Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-03-20
SPECIAL WASHINGTON 5oRREs.
PoNDENcE:
4 By Clyde H. Tavsnner.


PoNDENcE.
By Clyde H. Tavenner.
The wooden trust flagnates OF
Lawrence, Mass, have a finely de-
veloped sense of humor No lend
man. in a minstrel show ever per
petuated a funnier joke than the
one these millionaires work Oft on
their employees. Moreover, these
fun makers have a marvellous, facul-
ty Of keeping a straight face while
the audience is conyulsed by their
perfectly killing witticisms.
As evidence of their ability as
humorists witness pay enevelope No.
1907, issued to a Lawrence mill work.
er. On the back Of this envelope
was this advice, solemnly put there
by the trustees OF the broadway
Savings Bank, controlled by the
wooden trust:
WHO OWN THEIR HOMES?
Those who save regularly and place
it where it grows. One doll7r will
open an account at this bank. 4
per cent interest.
Now for the wooden trust joke.
Just opposite this lit Of kindly and
fatherly advise such rs a kind and
loving WOODEN trust might he ex-
pected to give to it's faithful en-
ployes, is this incription: So.
That 50 was written in with ink
by the trust mills time keeper. 1t
represents the reward th5t Went to
No. 1907 for his week OF labor. g Buy
a home, = suggests his employer, the
fatherly trust After you have
paid the grocery bill for your: fam.
i!y Of five or six, and 'bou.h. some
coal, and paid the landlord his
share, and tickled the baby with a
new pair Of shoes, and purchased
some mice warm underclothes fol-
Willie, and bought mamma new
shawl take what is left Ct youu
wages and buy home.
isn't that funny?
Mill employee No. 1877 also get q
| free laugh with the pay envelope
handed him by the trust, for it bore
this legend: .l.s 3,,z
DO NOT SPEND ALL YOUR IN
ICOME.4 A mans duty to himself is
70 save some money out of his earn
ings. Start an account and. be in
dependent. M
The time keeper wrote $6.05 o.
this mans envelope, which probab i.
was the reason he was advised tt
be; independent. Who, receiving thu
ortncely sum OF Sc per week wouL,
stop to think of such. trifles as own
ing a home? This man probabl.
owns his city mansion already, henc,
the trust could think of no advis'
suitable for him beyond admonishin;
him to be independent
No wonder the tickled mill work
ers went ON strike. Who could worl
when there was an opportunity t
listen to funny jokes, handed GU
:, to them free Of charge by the flnn.
- wooden trust?
= After April /, saccharin become
we Of the family of poisonous O
: Their aeleterious Ingredient" am
5 use becoms Illegal.
In other words, the children win.
Saceharin iss drug, dangerous {
The health of CHI ldren, which cand:
manufacturers and makers Of syrup
!. Used at soda water fountains have
cen using as a cheating subst tuts
for sugar.
The very name OF sacchar:n is
deception. The word inevitably sug
tests sugar and its qualities, bu
the drug saccharin has absolutely
:, none of the qualities Of sugar. Il
S in no sense a food. It does not
add single healthy atom to tn
tissues of the body, nor does It in
crease the stored heat energy by
he slightest fraction of a degree
Yet it is sweet; five hundred times
sweeter than sugar, but 1t has NJ
sugar in it, being a derivative Of Goa
tara sort of ilhgitimate son Oh
!, 5enzoate Of soda. =.
The chemist has TO make benzoate
, from coal tar, and the sacchar.n from
he benzoate. The little folks who
lite canned corn, or fruits sweetened
with the coal tar drug, were cheated
of the sugar. They were paying fol
food-for sugar-and receiving 8
drug which was worse than useless
It was genuinely dangerous. The
weight Of medical opinion, here am
abroad, is that the continued use OF
saccharin produces grave digestive
disorders. :s 49,.
| When che United States pure food
statue of 1906 went into effect, its
Trainer, DR.. Wiley, ruled that sac
charm came under it's prob bition
as an article deleterous 70 health
and as fraud. The food dopers got
busy, demanding and obtaining the
appointment Of board of chemists
to decide what was the meaning OF
the law which DR.. Wiley had himself
framed After four years, during
which the manufacturers continued
the use of saccharin, the board order
ed that the use of the drug would
have TO- stop on July 1, 1911. Then
the dopers got busy again. DR.. Will
ey, assisted by a group Of magazine
writer's and Washington newspapers
correspondents whom the dopers de-
nounced as muck rakers,' but who
had no objection to this If they
could protect the children, exposed
the attempt Of the food PRISONERS to