The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-10-11
SAFE GUARD THE MILK SUPPLY.


The best possible foundation that any city
can lay for it's future is foundation of chill
dren mentally, morally and physically sound.
The city may not be able to say much about
the mental development Of children other than
to offer to them the best possible schools but
it can aid very materially in protecting the
health of the children and it should be able to
aid very materially in protecting the moral
development
Just at present new ordinance to protect
the milk supply of the city is pending before
the city council It is expected that this or
dinance will be passed and that it will be Wig
orously and impartially enforced.
Nothing contributes more to healthy child
life in any city than the proper protection of
the milk supply Milk and lots of it is the
formula for the raising of healthy childrep.
That milk should be as pure and as free from
disease lurking germs as it is possible to make
it,
Kenosha is not "cheap John" town. Ke-
nosha people pay the price for pure milk and
Kenosha children should be entitled to get what
their parents pay for. It may be that the
enactment of this ordinance may cut some
thing off the profits of milk dealers but it is
better to cut profits off milk dealers than to
cut life blood out Of children
The ordinance that has been prepared is
a sane ordinance and it compares favoraby
with those proposed in cities where there is an
appreciation of the value of protecting child
life. It may be that the enactment of this or
dinance will force some milk dealers to go out
Of business. It may be that the entire proper
inspection of milk plants and COW barns will
force some of the men who own them to quit
the milk business but it would be much better
to have these uncean places turned into hog
Ixyhin to hoN
them continue as menace to the health Of the
children of Kenosha.
There is no middle ground on the milk sup
ply protection question. It may be that few
people would be willing to feed their children
dirty, disease breeding milk but these people
are in the minority and the children of them
should have the protection which the city can
throw about them
For the most part milk dealers in Kenosha
have shown willingness to make their pro-
duct as near pure as possible in advance of an
enactment of an ordinance by the city council
These people will find that they have no new
expenses to meet in complying with the ordin-
ance. The fellows who have been willing to
take profit and to continue to take profit re-
CARELESS of the protection which should be
thrown about the children are not worthy of
any especial consideration.
This ordinance should make the milk supply
of Kenosha safe and it should give assurance
to the people that when they buy milk they are
buying pure milk and not dirty milk. The
provision of supervising the sale of milk in
restaurants is one that should be rigidly en-
forced. Milk sold in the bottle is pretty GER
tain to be milk which passes the demand of the
city inspectors. qF is milk with the requisite
amount of butter fat and milk that has been
pasteurized and made safe against germs. The
fellow who sells something else always opens
the way for the suspicion that this "some-
thing else'' is something that will not meet the
demands of the law. Prosecutions have been
made in Kenosha for the sale of adulterated
milk but this ordinance should prevent the
recurrence of such prosecutions
1t is to be hoped that the council will pass
this milk ordinance and enforce it.