The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 26, 1935, Page 4

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Inspiration for Today Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.—I Corinthians, 18:34, Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.—Knowles. Smiling in the Rain Whoever it was that first talked about rain fs a cause for gloom and depression never lived §n Bismarck. Most certainly he didn’t live here during these last few blistered years when the very symbol of our distress was the sun blazing from a too blue sky. That was emphasized Wednesday and ehind the Scenes in Washington WITH RODNEY DUTCHER a Deaths Pile Up as Lobbyists Continue to Block Food and Drug Bill . . . Senate Foes Wreck Measure With Amendments . . . Glaring Gyps Revealed in Survey. Washington, April 26.—Quite a few people have died Painful deaths, in the year since the first administra. tion food and drug bill was licked, because they used fake patent medicines or cosmetics such as the bill was designed to banish, Others have been blinded or other- wise maimed. You'll find the record in publications of the Ameri- can Medical association. Of course it is unfair to expect politicians to be in- fluenced by a little thing like that. The fate of this year’s Copeland food and drug bill depends on whether &@ consumer's lobby can make things hot enough for certain senators who have been willing to sabotage the measure. Consumers really haven't any lobby as such, but the Job of rescuing the Copeland bill has been taken over by what's known here as the “female bloc,” legislative representatives of a dozen or more national women’s organizations. This group has been rather deadly at times past. Already, it has stirred up a large flow of squawk mail to senators. But the lobbyists for food companies, patent medi- ‘cine companies, and insecticide compantes—which want less federal regulation of use of arsenic on apples in bug-killing processes—have the edge to date. eee ‘WORSE THAN NO BILL ‘The bill was snatched off the senate floor after Senators Bennett Clark and Josiah Bailey and the lob- byists had loaded it with so 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 Dietetic association, American Home Economics association, American Nurses’ association, Medical Women’s Na- tional association, Y. W. C. A. National Board, National Congress of Parent-Teachers, National League of ‘Women Voters, National Council of Jewish Women, Na- tional Women's Trade Union League, General Feder- ation of Women’s clubs, and W. C. T. U. ene @ COSMETIC IS DEADLY cans and jars of various patented foods, some of them well known. I'd seen the food and drug administra- tion's “chamber of horrors,” exhibiting various deadly drug and cosmetic preparations. Whursday by the smiles seen on every hand. Everyone was obviously more cheerful. There weren’t so many people in the stores either day, but the shop-keepers were happy. What they lost in temporary business will be made up a hundred fold when the beneficial results of the rain are felt. Children as well as grown-ups reveled in the gentle downfall. Contrary to the standard set up by the old adage about rain, everyone could be happy. No one was heard to quote that old ditty of “rain, rain, go away and come again some other day.” It isn’t applicable to North Dakota just now. The trees and the grass gave immediate and visible response. Lawns which have been brown and sere until now turned green over- night. Trees retarded by a late spring chose Thursday to begin breaking into bud. Even the birds in the trees, perhaps wondering why their friends were so late in burgeoning forth into summer finery, seemed to share the gen- eral elation. And the number of men and women who §ust sat at their windows, watching the rain come down, would include almost everyone in this part of North Dakota. It brought content- ment to their souls. They liked to look at it. And what sweeter symphony could one Imagine than the sound of those wind-driven drops beating against the window pane or spat- tering on the roof, North Dakota knows no sweeter lullaby. May we hear it again—and SOON— AND (While hearings were being held this year, a beauty parlor operator in Florida was giving her mother a treatment with an eyelash preparation. Nine days later the mother died from the effects. She was unlucky. Most victims only go blind. The preparation has been Publicly denounced by the food and drug administra- tion, but there's no law against it. It can be bought here on Pennsylvania avenue.) ‘Well, it seemed the lobbyist for the food industries —Charles Wesley Dunn—had persuaded Copeland in ef- fect to exempt proprietary foods from the bill's require- ments for listing ingredients so people might know what they were eating—and paying for. en SOME GLARING GYPS fe The Edwards exhibit and its analyses showed, for instance: A celebrated chicken sandwich spread: Three-ounce can, 86 per cent chicken skin, 8.6 per cent chicken broth, 2.6 per cent cracker meal, 2.8 per cent spices. Price 15 cents. Cost of ingredients 1 cent. A can of “baby and invalid food”: 90 per cent dried whole milk, 10 per cent starch. Price $1.36, cost of ingredients 20 cents. Can of reducing food, promising to eliminate that hungry feeling: 65 per cent sugar. Price $1. Cost of ingredients 8 cents. I said to Miss Edwards that it looked as if people were suckers. She said it did. But the fact that they were being gypped was only of secondary importance. Many people have allergies—an allergy is a sensi- tiveness to certain foods. Some people, for instance, can’t get within a mile of an apple or an egg without becoming pene il, Everything, nearly, is an allergy to some- y. Anybody might go on being ill until he died, simply because he didn’t know what was in a favorite can or jar of patented food. *.* @ AMENDMENT RUINS BILL For six days the bill was debated in the senate and Copeland was 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 seizing more than 8 single sample of a dangerous food or drug Product without a legal procedure which might require years to complete. There'll be no new food and drug act unless Bailey's amendment is killed, as it would give the government: even less power to protect consumers than it has now. (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) @: From the political viewpoint, no re- cent event at Washington developed vertised. more interesting angles than house| S48" Adie SenE cco Te z F | E HE eget? 3 § J if g BE see £ With Other ier, ast DITORS | #2 Ti A Word to the Wise (Minneapolis Tribune) eee 28 rE é RRS Fa Blas i rid i ig 4 fil LITICS - at the ~ NATION'S CAPITOL ||| Public is receding? And if it does By BYRON PRICE Chief of Bureau, the Associated Press,| ther left-wing leaders? 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