The Washington times., 1917-04-28
ASKS ENFORCEMENT
OF MILK LAWS HERE
Board of Trade Unanimously
Adopts Resolution Urging
Action.

Enforcement of Health Department
regulations regarding the sale of
milk in the District so that all deal
ers and producers will have to COM
ply with the law, was urged in a
resolution adopted unanimously by
the Washington Board of Trade last
night at the Willard.
The resolution was offered by DR..
G. Percy Hickling. chairman OF the
committee on public health. 1t had
previously been approved by the COM
mittee. The resolution follows:
at is the opinion of the Board OF
Trade that reasonable laws and regu-
lations for the supervision OF the
milk supply from and including the
source OF production up to the time
of delivery to the consumer are ne
cessary for the protection of the pub
lie health and that fairness of trade
requires that the laws and regula-
tions governing the production and
sale of milk in and for the District
of Columbia should be impartially aps
piled to all engaged in the Industry,
every one being required to comply
with such laws and regulations as
may be imposed for the control OF
the business, or else no one be COM
PEELED to do So"
Representation Urged.
A strong plea for representation in
Congress for the District was made
by Theodore W. Noyes, who said that
the people of Washington are polit-
ical slaves.
They are good enough Americans
to pay taxes and go to war;" Mr..
Noyes said, but. they are not good
enough Americans to be represented
in the Congress which taxes them
and sends them to war. In relation
to national taxes, their sole function
Is to pay. In relation to national
war. their sole function is to fight"
In closing, the speaker declared
that the present condition of taxa
tion here without representation in
wolves injustice to the Capital and
shame to the nation"
How can the nation in self-respect
impose taxes on the people of the
District and send them to war" the
speaker asked. land at the same time
slur and degrade their Americanism
by keeping them in the same status
as aliens? The purpose OF this war
Is to substitute democracy for auto
cracy everywhere. Let us make a be-
ginning by substituting democracy
for autocracy in the National Capital"
Senator Underwood of Alabama,
who Spoke Immediately after Mr..
Noyes, said he not only indorsed all
Mr.. Noyes had said, but that he would
go a step further, and declare that
the people of Washington not only
should haye representation in Con-
gress, but should have local self
government
Only n Small Part.
"If all you get is a seat in Con-
gress,S Mr.. Underwood declared, "you
will get a very small part OF the
government you are entitled to. Your
national taxes are never as burden
some as your local taxes: your ma
tional expenditures never come as
close home to you as your local ex-
penditures. In the end, the man who
governs your city is closer to your
life and your business than the
National Government can possibly be.
THE law that defines your school
Bystem, that upbuilds your city, pro
vides for your fire department and
part OF your life. your happiness. and
your comfort than the laws of the
National Government.
The anomalous government under
which you live today was not intended
by the men who wrote the Constitu-
tion and founded the republic"
In closing, Mr.. Underwood said: at
am with you on this proposition, but
] think you have only stopped at half
the loaf and got the worst half. You
are also entitled to local selfgovern-
ment in this District, and when you
have got nerve enough to ask for It
yourselves, here is one vote that you
will have to, help you get it."
Commissioner Brownlow outlined
the plans OF the Home Defense League