The Washington herald., 1913-08-04

dailymen might also leave Washington
and take their milk with them. II may
take three or five or possibly ten years
to settle the question II the Agricultural
Department and the health boards insist
on any such unreasonable regulations
as q temperature test. or a bacteriologi-
cal test. In either case the dealers will
| exhause every lawful and honorable
means in their power to resist II. and
| in the event 1t becomes q law or regu-
lation we do not have to guess what
| the result will be. The subject has
ceased to be q local one.
The milk producers are organizing all
| over the country from Maine to San
Francisco, and when they are thor
| oughly organized they will be q formid-
able body. and any attempt to resist
them will be useless II . bacterial
| count prevails milk Will surely be higher
and not any better. II will take milk
from the mouths Of probably 10000 peo-
pie in the city of Washington who will
never DO able to purchase such q
| luxury.
Good milk IL being served to the pub
lie and conditions should not obtain that
will make 1t impossible for the poor and
medium classes to have the benefit Of It;
especially SO unless the authorities can
| give them a substitute equally good or
better. From the best history at my
command 1 learn that milk has been
used as q diet by the human family for
| about 1000 years and possibly longer.
and I doubt II there Ii anyone who viii
attempt to say that II has not been the
most nutritious and health-giving food
| ever offered to the public.
after Q long study on the subject !
| find there Is really no clamoring for bet
ter milk only from one source, and that
seems to be what is known as the MILK
Committee Of New York." . self cor
stituted body with no law for its exis-
tence. It was prompted and pushed for
| ward by q moneyed interest for no other
reason than that OF gain. The public
influence has been gained by using phi
lanthropy as guise, and also mortality
statistics have been distorted to . grea,
extent.
MANY estimable ladies and gentlen en-
arc unwittingly lending their influence
to further the interests OF a merciless
trust that will in the end grind out their
very existence. We do not object to com.
petition and are at all times willing t.
meet fair competition on honorable lines,
but We do seriously object to the ma
chinery of the national government or
the employees Of municipal health boarGs
being used to further the ends Of sny
private or corporate interests.
Tho following reprint from The Milk
News. Of Chicago, tells the whole story
and bears out what I have had to ray
about the pasteurization Of milk and ths
schemes and practices that are used By
the Milk Trust
bulletin of Chicago for the week ended
June q. 1913. there were III deaths re-
ported of children under one year of
age. against ninety-seven for the same
n ind nf Sna~ 90
and nothing said about it in the Chicago
papers. Last year when the milk trusts
health department combination was put
the Council a 10 per cent increase in IN
fantile mortality called for double and
triple column articles in all of the great
G ina ,b papers Sasv for week or more accIs.
babies with impure milk, and claiming
that pasteurization was their only SAL
walton. Think of it. That new milk
year: a IS per cent increase in the death
rate Of children under one year of age
has not called for a single comment. |
crank is not advertising facts to the pub |
their fixed notions and theories This |
proof Of the contention that pastenrised
milk is more dangerous to infants than
the raw product and sustains the posi-
ton Of the dairymen that their milk is |
destroy imaginary germs is dangerous. |
There Is just as much sense and pro-
priety In claiming that the pasteuriza.
ton ordinance Of last August Is RESPONSE |
BILE for this IS per cent death rate in |
crease as there was last year in the |
claim that the lack Of such a law was |
responsible for the 10 per cent Increase |
at that time"
III President Wilson il really DESTROYS |
Of getting a running mate for his in
sidious lobby for Mr.. Lamar and Mr.
Mulhall he might find something by |
stirring the earth a little over in the |
Agricultural Department and. brushing /
the cobwebs from the Health once |
That there Is evidence of q Milk Trust /
there Is no doubt. and that there is now
and has been for long time a lot of
fad doctors and so-called scientists DOM
mating the Health Once and using their /
influence to shape the affairs in the Ag-
ricultural Department is equally true.
IF our new Commissioners are really /
intent on doing something good for the
city of Washington, they can do no bet
ter than start In the Health ONCE, and
the first step would be to divorce the
control OF the dairy business from the
Health ONCE and put It under a milk
practical men. who are capable and hon.
est in their desire to give the city Of
Warrington something like an IDEAL milk
supply.
"A good and wholesome supply Of milk
for the city Of Washington can only be
got by stimulating . better production
and making the regulations governing
the production and alignment of mill.
same and reasonable. 20 that more capa.
tai ana better men win engage N thsj
dairy business on the farm"