The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-02-17
BUTTER PROTECTIVE
RESOLUTION GIVEN
SUPPORT OF HALL
North Dakota Representative
Backs Anti-C oIoring Of
Substitutes

The Congressional Record in a re-
cent issue printed a speech by Con-
gresham Thomas Hall in favor of
house resolution 6. having as its OBJ
ject the classification of butter imita-
lions. colored and put up in packages
in further semblance to the real ar
ticle. within the provisions of the law
which taxes oleo.
This is the resolution designed to
keep oleo and other butter limitations
from being palmed off On the public
as butter through coloring to resemble
the dairy product. With its enact
ment. coloring Of the compound.
would be suppressed by a prohibitive
tax.
Anyone then desiring to buy butter
| would know whether he was being Of
fered the real OF a spurious article.
Yellow would be made the trade mark
Of actual butter.
In the course Of his remarks the
North Dakota representative said:
Il favor the enactment of this
measure because of my concern as to
the consumer Of these products. The
housewife who seeks to economize is
lead into the belief that by the pur-
chase of this colored cooking COM
pound that she buying wholesome
products at a much cheaper rate and
still have a full cooking value. This
Is not true by any means for the rea-
o that the adding of the water and
the salt and through the churning or
emulsifying process the coconut and
peanut oil does not take on any addi-
tional food values so that the house,
wife Is buying brine at the rate Of 20
cents a pound and she Is losing about
9ai cents Of foodvalue in the purchase
Of a pound Of this colored cocoEut
and peanut oil compound. As a pro-
lection Of the wary and uniformed !
think this measure should be enacted
as a preventative Of deception and
possible fraud.
II think it Is time. too. that atten-
ton be given to the matter Of the
furnishing Of substitutes for butter to
the enlisted armed forces of the Unit
ed States. It is charged that the
United States government purchases
and use substitutes for butter in its
institutions and in the army-morc
than 100000 pounds. Under the
seaman cct. known as the La Toilette
act, the use Of substitutes of butter IL
the Nav is forbidden. And why the
Army officials persist in furnishing
substitutes for the use Of the enlisted
men is very strange. to say the least.
THE dairy industry has expert
enced a serious slump In income and
prospects for its early recovery arc
not at all bright. The flooding of the
market with these substitutes for but
ter made up very carefully to look like
butter and taste like butter and In
packages such as butter Is marketed,
has caused q decrease Of vt least Is
per cent In the gross income Of the
diaries c.. the United States In 1927.
about 400 stores In North Dakota were
handling oleomargarine ana substi-
tutes for butter. At the present time
there are more than 400 store han
ding these substitutes and I am told
that q like increase In the business Is
quite general over the United States.
II we are to save the American cow
and the people interested In the pro-
ducing Of wholesome milk and butter
products. the early enactment Of this
measure Is imperative indeed