Putnam patriot., 1909-07-09

ernment in collision with the weigh CTS and nspec-tors--fonnd in the man shigher up,e a way te carry on their business al a greater profit, but to the injury Of the consume rs of their pro- duets, and the demoralization of the inspectors, and, indirectly, hundreds of employees who had to know the wrong doing going on, but had to keep si- lence. But one inspector has made the charges and the government Is to make an investigation.
 II k likely to be another of the gi- gantie systems Of business that have been investigated and their misdoings brought to light and in most instances to the great benefit of the publie.
 But there are scores Of other sources of food.supply that have to be careful iy investigated Ia prevent injury 10 health and likewise money loss to the consumers. The plrefeod law is in- tended to reach after every class of manufacturers and dealers in food pro duets, and we have every reason to be lieve that perfect security can be had in everything we eat CT drink to be just what IL Is represented to be, were it not for the man "higher up, meaning by that some peson influential enough to organize body of men to defeat the perfect operation of the law.
 Hut when the best possible has been done lo defeat fraud in food products, there remains the unwilling helper 10 defeat the law-ihe ignorant and un- thinking. In many ways they un- knowingly permit injurious clements to get into the food products they sup ply the pubic. Much complaint Is made tn the large cities Of the increase of the death-rate of children owing 10 l impure milk. Organizations are form ed to purify all milk given to children.
 IL has recently been made public, to educate people, that the houseiiy Is one of the most active agents in dissemina. ting filth of every kind on exposed ar ticles of food. It's natural habits are i to alight on all kinds of iilth, particles Of W hieh il carries away on it's feet and i deposits them on any exposed articles of food, causing often sickness and death.
 Then impure drinking water causes an immense amount of sickness and death. In most cities and large towns one of the main questions agitsted is 10 get supply of pure water for domestic use. New York city has spent hun dreds to get supply of good water each improvement diminishing the perecntage of sickness and death. Its present supply Is no better than was the Putnam public water supply be- I fore il was filtered. Millions are still being laid eat to procurc better sup ply. Perhaps tifty per cent Of 'the death-rste of New Orleans is owing 10 the impure water useds ltis now esIab. fishing costly system of water~ofks 10 purify the water IL draws from the Mississippi river--a stream much more I filthy than our Qainehaog river.
 Some might ask, "how Is ii possible with SO many dangerous enemies to health, the human family k not swept from the earths" There are two rea- sons. 0ne is that ihe fraudulent fcod products are eNeeptional-the great number engaged in supplying food are not willing 10 produce or sell im- pure or unhealthy articles of food. The second Is, that the human system ia healthy condition Is Previdentially m a,ie to overcome the effects Of most all impurities in food and water. itis the weak,resisting powers of very young children, and unhealthy and weakened constitutions that lack the resisting power to overcome dangerous impuri-