The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-22

Coming back with the garage man to
clear up the wreck, he found thieves
had stripped it of tires and fixtures
! waking home in the rain two high
waymen with howitzers took all his
cash, watch and his package of plug
cut away from him. Finally reaching
home LUXE discovered lightning had
struck the barn killing a $3.50 Missou-
RI mule and that the hired man had lit
out with the family savings amounting
to $40. This made Luse a loser five
| times in one day and makes this the
weeks best hard luck story"
Grain and Live Stock
The best light hogs and the choicest
grades of cattle made exactly the
same top at Chicago on Thursday, at
$1085. This fact is the more note
worthy because when fancy light hogs
made top of $115O in March, prime
cattle fell below SO. This shows an
advance since March of about 81 on
| good killing steers and relative drop
of 65 cents on best hogs, compared
with March top price levels.
| The poorer grades of both cattle
and hogs have been neglected of late
and both have declined in price. The
! general average" price of hogs al
/ Chicago is now the lowest in almos,
six months, and is s175 below the
! high day last March This general
average is now $40, against $1,000
on the same date in 1921; against
! $500 in 1920 and sS22.60 in 1919
| The highest general average" record
held in Chicago was $22.70 in the year
1919, made only once or twice durins
! the high month
Decision on Filled Milk
! The Wisconsin state Supreme court
in a decision given out on July 20, up
held the constitutionality of the state
law which prohibits the sale of filled
or adulterated milk, in any form, il
the state. The suit was filed by one
of the most widely known canned mill
companies in the country, in the hope
of finding the law unconstitutional
. and thus opening up the state to the
manufacture and sale of its filled milk
This company's milk can be found ii
every town in America, but not the
filled article, which is a comparative
4 ly new product
In the decision, which was writer
by Justice Charles H. Crowhart, tht
court holds that the legislature i:
given the power to prohibit the salt
of filled milk or other food prod
ucts believed to be deleterious to thu
welfare and health of citizens of the
state under the police powers of tht
constitution.
i The reputation of Wisconsin as thc
leading dairy state, is in danger, if the
legislature cannot prohibit the manu-
facture of products which are below
standard, the opinion points out
at was competent for the legisla
ture," the court finds, "to find that tn,
manufacture and sale of the com
pounds in question were conductive tt
fraud and deception, and likely to b,
, injurious to the public health.
although properly branded, thest
; imitation products" the judge said
''are in exact imitation of the genuin,
evaporated milk. They are suscepti
:, BILE of being sold to the public for gen
uine at the same price. The tempta
ton fretail dealers is to sell the
cheaper article in place of the mor'
expensive to increase their profits.
For the Public Welfare
I Not only are the dairymen ant
farmers interested in this Wisconsin
decision but also are the public, ant
this from the standpoint of getting /;
genuine article of food, regardless o
price, but also an article which nour
!. ishes the body and conserves health
The idea of what legalizing filled mill
might lead to is thus outlined in thi:
!. important decision. The judge goe:
on to say. that:
, eff used as a substitute for milk
the public health may be impaired
not because the compounds are il
themselves deleterious, but because
they lack in certain food elements es
sential to a well balanced dietary.
''If such practice were to be al
: lowed to be continued" he said
filled milk will be followed b!
filled butter and filled cheese, ant
vegetable fats, cheap, but lackin:
in the essential elements of vigorous
life. will take the place of butter fats
"a great industry of state will de
cline, a victim of national advertising
of cheap and deceDtiye substitutes