Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-07-14
Why Was inspector
Fired, He Asks; Holds
Up Sentencing Weiner

The court expressed the opinion
that it seemed to him the Perth Ann
boy board of health should be COM
PEELED to give actual proof to the
public as to why their Inspector was
discharged. The court said he had
received information that the dis
charged party was dismissed on the
grounds of incompetency or integ-
rity, and that the entire staff of the
Perth Amboy City Hospital believes
in the honesty and competency ol
the inspector in question.
Judge Dalys statement follows:
II am not ready to sentence this
man today. The prosecutors office
and the court, are deeply anxious as
on any matter that ever came before
them, to drag out of hiding. If they
are able to, those men who with
their money, are guilty OF the
frightful milk situation that exists in
the largest city in this county, Perth
Amboy.
1T is the common belief of people.
honest men and women in Perth
Amboy, that there is combination
to control and monopolize retailing
of milk and to do so for the purpose
OF fixing an inordinate price; and
when one stops to think of what
the terrible results of that necessar-
ily are he must also come to the
conclusion that such men, in the
evil effect of their work. are poten-
tal creatures.
There is no language that can
adequately describe what the results
| may he and what the results proba-
| bly, are, from a combination formed
| for the purpose of liking the price
| Of milk, which is the substance OF
the food of the young, and 1T partic-
ularly hits so hard and so terribly
the mother not ordinarily financiai-
| ly fixed. There is the question of
| the purity of milk. because once
there is a monopoly there is care
| lessness, then the opportunity to give
! cheap milk, that is, milk cheap in
| substance. Then there is the power
of fixing the price 50 that the child
who may necessarily need a certain
quantity of milk. can get but half
Of it or two-thirds, or ne-quarter;
that the result therefore deprives
the other half; and there can never
be reclamation, as far as the physi-
cal strength is concerned. because
it is the food for the building up
state of the young, and the greatest
prosperity upon the part of the par
ents cannot make good what the
child may have been reprived of in
his tender wears.
These people of Perth Amboy
have been marked with progress
lveness and even marked with every
thing that goes to honor any Ameri-
can life. and l am confident that
the authorities want to do every
thing they can to unearth these
scoundrels.
Il do not know whether this de-
fpndlnt has 0iNnn oil ~ 10
formation of which he is in posses
sion, | do not know whether it is
possible to reach these individuals.
but something must be done. and II
this case has had no evil effect. II
| has had this splendid result, that it
has awakened the good men and
women of Perth Amboy to the
frightfulness of the situation that ex-
lists there in th most important
matter.
Il am confident that something
will be done. Here is a man who
says that the reason he did this was
because he would lose his job il he
had not and if he Is mere cats
paw then it is certainly shocking TO
think it is only the catspaw that can
be punished, while those making
the plans can Gloat at the court,
gloat at the prosecutors office and
gloat Mt the rank and file Of people.
Il am not ready to sentence this
man. They discharged an Inspector
down there, That is a matter for
the local authorities, of course. The
claim is made by this inspector, as
| get IL from one of the reputable
physicians OF Perth Amboy, there is
absolutely no justification for his dis
charge on the grounds of incom-
potency or integrity. Why did they
discharge him?
"Jt seems to me that the authori-
ties who had charge of questioning
purity of the milk and the granting
of this license, should be compelled
to give actual proof to the public
why they discharged this man who
was inspector. Ii is said to me ti,tl
the entire staff of the city hospi'a'
of Perth AmbOy believes in the hon
esty and the competency of this
young man. They may he absolutel5
right. For their own protection, II
thev are right, they should give the
proof TO the people why he was
discharged.
1T is part of this case. 1t is part
of tho general transaction that : be-
fore the court, ard therefore, | have
The right to speak about it"