Give The Public Pure Milk

GIVE THE PUBLIC PURE MILK

The reports given out by the health officers of the results of the examinations made of various specimens of milk now being sold in Ann Arbor have caused a decided flutter among milk sellers and milk buyers. All this goes to show what a power publicity is if properly used. Various people are said to have refused to use milk in their coffee yesterday morning because they did not know whether it was their particular milk man who was vending impure milk. Several milk men were from an hour to an hour and a half late yesterday because of the thousand and one questions asked of them by disturbed purchasers of lacteal fluid. Before the milk vendors go half way over their routes those who were not fortified by the most strenuous kind of piety were saying some things inwardly, if not aloud, that might not look well in print. But it is the information and belief that there will be a little closer attention given to the cleanliness of the milk offered for sale nevertheless and this is well. If any of the milk being sold in the city, is as unclean as the analysis is said to have shown, then means should be taken to stop its sale and publicity apparently is the means to this end. The health board will make an example of those who do not heed what is said to them on this matter.

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The State Grange talks right from the shoulder about the bosses and political machine men of Michigan in their relations to the issue of primary election reform. The Grange stands strongly by the primary election idea and it characterizes the state senators who opposed the Colby bill as tools of the bosses. The Grange holds them up as political pharisees, filled with hypocrisy. And probably this is a pretty correct characterization, true to life. But the Grange leaders appear to think a third declaration of the republican party for primary reform will bring it about. Twice the party has declared for this much needed change and twice repudiated its pledges by the action of the men it has sent to the legislature. The claim that it should be tried once more will probably be accepted by the Grange as being sincere, at least until after the majority of them have again voted that ticket. The great trouble about the Grange demand for primary reform is that its members are more thoroughly wedded to the g. o. p. than to primary reform. They place their faith when there are no works, with the result that after they have voted for the "tools of the bosses" and the pharisees "filled with hypocrisy" these same pharisees when they get into the legislature repeat their great turning-down-of-primary-reform act.

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Fred Warner, the cheese maker, secretary of state and machine candidate for governor, has run up against the farmers' organizations of the state and received a sever jolt, all because of his position on primary reform. Accordingly, he is said to be in the dumps over his prospects. Warner, the farmers believe, is against primary reform and consequently  they are against him. Warner has done considerable straddling, but the farmers are on to him. The thing for him to do under such circumstances is to get the nomination through the powerful influence of the machine and its money and then all else will be added unto him. The farmers will not vote against him if he gets the nomination in the party convention. What is primary reform compared to party regularity? If he gets the party nomination, and whether he does nor not will depend upon the machine, he will be elected by anything from 50,000 to 100,000 more than half the votes of Michigan.

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Now it is claimed, thanks to the example of Queen Alexandra, that London society women are giving more attention to children and care more for them than for pet dogs. Children are no longer relegated to the back apartments while snarling curs are fondled by women who call themselves mother to them. Children are brought into the receiving apartments, parties given for them at which the society mothers consider it not beneath them to be present. This new movement which, according to report is leaving but few of the homes of London's 400 childless, is a fad it is said, but nevertheless one that promises much for the good of the children and their care by the mothers themselves instead of by hired nurses alone. It is a move in the right direction, even if it does relegate poodles to the background.

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The republican national convention will be held in Chicago on June 21, 1904. There will be less trouble to induce Teddy to stand for the nomination for president at that convention than there was to get his consent four years ago to the use of his name for vice president.

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Gen. McArthur is alleged to have been talking and to have delivered himself of the thought that Germany and Uncle Sam are likely to soon be at each other's throats--in other words, at war. Now he has got to give an account of himself for uttering these idle words and swear he never said anything of the kind.

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Wm. J. Bryan, in his articles about the British Campaign now on relative to Chamberlain's protection policy and the great Englishmen who are prominent in the fray are most interesting reading. He writes without partisanship and with keen discrimination and discernment as to the leaders and their arguments. Mr. Bryan is a positive man with positive views, but his ability to lay aside this assertiveness and write of the great contest now on in England with so much of judicial fairness to both sides as his articles indicate shows breadth.