Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-20
SAYS HE DOES NOT OBJECT TO
LICENSE If ALL ARE
TREATED ALIKE.
CITES ICE CREAM AND
BUTTER AS EXAMPLES
Dsirymen of City Think Health Au.
thorities Should Take Action in
Cases Where Formaldehyde is Found
in Milk, and Make Examples Of
Those Who Are Guilty.

The case of Jacob Neiderhauser, the
dairyman who was to have been ar
raigned before the mayor Thursday at
ternoon for violation of the city milk
ordinance in failing to take out city
license, was continued for one week.
Neiderhauser Is planning to resist the
effort of the city on the ground that
the ordinance does not treat all dealers
in milk and its products alike.
MIR. Neiderhauser says that it is not
the license that he objects to, nor the
inspection of his cows, but he does OBJ
sect to having to pay a city license
when others who handle both milk and
its products pay no license.
Cites Ice Cream and Butter.
Mr.. Neiderhauser's principal obiec-
ton is to manufacturers of ice cream
pay no license whatever, and furnish
the public With products from unin-
spected milk. Ice cream manufacture
ers, he says, are having shipped into
this city daily milk from different sta
lions on the roads entering this city,
some of the milk coming as far as
Chicago and Des Moines. Mr.. Neider-
hauser doubts the purity of much of
the milk used, and says that no city
ordinance is fair that compels one man
to sell inspected milk and permits an
other man TO put out a milk product, and
even the milk itself, where the milk has
never been inspected.
AS to butter it is the contention of
Mr.. Neiderhauser that but very little
butter sold in the city is made from
claims, is in direct violation of the
city ordinance. which calls for the
sale within the city of inspected milk
and its by-products. Mr.. Neiderhauser
says that the council has now had
| plenty of time to get into proper work.
ing order, and that there is no reason
why the ordinance should not be ex-
tended to cover all the provisions that
were originally intended. When this
is done, Mr.. Neiderhauser says, no one
viii ever hear anything from him as
to the injustice or improperly of en-
forcement against milk dealers.
Dairynen and Formadehyde.
II Different dairymen of the city are
very much interested in the public
statement made concerning the dis.
covery of formaldehyde in milk samples
taken in homes where sickness among
infants has resulted, claimed by ply.
sicians to be due, in all probability, t.
milk.
Many of the dairymen of the cit,
claim they have never used a preserv.
ative of any kind in their milk, AND
that they get over their routes in tht
cool hours of the morning, before Their
has been any danger of the milk sour
ing
These dairymen think that the case
of the use of formaldehyde should b.
investigated by the health department
of the city, and those whose milk ha
been found to contain the preservativ
be subject to prosecution. Becaus
1 some milk has been found to contain
preservative the dairymen say tina
| suspicion naturally rests on all mill
When they have been careful in fur
1 nislring and delivering pure milk the
| think that they should not come unde
1 any general suspicion. The dairyme
who claim that they have never bee
guilty of using a preservative in mil
claim to be heartily in favor of any in
vestigatdon the city may want to maxi
and say that no class of people Woul
welcome prosecutions any more readil
than they, in the cases where the pre-
sentative was found. The dairyme
! also say that in their opinion Mar
shalltown was never getting pun
milk supply than it is at the preser
time.
Since the T.-R published facts 6
they were found to exist, as shown b
doctors who examined milk and foun
formaldehyde, samples from the san
| diaries have been taken, and reteste
1 for the presence of the preservativ
The results of the test show that I
preserWative was being used.