Foust, DR.. w. B. Bigelow, bureau OF
Lansing, Mich; DIR. r. A. Pearson, AL
bany N Y, and r. A. Allen, Lexington,
KY.
More than 100 addresses are to be made
before the convention closes. DIR. Wiley
is to discuss "Bleached Flour" and other
subjects range from What Is Whisky?"
to How to Keep Oysters Fresh Without
Preservatives?"
Thursday the members of the Remsen
referee board are to speak, followed by
an answer to their contentious by state
food chemists, who are opposed to ben
zoate.
Atlanta. Ga, and Rochester, N. Y, are
in the field for the next convention.