New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-06
Tells
OF Lady Astor's
HealthCrusade
Woman Member of Parlia-
ment Fought for Pure
Milk WhenP Physician Son
Was Poisoned in London
Proposes New Civic Virtue
Declares He Would Build
Monument to Nat II
Straus for Aid 10 City

How Lady Astor and Royal Copeland
jr. were responsible for improving the
milk supply of London was revealed by
Health Commissioner Copeland yester-
day in q talk before the New York City
Federation Of Womcn's Clubs at the
Hotel Aston He supplied 4 hitherto
unwritten chapter in the history OF the
dynamic woman member Of Parliament.
"W hen we were in London last sum
rer my eleven-year- son became i'll
with milk poisoning" said Commits
sioner Copeland, and I became so in
dignant that marched straight down
% the London Board of Health and
told the high official Sir George New
man, chief medical officer OF the Minis
try of Health, what thought Of treat
ing foreign visitors that way, TO say
nothing Of their own babies
Health Department Interested
"Hc was very much interested in
what had to tell him about the sue
cess of the New York City Department
of Health in combating infant moral
ty by pure milk and asked il I would
be willing TO tell the same facts to Lord
Aston, who was at that time chairman
OF the Milk Commission for Great
Britain. Certainly, I'd be willing to
tell the King l replied, so he called up
Lord Astor's secretary and made ar ap-
pointment for me. But. meantime. Lord
Astor had evidently talked to Lady As
tor about it and there came an invita-
ton for me to take lunch with them
When | told Lady Astor what I had
discovered about the milk supply of
London that every drop of it con-
aimed colon bacilli and that 10 per cent
OF 1t contained tuberculosis germs, she
nearly died, she WAS so horrified
told her that of samples of milk from
TIVE ntye eight diaries at the Mothers
schools, which correspond to our milk
stations, there was only one that would
be sold in New York for cooking milk.
Lady Aston, with her chsracte ri tic en-
ersy got right up in Parliament within
few days and made & big speech about
the milk supply of London. And so last
AL we had representatives from She
United Dairy Company over here and
they took back q complete pasteurizing
outfit and one of our American experts
20 help them install it. And so. if the
London babies death rate decreases. il
will be due TO Royal S. Copeland ir. and
he American woman member OF Par
lament.
Would Change "Civic Virtue"
If I were a sculptor and had to
make statue Of civic virtue. T
wouldn't bothe- with any rough guv
trampling on couple of mermaids. I
you'd have monument to Nathan
Straus, who started the better milk
movement IN this city. and I'd have
hum walking on two fgures-diseas
and death. And IN his arms instead
Of big stick ! would put nice, fat,
smiling baby. We don't need to go to
mythology for our symbolic statuary.
living to-day. who represent civic viz
tue, men like Nathan Stratus. and
women like DR.. S. Josephine Baker"
The first speaker on the days topic
OF home economies was CHRISTOPHER
Morley. Of "The Evening Post He
told the women that their task as home
makers was as much fraught with ro-
nance and with problems that stimu-
ate the imagination as any states
mans.
Will Hays also told them that won
ems clubs were the most potent power
Tor practical progression" in the coun.
try to-day.
ut is the women behind the men
who have made the history Of the coun-
Try he declared, and continued with
plea for them to support the move
ment for higher moral and educational
standards in motion pictures.
he women delegates numbered more
than one thousand, with 302 clubs rep
resented. They defeated resolution
which suggested that they indorse the
blanket bill Of rights proposed by the
National Woman's Party to remove
all sex determinations from women
A counter resolution requiring that in
the future no blanket bill could be
supported by resolution Of the con
vent!on until it had previously been
submitted to q referendum vote of the
members wss lost