The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-26
The Farm and the Farmer
BY William r. sanborn

period of time they are foo often -
garded as negligible-Farm lite
Wheels Should Run True
Every garage man and eYneria,od
anoloIist knows that misalignment OF
Cal Wneels causes tires to side
, Up producing friction that rapidly
wars out the sturdiest tires.
wen known as this fact undoubted.
~ is mlsallgnment for some reason
continues TO be very prevalent and il
! Pill the greatest cause of useless tire
wear. Perhaps the reason for moto~.
ISIS neglect in this matter which af.
! reefs their purposes so seriously is
that. while they know of it, thev can.
not appreciate how much a tire drag
geo sideways over the road by a very
sngnt msalignment in the wheels
~ usually surprises the car owner to
learn, for instance, that a 80 nv az
tlre, which is out of alignment nv only
one little inch will actually be DRAGGED
Sideways TIA feet in every mile
Should 34-inch tire, out of alignment
one inch, be run 3,40O miles If will
cover $500 miles of that distance nv
turning over and over as il sbouI5
put 1t will have literally dragged side
ways the remaining 100 miles.
Inc Fight on Filled Milk
mas been taken for granted that
the fight ON filled milk" has been
waged by dairymen and farmers and
by the farm papers, exclusively. This
is not true. The largest dailies in
the country have considered this sub.
Ject editorially, of late, as witness this
form the editorial page of the Chi
cago Tribune. When The Tribune
mas an opinion it does not hesitate TO
express 1t, regardless of all pros and
cons, or conflicting interests. The
editorial follows:
Enterprise in the invention of food
substitutes and authorizations has NOT
been abolished by our pure food leg
lsIatlon. One of the substitutions
which is now getting attention in con,
gress is filled milk" Very few con
sumers know what filled milk" Is
but in 1920, S6,000,0 900 pounds were
produced and in 1921, $4,000, 600.
Filled milk" is condensed milk in
whlcn the butter fat has been replaced
Oy otner rats, usually cocoanut oil, and
experiments have demonstrated that
the substitution deprives he product
or valuable if not essential elements of
food. Hygienists hold that there are
no substitutes for butter fat and the
conclusion is that filled milk" lacks
proper nutrition values. 1t is charged
that many merchants sell filled milk"
as genuine or recommend it as Of
equal food value. AS it NAV be sold
cheaper than genuine milk, it is prob.
aDle that many people are feeding it
10 children without knowing its in
feriority.
Naturally the milk producers of
the country are opposed to this com
petition, while the filled milk manu-
facturers charge that their demand
for prohibition is purely selfish. The
proposed legislation should not be af.
fected by such an argument. The
question is whether it is good public
pollcy to encourage or permit adul-
teratlon of food in such forms as NAV
be imposed on public ignorance. The
proponents of the Voigt bill, which is
now IN the senate agricultural COM
mlttee, maintain that no labelling act
VIII suffice to protect the public, and
that an absolute prohibition of the in
PRODUCTION into interstate commerce
OF compounds of vegetable oils and
SKINNED milk or products made in
semblance of milk is necessary.
Certainly the situation should be
given careful consideration by con-
gress and no interest of profit should
be allowed to outweigh the right of
children to be protected from inferior
food. Milk is the best of all foods
and an essential to the health and
growth of children Every safeguard
should be placed about it,