MILK SUPPLY

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 91, 17 April 1917, Page 2

MILK SUPPLY

10 THB EDITOR.

Sir, —The. letter on this subject-appear- ! ing in your issue of last night over the i name of Charles E. Wheeler is timely i and to the point. The importance of the subject must be very generally recognised, although the public hitherto, with that i strange habit of unthinking endurance that seems to lie- somewhere about the roots of our national character, has been content to let things take, their course, with just an occasional spasmodic and short-liv«d effort .after reform. The -time now seems opportune for making a real advance, and it should require nothing more than a {air and free discussion of the subject at the present juncture to call forth 'such &n expression of public opinion as will warrant the city authorities, taking' up forthwith, as a definite and permanent addition to our municipal activities, the whole control and distribution of tho v city milk supply. Tastes may differ and fashions change, but it is safe to say, that the mill: question is and must continue to be a matter of the first importance to every man, woman and child in the Dominion. The- < figures quoted by Mt. Wheeler should Bet us thinking, but altogether from the question pi prices, it is surely beyond argument' that the present method of distribution is one that cannot make for econmy. Mr. Wheeler's reference to letter-carrying recalls to my mind a striking chapter in "Merrie England" entitled "Milk and Postage Stamps," in which the customary method of retailing milk per medium/of a street-full of carts, each representing a different interest and management, is contrasted very convincingly with the usual process of disposing of stamps through the agency of the Gene/ai Post Office. Perhaps some of our city councillors, present and prospective, may think it worth while to look up the chapter with a view to sseing whether the principle laid down by tho writer irtty not be succfecsfully applied i:i the.Empire City. But more impori.aui even than the- economic side of the subject is the question of a pure supply 1 is no disparagement of the care ai..i methods of any milk supplier to say tha: no system of private distribution car: ever be 'quite so safe and satisfactory ;:.- one conducted' under municipal contr<(or, if you like, a municipal monopoly., and in a matter so vitally affecting tho health of tha community' we can. hardly j afford to-continne any practice other than the best. It will be a pity if this opportunity is allowed to pass" without somo thing definite being done.—l am, etc., . KELBURK, • 14th April.