Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-08-29

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The secretary Of agriculture has des-
ignated three experts in veterinal?
.s science meat In.
InveStlQdte spection and pub
Meat Packing. lie sanitation TO
upon meat-packing establishments op-
Grating under federal supervision at
various points in New York. Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Missouri and
Illinois. 1t is the purpose of the secre'
tary to extend this work, and to secure
for these inspections the leading au-
thorities in the country, with the Idea
that such action will foster confidence
Of the public in the meat inspection
work. Those already authorized are
as follows:
DR.. w. T. Sedgwick, professor OF
bacteriology and sanitary enginee ring,
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
Boston, to inspect the federally In;
spected establishments at Boston,
Worcester and Brightwood, Mass, and
New Haven, Conn.
DR.. v. A. Moore, pr Ifessor Of path
ology, New York State, Veterinary COL
lege. Cornell university, Ithaca, to in
spect and report on conditions in the
meat packing establishments at Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and New
York.
DR.. ]. w. Connaway, Missouri Agri-
cultural college. Columbia, Mo-, to in
spect and report on conditions in the
meat-packing establishments OF Kan
sas City, St. Louis, and St. Joseph, Mo-.
and National Stockyards, Illinois.
The secretary's instructions to each
of these experts reads as follows:
with view OF safe guarding public
health and maintaining: the highest de-
gree of efficiency in the meat inspec-
ton service of this department., 1t is
my desire that you report directly
to me fully and frankly the conditions
as you find them at the various pack,
ing establishments, togethers with such
recommendation looking to the i'm.
provement of the service as IN your
judgment may secM uEee'
This new inspection of meat-pack,
ing establishments by outside experts,
under temporary ass. gnment by the
government, will in no way supesede
or lessen the, work now being done by
the bureau of animal industry. The
idea, according to tie secretary. is
simply to have the ins pection and reg
| ulatory work checked up by compe
tent authorities who will report d.
rectly to the secretary.
Fewer penitents, tortured by the
still small voice." confessed and sur.
rendered ''consci'
This Fund a e1sce money" to
Sacred Subject. t the feae1a, go. .
the fiscal year 1913 than for many
years. The conscience fund" re-
ceived during the twelve nioaths end
ing June 80 totaled OILY $2,s14.44. the
lowest amount since 1901 and com
parable with a hundred-year aver
age of $4,000.
That fund is the only official index
to scruples, but no treasury official
| attempts to explain the decrease in
| restitution of money received from the
government by fraud or error.
During the last hundred years the
government has received conscience
contributions aggregating nearly a
half million dollars, the exact figures
up to June 30 last being $434,615.69
The remarkable fund was established
during President Madison's admins.
tration in 1911, when the first contri.
button of IS was received The larg
est amount ever received in one year
| was $3s5,S6S in 1902, and the greatest
individual contribution Of $1S,669.6
was made to the collector Of customs
in New York more than decade ago
by an unidentified person, who prob
ably had defrauded the government OF
tariff duties. H., ,,.s- '~. ,
Treasury officials surround the fund
with q certain degree OF sacredness.
Usually the penitent sends his con.
tribution anonymously, but II he signs
his name his secret is locked in, the
archives OF the government 1t is the
one place in the federal establish.
ment where contrite sinner may
make confession and amends without
the slightest danger Of prosecution.