New-York tribune., 1918-01-18
I. r. Just Gril1s
When Named for
Next President
Colonel Is Mobbed by
Schoolboys on Tour of
Milk Stations
BY BRIGGS

PatrolmM Thomas Rooney. of the
list Precinct, yesterday nominated
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Presi-
dent in 1920. He made the nomination
as the Colonel was leaving The milk
station of the Board of Health at
Nineteenth Street and Second Avenue.
"You appointed me to the force.
Colonel" said he, as they shook hands.
Glad TO see YOU again." said the
Colonel, "and glad to see you've made
good''
And you've made good, Colonel re-
piled the policeman. We'll all be with
you in 1920"
The Colonels response was a grin
that showed every one of the Roosevelt
teeth.
The incident at the milk station was
the beginning OF an oldtime Roosevelt
day. during which. among other things,
he was mobbed by several hundred boys
anxious to shake his hand in School
10, IN East Twenty second Street. where
he made an address on the milk situa-
tion. urging the women TO use their
suffrage to improve child hygiene.
Colonel Studies Conditions
The Colonel was concluding his
study OF the situation created by the
record high price of milk. He started
his second days tour with visit to
the station at Nineteenth Street where
Dr. Josephine S. Baker was in charge.
She explained that the Board of
Health now maintains tifty-nnc such
stations.
THE main trouble caused by the un-
prcccdented price of milk" she told
the Colonel, "is the effect on children
between two and six years old. These
need milk. but cannot get it, Poor
mothers VIII make any sacrifice to get
mix for the very young babies, but
those OF two or upward have to get
along on tea, or coffee, or anything
mat may suggest itself as a substi-
tute."
Drs. Henry Dwight Chaplin. Royal S.
Haynes and H. L. Corwin. of the
Academy Of Medicine, explained some
OF the workings Of the station and
then took the Colonel to the malnutri
ton clinic az the Post Graduate Hos
pital.
AT the hospital he was greeted bv
DE-. Candish the assistant superin-
tendent. and twenty-five young sur
geons in khaki.
Mothers Greatest Asset
In his talk at the hospital Colonel
Roosevelt began by declaring that the
mothers Of the nation were greater
war asset than soldiers.
~ have come to see" he said. "whaj
is being done for the babies, because
mold that, even in war. the mother is .
national asset, just little ahead of the
soldier, as the soldier is infinitely ahea
Of the civilian.
"Probably war is the only time wher
men have as hard task as women. and
even in war the mother is performino
an heroic service. I earnestly hone
tnat, now that the women have the vote
they will make us, the people of this
state, and very soon the people of this
nation, deal more efficiently with JUS,
this type of work
And Just let me add one word OF
warning TO the women. You don't dc
any work merely by being sertimanta'
fools. The woman who shriess fo, .1'
peace at any price is merely adding tc
the sum OF male folly. She is merely
preparing the way-then the destiny ID
her children will be decided bv bruta
men IN spiked helmets-and he vii
treat them as the women and childrer
OF Eelglum have been treated.
Now, there has got to be organiza.
',on IN ofocr effectively to care for the
cnlldren under modern conditions. Il
IS utterly impossible to get good re
suits from unregulated private effort a
eItner end OF the line now.
wish to see the most radical actor
taNel TO secure an ample supply Of mill
20 every child in this city, and will &c
10 any extent necessary and adopt the
doctrines of any school of poljtica
economists, or social service, to achieve
that event.
But the farmer must earn his liyeli
mood, and the middleman must be giver
ms chance and his profit also. VIZ
must see that there is no Improve,
proht for the middleman, but. above
all, we must see that there is an or
ganlZation of distribution which will dc
away with waste"