Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-20
WIN Not AnaIvze prlnk,.

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w. B. Barney, state dairy and food
commissioner, has announced that his
department will not make analyses
az temperance drinks for manufac-
turers. Requests for analyses of sam
pies of near beer and substitutlons Tor
liquor are being received at the state
house at the rate of six to eight a
day.
I'VE will make analyses OF tenn
perance drinks only for the attorney
generals department" said the COM
missioner. Since the crusade on
drinks containing alcohol was begun
manufacturers have been anxious to
get us to analyze their products.
I'VE have found that when the
firms submit samples for analysis,
they are the best obtainable and COM
ply with the law in every respect. If
this department were to certify to
the fact, the firms would go out and
sell their stuff as being Endorsed and
approved by the state.
1--WE will not be put in that posi-
ton. The samples we analyze we
will pick up at various stores in the
regular way and If we e.. nythins
wrong we will prosecute"
Would Conduct Road Experiments.
The Iowa highway commission rec
ommends that the Thirty-seventh gen.
eral assembly make provision for
building experimental roads of the
lower cost type to prove their dura.
bility under the conditions prevailing
in Iowa. The suggestion has been
filed with Governor Clarke, together
with other data of progress made in
1915 in road work.
The commission says that there
are many miles of road now properly
graded and ready for hard surfacing
and that the property owners want
to know what sort of material is best
for hard surfacing and the cost OF
such paving.
In 1915 the state highway commits.
sion assisted the counties Of the state
in permanent bridge work to great
extent. 1t designed 459 bridges and
aided in the letting of contracts for
$1,679,146 OF work represented by 2,140
permanent bridges.
Claim Blind Pension Law Defective.
Charity workers over the state have
asked the office of attorney general
for an Interpretation of the law pro-
viding pensions for the blind,
According to the workers the law
is weak in that it does not specify
those persons who are entitled to
county aid. The law which provides
for the payment of $500 annually to
blind persons in the state becomes
operative this month.
There are blind persons who are
dependent on relatives financially able
to care for them, but who under the
law become in part dependent on
county aid. There is no exception
made in the law for the blind who
need not be dependent on public cha
rity. A pension cannot compensate
blind person for loss of his sight. On
the other hand, there are the blind
who have become self-supporting and
respecting at trades learned at the
State Industrial School for the Blind.
Want Transfer Charges Paid.
The state railroad commission con
Quoted hearing at the state house on
the application of the Iowa State Man.
ufacturers' association asking that the
railroads pay the transfer charges on
intrastate freight in less than carload
lots, which is taken from one depot
to another. In interstate business the
roads pay the transfer charges. The
action is to definitely determine In
Iowa whether the shipper must pay
this tax.
Grip Causes Many Deaths.
Incomplete reports received by the
state board of health show that in
Iowa during December there were
more than fifty deaths due to grip
or influenza. The report shows that
there were complications in the most
OF the fatal cases but the federal sys-
tenn of classification provides. that
the grip shall be credited with all
deaths regardless of other diseases
which developed.
Governor Appoints Delegates.
Governor Clarke has appointed the
following honorary delegates to at.
tend the twelfth annual conference
of the National Child Labor commit
tee to be held at Ashville, N. c., Feb.
8 to 6; Ed. d. Brigham, Iowa City;
Horace L. Houghton. Sioux City; Paul
=. PIERCE, Iowa City; A. L. Urick.
Des Moines and G. p Wycoff, Grin.
nell.
Heavy Demand for Auto Platter.
The applications for 1916 automo.
bile number plates are not affected
by weather conditions. The requests
for plates have been flooding the
state department this week in great.
err number than during last week. The
department has been averaging re-
ceipts from $4,000 to $4,000 a day.
Not in Favor Of Tax.
A. o. Wolever. chief state bank ex.
aminer, declares that the Iowa bank
ers are right in their protest against
placing stamp tax on bank checks.
He saws that such a tax would be dis
astrous to Iowa where the bank de-
posits run so high.