The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1909-09-15

which Dairy Commissioner Bailey has
been a central figure. He says:
There are absolutely no grounds
for the wholesale charge that the peo-
ple of Portland are being supplied
with infectious milk. The physical
health of COWS and the sanitary con-
dition of diaries from which this city
derives it's milk supply are in the
main in first-class shape.
Thomas Withycombe, a dairyman of
Pennington, says that "The attacks
upon Mr.. Bailey have been piece of
yellow journalism. | am sure that a
wrong position has been taken in the
attacks made upon him, as it is not his
duty to test the animals for tubercu-
losis at ALL but is the work of the
United States Bureau of Animal In
dustry or the State Veterinarian. Fur
thermore it is impossible to diagnose
the disease even with the assistance
of a competent veterinarian without
the apparatus and tuberculin procured
from the United States chemical de-
partment of the Bureau of Agriculture.
Mr.. Baiey's only proper action in the
case reported is to turn it over to the
United States Bureau of Animal In
dustry or the State Veterinarian for
inspection He has no authority to
authority to make the inspections him.
self"
Concerning the matter The Ore
gonian says.
Inquiry comes, why doesn't The
Oregonian join in the demand for pure
MILK" 1t does join in the demand
for pure milk But it doesn't believe
that the people at large, or ind1vldu-
ally should be taught to depend on
government or public authority for in
spection, regulation and control of the
quality of food and drink. 1t believes
that each family and each individual
ought to be expected to- take precau-
ton. and learn and know about its
food and drink. Families needn't eat
bad fish, consume bad meats or vege-
tables, accept bad milk, unless they
are willing. Men needn't drink bad
whisky, nor any, unless they want it..
Are families and individuals to do any
thing for themselves? Or is govern
ment to do it all? If the family
doesn't know good fish or good milk
from bad, is government to take
charge of the family table? Have the
heads of the household any RESPONSE
bility? Parents these times seem even
to deem it the duty of the state,
through it's police, to control their
children.
This tendency calls into existence
an increasing swarm of officials. They
flourish: they grow into multitude
in every community. The more they
increase the more they are wanted.
Offices with new titles are invented;
and these officials again must have
assistants and deputies and clerks and
stenographers and typewriters and Of
fice-boys and janitors, more and more.
The public payroll becomes a house OF
refuge, an eleemosynary home, and
the larger the payroll the greater the
demand for it's increas. Discovery OF
new bacteria in nature, never known
before demands new bacilli in Office.
The system grows by what 1t reeds
on, and there is no end OF 1T.
Portland is again in the tolls of
milk and food scare and germs of Of
ficialdom are spreading apace. Here
are some of the identified germs:
State Health Officer; State Veter1n-
arian; State Board of Health, six mem
bers; State Veterinary Board, five
members: State Biologist; State Bac-
teriologist State Domestic Animal
Commission, two members; State
Dairy and Food Commissioner and
four deputies; Multnomah County
Board of Health, three members;
County Physician; City Board of
Health, five members; City Physician;
City Health officer; City Market In
spector; United States Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry; United States Food and
Drugs Inspection Laboratory
How will this do for a string OF the
"caterpillars of the state" 1--WE borrow
a phrase) on a single limb of the tree?
Before we had all these physicians
I,xy1o ~ mo n q nd