Evening star., 1921-09-04

] for an exceptional chemist to take
| charge Of this proposed development.
Realizing. however, that the business
| interests affecterd by the enforcement
| Of the food and drug act. and the public
/, which this act protects. have the utmost
confidence in Mr.. Campbell through
fifteen years Of proven service and, ap-
preciating that his knowledge Of the law
| is OF the utmost value in the admins
| tration Of the act, Secretary Wallace
prevailed upon Mr.. Campbell to take ex
ecutive charge of the bureau of chem
istry.
This man who has undertaken to
| carry on the work Of DR.. Wiley in pro-
tecting the food and druf. supply of the
i country from impurfI!- adulteration,
substituteS and misbr. nting, is big and
vigorous. hardened and tanned to physi-
| cal robustness by devotion to golf. His
estness of purpose. His success is
| largely due to his ability to handle peo-
pie. for he has a wonderful faculty of
getting the most and the best out of
! those who are working with him.
Large Force Under Hin.
When you consider that there are
now more than 500 highly trained
| rection and working all over the
| country. the Importance of this in
| fuence over them stands out. Besides
the administrative Offices here Mr.
Campbell comes into jurisdiction over
many laboratories in Washington,
NAL physiological chemical, carbohy-
drate, color certification, color in
vestigations. commercial dehydration.
drug Investigations food control. food
Investigations, fruit and vegetable
utilization, leather and paper, micro
| biological. microchemical, miscel-
laneous. cattle foods. insecticide and
| fungicide. oils, fats and wax, pharma-
| conosy. pharmacological, thytochemi-
cal. protein investigations and water
and beverages.
The field investigation laboratories
, under him also include citrus by
products and food research. The field
regulatory service has food and drug
inspection stations at Baltimore. Bos-
ton, Buffalo, New York. Philadelphia,
natl. Minneapolis, New Orleans. St.
Louis. Denver. San Francisco and Sc
attic.
The new chief is forty-four years
old, a native of Kentucky and grad
uate of the University of Kentucky.
He was practicing law in Louisville
when called into the federal service
in 1907. His interest in food matters
was that he had been retained by the
state to prosecute in the courts vio-
lations of the state food law in the
vicinity Of Louisville.
Its Functions Twofold.
The functions Of the bureau Of
place 1t enforces the provisions of the
| food and drugs act. popularly known
1905. ~ IA and Of the tea act: while at the
same time it conducts Investigations
arising in connection with its regu-
| When Dr. Wiley was marshaling his
first cohort of inspectors he made Mr..
Campbell an offer, which the state
authorities advised him would allow
him to continue the federal and state
enforcement work together When
found that wasn't Washington's view
of the matter. DR.. Wiley made him
chief inspector and set him to work
| organizing the entire inspection serv-
ice. appreciating that his food EN- en-
! forcement work in the state. coupled
| with his knowledge Of the law, made
, him particularly we'll qualified for
this position.
Mr.. Campbell. who had intended to
devote his life to law. grew interested
in organization work and In the text
of the federal food and drug act
J which he has always felt stands for
Roosevelt's dictum of square deal"
ORGANIZATION Plan Changed.
Just about the time the inspection
force was well organized and oper-
ating efnciently DR.. Wiley resigned
and DR.. Carl L. Alsberg succeeded him
as chief of the bureau. Dr. Alsberg
had somewhat different organization
| views and did away with the office OF
chief inspector and decentralizing the
| work by creating three geographical
divisions. with headquarters in San
Francisco. Chicago and Washington:
| Mr.. Campbell was placed in charge of
the eastern district. by far the largest
and most important, and again had
chance to give vent to what appealed
most strongly to characterization
work.
When he got the eastern division eff
ciently developed. In December, 1915.
| he was called upon to take up duties
! as assistant chief. Since then he has
been intermittently acting chief.
"The so-called pure food law is made
absolutely in the interests of the con-
yumer and the Supreme Court empha-
sizes that point" said Mr.. Campbell.
| ALSO. operating along parallel lines,
1t is in the interest Of the honest pro-
ducer, since their interests are iden-
| tical.
ADuring the war we encouraged
0ubstitutions and stretching out the
supply. This has Ted to many sub
stituted articles, giving the bureau Z
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