Chicago's Italian Chamber of Commerce has sent us a letter, begging us to warn our countrymen against a fraud cheerfully practiced here by their co-nationals.

There are Italian merchants who pour the olive oil imported from Italy into barrels, mixing it with linseed oil. This mixture retails at a little less than the market price of oil, and it is advertised as pure olive oil from Lucca, the Riviera, or Sicily.

The Chamber of Commerce wishes to notify the retailers of oil that the Federal laws against adulteration are most strict.

Therefore, it is to the interest of the retailers to sell Italian olive oil of well-known trade-marks, whose purity is guaranteed by both producers and retailers - as well as to the interest of the consumers and the products themselves.