The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-09-28
WALLIS TELLS OF
WORK IN IDAHO

Capitol News: Jas. H. Wallis, stat
pure food commissioner, has returne
from an extensive trip through tn
east and south, during which he at
tended the National Pure Food Com
missioners' convention at Duluth
which he declares was one of the mos
successful meetings of that organiza
ton ever held. After the convention
he took trip south through TENNESSEE
and Virginia, where he had the pleas
ure of visiting some of the best diaries
in the United States. During his alb
sence he also visited Washington, d. G
Speaking of the visit of Mr.. Wallis
to that city the Chattanooga Sunday
| Times has the following:
Chattanooga is enjoying a visit from
James H. Wallis, state dairy food and
sanitary inspector of Idaho. Commits
sioner Wallis was in attendance at the
national convention of federal and
state food officials, just terminated in
Duluth, Mimi, and while here intends
seeing some of our largest dairies. He
visited the Hills dairy establishment
yesterday afternoon, and will inspect
the farm from which most of their
milk comes on Monday. He expects to
go to Atlanta from here, and then to
Washington, d. c., where he has bust
ness with Secretaries Wilson and
Nagel. Commissioner Wallis is also
state sealer of weights and measures,
and is now having very expensive
set of standards for Idaho tested at
the bureau of standards at Washing
ton.
Commissioner Wallis is not strang-
er in Chattanooga, having graduated
from the law department of Grant uni
versity several years ago. He was de-
lighted yesterday afternoon to meet
Major G. R. Evans, dean of the inSti-
tuition, and congratulated him upon the
excellent positions attained by several
of his graduates who located in Utah
and Idaho, some of whom are enjoying
lucrative practice and others have been
elected to fill important offices.
Mr.. Wallis is an enthusiast on sani
tatiOn, and spoke in an entertaining
manner of the good work being done
in his state. eve were the first state
in the west to abolish the public drink
ing cup, and we are the only state
which has a compulsory slaughter
house inspection law. 1t is violation
of the law to sell meat in Idaho which
has not been prepared in a licensed
abattoir, and we enforce the law to the
letter. Meat cannot be transported on
the cars or through the streets unless
it is completely covered in clean
white cloth. The time has passed when
a man could kill meat in any old place
and ship it on the cars with no pro-
lection from the dust, dirt and flies.
Whenever we catch meat under these
we seize it and destroy 1t
and prosecute the man responsible
or it.
eve are as careful to protect our |
milk supply with the same vigor. You |
cannot buy milk in any part of our
state, only in glass bottles with sani- /
airy caps on which is found the date /
when the milk was drawn from the
ow. My deputies inspect these bottles
IS they are found on the street, and if
he milk shows dirty sediment at the
'ottom of these bottles, the law auth
rizes them to destroy the milk and
PROSECUTE those responsible.
eve have made a great fly campaign
n Idaho for the past three years, and
his spring, before the public schools
losed, we placed in the hands of every
hid an illustrated booklet entitled
The Story Of a Fly
Public sentiment is with us in our