Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-11
Woman Secretary of Milk
League Addresses Central Fed
Grated Union in Strong Letter.
PLAN M~ASS=MEETING
NLAKEW00D CONTROVERSY
Nathan Straus Lauded for Plan
to Establish Home in Jersey
Health Resort.


the fight being made by Nathan
to maintain in Lakewood a
p~reventorium which viii care for the
poorer children of the East Side. the
Central Federated Union viii hold q
mass-meeting at Cooper Union next
week in conjunction with the East Side
Pure Milk League, at which resolutions
will be adopted appealing to Governor
Fort, of New Jersey, to withdraw his
opposition to this institution.
Delegates Coakley, Brown, Joyce
Lowey and Holl were appointed a com
mittee to meet the East Side Pure Mill
League and to make further arrange.
ments for the mass-meeting.
A lengthy letter from Miss Elizabeth
A. Nolan, secretary of the East sid,
Pure Milk League. in which organized
labor was asked to join in the fight
against the increase in the price o.
milk and for maintaining the prevent.
orium was read and received with ap.
plause.
The letter which was addressed t
the Central Federated Union was al
follows:
Gentlemen-I enclose you a copy
a set of resolutions passed at a
regular meeting of the East Side
Pure Milk League, and most respect
fully request you to read the same,
and also the letter at your meeting
tonight with a view to carrying
out the objects set forth in these
resolutions.
Your honorable body doubtless
knows of the work done by the East
Side Pure Milk League in the in
terest of the mothers and children
of this city.
Your honorable bodie is likewise
aware of the work carried on by
Mr.. Nathan Straus in the interest Of
the little babies, not alone OF this
country. but in almost every civil
lied country in the world.
Mr.. Straus has long commended. as
does this organization, that the
great work to be done by a city is
to prevent disease rather than sim
ply providing hospitals for the
people after they have contracted
disease.
A dollar spent in successfully pre-
N@itLAi1S dAccuSc 10 HOIln Il HuiluItu
fold spent in curing disease.
This argonization has to do large
~ with children. since milk is the
sole diet for the child.
Nathan Straus and a number of
honorable ladies and gentlemen of
this city, who have only the inter-
ests of our children at heart, be-
lieving hat an ounce of prevention
is worth a whole ton of cure. have
pooled their capital, not for the
purpose of crushing the very life
out of the child. like the criminals
at the head of the Milk Trust, but
to uplift and to aid in every way
possible our babies.
These ladies and gentlemen have
opened their purses, and with
money out of their own private cap
ital, created in Lakewood, ". J., a
means to help prevent our weak
children from contracting diseases.
Mr.. Strauss contribution to this
charity amounted to more than five
five hundred thousand dollars.
They have called heir place "The
Preventorium," and its object Is TO
take children. without cost to any
person. not alone from this State,
but from elsewhere. under their
care, and to give them the attention
necessary to fit them in their future
life TO fight off disease.
The industrial brigands who would
crush the very life cut Of the infant
have again shown their contempt
for the children OF the poor by OPP
posing and fighting. even into the
courts of the State of New Jersey,
this latest philanthropy in the in
terest of human life.
Lakewood has ever been a health
resort.
Lakewood for many years has
housed cur wealthy tubercular pa
tients.
These wealthy visitors to Lake
wood, suffering as they are from
tuberculosis. have always been well
come in Lakewood as long as they
bring into the own of Lakewood
their money.
Scientists have claimed that the
pine al" of Lakewood is the Best
suited climate in the East for weak
lungs and weakened bodies in gen.
eral.
Knowing OF the qualities OF Lake
woods pine air. Nathan Straus and
a number OF wealthy philanthropic
persons were of the opinion that the
air in Lakewood, which is furnished
by Providence, being good for the
millionaire consumptives, must nee
essarily be good for the poor mans
child who might have weak lungs
or a weakened constitution.
So great has been the opposition
to this plan hat the enemies of the
children in their fight against you,
the fathers OF these children. and
against Mr.. Straus, that they have
invoked the aid of the Governor of
the State of New Jersey, who now
stands at the head. championing the
cause of those who would deprive
our children OF a month or more
rest as the guests in Lakewood of
these gentlemen, who have so kind
ly volunteered TO throw open their
purses to III children.
Plans for the mass-meeting will prob
ably be completed early next week
when announcement of the date set viii
made.