The age-herald., 1897-09-30
PURE MILK FOOD
 FOR LITTLE ONES And It's Influence on the Death Rate of
 Children SUBJECT OF AN ABLE PAPER Read Before the National Convention of Mayors and COunCiImen. NATHAN STRAUSS OF NEW YORK Author of the Paper Says Impure Milk Has Killed Thousands of Babies Recom-
 mends Legislation -l Josiah
 Quincy on Hand.
NATHAN STRAUSS OF NEW YORK

Columbus, O., Sept. 29.-A feature of the morning session of the national con yention of mayors and councilmen, that gates was the reading of a paper con- tributed by Nathan Straus, of New York, on ''Th- Influence of Pure Milk Supply on the Death Rate of Children"
 Most of the municipal officers present here were conve.sant to only a limited degrise With the work being done by MT. Straus in Naw York, and naturally they were anxious to learn his views and the paper was listened to attentively. The paper was read by Mr. Henry Ford, of New York. It said that there is no milk in large cities that is fit to be f:d in its natural state to young children which was startling to those pre1ent. He continued, q think 1t is necessary to demonstrate the position that many thousands of infants lives are annually sacrificed by the neglect to supply for the nourishment of children milk which has besn subjected to the process of
 
 be criminal and leave it to you to fix the responsibility for it. We punish nurderers with the penalty of death and yet we allow murder to be committed by ths, wholesale in every populous com munfty of this land, with no thought to Its punishment and little thought of its prevention. I appeal to you gentleman who are charged with the responsibilities attending the government of cities, great or small, to study the conditions under which this work is done and carefully note the results which attend the doing of it. I appeal to you as If you were standing beside a great river in whose current wsre constantly swept past hun drs0s of drowning infants. This stream is a very real thing if 1t is possible to recognize its existence, and all the year ly tlibute of death continues because the public neglect to take the simplest pr. cautions for the saving of childrens Lives.
 You, gentleman, have the means un- der your control by which these drowli- ing babies can be saved. l ask you will not supply them? All that plead for is the extension of the activity of local boards of health into sph:r which is legltimately theiqs, but which thsy have so far lacked the conviction and the courage to occupy. l shall not l have spoken .n vain if l have succeeded l in imI1esslng you with the fact that l the dictates of humanity and of public | duty combin- in demanding that this baclkwardness should exist no longer"
 1t was Il o'clock when the colfersnce was called to order this morning. The first speaker was Mayor Silss D. Drake, of Lincoln, N. J., the boom town that has thEee women delegates from it's council here He introduced to the con- vention Mayor J. A. Johnson, of Fargo, who argued for uniformity of state laws pertaining to municipal organizations and urged upon ths conference the form ing of a permanent committee on leg islation, one from each state to formu- late plan whereby the legislatures may make their municipal legislation uniform social evil. gambling, and the reforma- tfon of criminals
 The appearance upon the platform of Hon. Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston, was greeted with a welcoming appaus accorded no other speaker so far. His | address was scheduled as Municipal | Affairs as Administered in Boston, hut | it's scope was much wider It pre- entad tween federal. state urban and rural ad- fninistrtion and defined the possibil.ti of municipal service at alm,st liriitless range.
 After the noon adjournment there was no further session of the convention to- day, The afterroona and evening was given over to sightsesing ard the en-
 sp she convention meets tomorrow tbs aee@.i q tfr committee on perman- e s7''sss on Is likely 70 cause a s9atp disepsSlon. Friends of B. F. Gill kisaass publisher Of city Government. arc rualStng 2 perslssent canvass for his election as salaaied secretar # the per- iil41a sst osgaliizalion but ae D,th he and his. r''sel-sation are pronounced advocases of municipal ownership of public service plants much opposition to his election is