Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-25
BOOZE N DRINKS
Of SODA FOUNTAIN
TEMPERANCE" DRINKS SOLD IN
IOWA FOUND TO CONTAIN
ALCOHOL.
MALTs AND OTHER DRINKS
SOLD IN vloL ALTON OF LA.
Analyses Made by State Pure Food %.
partment Show Many Contain as
High as 2 Per Cent of Aicohol-En-
forcing Food Law No Slight
Task.


Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. May 25.--Housewives,
grocers. restauranteurs, and authori-
ties al! over the state will be deeply
| Interested In u rather startling discov-
cry that has just been made at the
chemical laboratory of the Iowa pure
food commission. 1t is one that may
awaken the temperance forces of Iowa
the fact that many of the so-termed
temperance" drinks contain alcohol.
Some of them have been found to con-
tain as high as 2 per cent. Chemical
analysis of some of the malts and
other drinks served at soda fountains,
sold by grocers and consumed by tee
| totalers would warrant criminal pros
ecution for selling liquor contrary to
the laws OF the state.
Some of the so-called temperance
drinks are not temperate, said State
Food and Dairy Commissioner Wright.
I'VE have found in some of these ap-
pealing liquids bought at grocery
stores as high as 2 per cent of alco-
hol. l hardly think we will start any
prosecutions for violating the mulct
law but we may give a healthful
warning to the dealers In the near fu-
ture as to what ii Will be dangerous
for them to handle. There are some
of these malts that might not contain
alcohol at the time they were put up.
but manufacture 1t within themselves
during the time they await for some
customer to purchase" Here Is a more
innocent looking fellow" said the conf
missioner as he picked up a pop bot
| tie. "There is no alcohol In this, but
it was sold as pure cider, whereas 1t
never enjoyed the acquaintance of an
apple. 1t never was and never would
be cider. 1t is imposed upon the peo-
pie as the real goods and 1t is not even
a very good imitation
4 Two ice cream manufacturers in
Des Moines have been made defend
ants in actions commenced by Mr..
Wright for selling ice cream that does
not have the requisite amount of but
ter fat to entitle it to the name
CREAM" The crusade Is going to be
pushed thruout the summer in all the
cities of the state Joy to the consum-
real stuff.
Ministers. state officials school
teachers and others have become In
| volved In an interesting discussion in
| Des Moines as to the leniency that
should be shown men convicted for the
first time of crime. The discussion was
started by the recent announcement. If
| all ar tl,a Yy,,ts. oh,
that all FIRST timers" should be paroled
and given one more chance. Sunday
| Howland Hanson, a Baptist preacher
here declared this to be maudln SYM
pathy and declared that the courts
should show their teeth more for the
benefit of society
Secretary Garrett of the state board
of parole also takes issue with the
advocate of the new theory and an
nounces that the statistics of the pa
role board shows that 30 per cent of
the men paroled from the penitentiary
have made good" Hence he urged
4 that the stigma" of having been n
''jail bird" does not deter man from
living an righteous life when he does
get out after having been in the PEN
| itentiary for his crime. 1t Is possible
| tHdt IL puDlc ueDale OF TWO on VIE
question will be the outcome of numer-
Gus challenges that are passing back
ward and forth.
Enforcing the pure food law is no
slight task according to State Food and
Dairy Commissioner H. r. Wright.
you may be sure of your facts and
certain of your chemical analysis" said
Mr. Wright In commenting on the cru
SADIE being conducted for pure food.
"and yet you do not know how the
court is going to interpret some word In
the law. For instance the word 'inlita-
ton is word subject to varied inter-
Ipretations in different states. one state
has held that a substitute for lard. FOR
instance. tho 1t looks like lard. and
tastes like lard is not an imitation un-
less the manufacturer "wilfully and
purposely" made 1t look like lard. This
liberal Interpretation makes 1t hard In
that state to get after the lard imitat-
ors. Our supreme court has not held
to such ruling as yet"