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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER - 21. 1913. THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE PURE MILK PROBLEM APPEALS TO THESE TOTS; WHY NOT TO YOU? ; ' ', . Ad," : ' 1 ' 1 ; y ' ' " ' . .. .,' "' . " 1 ' ',! 1 ;' n in ..' , stg--'wf'.Vv'y yrt - mt ' , "" "m ' ""r ' ' " lf" "' 1 ' ' " " "' . . - - . . M -WLi ' ' ;X':XX MMX ,y . . ' - V r"". ..mi ' ' MILK SUPPLY FACTOR FOR HEALTH AMONG WARDS OF BABY Hum E Not a t Death Has Occurred Among 188 Babies Received ' in Past 16 Months, By Veil Winner. -During tha paat II month 188 bablea fcav been received the Baby Home. Gome of these wee mites of humanity vera but a few hours old. a majority bad been born under abnormal circum stance and frequently of afflicted par ents, yef la the entire 1( months there batf not been a death in the home, a record. unequaled by any similar insti tution in the world. Many factors are responsible for this remarkable record. The home Is tx- tremely fortunate In having a board of directors made up of Intelligent and sympathetic men and women, whose one aim la the furthering of the Interests of . the home and Its little helpless inmates. Again, the home Is favored in having a meaical starr or soma or the city's best known and most successful physicians , portant than either of these is the very excellent corps of nurses and attend 'suits of whom Miss Morse Is the superin tendent; their vigil Is a never ending one and with their scientific training .and experience they combine a warmth of sympathy and genuine love for their i little charges that never falls to strengthen tired limbs and aching bodies . 'for their long hours of labor. But there la still another factor, the .most Important of all five of them, in fact. They are four legged factors and ,they each answer to the name of Bossy. -"Without doubt the gospel of pure milk. "M exemplified by the chubby, healthy babies of the Baby Home, is the most 1 telling argument that could be made in Its favor. Cows Well Oared lor. Mora than a -year ago there was erect ed at the home a new concrete barn, not 'large, but of the most modern and san itary sort Its floors are washed every , morning. Just as the floors of the home (Itself are. Five cows are used to supply mlllc for the babies. They are washed before being milked and the man who 'does the milking always has clean handu and wears a white suit The pails and r duiiw alter eacn using. As soon as milked the milk Is put in the big white enamel refrigerator one f the prides of the Baby Home where It remains until ready for modification. The milk is prepared by Miss Morsei ,a she Is a firm believer In having the .fluid handled by as few people as pos sible and then holding them responsible DONT FORGETI ! COLUMBIA Supply Company Handles Primus Cream Separators Creamery and Dairy Ma chinery and Supplies Faihily Churns and Other Milk Utensils 6S-70 FRONT STREET PORTLAND, OR. For prices and other jnfor - mation)hone or write. for Its cleanliness, purity and condi tion. There are now In the home SO babies on bottle formulae, a total o( 200 bottles being prepared every day. If, for any reason, there Is ever a shortage of milk, the best milk obtain able is bought, no prepared foods ever being used in the home. Toung babies are fed every three hours during the day and every four hours at night, from two to three ounces of food being given each time. If a baby weighs less than seven pounds at birth even a smaller amount is given, and if the baby Is premature It Is fed oftener. Premature babies are also seldom given the regulation milk food, but for a time they are fed on buttermilk, on which they thrive until their stomachs are equal to digesting fresh milk. The buttermilk is made from the tablets, now so generally recommended by physicians, and thus the babies receive all the fat, yet In a form easily digested. How Milk Xa Modified. Miss Morse has no set rule for modi fying the milk. The usiil formula aver ages about one-third milk and two thirds boiled water with sugar of milk and lime water. These proportions are varied, however, according to the needs of the chl'd. Some can care for more fat than others, and each child Is sup plied with the richest food he can digest. Great granite kettles of water are boiled every morning and set aside to cool for use In diluting the milk the next day. The milk is kept at an even temperature, this being the best pre ventlve from souring. The bottles are washed first with lukewarm water and soap, a brush being used, and they are rinsed and boiled lor hair an nour ana then set aside to cool. The babies are kept Ortvthe bottle, uiitil they are from 11 to 14 months old. However, according to the new German method, they are given food as young as 6 months. The food consists of gruel and soft mushe's, which have been cooked five hours, this food alternated with the milk making an ideal diet for children. Judging from the condition of the babies now taking it. Although the home Is not a sanitarium or a hospital, no baby is rejected and if after it Is reoelved It Is found that It can be better cared for In a hospital or sanltralum It Is taken there, for the real aim of the home Is to give the babies, one and all, of whatever race, creed or color, a chance In life. MILK PASTUERIZED IN BOTTLES is the cleanest, most modern and best method of hand ling milk and cream. It is given the highest endorsement by the Portland Board of Health and by physicians because It Assures Pure, Sweet, Wholesome Milk the best for the baby and for you. Insist on Riverview Dairy Milk With the Metal Cap. Delivered daily anywhere on East Side. Telephone Tabor 461 7. RIVERVIEW DAIRY CO. 1005 Belmont Street We Will Demonstrate Our Method of Pasteurizing at the Dairy Show. Visitors Always Welcome at Our Creamery A reputation for national leadership may have Its penalties and pains. Or egon leads all other states in eugenics. Oregon babies have scored highest. Or egon people have shown greater Interest In the better babies science. Other states have fallen Into line. Thar have copied After Oregon. In 28 statM this year tha Oregon Idea of eugenics exhibits at state fairs is being used. But now coais from the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, to O. M. Plum mer, president of the Oregon Eugenics Pure Butter Is Just As Essential As Pure Milk BRAND Butter is produced from selected, pasteurized cream, manufactured daily in our model sanitary creamery, where hygiene in its most scientific form is rigidly observed. An exclusive featurevof Columbia Brand Butter is its double wrapper used to re tain its sweet and delicate flavor and to keep out foreign odors. Demand it at your dealer's. Union Meat Co. J Nnrtfi Pnrtlanfl OmirAn EUGENICS MOVEMENT MAKES THE GREATEST ' ADVANCE IN OREGON Significance of Better Babies Idea Effectively Set Forth by 0. M. 'Plummer, society, the anxious question, "If eugen ics produces babies of uniform mental and physical efficiency what is to be come of the geniuses? . Hadn't we bettef do without eugenics than without gen iuses? "Better have all good average babies than part scrubs for the sake of having one or two geniuses in a generation," Is Mr. Plummer's answer. Being president of an eugenics society that has furnished the ideas to all the rest of the country has crystallised In Mr. Plummer's mind some eplgrammatlo truths. Here are some of them: "It's as much an offense against so ciety and the race to be an accidental parent as to be sterile. "Pre-natal influences have 75 per cent to do with what the child becomes. "The healthily born child has only a little better chance to live than the un healthily born, if it gets improper food. Three times as many bottle babies die as breast fed babies. Twice as many bablea nursed by foster mother die as babies nursed by their own mothers. "Therefore the leaders of society ought to start a new league with two departments one by promoting the way of feeding babies that nature provided and thus give them a chance, and the other to demand a pure milk supply. 'There ought to be some efficient way of opposing accidental parentage. The union of the unfit the feeble minded and the diseased ought to be prohibited by law. Sterilisation will do more to pro mot strength In the race In 10 years tnan positive eugenics will in 100 years. "The rearing of normal, healthful children is the desideratum. I don't want to be understood as advocating it but the method the old Spartans had ot turning the weaklings out upon the mountain slopes certainly kept up the physical standards. ' "We ought In this country to come to the plan some-of the old country people have they feed the prospective mother the kind of foods she needs to sustain the strength tf herself and child, and after the child is born they still con tinue to prescribe the mother's diet This plan has decreased the infant mor tality rate by 60 per cent. . . "Ignorant mothers cause many Infant deaths. They don't know how to feed them. They are frequently too lazy or too selfish to breast feed them. They don't know or they don't care what sub stitute foods should be. Not long ago I found a mother you'd expect to know better putting two tablespoonfuls of straight whiskey In baby's milk bottle. Her baby, she said, never cried any and slept most of the time. "Sometimes doctors are to blame. Th baby of a mother I know, was ailing. She called the doctor. He prescribed raw eggs, sugar and whisky. Anyone who knows anything knows that whisky coagulates eggs and no baby stomach can digest such a mess. "Education, pre-natal and post-natal, of the public generally is necessary to promote eugenics. Choice foods, kind of thoughts, care alt these things are in volved. "WhenI was up at Goldendale the . other day!" continued Mr. Plummer, "I met Mrs. Rex Russell, whose son, Rex Jr., won the Oregon prise for the best baby. Since that prise was awarded the Russells have brought into the world a little girl strictly according to eu genic methods and it is a wonder. . "Oregon leads all other states In the promotion of eugenics. This year at the state fair we distribute S1300 In eugen ics prises, and this Is more than is of fered for any ' single line of livestock. Governor West is going to award the prises. At Ban Francisco, I predict, Or egon will exhibit the $25,000 prise baby, the bestin the world." Will Probated Before Death. For the first time In the history of Somerset county, Pa., a will has been probated before the death of the tes tator. The Instrument Is that of Israel Fullem, of Summit township. Fullem and his wife, Mrs, Fullem, Lydia Wright Fullem, made a Joint will Mrs. Fullem died several days ago and the will has been probated. i . 1 Jt sttanm.dl.-. 'does it not ? that the Creamery personally inspecting its Dairies and rigidly maintaining a superior standard of sanitation therein is commencing at the right place to obtain the best results from its mechanical appliances for Clarifying, Pasteurizing, Cooling and ftottling? O ai mi si s ctul s IVEOIk fis poire not alone by virtue of the Laboratory and Creamery pro tections, but because it is ORGANICALLY PURE and KEPT SO in every step of its journey from dairy to table. Purity is FUNDAMENTAL, and NO milk can be made so, not PURE AT ITS SOURCE. HEALTHY cows SANITARY quarters SUPERIOR cooling methods PERFECT Pasteurizing and a RAPID delivery system MAINTAIN the HIGH STANDARD of QUALITY and PURITY demanded by DAMASCUS CUSTOMERS. At All Reliable Grocers or Delivered by Us ASK YOUR GROCER FOR DAMASCUS BUTTER V DAMASCUS CREAMERY PORTLAND. OREGON V " I I .X'