The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-03
Former Chief Chemist
Tell Audience Why He
Had to Quit.
JUST BEGINNING
PURE FOOD FIGHT
Enemy of Fakes Warmly GREETED
at Richmond College as He
Wades In and Raps Deceit.
Woodrow Wilson Cheered
When Boatwright Men
tons Name.


because / was tired OF being annoyed
or because was pecved." said Or
Harvey Washington Wiley last night
10 an audience which occupied every
scat In the Richmond college chapel
Il resigned because thought could
do better work and more work outside
the service than in. I have been an
moved and thwart.d in my work for
more than decade. and | could easily
aaye stood few years more OF it,
You can understand my action bet
ter when tell you that had orders
from the department never TO speak
in public about the effect o. certain
things Upon human health and life
My orders We're; Say what you plea Sc.
out be careful not 10 poach upon the
preserves of the Remscn Board; that
is taboo.
TO put II bluntly, l left oecauss /
was tied down. because was gagged
upon subjects upon which / wanted
to speak above all others and he
cause ! wanted forum for frea and
un'rammeled expression. have just
begun the fight against food and drug
adultersiion, and 4. am able shall
carr! II on TIL tho end"
Forccf,I Lecture.
With these words. tho form,r chief
chemist Of the United States Depart.
ment OF Agriculture concluded an ad
dress on The Fight for the Repres.
sion Of Food and Drug Aduiteration,"
In which he drew upon an endless store
OF first hand information bearing upon
a subject which h%id the deepest in.
terest for every one OF his hearers.
He Sketched the history of the long
IL; times discouraging. light arainst
orSanl5ed greed. and prophesied the
carly advent Of the day whcr silk will
DC all silk and not inercerized cotton
When maple sugar will be all that IL
claims. and when shoe leather will be
genuine cowhide and not, as ire
anehtiH Is the case, partly glue.
IN the course of lecture or deadly
earnest. DR., Wiley found time 10 re-
late number OF anecdotes OF par
iiculariy apt application. which kept
'he audience in happy numor 10 the
end. He was presented BY President
Eoatwright. OF Richmond College
who mentioned the fact that the Ice
lures to be delivered by DR. Wiley
form the thirty second course given
under the James Thomas Lecture En-
dowmsnt In speaking OF the long
list of public men who had Iectured
under this foundation. President Boat
wright mentioned Woodrow Wilson
His name provoked prolonged APP
plause, The audience greeted Dr.
Wiley with storm OF handclapping
which testified TO his populari with
the Grca; mass OF American people
Knew Pedigree of Every Egg.
The problem OF food reg ulation is
a modern one declared DIR. Wiley
There was nothing like it in the early
days OF the race. nor was 1t necessary
In the patriarchal period, he SAID.
every farmer in the neiGhborhood
knew. SO to speak, the family history
Of CIR luil In hA .,,,,, 49,.
There was no cold storage, and no
chance for deception. \ thing was
always what II appeared TO be.
With tie specialization OF modern
times, said the speaker. there came the
day when one man no longer knew
what the other was doing. or how he
was doing it. With increasing com
petition there vas born the idea of ef-
fccting an increase OF profits by de-
basing and misbranding products. a
thing was no longer what 1t seemed.
Frequently il was far different and
more sinister from that which could
be inferred from its label.
An Age of "Cavcnt Vendor"
The 'caveat emptor'--let the buyer
hewarc-of the early days when prod
ucts were nothing other tina n they pur-
ported TO be. has in the course of evo-
luton. nc ID. given way TO the mod :
ern "cavcat vendor''-let the seller
Observation-Disclosures now only the seller
and manufactures. and never th,
! buyer, can know what ingredients
make up the product sold to be cntcn
or worn.
1t is eminently proper function
of government, thought DIR. Wiley. 10
draft laws to regulate the purity of
, products. for 1t is the only instru-
inent that can be invoked to protect
tic public from authorizations. which
arc too adroitly Incorporated 10 be
detected.
There are schemes galore for sep
| arating man from his hard earned
CASH" said Or. Wiley, but the most
dangerous as we'll as tho most con-
the food which nc eats when he Is
we'll, and TIE medicine he takes when
he Is i'll. for tho sake OF Il paltry ;id
ditional penny"
Need other Purity Laws.
While only laws touching the purity
Of foods and drugs interested him d.
rcctly. said DR.. Wiley, these lines are
not tho only ones by any means which
| stand in need of purification. Adultcr-
alton. he said, is rampant in every
branch of manufacture. a pure clothes
law is as badly needed as pure fond
| law. Pure leather and pure jewelry
| laws are crying necessities
'It is mistake" said DIR. Wiley
ito imagine that only the food and
drug manufacturing trades are infect.
! ed with the gnawing canker of deceit
| and debasemept. The disease affects
| every branch of industry. We need a
| purity law touching the business OF
| selling Florida lands. and one rcsu-
lat!ng the sale OF genuine linen note
paper. the principal ingredient OF
| which Is terra alba"
| DIR. Wiley expressed the belief that