Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-03-05

On Thursday of this last week
Bill and / attended the Annual
Meeting and banquet of the Otta-
wa County Dairy Service Unit. 1t
was not the least bit surprising to
discover that the menu was just
the most nourishing and appropri-
ate of any banquet we've attended.
Each of us had bottle of milk by
our plate (this milk was donated
by Kinks Dairy of Port Clinton)
and we all drank a toast to the
dairy industry. Mr.. Oscar Sand.
wisch, our very able POSTMASTER,
led in this toast by reading prize
winning essay that was written by
a Sixteen-year old boy, Allan Laub,
of Bolivar, Missouri. 1t is pattern
ed after Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad-
dress and he calls it the Dairy
man Address" l thought it so very
clever that ! decided to let you
read it too.
"A few score and several years
ago our forefathers brought forth
upon this continent a new indus
try, conceived in sanitation and
cleanliness and dedicated to the
proposition that all people would
be healthier, happier, and of
sounder mind, if they would use
its many products. These great
products are of the finest grade of
food that has ever been available
to the use of mankind, And, in a
larger sense, they taste so good
and are so good, and cheap in cost,
that we cannot understand how
one could be so unwise as to try
to buy and eat substitute of
these great foods. Now we are en-
gagged in a great contest, testing
whether these products, so pro-
duced and so carefully processed,
can long be left On the grocery
shelves and poor substitute take
their place on the table of this
great American people. Let us
each concern ourselves about this
Ito be healthier, wealthier, and
wiser and have better appetite
and stronger constitution, a more
active mind and more lasting
sense of well-being and long-en-
durance-to eat and use more and
more OF the dairy products, to
serve ice cream, to drink good
milk, to eat more cheese, and to
not forget the best and most deli
cious spread to be found for bread
is now, was then, and always will
be that proud, pure, beautiful,
golden-yellow butter. For without
the dairy industry this would, in
deed, be poor, weak and under
nourished nation. For nations
strength still remains in the
health of it's men, women, and
children. Without this greater
health (Which is impossible with a
substitute), we can't long endure.
That we here highly resolve this
contest shall not have been in
vain; that this nation, with dairy
products, shall have new birth of
haalth; and that the products of
the dairy industry shall not perish
from the earth" (This article ap-
peared in "Hoard's Dairyman'D.
While listening to Rev. Larman
Sherwood speak, you felt it was
one of those rare occasions when
you are able to hear truly great
man express his views on the prop
er way for mankind to conduct
himself in this world of ours, and
after realizing the accomplish
ments of this man, who has always
had the great handicap of total
blindness to contend with, you
feel your life has been inadequate
in comparison.
John Miller presented the ac-
complishments of the Dairy Ser
vice Unit which were D Cooper
ated with Ohio Dept. of Agricul-
ture to secure the third milk
Ring" test for control of brucel-
losis, (2) Cooperated with the
county agent to hold a successful
series of meetings on feeding,
barn and equipment and a tour to
Northern Ohio Breeders Assn,
(3) Counselled with and secured
funds for complete tuberculosis
test for 1854, (4) Gave support to
the dairy part of the All Club pro-
gram, (5) Worker with NOBA
technician Dick Wilson to secure
more herds on test and artificial
breeding.
The problems of the dairyman
are acute right now, and it will
take lot of work and planning to
iron out some of these difficulties.
Kenneth Geisler had charge of
business meeting, new directors
were elected. Officers of the Dairy
Service Unit are president, J. Kirk
Luckey; vice president, Kenneth
Geisler; secretary-treasurer, Will
liam Luebke. The committee who
arranged this banquet, Richard
Ayers, Kenneth Geisler and
Dwight Swaisgood, worked hard
and l think it would be we'll to
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