The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
DAIRYMEN PROTEST RULING;
SEE DAIRY CRISIS

New standards for oleomargarine, which permit
Of butter-like favoring and coloing, went into
effect despite the protests of dairymen and dairy
organizations of the nation. Pinnng final hopes for
elimination Of the oleo standards action filed
in court, dairymen seek to nulify this threat to
butter manufacture which the Holstein-Fresian
Association of America says is "A Dairy Crisis"
Realizing the dangers to the state from such
standard, members of the three political parties of
Minnesota presented united front in protesting
the new governmental order lberalizing regulations
affecting oleomargarine Joining in this protest were
Judge ]. Devaney and Paul A. Rasmussen, DEM
ocratic and Farmer-Labor members respectively of
the Democratic national committee State Senators
D. D. Murphy, Blue Earth Democrat; State Com
missioner of Agriculture R. A. Trovatten, and his
deputy Ed Thye; State Senators Oscar Swenson,
Nicollet, and A. o. Sletvoldt Detroit Lakes, Re
publicans, and Gene Larson representing the milk
drivers union and State Federation Of Labor
Protests from cooperative creameries and dairy
men from all the dairy states far have been
in vain. Darymen feel that their protests have
not been in opposition to defense emergency, their
sole for protest being preserve the dairy
business and to continue to give to the people of
the nation the sunshine health food, butter They
believe that government agencies have overstepped
their rights by giving permission to pep up a pro-
duct, that they looked upon as rather poor sub
stitute for butter.
The following article for which we are indebted
to Henry Borgmann, dairy farmer, taken from
News" periodical of the Holstein- -Friesian Associa-
ton of America, entitled "A Dairy Crisis-And We
Mean Crisis" sets forth the darymens views:
Regardless of the breed kind of which
dairyman milks, his blood pressure will rise to
high point when he hears the family radio
the propaganda broadcast by the Consumer Division
of the u S. Dept of Agriculture acting effectively
as could any paid agency in the promotion of oleo
margarine a substitute for butter.
"AH dairymen, handlers Of dairy products, and
professors of milk should be aroused to realization
that future markets for dairy products in jeo-
pardy when the Consumers Guide published by
the U. s. Dept of Agriculture says:
Vegetable margarines can be fortified
with vitamins they every bit nutri-
tous as the average butter. tissue of May
l. 1941)
"Snce the invention of the Babcock Test for
milk, fat commercial 92-score butter has been the
standard from which the value of all dairy products
has been derived Butter is the gold standard Of
the dairy industry. The poor judgment of the U. S.
Dept of Agriculture, manifest by the broadcasting
OF 'oeo propaganda against dairy butter, should
arouse the mightiest protest to reach Wash
ington from the men who milk cows engage in
any phase of the dairy industry.
Modern investigation into the nutritonal value
of animal and vegetable and oils do not Justify
the statement put out fact by the Consumers
Division of the U. s. Dept. of Agriculture, which
is now using public funds (the dairy farmers money
included) to advertise the product unfair COM
petitor as the nutritional equal of dairy butter.
Combined with the free advertising given
'oleo' by the government comes ruling by the
Federal Security Administrator Ito be effective Sep
tember 81 permitting the 'oleo' makers to color
artificially flavor preserve with benzoate soda
and fortify with synthetic vitamns, the product
which they are attempting with the assistance of
the u s. Dept. of Agriculture to pawn off on the
American housewife substitute for dairy butter
while the American daryman will cooperate
In every fair program for national defense or to
meet an emergency, he cannot but arrive at the
tnescapable conclusion that two powerful govern
mental agencies attempting to substitute oleo'
for dairy butter in the diet of the American work