STRIKE A BLOW FOR PURE MILK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3124, 30 June 1917, Page 9

STRIKE A BLOW FOR PURE MILK

Sir,—Columns of matter re milk; oceans of talk re milk; unction and sniuggery re milk; and what do any of them know about it, after all? Councillor Norwood openly admitted that he did "not know what to do." 'No one, however, could have drawn that inference from his declamations in the discussion. Councillors Etaxted with a violent furore against doing a certain thing, thrashed their way through a million of empty straw, and tamely end-

Ed by doing the thing they said they would not do, re-enacting in ono brief horn- tho first principles of all they over achieved in a life-long struggle with a question that is simplo enough to thoso who know, and tlio vory dovil of complexity to thoso who don't know, and, as Councillor Norwood admitted, they don't know.

One councillor claimed that tho vendors should control tho quality of the milk coming in to tho city. That is a piece of crass ignorance. Vondors could, and used to, control tho quality of tho milk coming. The fact of not being able to do so now is duo to ignorant persecution having driven competition out. The most the council or anyone clso can do now would bo to ascertain' tho quality of tho milk coming in. It is useless anyone trying to tell the council what to do, because all they can do usefully belongs to tho unobtrusive, common, and plain, and anything that would suit them must be oxponsivo, flash, and brilliant. Thus tho lay goes on.—l am, etc., : .HENRY BODLET. Juno 29, 1917.