EDITORIALS
Forewarned IT IS fortunate that the people of the United States have, just at this time, so able and undaunted a champion as Gifford Pinchot to stand between them and the Interior Department. There...
...This privilege was extended by the Executive Office...
...What the prevalent standard of business morals is, what conspicuous evils it has injected into American life, and what is proposed as a remedy for an unhealthy condition of trade and industry, are all presented in a booklet, "Business Morals," which is number seven in Studies in American Social Conditions...
...it is merely a creature of the law...
...We recommend it to thinkers...
...No sample contained any fat foreign to butter fat...
...His act will be construed as his answer to this plain question: "Shall I favor Special Privilege- or shall I protect the Public Interest...
...Ice Cream LAST AUGUST, when government pure food inspectors were confiscating ice cream cones that were made of products injurious to health, La Follette's reported that "ice cream also is said to be very generally colored and 'flavored' with aniline dyes, and made under most unsanitary conditions...
...this is our country, for we are of one mind and that mind is finding voice...
...And that voice is speaking for the average man...
...They did not possess good keeping qualities and therefore we were reasonably sure that they were not too old or the flavor would tell...
...The President will not be acting in the dark...
...But they demonstrate conclusively the will of the people with regard to these three important instruments of democracy...
...No preservatives or starch were found, but a large number of samples contained a small amount of gelatin or gum thickeners...
...in fact the vote was sufficient to have carried a constitutional amendment overwhelmingly...
...Often the spider was the ice cream maker's closest associate...
...He writes even as well as he observes...
...Souvenir Mania SOUVENIR hunters" the reporters called those spec-tators who pounced upon the body of Ralph John- stone, the aviator, and stripped it of blood-stained mementos of the tragic accident...
...The ice cream cone has been a factor in increasing the ice cream sales and if they were manufactured from the same material and by the same class of business men as when introduced to this country, then the ice cream cone should not be condemned...
...At the present age when the habits and life history of the fly are so well known to everybody we can all agree that food products thus exposed should be condemned...
...President Taft can prevent these valuable lands from falling into the possession of the "Morganheims"— if he will...
...The lowest testing cream contained 10 per cent, butter fat and the highest 18 per sent...
...that capital the product of the many is to be operated fundamentally for the benefit of the many...
...All of them are approved more than three to one...
...He says, "The corporation as a form of organization is neither good nor bad but is morally neutral...
...Send for one of the circulars today...
...His interpretation of the recent election deserves an audience limited only to the numbei of people in the United States who can read...
...Whatever is then done with these claims, will be done with full knowledge of the facts, or at least with the established facts at hand...
...There is enough evidence in the record of the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation to indicate that the public interest in the Cunningham claims is still in danger of being sacrificed by Ballinger and his subordinates...
...W. A. Rudnick, a graduate from the Dairy Department of this School and now instructor at the Kansas Agricultural College, analyzed a number of samples of ice cream from different factories...
...But the mere submission of a brief by the Pinchots is not enough...
...Says the American Economist (mouthpiece of the tariff boosters): "In the selection of Mr, Young, a sane, uncompromising protectionist, Governor Carroll shows both courage and good judgment: courage in doing the right thing in the face of Insurgent hostility...
...This is encouraging...
...The masses who spoke at the primaries and at the elections were well-to-do, honest mgn with sacrifice, not greed, in their hearts...
...A Word to Readers DO YOU WANT TO KNOW how to save money in ordering your favorite magazines...
...When speaking of the quality of present ice cream and ice cream cones, the writer has particular reference to the states of Iowa, Oregon and Washington, being more familiar with the industry as it is carried on in these states...
...Will the next legislature heed this mandate...
...Felicitations HIGH TARIFF BARONS, and Big Business generally, are rejoicing at the appointment of lafayette Young to the seat in the United States Senate left vacant by the death of Senator Dolliver...
...Never before in all the world have any ninety millions of people held one idea, one abstract idea, so firmly in mind as the American people have held this idea...
...The moral element enters with the character of the management...
...The ingredients of the original ice cream cone consisted of wheat flour, corn starch, eggs, sugar and cream...
...Look at the figures: Proposition...
...They—the common people, whom the great Insurgent loved—are beginning to understand and repeat His message of service through sacrifice...
...Initiative and Referendum......443,505 127,751 Statewide Civil Service.........404,444 119,889 Corrupt Practices Act..........417,311 122,168 These figures are not official, and the returns from one county are not included...
...An answer to this question is given by RICHARD Henry Edwards in "Business Morals...
...But such are not the conditions of to-day...
...The factories are also as a rule kept in a sanitary condition...
...The smaller retail dealers in ice cream are usually poor people and it is natural that they are looking for a cheaper coxe so they san make a greater profit...
...One People WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE is one of the keenest po- liticle observers in the country...
...We have found that most ice cream factories are flavoring the ice cream with pure fruit juices, and we are not aware that any coloring material which is contrary to the pure food standard is being used...
...A Mandate IF THE politicians in Illinois were half as progressive as the people, it wouldn't be such a tedious task to secure popular government...
...In three states, at least, it appears that ice cream is made under conditions highly favorable to public health...
...But when before has souvenir mania manifested itself in so ghoulish a manner...
...There can be no doubt that the Morgan-Guggenheim crowd are making every effort to have this particular group of claims patented without further delay...
...During the past two years, while in charge of the Dairy Department of this School, I have made it a special point when traveling over the state to sample the ice creams as sold in the various towns, and it has been an agreeable surprise to note that nearly all of the manufacturers of Iowa are manufacturing ice cream of high quality...
...we propose to run it...
...As Professor Mortensen remarks, it denotes progress...
...This shows the integrity of our manufacturer, especially when we realize that we have no law in this state specifying a standard for ice cream...
...Do the people of Iowa join with the Woolen trust and the Cotton trust in congratulating Carroll upon this appointment...
...Edwards, at Madison, Wis., for the small sum of ten cents, plus two cents for postage...
...It has released public sentiment, and with the release of sentiment, with the possibility of a real expression of public sentiment, has come a definite growth of public sentiment...
...To them the quality of goods sold is not so much a matter of consideration as is the matter of making a mere living for themselves and families...
...In reply to our request for information, Professor M. Moh-tensen, head of the department of dairying of the Iowa State College, wrote as follows: "I think it must be admitted that for some years past most ice cream factories were kept in an unsanitary condition, usually in a basement devoid of sunshine and ventilation...
...This statement was disputed by a correspondent...
...B siness Morals ACORPORATION is not human...
...And it has done more...
...But the situation with respect to the manufacture and sale of ice cream cones is not so satisfactory...
...Consideration for their health must prompt us to insist upon a high standard of purity...
...It has broken the chain binding business to politics...
...He has given it to us in an article in the December number of the American Magazine, entitled "The Insurgence of Insurgency...
...During the past year, Mr...
...We have said, this is our country—we realize it now...
...This idea is essentially an altruistic idea...
...At worst, its victims have descended no lower than mere vandals...
...If you do, write today to La Follette's for information...
...Pinchot and his brother, Amos Pinchot, asked President Taft for the privilege of submitting the facts regarding these claims, in case they are reported favorably...
...The cones are usually left in the room of the retail dealer exposed to flies, dust and odors of the room...
...Is it therefore capable of wrong-doing...
...good judgment, in the recognition of the ablest man in Iowa politics today...
...Arrangements have been made with all the leading publishers that make it possible for La Follette's to offer its readers the most attractive bargains in high grade publications...
...It is natural that a cone would soon be introduced which would meet the demand of such people and it appears to be made from such material and contains such preservatives so that if they fail to sell it this year it may be kept until next year...
...It should be given personal consideration by the President...
...Most of the cones are consumed by children...
...And how strong and unanimous it was as it came rolling up in the returns from the primary elections and in the returns of the general election...
...The manufacturer was mainly the retailer who was selling the cones hot from the oven for the smaller ice cream stands, but the composition of this cone made it necessary that it be kept in a dry, sanitary room free from odors or they would spoil...
...It will cost you nothing...
...Never before have we been so nearly one people, with one dominant political ideal as we have shown ourselves this summer and autumn...
...There has been a wonderful renovation of the ice cream factories for the past few years until to-day these factories compare fairly well with the butter factories in cleanliness and sanitation...
...This is evidenced by the result of the vote on the "little ballot" measures...
...now that we have found the political gunpowder we propose to end the political feudalism under which we have been living...
...This was more like the work of coyotes...
...Simply send a post card, saying, "Send me your circular telling me how I can get magazines at the lowest possible prices...
...They are the insurgents...
...Fearing that the Interior Department is about to recommend the Cunningham claims for patent, Mr...
...It may be procured of Mr...
...Here is the conclusion of his article: "The primary system of nominations has done all that its advocates claimed it would do...
...For it is not the poor who have spoken, nor the rich, but those who have small means which they are willing to put under the common rule...
...It may be necessary to prohibit the sale of ice cream cones except where they are manufactured by the retailer and sold to the consumer hot from the oven, and made from material which is wholesome and free from preservatives...
...The cost to the manufacturer was about forty cents per hundred not including cost of shipping box...
...This study contains a well-selected list of books and articles concerning business morals...
Vol. 2 • November 1910 • No. 47
