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After Dr. Wiley left the Department of Agriculture he kept a jealous eye on the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, continually charged it with lax enforcement. When last month he appeared before a Senate Committee investigating that Administration (see p. 34), Senators grieved to see him decrepit. They remembered him as Mark Sullivan in Our Times describes him: "His large head capping the pedestal of broad shoulders and immense chest, his salient nose shaped like the bow of an icebreaker, and his piercing eyes...
Charges: Mr. Campbell's men have been lax in not enforcing the letter of the Pharmacopoeia, one pound ergot to one pint of extract; they have been lax in admitting to import filthy Russian ergot; the Russian extract contains obstetrically harmful adulterants; the Administration has, for improper reasons, been condoning the breaking of pure food laws by drug manufacturers...
...Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...
Correspondents must write their news in such form that it can pass over British wires. With the story just warming up last week, and while censorship was comparatively lax, they cabled that the showing of newsreels taken as St. Gandhi set out on his march is barred in all theatres in the Bombay Presidency. Soon the news gate too will slam shut?that is, if there is any trouble...
Compared to Mary's the moral standards of Alexandra seem, almost lax. Clemenceau has said: "Edward VII . . . one day . . . invited me to a party where there were twelve women, every one of whom had been his mistress. . . . Nevertheless his wife . . . had great veneration for, him." The present Queen Empress is both a good woman and an indomitable influence for good. Last week the wives of the Delegates to the London Naval Parley twittered and chatted about her, then chatted and twittered all over again, comparing notes. For they had just had dishes of tea at the "home" of Her Majesty...