The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-20
CHAMBER DISCUSSED
THE MILK ORDINANCE
SPIRITED DISCUSSION RESULTS
IN COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT:
TALK ON LIGHTS.

merce Wednesday was veritabl
'talk-fest'' without rules. 1t wa
catch h-aS-catch-can", "go-asvau
please and everything was aloud !
Ihe humorous part of the discussion
was that everybody talked and som,
grew heated over a matter that wa,
not at issue at all Everyone there
seemed IN favor of measures to secure
pure milk and especially to fight tub
erculosls, yet tuberculosis was the
sole object discussed, the speakers. o,
many OF them, appearing to think thai
some of the others opposed tubercu-
losls testing of milk cows, while the
tact is there was not voice raised
nor word spoken in opposition to it,
Following the report of J. S. Hecka-
Lnorn, OF the committee on street
lighting offering four plans for cleo
trOl1ers for Main street from First to
Eighth and Eighth to the University
and one block on each side of Main
street on Third, and a brief discussion
on these plans, President Oversmith
started things" by reading a reso-
luton he had prepared asking the city
council to repeal or modify the ordi-
nance recently passed for the control
of the sale of milk and butter. Presi-
dent Oversmith read the resolution,
which was long one, and then began
an argument in favor Of it's adoption
and read portions of the ordinance to
which objection has been made He
was getting along swimmingly and
it looked like the big audience, the
largest gathered there in months,
would have real sermon, when DR..
j. w. Stevenson threw a monkey
wrench into the machinery by get
ting up and stating that "the presi-
dent had discussed this matter in The
Star-MirrOr and In his resolution and
is now trying to continue the discus
sion and I would like to get a word
in edgeways. Some of the others
would like to do some of the dis
cussing." And DR.. Stevenson got in
not only "a word" but many words,
edgeways, crossways and many ways
before he yielded the floor to the next
applicant.
President Oversmith sat down while
there was considerable cheering and
laughter. Then DR.. Stevenson got
started and was "going strong" when
some one else wanted to talk When
one speaker sat down three or four
were on their feet and the one recog-
nized by the chair, did some talking. |
1IOlcSoOI AuSOli, WAO 5dlu uc Adu
been a milk inspector for a number
of years in some town somewhere be- |
fore coming to Moscow, declared con- |
ditions here are deplorable and he
thought the ordinance too weak, it |
anything.
Bill Lee talked several times about
some babies, some state laws, some |
ordinances and some COWS, and criti-
cised the president of the chamber of
commerce for rushing into print
against city ordinance. President !
Oversmith said his communication
was written as a citizen and not as
the president of the chamber Of com
merce. Mr.. Lee insisted that he wants
the city council to stand pat" on the |
ordinance as passed.
James j. Keane, who looks the pfc /
ture of health, stated that he had :
drank milk here for good many !
years and had enjoyed good health. 8
He suggested that if some of the s
lawyers and lawmakers were sent to I
the farms to milk COWS and let some i
of the farmers make laws, the coun- r
try would be better off," He told Of :
of getting milk, pictured +
the hardships of the farmers and pre- r
dicted enforcement of the ordinance o
would work a hardship on them. He Q
got rounds of applause when he said $
that "if half of the laws OF this state q
we're burned and we forgot about the
other half we would all be better off. q
No man in Idaho can be good citi- +
zen today. We have to violate some n
law every time we turn (
around" z
DR.. Stevenson got the floor again :,
ind held it long enough to quote sta 9
istics on the enormous amount OF
prevalent everywhere and ~
le quoted figures to show that we are - :,
n grave danger from the milk supply. =;
Arnold S. Lyon, pioneer farmer, g;
PRESIDENT of the Farmers Union and = =
he Latah County Farm Bureau, got ~
hefloor sin an unguarded moment" a.
md told what is being done by the =! =!
arm bureau along this line Mr.. - -
.yon said the farm bureau is plan y
my to have every COW owned by a g. g.
nember tested for tuberculosis and =
she is found to have the disease to a
ave her destroyed. He claimed the g
ime allowed in the ordinance is TOO !,
hort, but that the farmers took the
latter up voluntarily and started the
lovement long before this ordinance
as ever thought OF. r.
Dean e. ]. Iddings, director of the - -
Kperiment station and head of the !; -
prfcultural collepe of the University ~ ~
/ Idaho, made a very short but i'm "
ressive talk He said that under the ce
arms of this ordinance even the fine co
airy plant of the University of Idaho %
annot sell milk or butter or dairy
roducts in Moscow, and that the in m m
cations are the legislature will cut III
1t the appropriation asked for milk IN
ouse at the dairy barn and it will III
) at least two years before the uni ce'
srsity can comply strictly with the no
He told of the work in ra
berculosis testing that the univer- TN
ty is carrying on and advocating and OBJ
Id of the plan to test all dairy cows
i'd where they were ordered destroy
the federal government would pay no
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