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4) A 66⅔% discount at drug stores is not correct. The fact is that members are furnished prescription medicine at cost, whatever that may be. It is evident that a drug store could not exist any length of time by selling medicine at a 66⅔% ( discount. . . .
PETER STUCK Secretary Amana Society Amana, Iowa
Tea Seed Test
Sirs:
We write on behalf of our client, Agash Refining Corporation, of Brooklyn, N. Y., packers of Agash Brand Pure Olive Oil and packers and distributors of other edible oils.
Your issue of March 22 contained an article entitled "Seeded Oil" (p. 18). That article referred to a trial then pending in the United States District Court in Philadelphia. The article contained a number of serious inaccuracies. Since, however, it constituted a comment on a pending judicial proceeding, we were unwilling to engage in a discussion of the matter until the termination of the trial. The trial is now concluded and we are free to call your attention to the most important of those inaccuracies.
The article described the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to detect the adulteration of olive oil with tea seed oil. It described the operation of the so-called Fitelson test. The serious vice of this article is that it is so constructed as to lead the average reader to conclude that measured by this test our client's product was not pure olive oil.
The fact of the matter is that upon the conclusion of the trial Judge Oliver B. Dickinson dismissed the charges made by the Department ot Agriculture. The court held that the olive oil in question was neither adulterated nor misbranded. The court held the olive oil pure in accordance with all the standards set forth in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. . . .
WEGMAN & CLIMENKO New York City