The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-02
PLAIN TALK
 INDUCED IN
 BY SANFORD
Especial to The Times.)


 Bedding, Sept. 2@Some plain talk was addressed by Grand Juror D. S. Sanford to Milk Inspector Blanchard and Agent Warner when they called nature to complaint charging George Williams with failing to reg ister as a public milk producer and also with selling milk on July IA ln ing until he had made certain changes for doing away with unsani- tary condition about his COW stables An earlier proceeding towards Will jams prosecution was thWarted by a letter from Dairy Commissioner Holt giving him a clean bill of health on | the ground that the inspectors had reported his compliance with their orders, this letter having been written | after an appeal made in behalf of Williams by Prohibition Agent Mac kenzie and Comptroller Bissen- MT
 Sanford asked if the regulation on which the non-registration charge was based was being generally en- forced, and his callers admitted that 1t l had becme virtually dead. letter That being so, said MT. Sanford, I score.
 As to the other charge, was there
 at hand the evidence required to es-
 tablish it? The inspectors in answer
 on this point, said they had sent Sheriff Banks to the Will jams place on the afternoon of July 13 and he reported that nothing towards cleaning up had been done at that time. Was it not possible, asked She grand juror, for this work, or enough
 of it to fulfill requirements. to have been done before the morning of the mitted this possibility and the lack
 of evidence to prove the contrary
 After remarking that this change seemed to have also fallen by the
 wayside MT. Sanford questioned the
 inspeceors about the foundation for the statement in Commissioner Holt's
 letter alleging reinspection and the
 atten dant exculpation of Williams. Not true, was the reply, or rather only partially true. As a matter ot fact they did take a nasty. casua look over the premises and there from made a verbal report to thu commissioner that Williams was mak ing something of a bluff in the direc tion of cleanup: Mr. Holt evi although they did not mean it tha way. Apparently not, commented MT. Sanford, as you continued t press for prosecution which WouI } probably have then been brought bu | for your chiefs letter. Under pres ! ent circumstances prosecution woul f look very much like persecution an
 shall have no share in it.
 , And now, he proceeded to say i q substance, from talks with our da1r 2 farmers and from your own state 1 ments, the whole subject of the law and regulations pertaining to mill = sanitation and the enforcement there of is in a state of foggfness and un y | certainty.
 o Why not start over again and, clear ing away these obscurities outline = clear cut policy and consistently car u ry it out? I would suggest publ ? meeting for which I will furnish th
 ball free of charge. I invite our mil . ee farmer to attend it and have preseI some one in authority to explain tn = law and announce the course tn ! dairy and food commission intends ' pursue in the future. It might
 | well to invite MessrS. Mackenzie an q BisseII to the meeting so that, if s !, inclined, they can explain their statu . with and relations to the State Da1r
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