Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-18
Mistsllanrous Rsading.
DR.. WlLEYS WORK.
Known For His "Poisonous Squads"
Almond Other Things.

Among Other Things.
During the past three years especi-
ally numerous reports have announc-
ed the resignation Of DR.. Wiley as
chief Of the bureau OF chemistry
either Of his own free will or at the re-
quest of his superiors-or have in
formed the public that he was to be
] fired bodily from the department of
agriculture for the commission OF
many alleged SINS But the man whose
poisonous squads" and frequently
published rules for health and death
made the people Of the country take
such an interest in their food and
drink as never before always remained
in his position. When the time came
for him to go, DR.. Wiley used to say,
/ 1t wouldn't be hard to find another
job, and it seems that now the time
| has come for him to prove that he can
step with light heart and ready feet
from the tangles of the bureau where
he saved the government $12,0O0,0OO
in ten years-at least according to the
food experts own statement.
To those who charge DR.. Wiley with
| arranging and countenancing the
spending Of $40 or $50 a day in place
of the legal maximum of $11 he might
reply in the words he used year ago
last February when money matters in
his bureau brought him before the
| house committee on expenditures in
the department Of agriculture: Every
dollar we have spent In our labora-
tory has saved Uncle Sam 800. The
work of the chemistry bureau has
thus saved the government vast deal
Of money"
So those who befriend DR.. Wiley in
his present trouble can support him
by saying that IL the expenditure OF
$11 saved $1,100, it must certainly
stand to reason that the spending of
| $50 would save the United States such
sum as to justify the overlooking OF
little rule made by congress In Its ig-
norance OF ways and means for carry
ing out the new penny saved. penny
earned" scheme.
Not only has DR.. Wiley always look
ed after the interests of this bureau OF
chemistry for twenty-eight years-he
first became connected with the de-
partments chemistry work In 1888,
when 1t was limited to analyses OF fer
tilizers and sugar-but he has had at
heart the interests of the digestive or
gans OF the people of the United
states. Only a few days ago DR.. WI
ley was heard from in view Of the re-
lation Of the heat wave and mans
stomach. Almost every summer DR..
diets for the people, high and low.
Eat no meat; consume plenty of
fruits, but have them cooked; drink
nothing below so degrees in tempera-
ture: Danish all alcoholic vegetables;
seek cheerful friends; don't worry.
From these rules 1t will be seen how
DR.. Wiley added to his enemies by
suggestions that, II carried out by the
| advised, would injure the business OF
| butcher. iceman, saloon keeper ana
pessimist
But 1t seems that the preacher did
not always practise what he preached.
| Only a few days after issuing bulletin
| similar to the above three years ago
| the dietarian sat down to meal OF
| 'two imperial crabs, one large steak
and trimmings, special salad, and
several mugs of musty ale." All this
furnished material for the opponents
of pure food and reasonable living.
DR.. Wiley had and perhaps still has
| other ideas. A man should eat Il per
cent of his weight in dry foods, and so
| II requires 100 days for him to eat his
own head off," If man eats less he
loses weight, and DR.. Wiley was only
relying on crabs, steak and salad to
keep him robust. Every man ought
to choose his own rations," was for
mer Wileyan opinion that gave an ex-
cuse for the crabs, etc.
The best cook In Washington s
younger society set, Miss Anna Kelton
also a fragist-earlier In the year
| became the wife of the food expert In
his Goth year. He really did not mar
ry her for culinary purposes, as was
alleged at the time, for DR.. Wiley Is a
master at the stove or chafing dish. 1t
used to be one of his proud boasts that
| he cooked his own mush while attend
ing Hanover college in Indiana. The
/ mush, acting on his intellect by way OF
| the stomach, enabled the young Hoosi-
Il
Four years, later at the Indiana Medi-
cal college he received the degree of
doctor Of medicine, but its connection
with mush has never been established.
| At last, he did not cook his own meals
| for while he was not long laying the
| foundation for the knowledge that was
| to provide his ideas on "eating to live
he taught Latin and Greek In Butler
/ college. Further training, principally
| in chemistry, was secured at the Law
renee Scientific School of Harvard uni
versity, where the degree Of B. S. in
dicated a part Of his mental equip
ment
For one year he was professor OF
chemistry at Butler college, which he
left to take a similar teaching position
at the Agricultural college of Indiana,
situated at Purdue. Feeling that he
must gain more knowledge to keep up
with the Hoosier minds, he spent the
year 1S7S-79 doing research work in
| chemistry at Berlin, Germany. Indi-
ana made DR.. Wiley state chemist in
| 1881. and he remained in that position
two years, until going to Washington
to become the chief Of the division of
chemistry In the department Of agri-
culture. His career as a servant of
the government-his enemies say he
i was VI DOSS llidI d
has caused the Hoosiers to point at
him and say. He Is one Of u.s." Kent
county considers that Wiley bestows
special honor upon 1t by being born
within its limits.
| When Wiley got to going in Wash
ington he displayed the power to eat
work Those under him and many
above him did not hold the same opin-
ion as to exerting themselves for
Uncle Sam. DR.. Wiley thought that
his office ought not to confine itself to
seeing if fertilizers were up to snuff or
not 1t was the new chiefs aim to
create a division of chemistry for the
study Of food adulteration. and in 1885
his office was authorized to study the
| adulteration Of foods.
While in Germany DR.. Wiley's inter-
est in the chemistry Of foods and in
physiological chemistry had been
greatly increased by work in the
health laboratory of Berlin. under the
direction Of DR.. Sell. After DIR. Wiley
had become state chemist Of Indiana
he set about to create a popular de-
mand for pure food and legislation
relative to food inspection. Not until
the division Of chemistry was allowed
to take up the study of food adultera-
tiOn did DIR Wiley begin to see the