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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1913.
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The South’s Great Opportunity
In the Raising of Cattle
The South’s incentive to cattle raising was never
so urgent as today. Many Western States have suf
fered severe drouths as a result of which there will
be a shortge of corn and forage crops, followed un
doubtedly by a scarcity of beef ana a season of un
usually high prices. The problem of the country’s
meat supply has been serious for several years past
and from this time forward it will become continr
ually more so. It is the South’s peculiar opportunity
to relieve this situation and in doing so upbuild its
own interests. (
The West can no longer be depended upon to
produce anything like enough beef for nearly a hun
dred million people. It is said, indeed, that the days
of the great ranches beyond the Mississippi are draw
ing to an end. The thousands of acres once devoted
to this purpose are being turned to other uses. With
in the past decad' the production of cattle in the
West has steadily declined and indications are that
within the next ten years the decline will be st’ll
greater. Whten to this tendency is added the cur
tailment of corn and pasturage resulting from the
recent drouths, it is easy to see that the beef supply
for the coming year will be exceptionally short.
Experts on agriculture and animal industry de
clare that the SoutH’s natural resources for cattle
raising are among the richest and the most favorable
to be found anywhere in the world. This is notably
of Georgia. The soil is adapted to the growth of
the most nutrious grasses. The mild and equable cli
mate reduces to a, minimum the cost of winter hous
ing. Ail the cond:tions necessary to the economic
production of high-grade beef cattle are abundantly
•present in this and other Southern States.
The South should not sleep over so inviting an
opportunity. By turning its attention to cattle rais-
- ing it cannot only win a larger place in the economic
affairs of the nation, but it can also solve many of
its own pressing problems. The people of Georgia
alone are now spending more than a hundred and
seventy-two million dollars a year in buying from
distant sections such food^supplies as beef and cbm
and oats; and it is estimated that the total value
of the State’s cotton crop lacks over thirty-seven mil
lion dollars annually of paying its food bills.
If Georgia raised her own cattle, how vastly dif
ferent and better this condition would be! A fresh
glow of independence and prosperity would infuse
her agricultural life and reach all the hounds of her
business interests. Her farms would be self-sustain
ing, her merchants and bankers and manufacturers
and railroads would thrive as never before; she
would become an exporting rather tuan an import
ing State and instead of looking to other sections for
he- food, she worn be a great storehouse to which
all the roads of merchandise would load.
There are hopeful signs th it Georgia and other
commonwealths of ait south are awakening to their
oppe‘tunitibs in this regard. Every little while we
hear of large enterprises for the establishment of cat
tle ranges. Several syndicates with -his end in view
have recently been organized in Texas and Louisana,
while during the past twelve months stock raising
on a modern basis has been undertaken in several
Georgia counties.
It should he remembered, however, that ambitious
plans and much capital are not necessary to the gen
eral progress of this important industry. Every
farmer has at his command the resources from which
to produce his own meat supply and other food neces
saries; and,-if every farmer will take care of his
own needs, the entire State will he wondrously en
riched. The 'one great prerequisite of catttle raising
is the production of a sufficiency of corn, oats, hay
and other forage. It behooves our farmers to begin
now and by cultivating crops of this kind lay a broad
foundation for the cattle industry in which their
opportunities are so varied and rich.
Huerta will find that he needs something better
than a'Mexican dollar to keep things going.
Poor Eve must have found life awfully monoton
ous with no other woman to envy or be jealous of.
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Swift Work in Currency Reform.
When the Hous. had finished voting Wednesday
on all amendments to the banking and currency bill,
the measure remained unimpaired in- any of its es
sential provisions.
There were changes, and changes for the better,
in several matters of method or detail but principle
of Government control and other distinctive features
stood unshaken.
This is assurance enough that a consistent, ef
fective plan of banking and currency reform will
be put through at the present session of Congress.
Such amexdments as have been made in the
House were constructive amendments by the friends
of the bill.
Efforts of the minority to strip the measure of
its important clauses have been regularly and over
whelmingly voted down.
The bill is expected to pass the House today
and go immediately to the Senate.
From Mud to Millions.
A newspaper correspondent recently made a trip
through what is known as “the Black Swamp coun
try” of northern Ohio, a region extending over five
counties in the valley of the' Maumee river and,
in years gone by, so beset with "bogs and overflows
as to be untillable and practically worthless. “He
traveled four hundred and thirty-six miles in all,”
relates the Louisville Courier-Journal, “and he
found that the farmers in that district were aver
aging thirty bushels of oats, twenty-five bushels of
rye, two and a half tons of clover and more than
four tons of alfalfa. He saw dozens of fields of
wheat that produce thirty-five bushels to the acre
and dozens of corn fields that yield sixty-five bushels
to the acre.” Indeed, the Black Swamp country,
once useless and dangerous to public health, was
found to be the most fruitful and profitable soil of
the state’s entire agricultural area.
The correspondent remarks that this is “an object
lesson in getting something out .of nothing.” It
might more truly be described, however, as an object
lesson in putting thought and enterprise into a
latent but fertile opportunity. Swamp lands are in
fact a great treasury of potential wealth, a sort of
All Baba’s cave, stored with all manner of hidden
riches, awaiting him who comes with the open sesame
of science and purposeful skill.
It was only some two decades ago that this en
tangled Ohio swamp was a serious problem to the
state. When its timber had been cut away, the re
maining morass was worse than useless; it was a
source of malarial disease and a detriment to the
value of all adjacent property. But a movement to
drain the swamp was inaugurated. Competent en
gineers were employed to make preliminary surveys.
Then interested communities with the aid of the
state undertook the practical work of reclamation.
The land was steadily redeemed from its original con
dition. Durable roads were built. Farms sprang up
here and there, more numerously each season. The
district became widely known for healthfulness as
well as fertility. Every acre within its boundaries
rose in value, yielding substantial profit to the indi
vidual owner and an incomparable larger tax revenue
to the state. Today the Black Swamp country is one
of Ohio’s richest sources of food supply and pros
perity.
What an example is this to Georgia, whose swamp
and overflow lands comprise one-fourteenth of the
state’s entire area! What has teen done in Ohio
has been done and is being done in many other
parts of the country; and it can be done here witn
equal ease and advantage. The state could make no
sounder investment than to provide for the drainage
of these now worthless but potentially valuable
lands. It is estimated that Georgia’s swamp and
overflow lands average less than a dollar per acre
in value; it is said, indeed, that in many places they
can actually be purchased at two or three dollars an
acre. State Geologist McCallie has shown that if
these lands were drained, the state, instead of re
ceiving as it now does an annual income in taxes
to the amount of thirteen thousand, five hundred
dollars, should receive six hundred and seventy-five
thousand, or nearly a million dollars. "It is true,”
as the state geologist adds, “that \his estimate is
made on the supposition that all the swamp and
overflow lands he reclaimed, which will probably
never be completely realized; nevertheless the ratio
of increase in taxes to the state will hold good for
every acre of land drained and put under cultivation.”
From a purely business standpoint, it is evident
that the state can ill afford to neglect this important
and inviting enterprise. The increase in tax values
alone would more than warrant a liberal appropria
tion for drainage work; and to that increase must
he added the incalculable good that would come to
public interests in general and, particularly, to agri
culture.
The State Chamber of Commerce.
The meeting of Georgia business men, held yester
day at Macon to perfect the organization of a State
Chamber of Commerce, is reported an abundant suc
cess. Scores of wide-awake towns and progressive
counties were represented by the type of citizens who
know how to press forward and sustain a big public
enterprise. There were in all some three hundred
delegates, men of influence, of experience and of well-
proved devotion to the best interests of their state.
They agreed without delay on the purpose and gen
eral methods of the new organization and, what is
particularly to the point, raised among themselves a
substantial fund for the preliminary expenses of the
work.
With so fair a beginning, the state chamber of
commerce shpuld soon he in practical operation. The
opportunities for constructive service through such a
body are almost unlimited. The towns‘and cities of
Georgia are unusually alert and each of them is en
gaged in special efforts for its own development. By
combining their energy and resources in a movement
to enrich and extend that great field of common inter
ests in which they are all equally concerned, they
can quicken their own prosperity and upbuild the
state as a whole.
Indeed, the state as a whole must grow, If Its'
component counties and towns are to advance. The
State Chamber of Commerce embodies and proposes
to put into effect the great principle of co-operation.
It merits the hearty support of all good Georgians.
Growth of the Parcel Post
Congressman Lewis, writing in the Baltimore
Evening Sun, presents an interesting analysis of the
parcel post patronaage. Two-thirds of the post busi
ness, he says, is drawn “not from the express com
panies but from shippers who were debarred, by
high rates and inadequate service, from using the
express; at the same time, the post has made a
handsome profit on business that the express com
panies were unable to handle except at a loss.”
This explanation accounts for the fact that the
earnings of the express companies have been no less,
but probably more, since Uie parcel post was inau
gurated. The express traffic has grown, as has all
other traffic, but the parcel post has grown prodig
iously by creating new incentives and opportunities
for traffic; indeed, it has established a new medium
■of exchange between sellers and ouyers and has
thereby stimulated the entire country’s trade.
The postal department did much to extend this
particular field of the new service when it increased
the weight limit of parcels from eleven to twenty
pounds and at the same time reduced the rates
within the first two zones. Though this change
went into effect comparatively a few weeks ago, its
results are already manifest. The volume and va
riety of parcels has considerably increased. Many
new patrons have been attracted and the govern
ment’s revenue from this source is steadily aug
menting.
STRANGE!
BY DR. FRANK CRANE.
(Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)
“What fools * these mortals be!” said Puck.
And w© are inclined to agree with him when we
observe:
That men toil their life long to lay up money for
their children, when the worst calamity that can befall
a youth is to be relieved from the need to work for a
living;
That a man’s pride and aim seems to be to keep
his wife in idleness and luxury, and h© considers him
self disgraced if she engages in useful work, when
the greatest foe to female virtue is idleness;
That all our greatness comes from struggle and
danger, while we devote our lives to avoiding these
things;
That the only faith that is worth anything is the
product of wrestling with doubts, yet doubts we con
sider to be irreligious;
That all the world is convinced of the waste, stu
pidity, and madness of war, while each nation impov
erishes itself still in the endeavor to prepare for war;
That individually we love our children better than
anything in the world, while collectively, as a city, we
leave no spaces for their playgrounds, but compel them
to romp in the streets among the horses, street qars
and automobiles;
That we lock men up in prison as an antidote to
crime, and when they come out they are more hard
ened criminals than before;
That we gather in churches and worship Jesus,
yet consider as perfectly absurd and irrational the
teachings He most insisted upon, deriding His faith
in human nature, His law of love, and His principle
of non-resistance; while the thing against which He
warned us most strictly, the heaping up of money, is
tin one thing after which we are all mad;
That those of us most favored by fortune are in
the heated pursuit of happiness, while we know very
well that nobody who pursued happiness ever found it;
That we easily believe in selfishness and hate,
which render us unhappy, while it is hard for us to
believe in love and goodness, which make us happy;
That man should “put an enemy into his mouth
to steal away his brains”;
That politics Is universally despised among us,
while the only possible way to make a democracy suc
cessful is for every citizen to take an active interest
in politics;
That the accepted method of preparihg our sons
and daughters for life is to send them to institutions
sooted with medievalism, and while but one person in
a hundred is by nature fitted to become a scholar or
literary person, we continue the useless effort to
make scholars out of those who are to become mer
chants, hand workers, salesmen and housewives;
That we exert the greatest effort to be pleasant to
strangers and mere acquaintances, for whom we care
little or nothing, while we are neglectful, indifferent
and often cruel to those we love most dearly;
That most of our worry is about the past, which
is gone forever, and the future, which may never
come, while we omit to enjoy today, which is all that
we have to enjoy, and
That those who observe customs and conventions
are called wise and safe, while those who believe in
their reason, listen to the dictates of their heart, and
trust their instinct are considered dangerous, if not
wicked.
Ill-Starred Maximilian
N EITHER Europe nor America is celebrating an
anniversary of great historic interest, the offer,
fifty years ago this month, of the imperial
crown of Mexico to Prince Maximilian, younger broth
er of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, at his
castle of Miramar on the Adriatic. In that beautiful
home built by himself Maximilian, who had retired a
few years before from the vice royalty of Lombardy,
was enjoying ideal happiness with his young wife,
Carlotta, daughter of Leopold I of Belgium, when
summoned at the instance of Napoleon IIL to a throne
propped up by French bayonets. Napoleon had long
cherished the design to establish a vassal empire in
Mexico, and in our civil war he saw his opportunity.
The story of French invasion and occupation is well
known.
Secretary Seward, as the war drew toward Its
close, increased the urgency of his demand, repeatedly
made, that the French should evacuate Mexico and
leave the Mexicans free to set up their own govern
ment. Napoleon dared not challenge the United States
by a refusal. General Philip H. Sheridan was on the
Rio Grande with a seasoned and disciplined army;
other great armies of veterans were ready to obey
the summons to battle and Generals Grant and Sher
man would willingly have followed in the footsteps
of Scott and Taylor. The French troops were with
drawn. Maximilian, deceived as to the strength of
his cause with the natives, refused to accompany Ba-
zaine across the ocean, and the month of May, 1&67,
saw the emperor shut up with a small force at Quere-
taro, surrounded by an army of 40,000 Mexican
avengers.
In those final days of his life and reign the hap
less Austrian prince exhibited a courage and nobility
of character worthy of a descendant of Maria Theresa.
He faced death with more than reckless daring; he,
shared all the privations of his faithful adherents,
and he was preparing to cut his way out through the
host of besiegers when treachery delivered him to the
enemy.
Miguel Lopez was the Benedict Arnold of Quere-
taro; personal immunity and 2,000 ounces of gold the
price. Lopez held the key to Queretaro—-tl\e convent
of La Cruz. Maximilian had been his friend and gen
erous patron, and had appointed him chief of the im
perial guard. Lopez discerned the approaching down
fall of his sovereign and resolved to save himself by
betraying him to the enemy. The Liberal troops were
admitted to La Cruz, and the emperor and his officers
were prisoners.
In vain the Princess Salm-Salm, representing one
of the proudest families in Europe, bent her knees
before the Indian president of Mexico and pleaded
for the life of Maximilian. “Boys, aim well—aim at
my heart!” was - Maximilian’s request to his execu
tioners. “Oh man!” was his last cry as he fell, the
victim of his own folly and of Louis Napoleon’s per
fidy. The volley which pierced his breast was the
knell of the Bonaparte dynasty. Gravelott© was but
little more than three years from Queretaro.
Carlotta knew nothing of her husband’s fate.
Crushed by the refusal of Napoleon to recall his or
der for the wtihdrawal of the French troops from
Mexico, she had become insane in the previous Octo
ber, and has ever since been under safeguard in a
royal palace in Belgium, having a 1 times lucid inter
vals, during which, it is said, sh. writes her memoirs.
She is now in her seventy-fourth year. With her
death will be ended one of the most tragic chapters
of history.—New York Times.
A Talesman Too Steep
The following method is described as one which is
almost certain to woo slumber with success. On go
ing to bed you assume a comfortable attitude In which
every muscle is relaxeu but not the attitude in which
you are accustomed to go to sleep, though something
resembling it. Every movement, coughing, yawning,
are strictly repressed, especially the desire to turn
over. The same attitude is maintained without
change, constantly resisting the longing to move or
turn over.
As a rule, by the end of fifteen or twenty minutes
of this persistent maintenance of the same attitude
you will find yourself growing very drowsy and then,
just as theVlesire to turn over becomes absolutely un
controllable, you turn with the least possible effort,
and assume the position in which you habitually go to
sleep and natural sleep follows at once. This method,
it is claimed, seldom fails and should be given a thor
ough trial, at least before resorting to a drug to bring
sleep.—London Globe.
^OUAITRY
riOME
(SwOCTEP Eff.mS.UHJtLTOrt
SUMMER AND AUTUMN.
The hot midsummer, the bright midsummer.
Reigns in all its glory now;
The earth is scorched with a golden fire.
There are berries dead-ripe on every brier
And fruits on every bough.
But the autumn days, so sober and calm,
Steeped in a dreamy haze.
When the uplands all with harvests shine,
And we drink the wind like a fine, cool wine—
Ah, those are the best of days!
The poet prefers the autumn, but I am not so sure
that he is supported in his contention. When autumn
comes the most of people, especially the elderly ones,
are jaded with the long heat spell and the weariness
brings with it more or less of mental depression. The
wind seems to moan and the foliage loses its fresh
ness. The world looks tired, and you glimpse the
“sere and yellow leaf.” The late autumn brings with
it more vigor and vivacity, but when summer time be
gins to change into early fall everything has a washed-
out and faded appearance. You expect equinoctial
gales and they are rarely omitted.
It is too soon for winter clothes and old and young
have a chilly* look in the well worn things that have
done duty in the hot old summer time. It is gener
ally too. dusty to begin fall cleaning, and quite too
soon for fires in the grates and heaters. You hunt
the sunshiny nooks early in the day and yet the noon
day heat makes you weak, perspiring and uncomforta
ble. You take enough cold to give you the sniffles,
sometimes the sneezes. The toddlers pull off shoes
and stockings in midday and by night they are fever
ish. You hunt up last winter’s capes and jackets and
sit indoors after dark rather than on piazzas. You
find the mosquitoes like to do the very same thing,
and you see the pesky flies on* the outside of the win
dow screens asking admittance. I shall be glad when
it gets colder, for many reasons.
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A TON A SAY!
If a man had to pitch a ton of hay every day
he would think it quite a ehore. And if he had
to move the hay in driblets 1 and small bunches
while doing his other work he would be tired out
and annoyed by the task until he would begin to
look for sqme way of avoiding it. If he found
that he could avoid it by some article purchasable
for $200 or $300, he would buy the machine in-
stanter, knowing that it would pay for Itself
every year. *
The president .of the Mississippi Normal col
lege is reported to have said recently that the
average woman doing her own work in a house
without a modern water supply lifts a ton of wa
ter every day. This Is the way he figures it out:
A bucket of water weighs twenty pounds. It is
lifted from the well, carried to the kitchen, poured
out there for various uses and emptied out of
doors. He counts the number of times it is lifted
on the average at six times. Three meals a day
call for ten bucketfuls, which lifted six times
amount to 1,200 pounds of lifting. Add the water
for washing, mopping, bathing and drinking; and
the ton is easily accounted for.
This assumed a well supply at the door. But
It is often rods away from the door. It is often
down a hill to a well or spring. In such cases the
water supply rests much more heavily on "the
woman than would the ton of hay on the man.
The water supply in the house is the best first
step toward improved conditions for the house
which does not possess it. Many good systems
are available and at reasonable prices—say from
$200 to $300 for an ordinary isolated farm house.
The outdoor water supply is the chief of all
woman killers and home destroyers.—Exchange.
My mind goes hack to the days when the buckets
of water were toted up a hill from a spring and a back
breaking job it used to be. The Mississippi teacher
can easily count more than six buckets for lifting on
the average day, even with a well In the yard. Thrifty,
painstaking housekeepers are always long on plenty
of water, and too often very disregardful of the back
aches until the doctor has to be called in to look after
the sufferers/
When there is much drawing of water by a rope
apd windlass the men folks should take a little time
early in the day and fill up buckets and tubs so that
the woman who does her own cooking and cleaning can
find the water in reach, unless It may be for drinking
purposes.
It Is granted that such painful drudgery Is the
chief woman killers, if not home destroyers.
THE PANIC OP 1907.
The panic which fell on the United States in the
year 1907 has always been a mystery to my mind. It
was a time of peace. Times were very prosperous.
In January of that year our exports were in excess of
imports more than $250,000,000.
Merchants were boasting .of increasing trade. Fac
tories were running on fqll time. Building contrac
tors were busy, money was plentiful, yet there fell
on this country a money panic that threatened to bank
rupt every great business enterprise In the nation.
When the great Knickerbocker Trust company went
to the wall the financial business of New York City
seemed to reel and crumple* over like a rotten shed
under a March wind.
New York got to a place where It could not pay,
and we all remember that our own banks paid for
cotton In peculiar sort of certificates that were good
in Georgia and not available anywhere else at that
time.
Yet there were billions of mohey, gold, sliver, na
tional bank bills, etc., packed in the vaults and depos
it boxes in New York City.
Somebody—a good many somebodies—went in to
“make a killing,” and the tremble of anxiety went
over the nation from the lakes to the gulf and from
ocean to ocean. The ship of state was in the break
ers and ready to crash on a bankrupt shore.
We remember, too, that J. P. Morgan and the great
Standard *011 syndicate came out in front and handed
down millions of dollars to the anxious men who paid
as high as 50 per cent for some of that money to save
their business from destruction.
When it is st> easy to make a panic and to bankrupt
the business of the nation we should try to send men
to congress who have average business sense.
Indications are that the currency measure is
going swiftly to passage. If an extra session can
do so much, what could not a regular one accom
plish.
A Song of St. Nicholas’ Clerks j
Hide thee, white lady of the sky,
Behind thy darkest veil,
For Flemish merchants ride abroad
Drowsy with London ale.
And lonely is the road and long:,
And thick the willows stand,
And English gold the Flemings bear
To their moist Flemish land.
Foul shame it were that English gold
From England should be borne!
Foul shame on us, if we should fail ‘
To meet them ere the morn!
THE CLEAN MILK CRUSADE
BY FREDERIC J. BASKIN.
When the leading milk authority of Chicago de
clared that the people ,°f that city annually receive
twenty-five tons of dirt id their milk he* astounded
many W his fellow citizens, but
when ’one comes to calculate
how much this is to tne quart
ind compare it with the amount
Jf dirt that will be found by
attaining the average quart of
milk through a piece of absorb
ent cotton, he will find that the
statement was very conserva
tive. The cotton strainer is a
test of milk as simple as could
he, and yet not one household in
i thousand has applied even this
st to its milk supply.
• • •
It is true, however, that
enough of them have discovered
dirt in their milk to lead enterprising dairymen to
try to overcome the difficulty. And they uav e been
provided with a machine that will take out this dirt.
It ift announced that this machine takes out all hairs,
particles of dirt, pus, and the like, leaving the milk
clean and wholesome. It does leave it clean so far as
the eye can detect. But, In point of fact, the sanita
rians say, it is dirtier than before. It has broken up
every little colony of germs, and has scattered them
all through the milk, each, in turn, to form a new col
ony. Such machines are widely sold and used, and yet
milk authorities assert that they make the last state
of the milk worse than the first.
• • •
People who patronize first-class hotels and restau
rants frequently get as unwholesome a grade of milk
as is sold in the tenement districts. When the New*
York milk committee looked into this phase of the
matter it found that in some places milk sold at 25
cents a glass was as full of bacteria as the milk sold
in the Yiddish shops on the East Side. In some of the
big hotels it was found that a practice was indulged
in of serving a customer's milk order In a bottle,
leading him to think that the milk was bottled at the
source and kept free from all contamination, whereas,
the fact was that the milk was very inferior in grade
and poured into the bottle by a careless scullion in the
kitchen. When these condition* were brought tp the
attention of th e proprietors they usually hastened to
remedy them.
* * •
In many communities there is a practice among milk
wagon drivers to change milk from pint to quart bot
tles, or vice versa, as they drive along, in order to
meet the demands of their day’s trade. One investiga
tor tells of a driver whom he* saw pouring pints into
unwashed quart bottles and then licking off the mouth
of the bottle to hide the evidences of the change. The
caps he put into the quart bottles were drawn from
his vest pocket. (
* * •
How dirty milk sometimes may become was dis
covered by Dr. M. J. Rosenau, one of the members of
the milk commission. In 1907 he found that the gen
eral market milk In Washington contained upward of
11,000,000 germs to the cubic centimeter. This is a
larger number of germs than is td, be found in the
sewage of the average large city.' In the sewage of
Boston for a period of seven years the average num
ber was less than 3,000,000, and In London the num
ber ranged from 2,000,000 to 11,000,000. However, not
all bacteria found in milk are bad. Some of them are
good, as for instance, the lactic acid germ. But on
the whole, milk with a large number of germs in it
must be regarded as guilty until it proves Itself inno
cent.
• » •
It is generally admitted that many crusaders In be
half of pure milk draw a picture of the evils of Im
pure milk that sometimes does more harm than good.
Some of the statements made lead to the conclusion^
that nearly all milk Is dangerous and to be avoided,
while others place the responsibility for all epidemic
disease on milk. The conservative sanitarian says
that bad milk is at least dangerous enough to Justify
its being shut out of the market Whether it con
tains contagion or not, it is certain to conain germs
that do great damage to the intestinal tracts of ba
bies, and Invite stomachic disorders in grown-ups.
They do not say that bad milk is a virulent poison,
but they declare that the man or the woman who uses
it invites disease, if not death.
...
The great trouble experienced ih furthering the
milk crusade is the unwillingness I of the masses of
the people to pay a cent more a q lart for pure milk
than they pay for impure milk. |While there is a
class of people who are willing 4o pay 10 cents a
quart for the best milk when the prdinary kind sella
for 9 cents, the great majority stick to the ordinary
kind. The milk man thereupon asserts that he is giv
ing the people all the protection they are willing to
pay for.
...
While the. main fight that the cities are making
today is in the direction of pure milk, there is an eco
nomic end to the milk question., jj well. While the
old-fashioned way of pumping witier into milk is no
longer tolerated anywhere, milkmoi with a touch of
cupidity in their make-up have hi', upon other meth
ods of taking advantage of the'.Consumer. Some of
them have rich milk, richer thamthe law requires it
16 be. In order that they may rrlike an added profit
they add enough skim milk to it .0 bring It down to
the lowest standard, and thus selljthe skim milk they
use for diluting purposes at regular whole milk prices.
Others manage in one way and 'another to get any sur
plus butter fat off of the milk. I
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It has been found wherever tfe matter has been
investigated that loose milk seldom measures up to the
standard of bottled milk, either fiom a health or an
economic standpoint. It is usually very full of germs,
and equally often of a very poor g-ade. The constant
dipping out of small quantities ’ introduces new germs
and encourages the spread of those already there. At
the same time it gives the merclant opportunity to
dilute it with skim milk, an opportunity very fre
quently improved. The investigations in New York all
have shown that the cheap shops vhere loose milk Is
sold usually handle a low grade both in quality and in
bacterial count. So the trend of bgislation is In the
direction of the abolition of dippered milk. This has
brought forth a great complaint among those who deal
in loose milk, and they assert thq.t it will make milk
cost the poor man more. The saiiitarian admits that
it may cost him a share more in tlh.immediate outlay
of money, but that when resultan%L~oct°rs’ bills and
cases of siokness that result from hose milk are taken
lrto consideration, bottled milk wll prove infinitely
cheaper.
It is the belief of nearly all sinitarians that all
milk should be Pasteurized. There Js a zone of tem
perature between 140 degrees and ;160 degrees where
nearly all germs are killed and yit where the taste
and the constitution of milk is not disturbed. While
Pasteurized milk may afterward have a large bacterial
count, these germs are usually not of a harmful vari
ety. Sanitarians Insist that Pastetrization shall not
be used as an excuse for dirty milk, but rather that It
shall serve as an anti-mosquito campaign serves iij
defending a community from an epidemic of yellow fe
ver—the quarantine may be depended on to keep out
the disease, but the anti-mosquito measures prevent
its spread even if the quarantine fails. With Pasteur,
ization the sanitarian aims to kill the germ that may
be undetected by systems of inspection.
The question, What is brandy? Is more difficult
to answer than a similar query about whisky, con
sidering that brandy has been iesq .generally experi
mented with by the ultimate consuiner.
Then twenty crowns for every man,
A led gown for his dame,
And a candle for St. Nicholas
Who helps us with our game!
—DOROTHY MARGARET STUART in the Academy.
It may yet be necessary for President Wilson to
step in and take charge of the Thgjw case.
Old King Cotton is a popular ruler these days.
