Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-20

The government. responsible for the
butter, knows why 1t ias failed to
do Its duty In protecting the tax
payers against the dangers, that, be-
ginning January 1. 1917, have been
legisIated against as far as Oleomar-
garine is concerned.
The United States government while
1t has done nothing to force the but
ter-maker to act upon the warning
which it has gone to the trouble to an
nounce for the benefit of the people
concerning the dangers of raw butter,
has nevertheless issued regulations re-
quiring the manufacturers of oleomar-
garine after January l, 1917, to pasteur-
ibe all cream, whole milk, skim milk or
butter used by them in the production
of oleomargarine.
This curious action emits the mixed
odors of prejudice favoritism, incon-
sistency and cowardice.
The government commenting upon the
Investigations of DR.. Albin Burkhardt
and Dr. Nageli who demonstrated that
as many as ninety six per cent, of all
human bodies examined showed LESSONS
of tuberculosis. irrespective of the
cause of death. has informed the butter
makers through DR.. Schroeder that
fected with tuberculosis does not die
of the disease.
"A large proportion either recover
entirely or the natural resistance fights
1t off until overwork, fatigue or an i'm
paired condition of health lessons their
resistance, when the latent disease,
which has been held in check by the
natural forces of the body, eventually
asserts itself and ENDS in death.
in W
pect when we know that tubercle
bacilli concealed in butter, milk, cream
and other dairy products are syste-
matically and regularly distributed in
a way that secures their ingestion by
persons regardless of their state Of
health, wherever the sale of dairy pro-
ducts from tuberculosis cows is permit
ted.
IF the public were informed of the
dangers, among which tuberculosis is
one of many. to which 1t is exposed
by the use of impure, dirty or infected
dairy products. the demand for such
products of approved purity would rise
to the magnitude of a national move
ment and would sweep all commercial
objections and political difficulties out
of it's way.
Inform a man that a single one
among many loaves of bread-you do
not know which-is contaminated with
arsenic, strychnine or any other form
of poison and he will go very hungry
before he risks eating any loaf of
that lot. He possesses the popular con-
ception of what arsenic and strychnine
are, and what he must expect from
their entrance into his stomach.
yet he continues to use milk and
dairy products. and permits his chill
dren to use them, without his testing
their purity or insisting that the doubt
about their purity shall be removed,
notwithstanding the fact that they have
frequently been shown to contain poi
sons as powerful as those above named,
such as the germs of tuberculosis, ty
phoid fever, scarlet fever, septic sore
as well as the poisons that are the
cause of the high death rate from
abdominal diseases among children
The failure to act and to act quick
ly until safe dairy products for chill
dren are within easy reach of every
mother is barbarous, IL not criminal
TT is an offense against the in
nocent condolences which children re-
pose in their adult protectors.
Unfortunately the frequency with
which milk from tuberculosis cows
causes tuberculosis among children is
not so clearly apparent because of the
insidious chronic character of the af-
Fiction. yet We have thousands Of
proofs clearly established beyond the
realm of uncertainty or debate which
show the enormity of the Affections i'm
posed upon humanity by the neglected
tubercular cow"
Although DR.. Schroeder was COM
missioned by the United States gov
ernment to make these of1cial state
ments and although the United States
government. by its belated regulations,
has applied them to the manufacture
of oleo, 1t has taken no action upon
the Interstate shipment of butter
known to be polluted with tubercle
bacil1i.
Not onlyy have the authorities failed