Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-04
MONEY IN PURE FOOD PEACE FOR RAILROADS
Fraud Not Necessary to Profit Respite in Agitation of Rate
Says Or. Wiley. Regulation.
NOT FEARED By CRITICS |CHANGE IN SENTIMENT
Only More Confirmed His Opinion Corporation Side Discussion Is
by Opposition. Reaching People
MAKES CONVERTS TO VIEWS RAISING OF CANE Strip
Advises Which
Foods" Supplied
in
Only More Confirmed in His Opinion
by Opposition.
MAKES CONVERTS TO VIEWS
Advises Women to See That "Near
Foods" Are Not Supplied
in Household.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 3.-Dr. Harvey w.
Wiley. chief of the United States bureau
of chemistry. told the New York branch
of the Associated Clubs Of Domestic Aci-
ence this afternoon at the Hotel Aston
what rights the consumer has reason to
expect under the food and drug act.
Briefly stated. the act has the double
purpose of protection against fraud and
of supplying food that is fit to eat.
However, il was incumbent upon the
women OF such organizations as the one
he was addressing, said DR.. Wiley. to see
to it that the homes Of this country were
supplied with food conspicuous for it's
purity and reality. and not the sort which
was liable to be placed in the category
of what is called near foods
Fraud and deception were not necessary
to successful business, he declared. IN
fact, he held that merit in product and
not Misrepresentation in labels was the
keynote of success. But 1t was not
rectly false statement, if 1t still bore an
ingenious distortion of the truth calcu-
lated to deceive.
Case Of Misrepresentation.
WHO cares anything for a Camembert
u.
That's a curious place to make a
Camembert cheese"
The practice in Pennsylvania of fore
ing wholesale dealers to label their pack
ages correctly. but of laying no obliga-
ton upon the retailers, seemed absurd to
DIR. Wiley.
Isn't that a good way to inform the
consumer" he asked, with infinite sar-
casm. That's what call progress la
lobster"
Some persons advocated making the
keepers of restaurants and boarding
houses put up signs reading, this sup
posed butter is really oleomargerine or
this chicken has been in cold storage for
three years and six months"
1T would save a lot of argument, any
way" said DR. Whey. land thus serve
an economic as we'll as an ethical pur-
pose
All that could be done in Washington, he
said, was to prohibit interstate commerce
in adulterated foods. 1t was the duty of
each state to solve its own domestic trou-
bles. That was where women's organi-
cations could do a lot of good.
NO man In this country can stand up
against the combined scorn and denun-
citation of the women Of this country"
said DR.. Wiley. His hearers showed their
APPROVAL with any amount of kid-gloved
applause.
Strengthened by Criticism.
He was not a bit afraid of the criticism
he was receiving, either. 1t all made
him just that much stronger in his prin-
ciples. in establishing on a firm basis the
platform on which he stood, which other
men would occupy after him.
One antagonistic trade journal was COM
planning that there were DR.. Wileys
springing I'D all over the country. he said
Its true, too" he went on. I've got
more children than any married man here,
even IL l am a bachelor"
There was sprinkling Of Insecurity
in his audience.
Before DR.. Wiley spoke Mrs. Charlotte
Perkins Gilman had a number of things
to say about women in Municipal House.
keeping. She granted that women should
be mothers and that they should care for
their children. but she put a broader in
depreciation upon, the latter duty than
is usually demanded.
Mention some one person on earth who
is not the child Of some mother" Mrs Gil
man challenged, doubtless without great
fear of contradiction.
All the children of the city, old and
young, should be looked after, and the
housekeeping of the home should be ex-
tended to the purifying Of the city, she
maintained. So far, municipal problems
had been solved by men, and this was not
as 1t should be.
Gilman declared. 1--WE can do something
right now. And then, when we have
proved our efficiency, we won't have to
ask for the ballot. Look at our house
right here-New York. Are the streets az
clean as you would have them?
rather, not removed. Look at the system
of surface lines. Consider what the city
eats. where 1t comes from, who handles
1t and what 1t costs"