The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-04-26


Washington. April 2e-ouite few people have diet
painful deaths, in the since the first administers
ton food and drug bill licked. because they used
fake patent medicines cosmetics such the bill
designed to bansh Others have been blinded other
Yourl find the record in publications Of the Aeri.
can Medical association
OF course It is unfair to expect politicians to be in.
years Copeland food and drug bill depends on whether
consumers lobby can make things hot enough fol-
certain senator's who have been willing to sabotage the
measure.
Consumers really haven't any lobby as SUCH but the
Job Of rescung the Copeland bill has been taken over
BY what's known here the female bloc" Legislative
representatives Of dozen or more national woens
organizations This group has been rather deadly at
times past Already it has stirred up large flow OF
squawk mail to senator's.
But the lobbyists for food companies patent medi-
cine companies, and insecticide companies-wch want
less federal regulation of Of arsenic apples in
bug killing processes-haye the edge to date
WORSE THAN NO BILL
The bill snatched Oft the senate floor after
Senator's Bennett Clark and Josiah Bailey ana the lob
byists had loaded it with 50 many amendments that
Copeland felt it was worse than no bill at all.
The female bloc" now seeks enough support to
have the bill brought back to the floor with assurance
that such amendments can be defeated, which means
it must change eight or nine senatorial minds
Its legislative committee represents the American
Association Of University Women, American Detetic
association. American Home Economics association,
American Nurses association, Medical Womens Ma
tonal association, Y w. c. A. National Board National
Congress: Of Parent Teachers National League Of
Women Voters National Council Of Jewish Women. Ma
tonal Womens Trade Union League General FEEDER
alton Of Womens clubs. and w. G. T. U.
COSMETIC Is DEADLY
When dropped in to see Miss Alice Edwards Of the
Home Economics association. observed . tabeful Of
and Jars Of various patented foods Of them
well known. I'd seen the food and drug administra.
tons chamber Of horrors" exhibiting various deadly
drug and cosmetic preparations.
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parlor operator in Florida was giving her mother
treatment with eyeash preparation Nine days later
the mother died from the effects She was unlucky
Most victims only blind The preparation has been
publicly denounced by the food and drug adinstra-
on but there's no law against it. It Be bought here
we'll it seemed the lobbyist for the food industries
Charles Wesley Dunn-had persuaded Copeland in ef-
fect to exempt proprietary foods from the bs require
ments for listing INGREDIENTS 50 people might know what
they were eating-and paying for.
SOME GLARING GYPs
The Edwards exhibit and its analyses showed for
celebrated chicken sandwich spread: Three-ounce
can, 90 cent chicken skim sc per cent chicken BROTH
2s per cent cracker meal % per cent spices Price Is
cents. Cost Of ingredients cent.
can Of baby and invalid food: 30 per cent dried
whole milk. 10 per cent starch Price els5. cost Of
Can Of reducing food. promising to eliminate that
hungry feeling: IS per cent sugar. Price 81. Cost Of
ingredients cents.
SAID 10 MISS EDWARDS That It looked a people
were suckers She said did, But the fact that they
were being gypped only Of secondary importance.
Many people have allergies-an allersy Is . sensi-
veness to certain foods Some people, for instance can't
get within mile Of apple egg without becoming
violently ILL., Everything nearly, Is an aersy to some
body
Anybody might 90 being Ill until he died. simply
because he didn't know what was In favorte can or
jar OF patented food.
AMENDMENT RUINS BILL
For six days the bill was debated in the senate and
Copeland virtually the only senator who said any
thing about protecting consumers. The others who
spoke sought to weaken the bill
Bailey had the best success. His amendment would
prevent the food and drug administration from Selling
more than single sample Of dangerous food or drug
product without legal procedure which might require
years to complete.
There1l be new food and drug act unless Baley,s
amendment Is killed, Is 1t would give the government
even less power to protect consumers than has now
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