The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-27
BY PETER EDSok
Dolly Mentor Washington
CORRESPONDENTS


given to the way the stotes
have set up trode barriers
against each others oericul-
ture and transportation. This
situotion is extremely serious
now that it interferes with war
production. Informed defense
officioIs ore of the opinion
some relief must be found from
these restrictions for the duro-
ton of the emergency.
Nutritionists, for instance,
90 around telling everyone who
will listen that to deliver moxi-
mum efficiency to the war ef-
fort, he should, among other
things, drink lots Of milk and
cot on egg q doy. Yet there ore
dozens of stotes which have set
up barriers oeoinst free inter-
stote movement Of both milk
and eggs.
In some stotes there ore oct
uoI prohibitions oeoinst the
sole Of fresh eggs not produced
within the stote. Others require
that eggs Ioid outside the
stote's own boundaries ond
imported" be labeled fore
ign" or shipped" without any
reference being made as to
when or to how fresh the eggs
ore. Borriers Of this kind simP-
~ narrow the market, limit
the supply, and roise the price.
Milk and dairy products ore
even further restricted 1t
moved ocross stote lines. Sew
enteen stotes have needless
and overlapping systems OF IL
censing. Twenty stotes restrict
the distribution Of fluid milk.
Twenty-nine stotes prohibit
filled milk, which is whot's lett
otter whole milk hos been run
through q cream separator to
toke out the fots for butter.
then fortified by the substitu-
ton Of vegetable or animal
fots to make it as rich or richer
than it was before. Filled milk
sells for IS per cent less than
whole milk, and it's supposed
to be just as nutritious, but
these % stotes prohibit its sole.
In one stote, milk brought in
across the stote line must be
dyed red. II that makes sense,
so does Hitler.
MARGARINE FIGHT
AN OLD ONE
The bottle over margarine
goes back for decides. It's
made mostly from vegetable
fots and recent development
of the science o., oddino vito
minis have made it possible to
produce margarine just as nu-
tritious as butter. 1t could be
retoiled for half the cost OF
butter and it is needed for low
cost diets, yet 30 stotes levy
special taxes and license fees
against its manufacture tc
roise its price too near the but
ter level. Only q third Of the
nations stores handle mar
eorine at all because OF these
restrictions.
All Of these limitations have
been forced over by stote te9is-
lotures in the euisc Of meos-
ures to protect the formers, but
q lot Of these restrictions hit
the former right where he lives.
In the cose Of fertilizers. there
ore so many different stote
statutory formulas and stote
requirements for analysis
sompIine. grading and pack.
aging that interstate ship
ments Of fertilizers ore serious
Iy deferred and the price:
therefore ortificioIIy roised.
Furthermore, if the formeI
hos to cross q stote line in NOV.
ing his crops to market, he i:
opt TO run into difficulties. This
subject has been given more
publicity than any other phase
Of this commercial warfare be.
tween the stotes, but os only
repetition brings results
there's no harm in hitting i
again.
TRUCK MOVEMENTS
IMPEDED
Forty-five Of the 48 stote:
have restrictions on the Iood.
ing, weight, length and reIood.
ina Of motor trucks and troll.
ers. The result is thot it would