Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-30
FRIENDS
FILM PLANNING
THE PUBLIC
Enemies of Much Mooted Food
PreSeryatiye AIIege Advocates
Are Tainting the News.
Morning Journal Bureau.
613 Munsey Building.
Mashingtnn. u @ oct .

lent to those who have followed the
b~enzOate Of soda controversy mat
those who advocate its use as a food
perate methods 70 mislead the public
in regard TO the facts in tbs case.
These methods have been ventilated
in the newspapers and magazines. one
putting the case. The same folks who
faint your food are trying to faint
your news" one OF the methods util-
ICED is for a press agent in New York
to write articles to the newspapers
under a fictitious name. posing as a
scientist interested in the matter from
a purely scientific standpoint. Anoth-
or scheme was editorially exposed in
the Outlook" last month as follows;
And finally. the manufacturers who
believe sincerely in the right and pro-
priety Of their use of benzoate OF soda
are not really doing their cause good
by some of their methods Of creating
public opinion. An organization bear
ing the high sounding title Of the Ma
tional Association for the Promotion
Of Public Health. and purporting to
be a philanthropic and public-spirited
society. is really maintained as an ad-
Vertising or press agency by some at
least Of the manufacturing group
which use benzoate OF soda. This
press agency recently submitted 10
The Outlook for publication. an ar
ticle by a physician which. under the
guise of a charitable appeal for poor
children suffering from i~nfantile par
alysis. was a thinly disguised advo-
cacy OF the use of benzoate of soda in
preserved foods. The Outlook OF
course declined the akticle, and it can
hardly be said that " confidence in
the commercial advocates Of benzoate
of soda was greatly increased by the
incident
1t was not until a few days ago.
however. thai Washington had "A dem
onstration of how far they would &c
in attempting to mislead the public
through the press and so skillfullv was
the plant prepared n a il no won
der that even so thoroughly reliable
and irreproachabie an organization a.
The Associated Press fell for IT, or
OCTOBER 6 The trustees of the Ameri-
can Institute of Homeopathy met in
Washington to consider matters per
tanning exclusively to that organiZa-
ton. They adjourned that evening
and most Of them left the city. That
night a man of eminently respectable
appearance called at a number OF
newspaper offices. among others the
washington office Of the Associated
Press. In his hand he carried a num-
Der OF copies oil a statement and on
one OF them appeared the 20. X. oi
DR.. j. Ritchcy Horncr, OF Cleveland,
secretary Of the board Whether in
tentionaliy or otherwise. he conveyed
to the Associated Press representative
the idea that ne was DIT Horner and
on the strength Of this the Associated
Press carried % dispatch when began:
'Characterizing the action Of the
benzoate of soda as a p~rescrvative as
having been too 'hastyi the trustees
Of the Association which met here to-
day. adopted q resolution recommend
! ing that the Institute at its next an
nual meeting reconsider its step
Continuing the dispatch quoted Dr.
Horner, the representative of the As
sociate Press being under tho belief
that he had talked with Or. Horner-
Al the office Of a Washington newspa-
per the same party showed up and as
a result OF his visit an article APP
peared the mex morning stating that
the trustees took a hand in the ben
2oate OF soda controversy by unani-
I mously adopting "a resolution asking
the next annual meeting OF the insti-
tute TO reconsider the action Of the
national gathering In Detroit last
June cOndemning the use of benzoate
as "a p~reservatiVe THE names Of the
trustees were given and it was mem