The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-24
NEW USE FOR PAPER.

The uses to which paper can be put are almost without limit. Old peo- pie can remember when paper was used for writing. printing and wrap ping bundles and packages. and that was about all. Now there is hardly any limit to its uses and adaptabiiity, for it takes the place of wood, cloth' leather and most other materials for domestic use, and for the offices, stores and shops. In short, paper has be- come an indispensable article in the daily life and business of the people and that enlarged need for 1t has much to do with the increase of prices which has become 50 marked of late. But the following from The Boston Globe is something new in this line. Referring to the danger of impure milk and the danger of disease from impure milk, 1t says:
 A long step toward the solution of the sanitary problem involved seems to have been taken recently, pptn o n troduction of what is known as the sim gle-service bottle: It Is used once only once, and is then thrown away.
 The complaints of the scrupulously neat housewife. who one day washes her glass bottle until 1t Is aosoluteIy clean, and the next day receives a neighbor's glass bottle with, 2 sour scent attached. will be silenced forever when delivery is made in fresh re- ceptacleS-
 Now. some one may ask, who would have thought of paper milk bottles? but on the other hand we may wonder why it was not thought of before, since paper is used for so many things. Thorough research and experiments have proven that one of the greatest dangers in cities. especially to the babies. arises from diseased milk, and another proven fact is that much of this danger is due to putting milk in bottles which have not been properly cleaned and disinfected. If pure and fresh milk is put into foul bottles. the milk itself will inevitably become foul with disease germs, and must natur- ally be unwholesome and unsafe. for the infants to whom it Is fed, and who have neither knowledge nor the power to protect themselves.
 What The Globe says about the ex- change of milk bottles is true every where. All housekeepers, all cooks, and all servants are not equally at- tentive to cleanliness. and all milk dealers may not be as careful about the condition of the bottle they are filling as they might be; hence 1t may often happen that the woman who is most careful about cleaning the bottle | before handing 1t back to the milk man may receive one in return that has hardly been cleaned at all. This is where the advantage of a bottle that will be used only one time comes in. We do not exactly understand how the rule of using a bottle only once is to be rigidly enforced, but sup. pose it can be accomplished in some way. If this is done there seems no doubt that "a long step" has been made in the direction of insuring purer milk to consumers. It may be added that the limited experiments so far made show that milk will keep better in summer or winter in bottles made of paper than in glass bottles.
 There is only one feature of this new business that is not pleasant. and that is that it must still further in- crease the price of paper. Millions of glass bottles are now used for milk. and each one can be used many times. but if all these are displaced by pa- per bottles which can be used but once 1t is plain that immense quantities of paper must thus be destroyed. and that must have it's effect on the price of raw material and of paper of all kinds. Still another obstacle that naturally presents itself is the expense the new plan will be to the milkman. No doubt these bottles can be made at a very low cost. but if all the milkmen must provide themselves with a new stock of bottles each day the price will have to be extremely low if the dealer in bottled milk makes a profit It may be that the new device will enhance