The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-30

sponsibIe In Large Measure For the
Slaughter Of the Iunocents, and Urges
That Municipal Authorities Should
Braveiy Undertake to Remedy the Evil
Mayor Quincy OF Boston Oh Means to
Stop the Flow From Farm to City
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. pa feature
OF the morning session OF the national
ference Of mayors and councilmen
reused great interest among the
IS was the reading Of paper
uted by Nathan Strauss of New
IN THE Influence Of a Pure Mix
on the D cath Rate Of Children"
Of the municipal officials here
conversant only u a limited ex-
with the work being done by Mr..
auss in New York City. Naturally
" were eager 70 learn all its details
ID listened to the recital OF them with
close attention. The paper was read oy
NJ. Ford Of New York, and its opening
statement that there is practically no
milk delivered for general consumption
In cities that is fit 10 be fed in its natur-
al state 10 young children" was suffi-
cientIy startling to challenge attention
IL not contradiction. The paper closed
with the follow appeal:
II think 1 have fairly demons 'arted
the proposition that many thousands Of
infant lives are annually sacrificed by
the neglect 10 supply for the nutriment
Of children milk which has been subject
ed to the process Of pasteurization.
hold that neglect TO be criminal and /
leave IL to you to fix the responsibility
for il. We punish murder with the pen
atty OF death, and yet We allow murder
% De committed by the wholesale in
every populous community of this land.
with no thought of IFS punishment, and
little thought Of its prevention. The
most exasperating of all forms OF oppo-
sition to public we'll doing is that which
comes from those who pervert the trust
Of public office TO the satisfaction -of a
personal grudge, or TO the pursuit Of
temporary partisan advantage. 1 have
mad enough experience of this DIN New
York % force me TO the conclusion that
the man who sets himself to the task
OF doing good must be schooled into in
difference against the shafts OF obloquy
and Misrepresentation. 1 appeal 10 you,
gentlemen, who are charged with the
responsibilities attending the govern
ment 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.
appeal ID yo as if you were stand
Ing beside great river in whose cur
rent were constantly swept past nun
oreds Of drowning infants This stream !
Is very real thing IL people would but I
recognize its existence, and all its year |
iy tribute Of death Is paid because of the /
puolic neglect of some OF the Simplest /
precautions for the saving OF children's !,
lives. You, gentlemen. have the means
under your control by which these
browning babies can be saved I ask
you VIII you not apply them? Men are
iouhd capable Of acts of heroism IN pres
ence of danger less Threatening and less
surely fatal All that l plead for is the
extension Of the activity os local boards
OF neaith into a sphere ehich is legiti-
= ately theirs, but which they have, 50
ar lacked the conviction and the
-'urage TO occupy. 1 shall not nave
- ken in vain if 1 have succeeded in
impressing you with the fact that the
dictates Of humanity and of public duty
combine in demanding that this back
wardness should exist no longer
1t was II O'Clock when the confer
snce was called 10 order this morning.
The first speaker was Mayor SNas D.
Drake Of Lincoln, n. J.; the boom
down has three women delegates from
Its council here. He introduced to the
Mayor J. A. johnson of Far
90, who argued for uniformity Of state
laws pertaining to municipal organiza-
tons and urged upon the conference the
forming OF a permanent committee on
legislation, one from each state, to for
nulate plan whereoy the legislatures
may make their municipal legislation
Uniform as TO police powers.
RURAL VERSUS URBAN.
The appearance upon the platform az ,
1on. Josiah Quincy, mayor Of Boston.
vas greeted with a welcoming applause
accorded no other speaker - far His :
address was scheduled as Municipal At ,
airs as Administrated in Boston," bu, ,
IS scope was much wider Il presented D.;
/ clear analysis of the differences be- :
ween federal, state urban and rural !
and defined The possibil- s
les OF municipal public service as al I
most Hmitless. He said that the quss- $
IONS whether city life has not already c
':oVed too powerful a magnet in At {
Tactng people from the country II the =
oWn-whether large numbers % those '
no TO-DAY earn scanty, Sometimes a 5
recirious, livelihood in cities would not y
e materially better off in TIE country &
neither municipalities WI not yet De
1rced. in self defense. to open up some
ocular channels through which those Il
no become dependent upon the puaIfc
lay be returned. so 70 speak. 70 the
1il. 10 earn their own support from is {
problems FOR the fu- 7
are Nhicn can only be suggested at the I
Resent time j
The practical fact With which We {
ave to deal IS that his tendency toward {
relatively greater growth Of urban
IAN OF rural population does not Yet r
'en - have suffered any check an1 u
IA; the good or bad administration o. I
uaiciPal governments affect far 4
rger number Of people. and a greater a
action OF the total population. than
-e- before.
\; the same time me diffe~en; kinds -.
public service either directly under =
ken O. indirectly controlled 6y thu =.
odern city are more numerous. i'm :
'rtant. costly sni complex than have :
'er been expected in the past OF any
NJ Of local administration.
After the noon adjournment: there was :.
further session Of the mayors eonven- =.
'n today. The afternoon and evening 2
ere given over 10 sight seeing. ana the q,