The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-08-27
made Conmander-1n-chief Of the United States

made Commander Chief Of the United States
army and navy by our constitution. Colonel
Roosevelt, therefore, was extremely disloyai, %
well as lacking in even the commonest kind Of
politeness and tact, when he criticised the arrays
COMMUNICATIVE Chief before enlisted men and
officers at the Plattsburg camp. President VII
son, through Secretary of War Garrison, is not
only entitled but is in duty bound to make it i'm.
possible for Colonel Roosevelt or any other pri'
vate American citizen to repeat such dangerously
disloyal words before any organization Of our
army or navy.
Milk Inspection
With the memory of the typhoid fever cpl
de1nic of 1913 fresh in mind, Richmond citizens
are now justified in demanding of the health au-
thorities of the city an explanation OF the Lax
system of dairy inspection which has been car
ried on for over year.
year ago last June dairy inspector tend
cred his resignation because there was general
demand that his services be dispensed with. In
selecting DIR. Glenn to succeed him the promise
was made to the public that dairy inspection in
the future would be carried on in most efficient
manner. If the public was as sure Of getting its
milk supply from well regulated and sanitary
diaries as it is of getting full-weight and full
measure values from local merchants, the pro-
test against the Glen dairy inspection methods
would not be heard now.
And why is it not possible for the city to have
as competent dairy inspector at $1,000 year
as it is weights and measures inspector at $720
a year. who also, for good measure, relieves DR.,
Glenn of part of his duties inspecting mercan.
tile establishments in the city south of Main
street), and acts as marketmaster?
This question is easily answered; competent
and dependable dairy Inspector can be secured If
a little care is taken in making the selection.
The most serious charge in the indictment
against DR.. Glenn is his very apparent >ndiffer-
ence to public opinion. This is instanced>by his
persistent refusal to make public the grade scor-
ings of the various diaries he is supposed to have
inspected. He has assumed the attitude, in this
matter, that it was none Of the public's business
what ratings were established for the various
diaries from which they obtain their milk.
AS matter of fact it is extremely important
that the diaries be competently scored and that
thorough publicity be given to these scorings.
Without the public being made acquainted
with the ratings of the various diaries what
chance has the average citizen to know whether
he is securing his milk supply from dairyman
who is complying with the state regulations for
the maintenance and operation Of diaries or a
man who maintains filthy premises and does his
milking in an insanitary manner and in dirty
barns?
And, on the other hand, what incentive is
there for dairyman to spend his money improv-
ing conditions at his dairy so that his milk sup
ply will be pure and uncontamnated if the public
is not to know that he is more deserving of its
patronage than his competitor who refuses to
comply with the requirements for the production
of pure milk?