Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-01
senator Bee, Of Wlnnsbase. Diseussss
New Laws and Public sentiment
State Department Makes Analysss 70
Show Food Value In loo crsam-
State Educational Board Rsersanizsd.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

the state law, for while our people
are perfectly willing that their land
should become very high priced land
they would like to have the old assess
ments stand" he said. '"That IL natur-
al enough: but in the readjustment to
bring things around to where they
should be to conform to the law there
Is sure to be some trouble. There was
for time much grumbling about the
highway law, due largely to the fact
that our people did not understand It
and had been misled. But Chairman
Marston Of the highway commission
was induced by US to come up and talk
plainly about the law and It's workings
and our people at once saw they had
been mistaken and that we are on the
right track In Iowa. SO 1t will be with all
these matters Of progress when the
people come to understand the truth"
Professor Chittick. state chemist,
has been making some analyses to
show the relative food value Of differ
ent dairy products. anent the discus
sion as to whether or not butter fat is
worth anything IN ice'tream. He found
that the three articles worked out as
follows:
smim milk containing s-1oths per
cent Of butter fat equals ITS calorics
per pound. s,t2ss
} While milk containing 4 per cent Of
butter fat equals 311 calorics per
pound.
Cream containg 16 per cent butter fat
equals TIT calorics per pound.
"Supposing two ice creams" he says.
ARE manufactured; in one case using
whole milk and in the other cream.
with equal amount Of sugar gelatine
and flavor in each. the difference in
food value would be the difference in
the calorics Of milk and cream. The
butter fat has the highest food value
tuents. Any reduction therein certain
cream materially. The consumer has
no way Of estimating the food value Of
ice cream. therefore should not
the people. thru their legisj
lature set standard regulating the
essential food constituents so that the
public may have some guarantee Of
its food value?"
The state board Of education has ef-
fected a change in the working me-
thods of the board by enlargement Of
the two main committees, looping OF
others and combining the building and
business committees. President Murphy
who will for two years be president
of the board, announced the following
as the standing committees:
Faculty committee-Messrs Murphy,
Building and business committee
Messrs. Brenton, Trewin, Schoentgen,
Baker and Leavitt.
The work Of tho board is to be large
ly done in committee meetings. Facul-
ty changes are not expected to be fire.
quent but there Is vast amount of
work in regard to building operations.
The weights and measures depart
ment Of the state is feeling especially
good over the outcome Of prosecutions
in OttumwA for violation Of the weights
and measures law. Inspectors found
that short weighing was very COM
mon in the sale Of COAL and apparently
there was no hope OF successful pros
ecution. Just what sort Of an arrange
ment they had dxed up was not known.
Ou1 ~ wac COZ Tall lucy AeAs 1AiAiAA~.'0'
Two cases were taken before country
justice Of the peace and in one Of them
an assistant attorney general appear
ed to see that there was prosecution.
After q country squire has imposed
two heavy fines the others were taken
into town courts and six dealers were
fined.
The department has been uniformly
successful in making prosecu-
tons and It is believed has gone far
toward putting an end to short weight,
ing in the! state.