Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-04
JCENDANCY OF THE COW

ntient. Those intellectual Goliaths
& 1irect the destinies of the Teutonic
a Mn and are past masters in the art of
6l1tlcal camoufage are sometimes over
(Hno BY the very exuberance of their own
# poriority. In their supercleverness for
1asice. they devised thoroughly eff
1n1 scheme for control of the German
X supply. They gathered up their sta.
~ together with their reports of public
4 <cn and what it was likely to stand for,
nH they poured the material into their
noe(tpg machine and out of its intellec-
11l npout flowed a maximum price. 80
Eu4h can be charged for milk" they said,
u no more" That pleased the consumer
g ionsely and he pointed with pride to
z ~ Sxactness Of German science in reach
~ logical conclusions.
put II did not take the producer long to
5 GtScover that he was losing money. There
& Nas more profit in the slaughter pen than
6 a the milk pail So he marched his herds
- the butcher, keeping only enough cows
~ supply his own household with milk, and
IA 111nany suddenly woke up to find that it
<0no no longer a question of what the price
< - milk should be but of getting milk at
3 S94x price. Moreover as butter could not
q ~ made from straw or deduced from the
q 3<n&ol1ectual processes of PROFESSIONAL di
a nrca of that article SCARED
~ to the five-dollar mark, with no
Fo1y In sight. A piece Of butter in
@igan village today is enough to cause
40 and the Eskimos are not in greater
of blubber than the Teutons are of
The pr;ae of milk in Germany was
- Tor the cons'-ner but it was death on
one advantage of our entering the war
r. M lay In our ability TO profit from the
n lo1H<Akes of our Allies and of our enemies
also have the milk problem on our
n1nda 1t is a great big problem. Ten
y RS can't of the herds. we are informed
2 - already been killed Meantime, an
~ Nous increase in demand has come
"a the condensing factories. Europe
~ Il y condensed milk, the only kind there
ecnsy possibility of getting. There are
56tIons In France which have rot seen any
116 milk and mighty little condensed
- during the last eighteen months. Our
~ have to be supplied. Milk. in fact,
1bcome fluid king. In these circum.
~. II is apparent that it must be
more profitable for the farmer to
COWS than to sell them. He is not a
khropist and would go into bank
IS he was He must feed his stock,
MT compete with the munition fac
for labor. he must pay more toi
hing he buys. Therefore he must
~1ro than he has heretofore got for
c1sct. 1t is inevitable.
~ = no satisfaction in IT, however.
~ ordinary man whose salary is sta
~. II is not with him question of
c<h>F he Is willing to pay the increase;
Ir{f Can he pay It? On the other hand,
- moderate increase now is better
10 milk at all later or milk at pro-
m cost. We Go not want to follow
ooreniciency of Germany and land
~ famine. We must protect the
.of production; we must make
p4cftnces now TO avoid major sacri.
IN; We muct adopt measures that
~ the war even If they involve tenn
6arince.
faeervation Of infant life is directly
d on the milk supply. II the poor
* milk their children cannot live.
6fkable method will have to be de-
f.oet this situation. Much as we
&oNp the cows It is still more i'm
~ keep the babies. Possibly pri-
>nthropy will meet this new war
trust SO. But we are hopeful
" present advance represents a
- and we are copfdent that It
~ abnormal increases later. The
lnjstration Is. In fact. applying
~ Of preventive medicine to
6cpnemic problem. 1t is not milk
~ 70 induce the farmer to milk
~ 4 y asking the public TO do
cnahle the farmer to keep hly
IIQsf running himself.