The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-08-09
ANOTHER PUBLIC MENACE
PURE FOOD EXPERT DENOUNCEs
FRAUDULENT SODA WATER.
DIR. Wiley Says 1t Is as Harmful to
Women in Many Cases as Bar
rooms Are to Men.

} The soda water fountain is as
great a menace to women, in many
cases, as is the barroom to men, &C.
cOrding to DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the
government pure food and drug eX
pert. DR.. Wiley is not opposed tC
lsoda water in itself, nor to the ex-
Itremely fancy source whence it is
Edrawn. 1t is to the use of dangerous
ingredients to which he strongly OBJ
jects-p poisonous chemicals which
are hidden in the foaming glasses
handed out to old and young alike.
Il am a friend of the soda water
man." DR.. Wiley stoutly asserts. The
| honest soda water man who sells
real soda water is godsend today. l
would not part with him for the
world. It's the man who sells inju-
riOus chemicals and habit-prOducing
drugs in soda water glasses to whom
| am opposed and whom | would like
to see driven out of business. I have
been quoted from one end of the
country to the other as being on the
trail of all the people who sell soda
water. l am not and never have
been. But it would give me great
pleasure to aid in putting out of bust
ness that contemplate class Of per-
sons who make their flavors' of inju-
riOus chemicals and who sell them
as pure fruit flaVOrs.
ITO be pure and healthy soda wa
ter should contain three ingredients
pure fruit fiavors, pure carbonated
water and sugar, not saccharin or
some other injurious sweetening. To
sell flavOrs that are made of chemi-
calls instead of fruit is criminal.
There is no law compelling the
druggist to put specified ingredients
into his cOncOCtiOns. He may put in
to a glass virtually anything under
the sun except the poisOns which are
prohibited by law and squirt a little
foam on top, and if the mixture is
satisfying to the palate of the credu-
lous he will make money. Some
day l hope congress will tell us what
soda water is and what is not. Then
we can proceed, with some prospect
OF success, to drive some of the shys-
ters out of business.
First Of all, soda water does not
and is not supposed to contain any
soda. The name is a misnomer. A
great deal of the stuff that is sold
under the name of soda water con-
tainS saccharin instead of sugar.
That should be prohibited by law.
Saccharin is injurious to everyone,
and affects children seriously. Much
OF the carbonated water that is mix
ed with with the flavors contains
lead. Such mixture should be pro-
hibited by law. A great percentage
of the flavor is made of various
kinds Of chemicals all of which are
more or less injurious to young and
old alike.
Caffeine, which is being used so
generally by many INSCRIPTIONS soft
drink mixers, should be driven from
the market by law. Its effects, espe-
cially on young people, compares
with the effect of cocaine and NOR
phine.
Il could not venture an opinion on
the yearly number of little children
whose lives are ruined by the use OF
caffeine and other dOpes which are
hidden in soda water glasses. - The
number is frightfUI. The same is
true of grOwn-up folks, but their sys-
TENS aIe calculated to better win
stand the rayages Of these in3idious
dopes.
AT the rate silly parents are al
lowing children to ruin their ner-
voUs systems and stomachs by drink
ing the dregs of unsanitary, filthy
drug store soda fountains | am in
cIined to believe that the next gen
GRAFTON will find we have developed
race of nervous wrecks. Many
mothers would lift their hands to
heaven in holy horror if their little
boys and girls would walk into their
houses putting cigarettes, but still
they will lead them to, the soda
fountains and allow them to fill
themselves with all sorts of stuff
that has just as bad effect on their
systems
ITS rather hard matter to point
to the soda water fountain where you
will get a habit-producing drug or
where you will get pure soda water.
| [ know Of a number of stores where
scrupulOus prOprietors sell only pure
soda water. l know Of many others
where they will sell anything that
will help fill their Golfers"
HOOKED UP WITH MULES.