The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-01-07
EVERY WOMAN
HER OWN FOOD
EXPERT, IS PLAN
Problems Will Vanish When
Housewives Learn to Discrim-
mate, Says Mrs. Heath
FIGHT is ON QUALITY
MORE THAN ON PRICE
Remove Demand For Impure
FoOdstdffs and They'll Be
Eliminated" She Asserts

The story OF the National House
wives league-the benefits it has al
ready brought to the housewives OF
America In the way Of pure foods
and honest prices and the problems
it faces for the future-was told by
Mrs. Julian Heath, president OF the
organization, Wednesday afternoon
to meeting OF the club women OF
Detroit In the institute house Of the
Woodward-ave. Baptist church.
The excellent pure food laws OF
many eastern states, the laws on
weights and measures, and the APP
pointment of competent foods in
spectors, are the result OF the work
OF the league. according TO Mrs.
Heath, who said that the present
membership amounts to more than
500 900, and will be Increased to more
than million In very short time.
"The object of the league is not to
create low prices" said Mrs. Heath,
"but to enforce the sale OF pure,
wholesome high quality foods at hon
est prices. Our quarrel with re-
taller is seldom over the matter OF
price, but usually over quality. First
quality apples eggs, meats. etc, are
worth good prices, but SO many OF US
have been paying high prices for
poor grades"
Pure food laws are a great bless
ing and competent inspectors afford
the housewife a certain amount of
protection from dishonest Dealers"
continued the speaker, but the real
solution of the good food problem, in
the opinion of our league, is to edu-
cate the housewife herself in intel.
ligent buying. Our aim is to make
the housewife so we'll informed on
market conditions, grades of apples,
eggs and qualities of foodstuffs gen.
orally that the merchants will respect
her buying ability and treat her ac-
cordingly. IL the housewife would
become thoroughly posted on food.
stuffs and be her own inspector we
might almost be able to do away with
the pure food laws. Remove the de-
mand for impure foodstuffs and they
will be eliminated from the market"
The National Housewives league
maintains most complete informa
ton department in New York city, at
No. 20 West Forty-fifth-st., where
housewives of any city may write and
secure absolutely reliable informa.
tion on any subject of housekeeping.
In the league headquarters, its own
chemists analyze all the package food
stuffs on the market and prepare
list OF those which the league recon-
mends. This information is distrib.
uted gratis to the inquiring house
wives.
Insist on getting pure food and in
sist on knowing whether the estab-
lishment you are trading with ia
cleanly," said Mrs. Heath. "Investi-
gate IL. Look through the kitchen OF
your baker and the refrigerator of
your butcher, and IL you are not per-
mitted to do so, trade somewhere
else"
Mrs. Heath came to Detroit under
the auspices of the Detroit House
wives league, and the home eco
nomics department OF the Detroit
Federation of Women's clubs. Other
speakers in the meeting were Mrs
w r. Alvord, president OF the Detroit
Federation of Women's clubs; Mrs.
r. II. Ashbaugh, president OF the
State Federation of Women's clubs,
and Mrs. A. o. Dunk, head OF the De-
troit Housewives league.