The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-05-18
DAIRY CO.
WEAK TRY
At DEFENSE
Ought To Ask The General
Public What 1t Thinks About
Waste and Price Of Milk.


Tho producers Dairy Company Oi
Indiana HArbor publishes in the ad-
Joining column an advertisement that
l. manifesuy an attempt TO appease
N. wrath OF the milk consumers
against the waste OF milk by the Pro
ducers. Cooperative Marketing Com
pany.
The Producers Dairy Company OF
Indiana Harbor is a subsidiary OF me
MIX Producers Cooperative Market
ing Company and Is engaged In retail
ing milk for the parent organization
The Producers Dairy Company has
nothing to do with the purchasing OF
nitk and It's transportation to the sur
nlu. milk stations and is not response
BIZ for the destruction of the skinned
milk. The Times throughout its ex-
pose recognized this fact. The name
Producers Dairy Company" has never
appeared once in any previous article
regarding the milk waste In LAX
county.
But It appears that the public.
recognizing the relation OF the Pro-
ducers' Dairy Company to the MIX
Producers Cooperative Marketing
Company has blamed both for the sins
OF one and the retail concern has felt
the anger of the people.
Manager y. c. Kuyper of the Pro-
ducers Dairy Company has selected
he incident or the Carmelite Orphan
are FOR the come back" Although
rhe Times did not at any time say
hat the Producers Dairy Company re-
FUSED TO give milk to the Carmelite
Orphanage IL did quote Andrew Ehr-
sam of Dyer and others regarding tht
delivery of milk to the orphanage In
connection with the Milk Producers
cooperative Marketing Company.
Mention or the Carmelite orphanage
donation" was made by The Times II
recountinK how the scandal grew
rom q whisper at Dyer" and the In
cident was plainly labeled gossip.
The article described how the prizes.
1T Dyer. Ind. hearing that thirty-1vs
ans OF milk were being taken by Ed
! ard Ehrsam TO Indiana Harbor ant
jumped in the sewer asked Ehrsam t,
ion2te some OF the milk to the sick
children at the Carmelite orphansg,
and how EhrsAm came back and tol
he housek per at the parish that
vas not permitted to give the milk {
tho orpnanage without q charge ol
thirty cents can 10 cover the cost oI
delivery.
Nobody was condemned by Th,
Times for that. The episode was OF
40 Importance except that it lead L |
.he revelation OF the gigantic foo
" aste and the biggest food scandal II |
the history OF the state,
In fact The Times printed in con-
nection with the article (May 12) the |
denial or the officials OF the company |
and the next day (May 13) in a promi
nent position on page l printed
statement by the state manager o.
the Milk Producers Cooperative Mar
1eting Company saying that Mr.
Ehrsanl was not an authorized agen
Of the company but employed as i
iriver to carry milk to the dairy and
Df the milk.
Now this is what The Times said
about the affair in its issue OF May y
4uoting the housekeeper at the Catho
ic parish in Dyer:
The father heard that there
was more milk than they could
give can of the milk TO the or
phans. He said they couldn't do
nate the milk but that he would
deliver 1t for a small sum, thirty
cents q can.
And in another paragraph:
The officers OF the company
said they had never heard OF and
didn't know Ehrsam. They said
a can of skimmed milk to the
Carmelite orphans"
And in the issue the following day.
uoting c. A. Cain. manager of the
Mix Producers Cooperative Market
ng company for the state OF Indiana
Il desire to take exception 10
the charge that this company re-
fused to donate any milk TO the
Carmelite orphsnage. Andrew
Ehrsam OF Dyer had no authority
to make any agreement for this
company he is not an agent OF
the company. The company has
always been willing to donate sur
plus milk to any worthy cause
and no officer or empIoye has at
any time refused to donate milk to
the Carmelite orphanage"
L
1uyper's advertisements in today's pa
er. Mr.. Kuyper. as manager OF the
'roducers Dairy Company says: t
according to certain newspaper
ropaganda. driver in the employ of ;
his dairy refused milk to the Carme-
tie Home. But the truth of the mat !
sr is that the driver was an individ-
al from Dyer bringing milk TO the
airy and on his return delivered milk
. the home without charge as in
tructed by the Producers Dairy Com
any ;
When a reporter for this paper ASK
d Mr.. Kuyper about the gossip a, q
yer May II. Mr.. Kuyper said he :
idn't know Ehrsam and that there
ad never been any request for a do
alton OF milk to the Carmelite or !
manage. :
I'm giving milk to the Katherine
louise" Mr.. Kuyper said. and to a :
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