The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-06-30
ANOTHER THEORY
FOR GULF STREAMS
Believed That Action Of Easterly
Trade Winds Blow Water in Gulf
Forcing It Through Straits,
STEP IN ADVANCE. OF FOOD LAWS
Cooke Pure Jewelry Bill Likely to
Lead to Great Benefit for American
I People-House Reports.
STEP IN ADVANCE OF FOOD LAWS
BY Congressman G. H. .Tavenner.

BY Congressman G.. H. .Tavenner.
Washington, June, 30-The first
step in advance Of the pure food law
and one which is likely to lead : TIC
great future benefit to the American
people is the Cooke pure jewelry bill
which has just been reported out
from the House committee on inter
state commerce.
The logical development of this
cort of legislation will be pure
leather laws, pure fabric laws and
other similar statutes making it an
offense to brand Or label any common
articles to be anything else than
what they really are. 1t is the
pure food law carried into the re-
tail district generally, and this leg
islative evolution will prove of great
value in preventing the public from
being sWindled.
The Cooke Bill, named after it's
author, Representative j. Henry
Cooke, of Ohio, applies to watches
only, but one of the great American
swindles is the sale of spurious
watches to the credulous public.
There have recently been tests made
for the committee, and it is found
that watch cases sold as ''Warranted
90 years and the like, purporting
either to be either solid gold Of
heavily gold plated, have really con-
tanned less than five cents worth of
gold.
Such watches are sold to the pub
lie by mail order agents and by
itinerant auction jewelers.. The vic
tim gets such a watch at what seems
to him to De low price. Really he
is paying an extravagant price for a
worthless article.
The new bill provides that all watch
cases marked Gold Filled" must
be plated with minimum thickness
of gold prescribed by law 1t is for
>. hidden to guarantee gold filled or
plated watch cases. When cases
are marked gold the bill requires
that the karet fueness shall be
stamped on the case On all watch
movement the number of jewels and
adjustments must be stamped in the
metal, as well as the manufacturers
name, and there is prescribed stiff
penalties for false branding. The
bill is similar to the pure fabric bill
which the committee is now con-
siderng, but because of special con-
ditions in the jewelry trade, it was
decided to keep the Goepe bill as a
separate measure.
1t is a step in the right direction
for the American public.
Wonders Of the Gulf Stream
Ninety billion tons of water are
carried hourly through the Straits
of Florida, writes Admiral Pillsbury
to the National Geographic Society.
There are not shops enough in the
world to hold the salt that light be
evaporated from single hours flow
CT water in this wonderful ocean
current. r.
For ages, according to the Admir-
al, this torrent has been flowing
with volume equal to that of all
the largest rivers of the world COM
bined
1t was formerly thought that the
current was set up by the discharge
of the Mississippi and other rivers
into the Gulf of Mexico. It is now
known that it would take 1000 Miss
issippis to equal the Gulf Stream,
and the theory that the Mississippi
causes this vast current in branded
as ridiculous.
A better theory is thought to be
that of the action of the easterly
trade winds blowing water into the
Gulf of Mexico up the South Ameri-
can coast and forcing water out of
the Gulf through the narrow Florida
Straits.