Evening star., 1940-08-13
100 More Police Five.Cent Milk
Asked by Brown Sale Increase
In 1912 Budget Is Forecast
More Are Eligible;
2,744 Quarts q Day
Purchases Possible

Purchases Possible
An increase in the amount Of milk
purchased at the newly opened re-
lief milk stations was expected to-
day by the Public Assistance Divi-
sion, which disclosed 1t has added
to the list of eligible buyers of s.
cents-a- quart milk enough persons
to raise the total possible purchase
to 2.744 quarts a day. The eligible
buyers yesterday could have bought
1876 quarts and did buy LII quarts.
The milk program for the Dis
trict'S needy opened under fire from
the Capitol, where Representative
Schultz. Democrat. of Indiana con-
demned on the House floor the imi
tations put on the amount of milk
any one person can buy at 5 cents
quart. He intimated that he
would make an effort to have the
milk investigation of last year re-
opened
Gradual day-to-day rise in the
number of eligibles for the program
is looked for by the public assist
ance division. 1t circularized 10000
possible eligibles and received 2,744
legible responses. Otto J. Cass, gen.
eral superintendent of public assist
ance for the District, said that he
was very well pleased" with the
results Of the opening day. Persons
on relief, receiving w. P. A. assist
ance and in other ways depending
on public economic aid, are eligible.
In fiery five-minute speech on
the House floor late yesterday, Mr..
Schultz declared nursing mothers
and the children of the District in
want are restricted to pint of the
low priced milk each day because the
farmers who produce it hold back
some of their surplus to feed pigs.
Association Controls Bulk.
More than 80 per cent of Wash
ington's milk supply, it was revealed
during the last milk inquiry, is pro-
duced by the farmers Of Maryland
and Virginia who are affiliated with
the Maryland Virginia Milk Pro-
ducers' Association.
Mr.. Schultz was a member of the
subcommittee of the House District
Committee which last year con-
Quoted the milk investigation. Now
he is its chairman.
In view of recent developments, +"
he said, Il am going to ask the full
committee to reopen the investiga-
ton. Il will be glad to direct it.
During Mr.. Schulte's brief speech
on the House floor he was inter-
rupted three times-by Representa-
tive Schafer, Republican, of Illinois;
Representative Hull, Progressive, of
Illinois and Representative Gross,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania, who is
milk farmer.
Except for a few minor problems
which cropped up here and there.
distribution machinery during the
first days operation of the scent
milk program functioned smoothly
at the II supply depots.
Deposit Creates Problem.
The principal headache came
about through a misunderstanding
of instructions on the part of many
of the eligibles for the low-priced
milk. Many came to the depots
with empty bottles which they er-
roneously thought would be accept
able instead of the Scent per bottle
deposit required for the initial pur-
chase.
In a number of such instances
persons had to leave the stations
empty handed to return home for
the additional 3 cents. At all depots
the milk was cheerfully received by
the eligibles.
Many women came with babies
in their arms, others with as many
as five or six undernourished chill
dren tagging along. One elderly
man, crippled and tottering on a
cane, got his quart at the No. 10
station, Maryland avenue between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
NE, and commented to a bystander:
This is the best thing that's hap
pened around here in long time"
Largest at No. S Station.
At most of the stations eligibles
gathered some time before the dis
tribution began at l o'clock. The
largest waiting group was reported
at the No. S station, Sixth street
and Virginia avenue S.W
Works Projects Administration
clerks and representatives of the
Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase Dairy
on duty at each of the depots OBJ
served that scores of the customers
could neither read nor write. Hun
dreds came to get application blanks
to attempt to be placed on eligibility
lists later.
One task facing officials after the
first day was the redesignation of
depots for eligibles on the basis Of
location convenience.
F. A. Belle, Agriculture Depart
ment economist, who is supervising
the Federal Governments part in
the program, made the rounds of
the depots yesterday with Mr.. Cass
and David Miller of the Surplus.
Commodities Corp, in charge of
setting up the distributing centers.
Mr.. Belle said that, on the basis
of his experience in organizing low
cost milk projects in Boston and
Chicago. several days will be re-
quired before "an the kinks" can
be ironed out of the distribution
setup.
The text of Representative
Schulte's speech, in which he de-
nounced the lack of surplus milk
for the program, follows:
Mr.. Schultz: Mr.. Speaker, for
quite some time a great many of
us who are very much interested
in the milk situation here have
been fighting to get an adequate
supply of milk and at a decent
price for people in the District Of
Columbia. We are all agreed, I
believe, that there has been
vicious monopoly here in the Dis
trict of Columbia for some time
and that the monopoly still exists.
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