Evening star., 1915-03-14

dollars as an enforcement fund, and when
this money was available the new Food
Commissioner went shopping. A few
months after this shopping tour Expert
ment Station Bulletin No. 53 was issued
This bulletin listed brands of canned toma-
toes and catsup colored with coal tar dye
that were being sold throughout North Da-
kota; it mentioned brands of fruit pre-
served in saccharine, diluted with water,
and sold short weight into the bargain; it
warned against blackberry jam made from
refuse, with clover seeds added to keep up
the deception; it mentioned brands of "em-
balmed' sausage and hamburger selling at
prices higher than should be charged for the
pure product.
Manufacturers of adulterated and poi
soned foods, who believed that the teeth of
the pure food law had been pulled when the
appropriation was defeated, became active
at once. They filed a hundred edthousand-
dollar libel suit against Ladd in the federal
court. At the same time they sent word that
if he would retract statements in Bulletin
No. 53 they would not press the suit.
"lll retract nothing. | repeat all I said
in the buletin-and half the truth hasn't
been told!' was Ladds reply.
The pure food law was attacked as un,
constitutional, and when the federal dis
trict court ruled for Ladd the case was ap-
pealed to the supreme court, which also
upheld the law. The libel suit never came
to trial.
SIMILAR was Professor Ladd experience
with the law that prohibits the sale of
adulterated paint He wrote the effective
clause in the law himself, and secured its
passage before the paint manufacturers
realized the situation. AS always, some of
the manufacturers whose goods were hon
est welcomed the law as projections but
thousands of dollars worth of adulterated
paint was being sold in North Dakota yearly.
The constitutionality of the law was at
tackled; but Ladd defended it through the
district court and the United States supreme
court, winning before each.
Under the paint law he analysed paint
and published his findings, as he had done
under the pure food law. The effect was
much the same An Eastern manufacturer
whose paint was described as eighteen per
cent. water boasted that he had one hun
dred thousand dollars to make Ladd retract
or put him in jail The proceedings were
full of Interest," but Ladd neither retracted
nor went to jail Instead the manufacturer
shipped his paint out of the State by ex-
press to escape prosecution. He is now one
of a number of manufacturers who con-
Tribute one tnOtSttllu uOlliTS annually 10 tne
cost OF experiments and tests that Professor
Ladd conducts for the benefit of the paint
industry
Professor Ladds work comes nearer to
affecting every individual in North Da-
kota than the work of any other citizen or
official. He has been instrumental in Civ
ing the State pure food law, strong drug
and patent medicine law, the best paint
law in the nation, a cold storage law, an
honest advertising law, and an effective
sanitary inspection law. And they are real
laws, because they are enforced by the man
who wrote them.
In the course OF his fight against fraud
Professor Ladd has had to defend himself
eight times before the supreme court OF the
United States but he has won each time
College students are quick to see the chief
characteristics in their teachers. In the
last student annual of the North Dakota
Agricultural College each member of the
faculty is credited with favoritc saving.
For Professor Ladd it is, Il won't bulge
an inch!"
And he won't. Glen r. T07vnSend
THE CUBIST
A Cubist who thought he could paint