Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-29
GROCERS FIGHT
IMPORTATION OF
ORIENTAL OILS
Declare Product Shipped
Here Is Insanitay and
Dangerous to the Health
of the Public

The Southern Grocers' Association,
one of the largest and strongest Or
CARNATIONS of it's kind in the coun-
try, has taken up the fight against
the use of Oriental oils as sub
stitute for cottonseed oil and peanut
oil in the manufacture of cooking
fats.
J. H. McLaurin, president of the
association, whose headquarters are
in Jacksonville, has issued a special
bulletin addressed to the members,
calling their attention to the use of
the Oriental oils, quoting a resolu-
ton recently adopted by the Cham
Der of Commerce of Memphis, and
urging the wholesale grocers to join
in the movement to stop the use
of these oils. Atlanta wholesale
grocers have received the bulletin
and have Joined the movement. The
resolution adopted by the Memphis
Chamber of Commerce is as fol-
lows:
tention of the foreign trade commit
tee that the market for American
cottonseed and American cottonseed
oil is in jeopardy, not only for the
present, but also for the future, and
Whereas we find that the cause
is the continued importation of for
eign oils, with which this country
Is uOW lLOOu6uF dIlu Tie
of which is to be doubled, and
Whereas we understand that the
local food administrator in San
Francisco-where most of this ma
terial is landed-haS, after inspec-
ton, declared it unfit for human con-
sumption, and
Whereas we understand there Is
at present before the California leg
islature a bill prohibiting the use OF
this material in foodstuffs, and
Whereas the United States food
administration, in giving executive
orders to manufacturers, is specify
ing that only cottonseed oil and do
nestle peanut oil shall be used, and
Whereas the foreign oil is received
here in secondhand kerosene cans,
which have probably been used for
months in Oriental homes for va
rious purposes, and the homes in
which they were used were probably
germ-ridden with all the filthy dis
eases known to mankind, and
whereas, the nuts and beans from
which the oil was made were prob
above; the mills in which they were
crushed were probably hand power
affairs operated by coolies pudding in
the oil lit is unnecessary to describe
the coolie, his habits and his dis
eases), and,
"Whereas, this is the material that.
is being sold by some manufacturers
in the form of lard substitutes, lard
shortening, compound and cooking
oil ..,I and d. .,o so,. 49,, ,o,.,,,,,,
ity of the cooking fats herein men
toned was based upon cottonseed
oil, made in our own clean and up
to-date factories, and should not be
driven from our tables by the mate
rial described above, thus Destroy
ing the market for our cottonseed
oil, therefore,
BE it resolved, That the Cham
Der of Commerce of Memphis re-
quests all consumers of cooking fats
and oils to carefully examine the
labels and purchase only cooking fats
and oils branded: Made exclusively
from domestic cottonseed and peanut
OIL
Resolved, further, That we re-
quest all bakers, retailers and whole
sale grocers in the Memphis terri
tory to purchase only cooking fats
in packages branded as above, and
to exact the same written guaran-
tee. from the manufacturers selling
At the cotton conference to be
held in New Orleans on May IA to
l6, for the purpose of launching the
organization of the proposed south
ern cotton corporation, it is probable
IHaL r6SoluIlOllS Will De duOpteQ along
the same line as the above.
Recently the matter was laid be-
fore the United States food admins
tration in Washington by L. B. Jack
son as secretary of the Cotton States
Advisory Marketing board. In
lengthy communication he filed a pro-
test with the food administration
against the use of Oriental oils for
the purposes above described.
AS a result of the Oriental oil in
vasion of the cooking oil industry,
declares Mr.. Jackson, there is prac-
tically no market for the sale of
cotton seed The oil mills cannot
sell cottonseed oil and hence are not
buying cotton seed, he declares, and
Oriental oils are directly RESPONSE
BILE for this injury to two great in