Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-10
Permanent Pure Food Policy
Declared DR.. Wiley's Legacy

Courage, unselhsh public service and
enthusiastic devotion to purity in manu-
featured products are credited to DR..
Harvey Washington Wiley, famous
among American chemists, who died
after distinguished career, which in
Guided duties under the Federal Gov
eminent. 1t is declared that his poll
cies, at first fought by producers, have
since contributed to tne success of those
who were reluctant o accept them.
His usefulness IS a public servant
has been far-reachng, and its benefits
will continue to BE- enjoyed by poster
ity" declares the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, with thu added tribute: Every
table in the lead has benefited from
DR.. Wileye lab0rs 10 enforce the results
of his laboratory tests and bar deleteri.
Gus adulterantS or chemical preserva-
tives which were deemed Injurious to
the human system. Legislation upheld
him, and the Department of Justice has
been vigilant to enforce the PRINCIPLES
that enanated from his laboratory"
1.-THE memory of Or. Wiley will live
long after those who opposed him have
been forgotten" says the Madison Wis
consin State Journal, pointing out that
his motto was that all foods and drugs
should be sold under terms that would
ingredients" and that "he did not be-
lieve that the sale of food products
should ever be permitted under sub
terfuge or in manner giving any OPP
portunity for misleading the purchaser. {"
The Columbia Is. c. State emphasizes
the fact that nowadays much of the
regula ton for which he pleaded is &C.
ccmplished from within by the indus
tries themselves, through their own VOL
UNFAIRLY imposed codes of practice"
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Observing that, thanks to DR.. Wiley,
1t is against the law now to put q lying
label on food or drug package" the
Duluth Herald finds it amazing that
there was a time when there was no
law against it," The Admission Star
also remarks that, in the former days,
"adulterated foods were sold indiscrini-
nately, and remedies for practically all
the ills the human flesh Is heir to were
being dispensed under labels that
claimed cures where cure often was i'm
possible, and hid ingredients that were
calculated to do more harm than good"
That paper would place such benefAc-
tors in the Hall of Fame, with "a nook
in the hearts of the people" The New
Orleans Tribune credits him with being
"one of the first to educate the public
as the sacred province of physician and
pharmacist"
The Toledo Blade recalls that "the
activities that brought him into public
notice also worked to his disadvantage
politically" but that he has left a
record Of strenuous work in behalf of
the peoples physical well-being." The
doctors genius "for capitalizinR his VEN
lures into the field of regulation" is
mentioned by the Akron Beacon Jour-
nal, with the conclusion that the work
the public in its necessity"
THE laws he formulated and which
stand today unchallenged throughout
the length and breadth of this country
constitute his most lasting monument"
asserts the Houston Chronicle, while
the Hartford Times voices the judg-
ment, I'm view of the immense ex-
pansion that has taken place in the
use Of canned goods In recent times, il
would be impossible to estimate the
boon which DR.. Wiley bestowed upon
the American people in giving them the
protection in law which science so clear
~ proved 1t was their privilege to en-
Joy" That he lives on IN the system he
created is the verdict of the La Crosse
Tribune, while the Altoona Mirror Sug-
gests that there is "a present urgent
need for an energetic renewal of the
important and useful work to which he
devoted some of the most active and
useful years of his life"
He was one of the great benefactors
of his age" in the opinion of the
Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the
Little Rock Arkansas Democrat proclaims
that he deserves to be ranked among
the Nations most valiant fighters-a
crusader in the true sense of the word
AS to his record the Louisville Times
says: He was a Chevalier du Merite
Agricole and Chevalier Of the Legion
of Honor in France, - was a CORE