The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
SAYS VILE CANDY
IS HARMFUL
TO KIDS
Chemist Declares 1t Causes
More Intestinal Trouble
Than Arsenic COIoring.

More Intestinal Trouble
Than Arsenic COIoring.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug, l2.-Candy
that is exposed to street dirt is moro
dangerous to children's health and a
more prolific cause OF Intestinal dis
ease among children than arsenic,
which is sometimes used to color
cheap candy, according to Charles II.
LAVAL. chemist for tho Pennsylvania
dairy and food commission.
THE amount Of arsenic used in col
orlng the very cheapest candy, even
il It were all poison, is Of such slight
proportions as to be virtually harm
less" said Mr.. laval, lin fact, 1t
only requires two one thousandth
grams of arsenic colorIng matter to
dye a pound Of candy. From my OK
perienCe ! would be inclined to say
that no acute symptoms Of poisoning
could be traced to the eating of a
single piece of candy, on n stick. such
as 3-year-old Mildred G. Allen, OF
Germantown, ate an hour or so before
she died last Saturday.
Push Cart Candy.
THE real menace to Children's
health is the penny candy that they
buy from the pushCart yendcr and the
cheap stalls that + found in nearly
all parts OF the city. Tests that l
have made here show concluslvely
that l have made here show conclu-
sivCIy that candy of this sort is a
most prolific cause of Intestinal dis
ease because Of the street dirt on It,
The adjustment Of all the candy
stores and vendors who regularly ok
posed their goods to all the dirt that
is swept up from the streets by the
wind would be a good measure for
the children's health"
Dairy and Food Agent SINNERS said
recently that he has found candy,
cakes and soft drinks made and sold
in places so filthy that he had the To-
cal health officials serve notice to the
dealers that they we're a menace to
public health.
Covered with Dirt.
only last week." said SINNERS, "wo
found candy offered for sale covered
with every kind OF dirt. The dealer
was fined $50 by Judge Rogers and he
narrowly escaped a prison term.
There must be a large profit in the
candy, cakes and other things that
children buy, because the men whom
we prosecute hire able attorneys, pay.
big fines and even when convicted they
resume the sale on the same old dir
ty scale"
In the case OF Mildred G.. Allen, the
3-year-old Germantown girl, who died
after eating colored candy Saturday,
the coroner's jury returned a verdict
that she died OF intestinal trouble"
ly i'll at her home a short distance
away in Morgan Park. Mrs. Clark Is
now so years old.
Mr. Monroe was 63 years old. Mrs.
Emma A. Monroe, his widow, and his
four children, Mrs. Milton Cruoe,
George. Harold and Paul Monroe,
were at his bedside when the end
came. His mind had been failing for
some time and he recognized only the
members Of his immediate family.
Thfrty-Slx Years Ago.
ThIrty-six years ago Harry Monroe
was a moral derelIct, a young tough
who fought his way IN and out Of the
dives Of Whiskey row.. The building
which now houses the Pacific Garden
mission was then occupied one Of the
most notorious Of the "free and cas-
les" a combination Of saloon, dance
hall and cafe.
The FOUNDERS knew Monroe as a
pal. He drank heavily; he fought as
often as he drank. Those were the
days when Mike Mcdonald and George
Hawkins were the king pin gamples
of Chicago and Whiskey row was the
Mesa OF the riffraff of the underworld
as we'll as the big lights in sporting
circles. They all knew Harry Mum
roe
No Product Of Sums.
The man was not a product OF the
slums. He was born in Exeter, N. H.,
on Jan. II, 1853. He ran off with a
circus which came to his home town.
From then on he was buTcted about
the country with road shows, min
strel troupes, and small cirCuses until
he found himself a derelict cast up on
Whisky row. He had been an out
law, he had been in prison. Then
came his conversion.