The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-03
MILK War

| Atlanta is in the midst of a row over
 her milk supply that may cause the price of that product to reach the highest fig
 ures ever known in this part of the country.
 Already the price has gone up from 40
 to 50 cents a gallon, and the dairymen
 are threatening to put another 10 cents on, making it 15 cents quart, because
 of an ordinance which the board of health
 has asked the council to adopt, requir-
 ing that all milk shall be brought into the city at temperature of 50 degrees
 or iower.
 It. is claimed that refrigeration to this extent is necessary in order to prevent the entrance of bacteria in large numbers
 into the milk. The milkmen declare the
 expense of putting in refrigeration plants
 will be such that they will be compelled | to put up the price at least to 50 cents | gallon and perhaps higher | In the preliminary discussion over the l question, upon which action has been held in abatement for 10 days longer, 1t
 was brought out by the board of health
 before the council committee that during
 the last year S2 babies have been sacri-
 feed to bad or impure milk. The milk men deny this, but so far as can be seen neither side has absolute proof, the
 board of health basing its statement upon the reports made to it and the health officers investigations.
 But that is not all. Recently nine cases of typhoid fever have developed In h. man park, in the eastern section of the city. It was ascertained that all of these families secured their milk from the same source. Nothing apparently wrong was found with the milk itself, | hut if was ascertained that the dairy | man in question washed his bottles with l water from an old well. Upon the theory | that this was the probable cause or the | disease in question, the daryman was
 ordered to stop selling milk for 30 days, and for that period he will have to feed | 1t to the hogs
 TlNp agitation has gotten the consumer | considerably wrought up, both as to all | legged danger from milk and the pros pect of still higher prices; but as between | the two the latter evil Is very much preferred to the former.
 Atlantas municipal campaign is hang
 ing somewhat heavily on her hands. It
 doesn't appear to have aroused the usual degree of enthusiasm.
 | If may be attributable to the fact, in
 mart at least that there are so many minor campaigns on as the result or
 making practically every city office eiec-
 tive by the people, that every man IS
 "totting his own skillet" and not both l That's the way it looks to the casual ob- | server.
 | It is known that there are many promi-
 nent Atlantians who would be interested
 in the campaign or Courtland s. Vim for
 mayor. were it not for the fact that they
 have personal friends who are running | for some one of the other offices, and l they do not want to get mixed up in a fight which might hurt their friends
 The same is probably true to a certain
 extent, also in the case of James G.
 Woodward, who is opposing MT. Vim
 for mayor. These gentlemen do not
 want to take any public step which would hurt the chances of their friends in their races for the minor offices, consequently | they are silent.
 The situation is thus unfortunate for
 the element which put out MT. Vim for
 the specific purpose of combining on him | to prevent Woodward from getting again | to the mayors chair. Nevertheless the
 general belief is that Mir. Winn will be
 elected despite the present absence of enthusiasm.