The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-30
PLEADS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
SENSATIONAL PAPER READ AT
THE MAYORS CONGRESS.
Thousands of Lives Sacrificed Annu-
ally by Neglect to Properly Pre-
pare Milk Through Pasteurization
Hon Josiah Quincy Welcomed.

Columbus, O., Sept GA feature of the
morning session of the National Confer
ence of Mayors and Councilmen. T. -;
aroused great interest among the dee
gates, was the reading of a paper, cor
tributed by Nathan Straus of New York.
on The Influence of Pure Milk Supply
On the Death Rate of Children Most OF
ant Only 10 a limited extent with the
work being done by Mr.. Stratus in New
YORK CITY. Naturally they were eager TO
learn all its details and listened to the re-
cital of them with close attention. TIE
paper was read by Mr.. Ford of New York.
Its opening statement that there IS
consumption in cities that is fit to be fed
in its natural state to young children.
was naturally startling. The paper closed
with the following appeal:
PLEA FOR THE CHILDREN.
Il think nave fairly demonstrated the
proposition that many thousand of infant
lives are annually sacrificed by the neg
lect to supply for the nutriment of chll-
dren milk which has been subjected 60
the process of PasteuriZation. hold that
neglect TO be criminal, and leave it TO
you to fix the responsibility for it. We
punish murder with the penalty OF death
and yet we allow murder TO be committed
by wholesale in every populouS comn1u-
nifty Of this land. | appeal to you, gentle
men, who are charged with the response
biltieS attending the government OF cities,
great or small, to study the conditions
under which this work is done and care
fully note the results. I appeal 10 you as
il you were standing beside a great river
in whose current were constantly swept
past hundreds of drowning infants. This
stream is q very real thing If people
would but recognize its existence and all
its yearly tribute of dean is paid because
of public neglect Of some of the simplest
precautions for the saving of cbildren's
lives. You, gentlemen, have the means
under Sonr control by which the drown
ing BABIES can be saved. | ask you W.ll
you not employ them? Men are CAPABLE
of acts of heroism in the presence of
danger more threatening and less sureiC
fatal All that plead for is the extern
health into a sphere which is legitimately
raeirs but which they have, so fer,
lacked the conviction and the courage to
occupy. | shall not have spoken in vain
if l nave caused an Impression on you
with the fact that the dictates of humane
ty and of public duty combine in demand
ing that this backwardness should exist
no longer
WITH WELCOMING APPLAUSE.
Mayor A j. johnson of Fargo. who ar
gued for uniformity of state laws per-
tanning 10 municipal organizations and
urged upon the conference the forming of
q permanent committee on legislation,
one from each state, to formulate a pfan
whereby legislatures may make their rnu-
nicipal legislation uniform as to police
powers. The appearance upon the plat
form of Hon. Josiah Quincy, mayor oe
Boston, was greeted with welcoming
applause, awarded no other speaker so
far HIS address was scheduled as MI
nicipal Affairs as Administered in Bos-
ton. but its scope was much wider 1T
presented a clear analysis of the differ
ences between federal. state. urban and
rural administration and defined the pos
sibilitg of municipal public service as al
most limitless He said that the cues
tons whether city life has not Already
proved too powerful magnet in attract
ing people from the country 10 the town
! whether large numbers OF those VINO to-
| day earn q. Scanty, sometimes q Drecar-
| ious. livelihood in cities, would not he va
! terially better off in the country, whether
municipalities Will not yet be forced, in
| self-defenSe, to omen up some regular
I channels through which those who be-
! come dependent upon the public may be
! returned. so to speak. to the soil, TO earn
their own support from its cultivation,
! raise problems for the future which can
/ only be suggested at the present time
| PRACTICAL FACTS
: He continued: ''I'he practical fact with
which we have 10 deal is that this tend
ency toward relatively greater growth
OF urban than of suburban population
! does not yet seem to have suffered amy
! check and that the good or bad admins
/ tration of municipal governments affect
/ a far larger number of people and a
greater fraction of the total population
! than ever before. AT the same time, the
| different kind of public service, either di-
! ISClJ taken Oh luuiEeCNly CuHttOIISu ny
! the modern city, are more numerous, i'm
! portant. costly and complex than have
/ ever been eXpeCtedbfn the past of any kind
! of local administration"
| After the noon adjournment there WAS
no further session of the mayors conven-
| ton today. The afternoon and evening
were given over. to sight seeing and the
entertainment OF the Delegates. When
! the convention meets tomorrow the Re
publican committee on permanent organi-
| zation is likely to cause a sharp discus
sion. Friends of r. F. Gilkinson, pub
! Usher OF City Government, are making a
persistent canvass for his election as sal
| aIisd secretary of the permanent .9rgani-
pronounced advocates of municipal own
| ership of public service plants much OPP
position to his election is developing.