Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-22
ASKS LARGER FORCE
STATE DAIRY AND FOOD COMMITS
sIoNER SAYS HE NEEDS SIX
MORE INSPECTORS.
WILL URGE CHANGE IN LAWS
Most Of the Dealers in Food Products
Throughout the State are co-operat-
ing with the Department In Enforc-
ing the Pure Food Statutes.


ing the Pure Food Statutes.
Des Moines. State Food and Dairy
Commissioner Barney is preparing to
ask the legislature for six additional
inspectors to aid in enfEcing the
pure food laws.
The commissioner asserts that he
will not urge the passage of any ad-
ditonal laws governing foods and
dairy interests, but that, he will re-
quest a few changes in the present
statutes to strengthen them and give
the inspectors more authority.
I'VE have about all the laws we
will need for the next two years." said
Mr.. Barney. IF we can get more men
to help enforce the measures we now
have, we will feel that we are fairly
well taken care of. will be satisfied
with six additional inspectors. Some
of the men now doing a combination
Of food and dairy work will be trans
ferred to dairying work entirely. With
the men we hope to get we will have
three men for food law enforcement
and three men to detail to looking aft
er the weight and measure law.
Although the food and dairy de-
partment was organized as law en-
forcement division, we have now got
ten 1t on a self-=upporting basis. No
one ever thought we would reach this
nofpt Gov ~ q, ,,1uoual a., c;n,;Iar do
partments in other states. 1t is quite
q satisfaction to u.s.
Among the minor changes which
the department will ask in the law is
an amendment licensing boilers and
several other lines of business. This
win bring them under state inspec-
ton.
Mr.. Barney asserts that much Of
the opposition to the food laws has
disappeared and that as :. rule the
grocers and dealers in food supplies
in cities and towns of TIE state are
assisting the state commission in
cleaning up and throwing adulterated
foods off the market. There Is a gen.
eral spirit of cooperation. BY skipping
one term of the legislature in adding
to the food laws, the commissioner
says that the dealers will be better
accustomed to sanitary rules by 1917
and viii be ready to suggest helpful
laws themselves.
Business In Iowa Good.
why don't the calamity howlers
learn the facts before they spread
pessimism and misfortune among the
people?" asks Gels Botsford, secretary
Of the Chamber of Commerce. about
as good prosperity argument as !
know is information given me by one
of the local freight agents the other
day. He said that more building ma
terial was coming into Des Moines
now than has been hauled to the city
ever before and freight house receipts
generally show an Unusual increase
over this time last year. Railroad
business in Iowa has not been better
in two years than IL is today. In
six days the Rock Island loaded 914
cars Of grain at its stations in Iowa.
For the month OF August the Great
Western loaded an average of more
than seventy cars a day at its sta
tons between Oelwein and the Mis-
souri, state line. The Northwestern
has been loading from 275 to 800 cars
a day at its Iowa stations during Au-
gust, and the average loading at Iowa
stations Of the Minneapolis & ST.
Louis has exceeded 100 cars a day"
Modern Woodmen Insurgents.
Insurgent members of the Modern
Woodmen OF America, through their
chief attorney, C. w. Lyon, have filed
their motion with the supreme court
in which they ask that the appeal Of
the head camp from the Injunction Sc
cured against the raise in insurance
rates be dismissed. The appellees
point out that the new rates complain
ed OF were adjusted at the meeting OF
the head camp in Toledo. in June and
that there is no necessity for a hear
ing Of the case.
Attorneys for the order are deter
mined to have their appeal heard even
though the rates are corrected. The
matter will come before the court at
the next period. II the motion to dis
miss is denied and the appeal is
heard. Attorney Lyon will ask for
continuance.
Secord District Jurist Dead
Judge Frank w. Eichelberger, OF
Bloomfield. Judge OF the second Judi.
cial district, died at his home after an
illness of several months, according
to word received by Secretary OF
State Allen. This leaves vacancy
on the judicial ticket of that district
at the coming election. Five candi-
dates remain for the four judges to be
selected.
Railroad Commission Row.
The authority of Clifford Thorne
to act for Iowa in the reopened ad-
vanced rate case before the inter-
state commerce commission will be
greatly restricted by the railroad
commission, according to those who
are in touch with the situation. Mr..
Thorne has had several tits with 9TH
er members of the commission with
regard to the matter and he states re-
CARELESS OF whether he shall be given
full authority to act for Iowa. he has
authority to appear for other states
Of the middle west.