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any large increase, in the niiinber of agents required for such service 

 as is already performed in I'enusylvania by the Food Bureau. All 

 that is necessary is, in some cases, a little additional expert service 

 and the careful instruction and organization of the working force 

 for their added labors. The result elsewhere has been a marked 

 gain to the public with very little additional cost and, where the 

 policy lias been constructive, with no serious demoralization of the 

 producing and selling interests. Quite the contrary, the attitude of 

 these interests has been one of welcome for the construction policy, 

 which has won a more hearty cooperation for all the work of the 

 food law executive. 



There is another department of the food service, using the word 

 "food" in its broader sense, which is at present lacking the neces- 

 sary authorization for satisfactory control, namely, that comprising 

 the production and sale of alcoholic liquors. It was undoubtedly 

 the intention of the framers of the original General Food Law of 1895 

 that that law should act in the case of liquors as well as of foods, 

 to guard against adulteration and misbranding, but a flaw in the 

 title of the act gave ground for a decision by the Supreme Court, 

 a few years later, that arrested all action by the Bureau to prevent 

 the adulteration and misbranding of these commodities. There is 

 certainly no sound reason why abuses of this character in the case of 

 liquors should be any less condemned and less guarded against 

 than in the case of foods, for both are articles of human consump- 

 tion. The status of the production and sale of alcoholic drinks is 

 now a matter of worldwide discussion. Whatever the public decision 

 may be upon questions of local option and prohibition, it is clear 

 that the fact of the present agitation upon these matters of public 

 policy, should not be made the ground for the non-protection of the 

 public against adulteration and fraud in case of alcoholic drinks 

 so long as their use continues. I would respectfully urge that 

 proper steps be taken to reenact the legislation necessary to prevent 

 adulteration and fraud in the liquor trade. 



EXECUTIVE OEGANIZATION 



The history of American police laws has shown the existence of a 

 marked tendency to subdivide between numerous isolated offices the 

 responsibility for the enforcement of laws dealing with the same 

 subject matter. This tendency has various reasons for its existence. 

 But the adoption of this kind of provision for dealing with subject 

 matter of a single broad class necessarily results in much duplica- 

 tion of labor, overlapping of responsibility, executive confusion and 

 jealousies, and a lack of proportion in the treatment of such matters 

 as a whole. The same reasons which have operated to produce this 



