The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-12-07
EVILS OF GOLD STORAGE

Cold storage has made it well-nigh
impossible to get a fresh egg IN
America, or fresh fish in an inland
aity. The facilities Of COD storage
have made t possible to KEEP the bulk
81 tn perishabl food of the l alton I'M
til it's savior has persisted and then
cans laugh at Chinese for exiting eggs
which have been buried in the
fround for a few weeks with tn pur-
los of altering their condition. They
at eggs which hav been entombed
in cold storag vaults for many
.nonths in a fruitless effort to arrest
completely the processes OF dtolia-
ion in tn direction Of decay. The
51inese visitor to America is shocked
ID disguised at the stalencss of fish
nd mat in this country. He can
.0t imagine why we are not poisoned
and occasionally we are poisoned
y the food that is stored and held
definitely that the spectators may
eli it at their own prices at their
Wn commence.
Mrs. Harrison, organizer of the
housewives League in Chicago, says
hat nothing less than Government
control of cold storage will prevent
IS employment for the exploitation
the consumer. What promised to
e a boon to mankind has been per-
,erted into an VIII" says Mrs. Harri-
on. While famine prices are be-
ag paid for food 200, 600, 900 pounds
If it are stored in Chicago and the
immediate vicinity. awaiting still
higher prices.
ut is the established rule tha. 10
until the cold storage supplies have
zen drawn upon. The usual course
for the oldest and most unfit Of
lie embalmed foods to be dumped
| into the markt and fresh stuff put
IN storage"
THE law requiring that no food be
sor2l. more than ten months before
is sent to the market is ignored,
ccording to cold storage engineers.
.'hy say that no serious attempt has
yer been made to enforce it. Com
l~issionrs of health everywhere neg
ect this plain requirement OF their
5uty and seem to think their actiyi-
is should be limited to combating
disease. There never has been an in
,pection of the Chicago district ware
buses and some Of the poultry and
fish in them have been there since
he plants were built"
Nobody who has had a consumers
experience of city housekeeping vii
egard Mrs. Harrison's statements a,
1eing utterly yellow. It is af act, un-
loubtedly, that more sale f-Jd i:
5aten in this country. las a result OF
he organization of business which
controls the storing and distributing
of food, than is eaten where there is
40 cold storage, or where it is less
well organized.
That there is need of Government
control of storage is rot apparent
But there is need of drastic enforce.
ment of drastic legislation to proven
old products from being sold at fancy
prices as fresh while fresh products
are bought up and held until they ar,
stale. A salmon from the Northern
lakes can be sent to Louisyi.le fresh
But a ton of salmon can b stored in
definitely and sent to Louisville al
fresh fish when it is stale. The re
suit is that the local falls salmon
is the only fish Of the type that cai
be relied on in Louisville as being
fresh. And in many cases the MAJ
who orders the Ohio River fish get
a lake salmon from cold storage AM
is without means of redress If he doe
not care to trust his convictions ant
punch the head of the innkeeper 20
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