The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-08-05
Board Of Health Considers
Bad Eggs.
Dealers Subject To Heavy Penalty.

The state board of health is getting busy in an effort
to stop the sale of bad eggs. The wholesale violation
OF the egg clause in the state pure food and drug law
has caused the board to send out to produce Dealers
the pamphlet containing the provisions prohibiting the
sale of spoiled eggs and prescribing the penalties for
violation of the law.
The act comes as climax to situation which has
been growing worse daily as the percentage of bad
eggs the market and the difficulty of keeping eggs
fresh until they reach the consumer has increased
Realizing the danger in which all those who dealt in
produce were involved should the state board of health
start aggressive campaign dealer in Indianapolis
sent request to the board for accurate information on
the egg law. The sending out of the pamphlets to the
produce men is practically warning which, it is
pected will be conveyed by these dealers to shippers
of eggs all over the state
The action of the state board will very probably re-
suit in the first place in widespread adoption of quo
ting prices for eggs loss-off basis. This
that no dealer will accept all the eggs that from
the shipper as they come but will quote prices he is
willing to pay for only good eggs. Before paying the
shipper for his consignment he will candle the eggs
better yet require the eggs to be canded before ship
ment. The blame for any marketing whatsoever of
bad eggs will thus be shifted back step the
originally guilty one, who takes eggs out of incuba
tors sells otherwise spoiled eggs to the huckster or
shipper in small towns.
The clause under which the state board of health can
act in prosecuting those who sell bad eggs amend
ment adopted by the last legislature to the pure food
and drug act passed in 1907 1t reads 'It shall be
unlawful for any person. firm corporation to sell
offer for sale any eggs, after the same have been
placed in an incubator to sell offer for SALE know
ngly eggs in rotten decayed or decaying condition
to be used for food" The penalty clause reads:
''Any person, persons, firm corporation found
guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section
shall be fined not less than $40 nor more than 500 for
each offense."
The crusade of the state board of health against the
sale of spoiled eggs will no doubt find its way back to
the first or original seller of the unwholesome product
and result in the refusal of the first purchaser to accept
any but absolutely good fresh eggs. Every one who
sells the spoiled article may be fined under the above
section of the pure food law whether be the farmer
the huckste the grocery man or the wholesale dealer
SoOOooe
Magnetic Tom Marshall" is the title of an interest
ing article the popular Democratic Governor of the
State of Indiana, which Matilda Henderson Wheelock
a brilliant HOosier writer has contributed to the pa
ges of the August number of National Monthly, of
which Chairman Norman E. Mack, of the Democratic
National Committee is the editor. Miss Wheeock is
an old neghbor of Governor Marshall in his home town.
and there is much contained in her article in National
Monthly that is now finding its way into print for the
first time The article will be especially pleasing to
ndianans because it the chief executive of
this State and because it written by brilliant
Indiana woman. But this is only one of the many good
things to be found in the August number of National
Monthly.
Champ Clark, Democratic Leader in the house of
Representative reviews the work of the blon-and-a-
few-mlIionsmore Sxty-irst Congress- and he does it
only as Champ Clark can. Chairman Mack reviews
the return of Roosevelt, and its effect upon the polit
cal situation and points out how the Republicans in
tend to play Roosevelt strong in Middle West through
out the lnsurgent Republican territory end how Taft
this is the program recently arranged by Taft and