Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-01

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have none but healthy clerks. In this
kind Of q store the stock not only
looks better. and sells better. but
keeps better, therefore In the end II.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NNnIlglnunmtilNI

have none but healthy clerks. In this
kind Of q store the stock not only
looks better. and sells better. but
keeps better, therefore In the end ID
cheaper to buy.
Complaint viii come that 1t costs to
install sanitary counters and that
sanitary cleanliness is an expensive
luxury. This Is a wrong point Of view.
Counters Of this kind are an economic
necessity. In ats simplest form the
problem oka ctty's food supply is how
to provide the. people with healthful
food ,,Wehich.iss.i in safe and proper on
dtta9Jisa whensit reaches the table. For
between that table and the lace where
2 food is grown. stretches q long
line: Of dust laden. germ breeding
places, and each bacterium is seeking
to exist upon the food intended for
human consumption.
The time when every particle Of
food must be conserved and used in
order not alone to win the war but
keep people from suffering while the
battle RACES. is not the time to select
to waste, 1t by improper handling and
exposure to disease or decay. 1t Is the
very time when every possible and
practicable safeguard should be estab-
Hshed and enforced; and when wOm-
en-, the buyers of food. should ask and
insist that food supplies should be
covered and handled in sanitary ways.
The Pure Food act was an eco
be stopped because it is a menace to
health and because it is a menace to
the pocket book. No should be
obliged to pay for something he does
not get. and chicory masQuerading as
coffee while. it car hurt no one, is q
fraud. Sanitary laws are demanded
for the protection Of health. and sani-
tary inspectors are the safeguarders
against disease possibly spread, or
caused. by food in improper condition.
II the consumers listen to the
specious arguments of those who do
not wish to expend the money to
cover food materials In proper ways.
they must suffer The consequences. Il
they will not demand sanitary oun
tiers for all bulk goods; for crackers.
for bread. for cakes. for candy. for all
like, then trouble will arise. And
they should stand behind the food
commissioners and inspectors who are
trying to enforce the proper sanitary
precautions in the safeguarding Of
the things they eat.
Food sanitation has certain ends to
attain in the great one Of getting
One is to protect the public health
and this is most important today. 1t
would be an. unthinkable crime to give
a soldier contaminated food. 1t
should be made difficult to sell n
dirty food to. those whose lives are al
SO precious for they a r the workers,
the mothers and the children left at
home, the second. line Of defense.
Second, we must conserve every
available food supply. and this means
that we must prevent or correct any
condition which tends to render a
food unfit for human consumption.
Enforced food sanittion is in the in
terest of every food industry. We
must have CLEAN FOOD SHOPS.
More and more we will have to buy
our food in bulk, and more and more
therefore must we insist that we are
sold clean goods. See to it that. your
grocer has the right kind OF food on
tanners. and induce him to install the
kind Of counters which protect the
food in proper ways. remembering
that nothing is so costly as to correct
evils after trouble has occurred" 90