South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-21
MILK MEN START
BATTLE AGAINST
NEW ORDINANCE
Small Dealers Declare Law to
Force Qualification and Pas
teurizatiOn Move to Put
Them Out of Business.

War between two factions OF south
Bend milk dealers was declared at
the regular meeting OF the commlttee
OF the whole of the common council
Tuesday night.
The bone OF contention was the pro-
1 posed adoption of an ordinance gov
erning the sale and handling OF milk,
! one Of the sections of which declared
that all milk sold by retail milk dear
ers in the city should be clarified ana
pasteurized or certified.
The smaller dealers and the larger
dairy men each had "A representation
al the meeting there being some 40
present, and arguments reached the
! stage in which personalities We're
handed back and forth, before the
committee decided TO delay furthen
| action on the ordinance until its next
meeting two weeks hence.
small Dealers object.
The dairy men in charge of the
| city's smaller milk routes declared
mat If the ordinance was adopted II
] meant the driving out OF business OF
the smaller dealer those who were
unable To afford the costly machinery
and other paTaphernalia needed TO
abide by the requirements OF the or
dinance They held that If sanitary
rules and systematic handling or the
milk was compulsory, pasteurizatlOn
and Qualification was unnecessary
Some were in favor of Qualification
alone All refused TO consider the
section which demanded pasteurlza-
ton.
The other side of Inc debate was
borne chiefly by the firm of Rogers
and son who are one OF tho city's larg-
est milk firms. Alvin Rogers declar-
I'd that il was imposing no hardship
on the smaller dealer in compelling
! them to Dasteurize every bit or milk
handled by them
RoSen6ury shows Need.
DIR. Charles BOsenbury, secretary OF
the South Bend board of public health
declared that pasteuriZatlOn was inc
only solution 20 any munlclpal min
supply. He backed up his arguments
with literature from one OF the ma
fion's most eminent authorities on the
treatment of milk bacteria III
Charles North.
Several of the smaller milk dealers
Dresent felt no hesitation IN asserting
that the adoption of the ordinance
was no more than move ON the part
of the wealthy milk interests 10 cor
ner'' the milk trade in South Bend.
The latter. on the other mana ue-
clared that the proposed ordnance
would impose a hardship upon no one
and would insure the city the puresJ
milk at minimum cost
For example, declared AlNIh
Rogers. j Will cite YOU 81 NV "a
incidents that has caused the drawing
M of this ordinance. j know OF one
milk dealer in this city who mad IL
customers He would take I'VE Dol
ties and for the other SIX Would APP
the milk or would refill empty Dol
ties gathered up on the way aIter Ihey
had been washed in horse trough
which was on his route. IL Is thau
method of delivering milk that we are
seeking to abolish by this ordnance
Condemned But sold.
Another instance / might give Is
that OF a man who started SIX "eeN5
ago TO deliver milk in the city, ann
who had his dairy condemned the
very day of the opening IL was coh-'
demued because IL Adorned ms mousse
lust off his kitchen.
Young Rogers cited several otheu
examples. both OF impure and insan-
itarv methods Of milk delivery and on
dealers who ad adopted the ia'eSu
and most scientific machinery WIN
whic TO purify their product.
Certified milk. according 10 Ut.
! charles Rosenbury and the men back
ing the ordinance, was beyond the pare
of pasteurization or any OJner manu-
ling TO increase its purity. rms Clas-
/ sificatfon of milk comes only from
! dairies which have passed the hlgh1
est examinations and whose prouucIS
4 baya tested less than 10. coo bacteria
per cubic Cenumeter.
Bad Milk killing Babies.
conditions in the southwest ana
western portions of this city are ue-
pIorabIe.F declared the health board
! secretary More than 90 per cehu
i az the infant mortality in these sec
tions was caused from s'oli -.e.,i -
tro,bIe Three-fourths of the milk
! delivered 10 the families out there II
insanitary. and some of is is too norris