New-York tribune., 1918-07-20
Needed: An Alibi for
Another Alleged I ro6teer
Eat Com if You Can, but String Beans
for Thrift
Milk in the Glass Costs Four Times as Much as
Milk in the Can-Whya


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grade B milk was as '1s s 'a,
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what sbo a od fas @ Of Tue ueo a 10 Of sSa's o"r great little VILLAGE.
Is there remedy for these petty IF
ectly calm and begin poke the facts in the
case This time confess to instant reaction in
favor OF the coananta reaction based preju
To begin with against the regulations of the Board
Health to sell pasteurized milk later than hours
after the day of pasteurizaon half day or so might BE-
condoned under The present conservation stress but sell Sat-
urday's milk on Wednesday is to be two days late.
Any food vender however, who as his ideal far
perlsabe food like milk that it is good enough long as
doesn't taste funny make positively W assumes the
burden Of proof It is distinctly up him to prove his case
after such declaration
cen4s As to t the t prife e. this @ is sadder story still With milk
pint cost 10 cents in lunchroom? This sounds like prof
teeTng OF the most brazen But remember that
the smaller the package the higher the proportional amount
paid for the contaner and for labor serving it. Even at
this it though, with the milk itself costing cents
per halt pint, cents would be ample for the half pint
package But at downtown cafeteria run women on
narrow margin of profit and with self charged
1or these hafpln bottles Of grade 'B' milk
We then went further and fas~ worse We discovered
that loose milk poured into the glass being sold Chd
and other restaurants for 10 glass The question
the cost of your cut out service is reduced to
MINIMUM and still pay for half pint milk at the
rate OF 40 cents quart the price of milk
cents How did this milk acquire 81 cents
quart in its direct journey the can to the glass The
in dairy lunchroos is hardly of quality to Justify
this "overhead" ''
With the best of intentions to be pacifst for patr
otlc reasons stand this unfair margin on
1000 staple even II it is perishabe If this proteer-
ing ought to be- The Federal Board and the Board of
Health are both taking notice. and refrain calling the
original proteer In this by only because seems
to be ony one Of large and the are not
all in yet W
In the meantime to inquire whether 4Ocent-a-
quart charge for loose milk might be considered an anti
prohibition measure? And suggest buy our milk in
pail carry it into the alleged dairy unchroons and pour
1t INTO the glass ourselves thereby saving 81 quart
Everybody in the milk business producer and distributor
has been called on to make sacrifices keep the cost of
milk Why shouldn't the hotel the cafeteria and dairy nc
room keeper do the same? Furthermore we have had it re-
ab reported that at the seaside where mothers
but little take their babies breath of fresh air
they are being charged 30 cents to fill the babys milk bottle
which holds an Of eight milk and certainly
not more than fourteen ounces.