Mme. Yale's Preparations Exposed. One of the most sensational exposes yet made under the Pure Food and Drugs Act, was that of judgment No. 82 against Madame Yale, who, for many years, has been reaping a fortune off of the gullible of both sexes, but principally off of those women who were not sufficiently endowed by nature with that which is proverbially "woman's fortune." All those who have the nation's "health and strength" at heart should rejoice at this exposure of a notable charlatan, whose operations have extended into every section of the country, to the financial and physical detriment of all who have been deceived into using the Yale preparations. It is bad enough to decoy ugly women into the belief that it is possible to remedy their deformity of features or make a rosebud, "morning dawn" complexion out of a saffron-lined original, but it is worse. to pretend to cure dangerous physical ills of the most delicate nature—and Mme. Yale did this-with either harmless or harmful drugs, which in no case could do good, and in many cases were certain to work injury. In Judgment 82 are shown plainly the illegal character and misbranding of many of the Yale "specifics," including "Mme. Yale's Excelsior Frui Ticura," "Mme. Yale's Fertilizer Tablets." "Mme. Yale's Excelsior Hair Tonic," "Mme. Yale's Complexion Bleach," "Mme. Yale's Antiseptic," "Mme. Yale's Blush of Youth," and "Mme. Yale's Skin Food." The misleading statements made concerning "Mme. Yale's Skin Food" are these that it is "a marvelous, nourishing product that feeds through the pores of the skin......and can not be duplicated, as it is compounded by Mme. Yale personally and protected by a chemical secret." Of course, many other equally false allegations were made by the proprietor in various advertising matters. The government decision says that "the said last mentioned statement is false and misleading in this, that the said drug is simply an ordinary ointment." "Mme. Yale's Fruiticura," which claims to be "a cure for every ill to which woman is sexually heir," is given a far more caustic scoring, and shown to be absolutely worthless. The "Fertilizer Tablets" supposed to be a cure for obesity, are shown "not to be a cure for obesity" and the Yale Hair Tonic is shown not "to stop the falling of hair," "not to cure and prevent dandruff and all scalp diseases," and "not to overcome any hereditary tendency to baldness or grayness.' As for "Mme. Yale's Excelsior Complexion Bleach," for which all sorts of impossible "sure-cure" claims are made, it is shown to be "only a solution of borax" utterly useless in all that it is advertised to cure. "Yale's Antiseptic" was, perhaps, if any distinction can be made, the most criminal "fake" of all, for, among a score of other things, it is advertised as a "sure prevention of typhoid fever." Serious and permanent injury may have occured to many through reliance on this compound, all statements regarding which are shown "to be false and misleading" and the preparation entirely virtueless. Mme. Yale's "Blush of Youth" is also held up as a deceptive and illegally labeled product, unfit for human use. This is the first gun fired in the war of the Government vs. Yale, and it is our earnest hope that the fight will not terminate until the fair "faker” has been put finally down and out. The entire affair is only another exemplification of the vast influence for good concentrated in the Pure Food and Drugs Act if that measure is literally and strenuously applied. Not until every charlatan who tampers with the public health, every adulterator of food or medicine, every deceiver of the sick and suffering public has been brought to judgment, will the work of the men on, or connected with, the Board of Food and Drug Inspection be done. When it is finished, this country will have a healthier, a better and a far more discriminating population than ever it has been able to boast before. The leniency of Justice Anderson is however, admirably appreciated, having fined the defendant with the payment of the cost of these proceedings, as well as a sufficient and proper bond in the penal sum of $500, conditioned that the said sized packages and the contents shall not be sold. Reprinted by permission from "The Trade." Issued by the Food Committee, National Consumers' League. The enforcement of the Pure Food Law seems to be giving many occasion for serious thought, and we cannot help thinking it is about time. The law is now three years old, and there should be no excuse for any canner not being familiar with it. . The requirements in regard to the label seem to have been made, or rather, are rapidly making, one notable change in the sentiment of the industry. We refer to the demand on the part of the canner to have his name on every can of goods he puts up. This sentiment is growing with wonderful rapidity and may it increase to an absolute demand! It lies with the individual. In response to a repeated request, we have drawn up a set of directions, which, however, are merely offered as suggestive, but upon which we feel too much consideration cannot be devoted. They will at least furnish "food for thought" and incentive for action, and we submit them in this way. SOME PURE FOOD DONT'S. In order to keep the Pure Food Law well in front of all canners, so that they will not be caught in ignorance of the law and its requirements, we give here a few general pointers, as it were, covering the most likely occasions of falls. These are not all; but some worth remembering. Don't use rotten or decaying stuff for canning. Don't use fillers, saccharine or bleaches. Don't put sugar in peas without saying s on the label. Don't put sugar in corn without saying so on the label. Don't use colors, unless they are certified and their use is stated on the label. Don't be alarmed about your label, all the law asks is TRUTH. Don't use a fictitious name on the label. Don't label goods packed in water "in syrup." Don't call Keifer, "Bartlett" pears. Don't say "pork and beans" if there is no pork in them. Don't claim a higher degree of syrup than used. Don't run a jobber's label on your goods unless it reads "packed for," "distributed by" or "distributors." Don't forget you are putting up food for human beings Don't forget an inspector may drop in at any moment to see what kind of stuff is being canned, and to examine into the sanitary conditions. Don't forget that sanitary conditions count. Don't have stagnant pools of slop and water about the factory. Don't have heaps of refuse rotting at the door to pollute the whole air of the neighborhood. Don't have the floors deep with spilled tomatoes, fruits, etc. Don't pile tomato skins and cores on the floor, like garbage, before running through the pulper. Don't be content with having the floors. tables, machinery, etc., clean after working hours. It is during work ing hours that counts. Don't be satisfied with washing out everything after work-and have the factory sloppy and dirty during the work. Don't be afraid of plenty of air and light, and whitewash (at least) on walls and ceilings. Don't fail to have sanitary, clean closets, located away from the peeling shed or canning room. Don't fail to have wash troughs for the workers and towels. Don't be afraid to make all use them. Don't employ hands suffering with tuberculosis-consumption. Don't allow anyone to work with running sores on their hands. Don't think the law is not being enforced. There are possibly 100 inspectors scattered all over the country. Don't think because they have been lenient in the past, they will be so in the future. They won't. Don't think the law is oppressive; it is the best thing that ever happened for you and the business. And let us add one more piece of advice; though it may not be stated in the law-FILL YOUR CANS, or to continue the above form Don't pack "slack filled" goods. If this is not based on the Pure Food Law, it is based on the law of good busi ness. 404 St. James Bldg., New Enclosed find 25c. for "On trial" subscription to Health-Culture. Every One Who Becomes Weak and Unfit is a Loser. HEALTH-CULTURE considers the art of living long. healthfully, successfully and happily, and the relation to Health of Food, Air, Exercise, Occupation, Rest, Recreation, Sleep, Dress, Mentality, Marriage Relations, etc., and is the best magazine published devoted to the bodily development of men, women and children and the cure of disease without drugs by mental and physical methods. Fully Illustrated. It will help you to make life a success by being well and strong, Never Sick. Avoiding Drugs and Doctor's Bills. It pays to be well. Monthly. $1.00 a year: 10c. a number: for sale at news stands. No free sample copies. 30-days' offer. "On Trial" 6 months for 25c. Money back if not satisfied. Health-Culture. St. James Bdg.,N.Y. P. 0..... THE PURE FOOD CRISIS. By Miss Alice Lakey, Chairman Food Committee, National Consumers' League-New York. If President Taft permits this decision to meet with his approval he reverses the position taken three times by Mr. Roosevelt. He reverses three well-con sidered opinions of former Attorney General Bonaparte. He destroys, in reality, all the work for the Pure Food cause done in the last twenty years by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the government, assisted by other food. officials, both Federal and State. He overrules some seven decisions of the Federal courts. He sets aside all the work of Congress in 1906 for the enactment of the Pure Food Law. He makes it possible for all the former tricks of the food adulterators to deprive the consumer of honestly labeled food. It cannot be possible for the President to do this; he will hear the appeal of the consumer for protection. Thirty states have already endorsed the Roosevelt decision as to what is whiskey. North Dakota has enacted a whiskey standard that will not permit the selling in that state of any whiskey such as the Bowers decision will allow. At two of the annual meetings of the Association of State and National Food Officials, resolutions were adopted to protect the public from adulterated whiskey; State food commissioners have considered whiskey adulteration the worst form of adulteration that exists today. At the last annual meeting of the Association standards were adopted. President Taft signs the Bowers decision. the Pure Food Law will be completely nullified. This is the reason: If The Bowers decision permits the addition of alcohol to whiskey without stating the fact on the label. Alcohol and whiskey are not like substances in contemplation of law. They have different values, different qualities. (Opinion of Alphonso Taft, attorney-general, construing section 3449 of internal revenue laws; see Internal Revenue Record, August 21, 1876, vol. 22). The signing of the Bowers decision. means that all food products entering into inter-state commerce can have adulterations added to them; if whiskey that is adulterated by the addition of an unlike substance is not required to state the fact on the label that it is compound imitation or blend, then food products that are adulterated by the addition of an unlike substance need carry no warning to the consumer. Glucose may be maple and cane The greatest menace to the public health lies in the fact that milk entering into inter-state commerce may be adulterated by the addition of water or any other unlike substance. added to molasses, to syrups and to honey; nut shells of all kinds to spices and to peppers; flour to mustard; starch to cocoa and chocolate; alum, starch and calcium sulphate to cream of tartar; vanilla extract may be made of tonka bean or any other cheaper substitute; calves one day old may be canned and labeled chicken; jellies and jams may be made of anything to which gelatine can give consistency and labeled in any way pleasing and profitable to the dishonest manufacturer. Such goods will need no labels stating that they are compound, or imitation, if the Bowers decision is signed. The reign of the food adulterator will return to the detriment of both consumer and honest manufacturer, if President Taft signs the decision. The Pure Food Law was designed to protect the consumer. The Bowers decision protects the rectifier. Section 8 of the Pure Food Law states: SecondIn the case of articles labeled, branded, or tagged, so as to plainly indicate that they are compounds, imitations, or blends, and the word compound, imitation, or blend, as the case may be, is plainly stated on the package in which it is offered for sale; provided that the term blend as used herein shall be construed to mean a mixture of like substances, not excluding harmless coloring or flavoring ingredients used for coloring and flavoring only. According to the Bowers decision no such word of warning need be placed on adulterated whiskey. If not on adulterated whiskey, then it need not go on any package of adulterated food entering into inter-state commerce. What then becomes of the Pure Food Law? It is rendered null and void. The Pure Food Law does not regulate what the consumer shall eat, but by its provisions the consumer can know what the manufacturer is giving him to eat. If President Taft signs the Bowers decision the consumer has no such protection. If President Taft signs the decision. of Solicitor-General Bowers as to the labeling of whiskey he will utterly destroy the efficiency of the Pure Food Law. What is known as the RooseveltBonaparte-Wiley decision. on what is whiskey, was in line with the rulings of the Pure Food Law. The Bowers decision reverses this. The RooseveltBonaparte-Wiley decision protected the consumer. The Bowers decision does not. 3. Any party selling,offering to sell, or shipping into the state any so-called compound or imitation brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, wine or other spirituous liquors is liable to a heavy fine and to have, by order of the court, all illegal goods within the state destroyed. or 4. Every manufacturer, jobber wholesaler before doing business in the state must first secure a certificate or license for the particular brand to be sold. Only one license is required for an individual brand, no matter how many dealers may handle the same. 5. Retail dealers are not required to procure a license, but they must not sell a product unless a license or certificate has been taken out for its sale either by the manufacturer or jobber. 6. The Beverage Law goes in force. July 1st, 1909. Every manufacturer, jobber or wholesaler must take steps to comply with all the provisions of this Act by July 10th. 7. The fee due July 1st is held to apply to whiskey, brandy, rum, gin, cordials, liqueurs, beers, malts, ale, porter, stout, tonics, bitters, wines, ciders, artificial ades, soft drinks in general, coca cola, moxie, ginger ale, sodas, pops, phosphates, grape juice, etc. 8. Application blanks will be furnished during the month of June to all applicants for each brand of beverage intended to be sold in the state. |