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What's In The Magazines? The Wilson-La Follette Handshake President Wilson's invitation to Senator La Follette to visit the White House, and Mr. La Follette's favorable response after years of...

...The hope is worth welcoming that the Wilson-La Follette episode is as significant as some of the Washington correspondents have taken it to be.—The Public...
...Sometimes we think progress in this country is largely a matter of "Catching Up with Bob...
...The employers of Wisconsin fought the workmen's compensation law...
...This, unfortunately, is not so...
...When President Wilson took Commissioner Lane into his Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior, he did not have far to look to find a man well qualified to sit on the Commission in Lane's place...
...The housewife who can see through these tricks and correctly interpret these labels will always receive the worth of her money...
...Any adulterated food product, properly labeled, may be placed on the market provided that the adulterant employed is not deleterious...
...An impure food often needs much explanatory data to make its sale legal...
...The congress has passed a law and appropriated half a million dollars for that purpose...
...On his arrival in San Francisco he worked in a printing office affiliating with San Francisco Typographical union No...
...They say an official valuation of their properties will strengthen the credit of the companies...
...This is not so simple as it sounds...
...During Franklin K. Lane's candidacy for governor of California, Marble managed the fight...
...As the result of a watch kept by the police in trees and behind hedges several prosecutions have taken place recently.— The London Mail...
...Marble came to San Francisco from South Dakota, where he was a college professor and an editor...
...Adulterated food is not necessarily injurious to the health, but it is to the family purse...
...Marble JOHN H. MARBLE, the new Interstate Commerce Commissioner, studied law and was admitted to practice while working as a linotype Operator in San Francisco...
...It is alleged that gangs of youths gather at places on the links where the players cannot see the balls fall, and that the balls disappear sometimes even when they fall on the fairway...
...The law simply makes it possible for us to tell the pure food from the impure...
...The public utilities corporations of Wisconsin fought tooth and nail the La Follette measures for a physical valuation of their properties, and the establishment of a commission to run their businesses under an indeterminate franchise law...
...Omaha Neus...
...Later he became associated with Franklin K. Lane in the practice of law...
...When Lane was appointed a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Marble was made his private secretary...
...Manufacturers often try to befog the consumer by using complicated labels filled with long scientific terms, or by employing tricks of punctuation and printing...
...La Follette's favorable response after years of aloofness from the Executive home may have no special significance...
...The political turmoil of our time comes from the stirring of the depths by the spirit of democracy...
...His ability as a speaker won him recognition in the organization, and he was given many duties, serving as a delegate to the labor council and on important committees...
...And the men got more than they ever received under the old methods—and no bother to get it...
...Golf Ball Poachers Many complaints have been received by the police lately of the loss of golf balls from the Epping Forest links while actually in play...
...Now intelligent public utilities men all over the country are asking for the Wisconsin law...
...It is a time, therefore, in which every man seeks his own place—among democrats if he be one, among their adversaries if he likes that company better...
...Pure food needs no label...
...The best railway men of the country are for it...
...The International Harvester company, with 4,000 men employed in Wisconsin in a dangerous occupation, went through the year on an expense for personal injuries of about one-tenth of what it would have had to pay for liability insurance, there were no court proceedings, no claim agent trickery, no ambulance chasing, and no uncertainties as to what the men got...
...He was later appointed attorney and then secretary of the Commission...
...Legitimately issued securities of Wisconsin public utilities are meeting with quicker sale on the bond markets than any other...
...The Wilsons and La Fol-lettes and Bryans belong together in politics, regardless of party organization or name, as truly as the Tafts and the Roosevelts, the Parkers, the Baileys and the rest belong elsewhere...
...Catching up With Bob The fight made for years by La Follette for physical valuation of the railways, is won...
...The manufacturers obey the law, but some of them obey only the letter of the law...
...and yet to all who look forward to party realignments by genuinely democratic tests it is comforting...
...He frequently contributed newspaper articles on public topics...
...A list of amendments asked for by the commission administrating this law has the support of both employers and work-ingmen...
...It is now generally satisfactory to both employers and laborers...
...He attained nation-wide prominence when appointed attorney for the committee of the United States Senate that investigated the charges against William Lorimer of Illinois, and during the trial which resulted in Lori-mer's expulsion from the Senate Marble showed exceptional ability...
...It is the province of each housewife to decide whether she wishes such adulterants served on her table as a matter of economy...
...The more explanation a label carries, the more watchful and wary the housewife should be in examining it...
...During his residence in San Francisco he followed public questions closely, and was often invited to express his views on the rostrum...
...But it is ridiculous for her to pay for such adulterated food as much, or almost as much, as she would pay for a pure and wholesome article...
...He took Marble out of the secretary's chair and made him Commissioner...
...Every Woman Should Read the Label On the Goods She Buys In the Woman's Home Companion John Phillips Street, Pure Food Commissioner of Connecticut, writes a very interesting message to women, an extract from which follows: "There seems to be a general im-pression that the Pure Food Law prevents the manufacture and sale of impure food...
...Your part is to make the law useful, to protect your stomach and your pocketbook, by reading the labels which the Pure Food Law compels the manufacturers to paste on their products...

Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 15


 
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