The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-11

OeSh' LAC IN TINS way.
Pasteurization will not take the
filth out of milk or cream, but it will
kill the disease germs in it, which /
think is an improvement. A perso,
buying food or drink, does not know
what effect it may have on him when
no comes to use it. He buys and
takes his chances. Everybody who
reads the papers knows what the re-
suits often are. That is why we have
laws regulating production and sale
of foods and drinks. Such laws have
always been opposed. and will be in
the future. The opposition comes
mostly from those who fear that their
business may suffer in some way.
those who do not know enough about
the subject to know why they are op-
posed, and a few people who, like the
poor, unfortunately, we always have
with US, with whom it is a matter of
principle to oppose everything that
comes up. Present day human beings
have inherited from primitive man the
tendency to fear that which they do
not understand. Most children, and
some grown-ups, are afraid of the
dark. But with the coming of light
fear vanishes. knowledge dispels
doubt.
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To return to the subject of a pas
teurization law, / want to say in con-
clusiOn that this movement is gain
mig force in every state in the Union.
| don't see why Montana should hest.
tate until every other state has passed
us. We have always been at the tail
end of the procession in matters of
this kind, except in the work of clean
ing out tuberculosis. In that. thanks
to u present executive officer Of
the Livestock Sanitary Board, we are
in the very forefront. l feel that I
should like to see our state get I'D
nearer the front in other matters
which concern the health and we'll
being, as we'll as che prosperity Of
our people.
l have just received the January
number of "The Ice Cream Journal"
In it l find the following item in re-
lation to the report of the 18th An
nual Convention of the Association OF
Ice Cream Manufacturers of Iowa:
"Iowa-For Compulsory Pasteuri-
cation"
"Pasteurization as discussed by
Prof. B. w. Hammer of the Iowa
State College at Ames, was heartily
endorsed by the Convention. Prof.
Hammer discussed the history of pas
teurization, its use in making safe
and improving the keeping qualities
of dairy products and gave the hist
DRY of several epidemics spread by
dairy products. Prof. Hammer said:
although a large percentage of the
manufacturers of ice cream either
~pasteurize the dairy products going
into ice ream or their entire mix,
nevertheless it would be of an adj
vantage to all if there were laws re-
curing all ice cream to be made from
~pasteurized dairy products. In this
way the public will be assured &c
food free from disease-producing or
ganisms, and this, in turn, will bring
about an increased sale of ice cream"
Resolution adopted by the Conven-
ton.
That we recommend and support a
bill requiring compulsory ~pasteuriza-
ton of all dairy products entering
into the manufacture of ice cream"
How many of the readers of The
Courier have read the story Of the
fight for clean milk. in New York
City? l wish everyone could read it.
1t is r CT the greatest records of
human achievement in the history Of
sanitation. In 1882 the rate of in
FAINT mortality in New York City was
so high that a reign Of terror existed
among the parents of children. Ev-
erybody who could do SO. sent their
children out Of the city during hot
weather. Nobody seemed to know the
cause Of the frightful death rate.
The health authorities ok up the
matter and they found the cause
largely existed in the milk supply, of
the city. As soon as they made their
reports public, a terrible cry went
up from the farmers and retail milk
men, against those who had started
the Investigation. The life Of one
doctor, who was most active IN the
movement, was repeatedly threatened
If he did BOT desist. The Investigate
ors were called fools, lunatics AMI
character ~assassins. The old "bunk.r
So much in use to the present day.
thak It was a move to make more