Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-05
COURTS TO TAKE HAND IN USE
or BERRY REcEPTAcLEs
SHY OF SIZE. 4
STATE FOOD AND DAIRY
DEPARTMENT ACTIVE
Shipment Of Odd Sizes From Kansas
to Be Used a. Test Case - Law
Specifically Aimed At Pint and One
Half Measures - When Does Cub
Wolf Cease to Be Cub?
Special to rimes-Republican.

Des Moines June 5-The short meas
ure berry box is due for an overturning
In court the same fate as the cream
less ice cream. The hard hand Of the
Iowa law is going to be laid on the
boxes. 1t will be up to the short meas
Nreg to show cause for their existence.
The state food and dairy department
has received tip that leading COM
mission house in Des Moines q few
days ago ordered three carloads Of
Kansas berries and that they are to
come in boxes other than the standard
size provided in Iowa law. They are,
In fact, to be boxes holding a pint
and half. Then in order to make the
case for the berry boxes as strong as
possible the commission houses will
label them all Pint and half
But the Iowa law seems very specific
1t was intended to mean that no ber-
in boxes that were either a quart, or a
pint, or g. half-pint, in size-no inter-
nediary sizes or multiples In the
kind so as not to hit certain other
weakened the law. The commission
might be used. or 6-pint boxes, or
size, provided they are properly la
beled.
The food department. takes the posi-
hot ,f-
box, whether labeled or not, that was
especially aimed at in the law, for the
biggest fraud was in the sale Of boxes
Of this size for quart sizes. Inspectors
will lay for the first Of the odd size
boxes on the market. arrest them and
go into court to find out whether the
law means what it says or something
else.
The uniform success of the depart
ment in every lawsuit brought to test
any and every phase Of the law has
given the commissioner and his experts
boxes are to be hailed into court at
the first opportunity.
Weighty problems Of politics having
been settled some Of the county audi
For instance county auditor put it
up to the legal department of the state
to say when cub wolf becomes a wolf,
or in other words at what ge 1t ceases
to be cub. The question is important
There is a bounty Of 81 on a cub and
$50 on wolf How Is a county audi
to going to know which Is which? Can
he tell by looking at the teeth? If
political friend brings in a pelt for the
bounty Is 1t always wolf, while If
brought in by an enemy Is it always
cub?
Assistant Attorney General Robbins.
who is in training for a place on the
bench in the Fifth judicial district,
having been duly nominated. looked it
up. In brief. he found that there were
no judicial decisions as to what a cub
is. but the meaning Of the term adult
IS fairly well established. and 1t means
one having attained full growth 80
cub must remain a cub until full
grown.
Thatll help keep down county ex-
penses for the wolf bounty is con-
siderable item in places.
The railroads are disposed to back
Np gracefully on the proposed rule
limiting liability for perishable freight.
The hearing was set for yesterday. It
was put of until today. The railroad
commission was to consider only that
which relates to shipments in Iowa. It
is expected that the railroads will agree
to suspension Of the rule as 1t affects
Iowa. Some OF the railroad attorneys
have said plainly that the rule is in
violatio Of Iowa law and would do
no harm in iowa. So the intimation is
that in the end the rule will be aban-
doned as II relates to Iowa intrastate
business.
The question OF applying the rule
liability to interstate business
originating or terminating in Iowa will
have consideration later.
The railroad commission has entered
an order for a switching rate in the
industrial vicinity OF Sioux City. The
rate is Y cents per hundred pounds on
carload lots for ice, brick and tile with
minimum Of 81 per car where the ship
ment Is less that three miles, and S.
minimum for three miles or over.
The order has also been entered for
daily shipments Of oil in less than
carload lots on all Iowa roads.