The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-22
HELME TO HIRE
ARMY OF WOMEN
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Has Plan 10 Get Results

Women au over M,>k.san are to te
employed SIS sieuyts Cog tEr stat, Uslsr
ar5 la.f department
I..sl week James ~. HrImr tba
lea >.ate aair, ANA foo5 commission
e. la8 introduced n tGe senate "a
little ast o. 81 BIN to vhl-n nobody poo;
even lat n,ro5ucer paid paTucUiar
attention 4uG Vhjch looked lEe % very
minor amrnamrnt to the state food
laws lu reality, however. Tie chang
ing 90 "a very few words in that law
JUS, as provided ina this blu permits
she employment OF women eyerT-
when, IS inspectors for tHe depart
meut and This is jusJ what Helme
ad u mind
Al present every Inspector must riyc
81 $4,000 bond. il he must give such
"a bond ay naturally demauss tha, ns
be- paid Cor his work and pa.d pretty
uel Under the present laws ton
the department may employ bul four
good inspectors. which is mauitcstlv
too few Co make anything like "a sys-
teamti1 Inspection OF the whole stltg.
Hard 10 Trap the Wary Ones.
The law also provides that mo- war
rant may be issued for selling impure
foods except upon the showing ~ a
sample taken FOR that purpose 10y 70
regular Inspector of the department
Now everybody knows these four in
spectors and no wise dealer is going
20 let that inspector have any adulter-
ated food suns If ne can help TO-
1t frequently happens that samples
are sent 10 the department which
show authorizations. but they are not
taken by inspectors and no action an
be- maintained upon them. The best
the department can do is 90 send IA
Inspector ont TO try t. catch the man
who sold the stun ana this is a dim-
cult task
Now the little innocent amendment
that Heme asked provides for the en-
ploymuet of inspectors without bonds.
That will enable him 10 employ in
spectors who are not known To every
dealer and viii naturally enable him
10 do little sleuth work and 10 have
women or others walk into a store, OH
tain a sample and if proved to De
TO begin an action against
the man who sold IT,
To Have Army OF Inspectors.
To carry out this plan it is Helme's
idea 10 make use of the members Of
the Housewives league and other wo-
mems organizations all over the state.
thus keeping at work every day in
every city and town a great army OF
inspectors who viii always bc on the
watch for aduIlcrated foods and notify
the department.
- can get more action for less
money in this Nar,," says lIelme. than
/ could in any either way. can think
of shall name very qdicu}. the lead
trs in the Housewives leagjit and OH
er womcn's organizations an over the
state aa inspectors. In the rcghar.
course of their buynF, then, shalt
have a force OF Inspectors at work IN
every city ana town When they buy
they can send sample 10 me and IL
IN examination ANA ANALYSIS I hal
auull"rdtiun ] can - rlShj AFTER lhh
man who sold the stun aud make him
be good. No Gealer under this plan
VIII know whether a woman in the
ordinary course of her trading is not
an Inspector ana ne viii rather natur-
ally be inclined To observe the law.
II nave made comparatively few
changes ia the force IN the department
and | don't care muc.l what the poll
tics OF amy Of the employees may be-
/ feel I can do more Tor the glory of
the first Democratic administration IA
twenty years By making my depart
ment deliver the goods and amount To
something Tor the people than can
by banding out a few little dinky jobs
To Democrats by discharging Rerub-
licanS who have made good in them"