The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-06
BAN ON BOGUS MILK SOUGHT
 BY CONGRESS
,By International News serviceD

against the menace of bogus milk" has been declared in congress.
 Three bills are pending In the house to make illegal the manufact- ure and sale of skinned milk and cocoanut oil compounds. which are made to simulate evaporated milk.
 One of these measures, introduced by Representative Voight, of Wis consin. seeks to prohibit interstate commerce in those compounds, while the others. offered by Representa- tive J. D. Beck, of Wisconsin, and Joseph w Fordney of Michigan, pro vide for the prevention of milk counterfeiting by taxation, so as toI take the profit incentive away from manufacturers and dealers.
 EXPERTS URGE ENACTMENT
 Various associations of milk pro. duccrs and dairymen have urged the passage of the bills, and in support of their arguments against milk com pounds they have secured and pres ent testimony from pr F. V. Collu'@ the nutrition expert of Johns Hop kins University; Prof. Oscar Elf, of! Ohio State University; A. J. Glover, editor of Hoard's Daiyman; Prof Hart of the University of Wiscon- sin. and Prof. H. C. sherman. of Col umbia University. Opposition to the bills has been voiced by the milk manufacturers. who introduced al statement by Professor Mendcl, otI Yale University, to prove that there gre vitamines in skim milk and that vegetable fats are wholesome pro ducts
 One of the most interesting of the statements given before the house committee which k considering the milk bills was that of Prof. Elf, of the University of Ohio.
 "eoGUs MILK NOT REGENT"
 Bogus milk. or filled milk, is not a recent product" Elf told the com mittee. "Skim milk and oil both animal and vegetable, have been combined for culinary purposes forI more than thirty years. Calves haveI been fed on mixtures of lard and skim milk for experimental purposes for an equal length of time.
 Tn 1917, however, a so.called scien- tificallymixed and prepared animal fat and skim milk compound was put upon the market as an infant food and to replace condensed milk. This product was supposed to have sd- perior merit. but the fact of the case was that after some time the expert ments showed that the food was ac. tually deleterious to infants. These facts were the primary motive for our investigation to show the coop | erative value of the compound with condensed milk. coNcocTIoN STUNTS GROWTH
 A number of cases of white mice were subjected to nutritivei tests. One lot was fed on con. densed milk and after four months growth weighed 1S2 grams, while another lot was fed on this com ] pound and weighed forty grams af- ter the same period of time and kept under the same conditions otherwise.
 "rhe manufacturer claims that with every case of milk sold spec ial directions are given as to the use of this material The fact nevertheless remains that the final consumer is deceived in many in stances in that he is trying to buy condensed milk which has the in trinsic constituents. namely, vft- amines. which do not exist any where else. and instead gets com- pound which is entirely deprived of them. An alloy of gold might pass just as we'll as pure gold; never theIess, it does not have the in trinsic value and therefore becomes a counterfeit.
 STANDARD IS REQUIRED
 "The United States Government in it's maintenance regulations, pro vides for condensed milk. which for army and navy purposes shall be pure, un-adulterated, fresh wholesome milk, with water re- moved. and yet these compounds have been found in the United Sta 4es army camps and were used un- til attention was called to the fact that they were not consuming con densed milk, but rather com