The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-01
STARTS HIS CAMPAIGN
Pure Food and Health Society Has
Been Formed and 10 Receiving
Substantial Back
ing.
BY Ed l.. Keen, London Corresponds
emit of the United Press.

| LONDON, Feb. 28.-Declaring that
Britishers are annually robbed OF
more than three million dollars by
food takers, Ralph Francis Julian
Stonor, who writes himself Baron
Camoys in the peerage Of Great Brit
ain, has started pure food campaign
along the lines pursued by DR.. Har-
/ vey w. Wiley, of whom he is a great
admirer In fact, Camoys asplres to
become the Dr. Wiley OF Great Brit
ain
AS BELTS the descendant of war
rior who commanded one of Henry
the Fifth's divisions at the battle Of
Agincourt, this young man is too en-
ergetic to sit at home content with
his 1000 acres at Oxfordshire. In his
thirty years of life he has seen
good deal OF the world. He spent sew
eral years roughfng It I'M Canada. and
has made several visits to the United
States. During one Of these. he made
q special study OF the methods Of
Americas famous enemy of benzoate
Of soda and incidentally securing a
charming and wealthy American wife
in the person OF Mildred Sherman,
daughter of the late Rhode Island
millionaire, Y. Watts Sherman.
In England there is no central pub
lie health department or bureau, and
the so-called local government board
which supervises the sanitary and
health arrangements of the various
city and county councils has never
been persuaded to look upon the gen.
eral health of the nation as more than
side line. Cahoys believes there is
vast room for reform, and In organiz-
ing the Pude Food and Health society,
OF which he is president, he is work
ing specifically for the establishment
Of national laboratory, where, I'M
der proper safeguards, the British
public may have suspected foods
analysed free of charge, and from
whence, warnings to tradesmen deal
ing in adulterated products may be
issued
What we ought to have in England
Is minister of public health" said
Lord Camoys, discussing his scheme
today, "but with the government pay
Ing practically no attention to the
important subject of food adulteration
the public must be induced to take
hold and protect itself. The nation
al laboratory proposed by the pure
food and health society would MOI
cost more than $4,000 to start with
and we have received promises O
support from all the leading medica
men in the country. 1t is easy enough
TO get the authorities to move once
We bring proof of adulteration, but
thinkand am confident that in thi.
we shall gain our end-that the pow
or of instituting prosecutions shoult
be vested in our organization.
The people of Great Britain woult
stand aghast If they knew to wha
extent their daily food is tampere'
with to the detriment Of its nutritiv'
value. Regarding the subject solel.
from the financial point of view, ev
cry person In the British Isles sui
fers loss Of two cents a da
through the attentions of the foo
takers, or national loss of 100000
900 per annum. These figures ar
based on the local government board
own statistics. Plaster of paris i
self-raising -four, boric acid In mill
salicylic acid in jams, and insolubl
mineral matter in rice to give it
lace are among the favorite trick
OF the trade, but there are hundred
q other ways in which our people ar
being robbed of money and healtf
and the practice is growing all tn
time.
Among the many influential SUI
porters whom Lord Camoys has secul
60 Is Harry Mallaby- Deeley, the mi
.onaire member of parliament, VIII
mas become famous for his giganti
'aha deals. Mallaby-Deeley recent
purchased the duke Of bedford
sovent Garden property, which cos
MN S2S,o0o,ooO. the Piccadilly hote