Successive steps In one of the most Important functions of the modern city's health department the supervision of the milk supply are
halting milk delivery wagon to obtain a sample bottle for testing; obtaining another sample bottle from tne dealer's
THERE doesn't seem to be any
thing unusual about that bot
tle of milk you pick off the door
step of a morn
ing but, nev
erlcHH. it's one
of the moat
I highly guarded
or your ioous:
So thorough
Is the super
vision of milk
these days, in
fact, that any
thing resem
bling a milk-
borne epidemic
in the West
has become a
Dp. N
Ashley my iu ue
the extl :t Great Auk and the
non-exlm nt sea sorpent!
Routine work, this Inspection
has become through the years,
yet there'i plenty of drama back
of the milk wagon if you want
to look for It tho drama of men
and women working ceaselessly
to maintain public health.
True enough, they seldom got
their names in newspaper head
lines, and none has yet created
the stir of, Bay, a trans-oceanic
flier. Yet even a casual look at
the situation c nvinces that what
th-y lack in publicity, thoy make
up for in value!
This story of milk Inspection,
typical of tho caro exercised
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Scientific Discoveries Enable
Man tO Manufacture Gold
By Anne Bibb
YESTERDAY'S magic has be
como the reality of today and
man is making gold.
To mako gold alchemists of
tho Dark Ages pored over boil
ing cauldrons In dusky monaster
ies. Hoping to win wealth and
everlasting fame, men gambled
away fortunes In trying now pro
cesses for the manufacture of
gold. Then with the passing of tho
Middle Ages, alchemy became a
matter for ridicule. Scientists
laughed at the ancients and their
dreams of a magic formula with
which anyone could make as much
gold as he wished.
But now, In tho twentieth cen
tury, man Is making gold without
any more hocus pocus than he
uses In making choose.
THE fli st gold has boon made in
n laboratory at the University
of California at Horkoloy. It was
made In the cyclotron, a groat
machine which was designed by
Prof. E, O. l-awrcncc, professor
of physics at the university.
The cyclotron operates like a
vast machine gun which dis
charges one hundred thousand
bilH .ii bullets per second at a ve
locity of approximately twelve
thousand four hundred miles per
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in Western centers, comes from
Dr. N. N. Ashley, city health of
ficer of Oakland, California. Let's
call it "From Cow to Coffee
Cup"
Oakland's long record of main
taining an up-to-date, modern
and scientific milk inspection serv
ice Is well known throughout the
West. In fact, Oakland is perma
nent convention headquarters for
the Western Regional Dairy con
gress, which covers the 11 West
ern States.
Under the direction of Dr.
Ashley, the Dairy and Milk In
spection service, which employs
IS persons, is responsible for the
purity of every drop of milk en
tering the city. Some of It is de
livered from 300 miles away in
trucks kept at a constant tem
perature. AN AVERAGE of 57.040 gal
lons of milk arrive in the
Oakland territory daily from 319
dairy farms.
Farmers and milk dealers pay
fees on all milk entering the city.
A city ordinance requires that
any plant handling two or more
grades of milk must provide for
the services of an inspector. Li
cense fees are additional.
In this way Oakland provides
for complete inspection and
there is no cost to tho public. As
a matter of fact, receipts last
year left a surplus of nearly $300.
Let's start at the beginning
and trace, with Dr. Ashley the
second. The machine weighs 85
tons.
Its bullets arc Invisible frag
ments of double-weight hydrogen
atoms obtained from heavy water
and called douterona. ' The object
of shooting these fragments at
such a speed is to bombard whole
atoms and to transmute one ele
ment into another.
Gold was made by firing the
doutorons at platinum.
THE successful creation of one
form of radium, called Radium
E, has recently been announced
by Dr. J. J. Livingood, research
associatt In the Radiation Labo
ratory of the university. This form
of radium is ono of the naturally
Here's the 85-ton cyclotron which produces a shower of particles
that on striking atoms blast them apart and transmute one sub
stance Into another. Right Is Dr. E. O. Lawrence, and left. Or, M.
Stanley Livingston, his assistant.
occurring disintegration products
of ordinary radium in thp proccM
of 1U decay into lead.
Dr. Livinjiood, working with the
cyclotron, haa succeeded in pro
during Radium K by bombarding
ordinary bismuth with bullets
made from tho nuclei or hearts of
double -weight hydrogen atoms
The amount of Hadium K thus far
created is almost Infinitesimal but
careful checks leave no doubt as
to its identity.
While Hadium E is the first
From the Cow to Coffee Cup, Constant Supervision Is Exercised
By Great Corps of Inspectors and Laboratory Workers
i f & A-
And In spite of the extreme care with which your milk
is science-guarded, the family Tabby too often is apt to
take a satisfying, but unhealthy, lick or two from the bottlel
function of the inspection service.
To ship milk into the city, a
permit is required of the dairy
farmer. Application for such a
(radlo-active substance found In
nature to be duplicated in the lab
oratory, many short-lived radio
active substances never found in
nature have already been manu
factured and more than one-third
of all elements known to man have
been successfully transmuted by
this means.
Among the most Interesting of
these are radio-active sodium,
made from a constituent of com
mon table salt, and adio-actlve
phosphorus.
THE production of radium E
from bismuth, the heaviest of
all non-radio -active substances,
Indicates that every clement
known to man can be transmuted
by the giant cyclotron.
In the present experiment the
apparatus produced a barragq of
double-weight hydrogen or deu
teron bullets endowed vth some
live and a half million volts of
energy.
Tu cyclotron will produce ex
perimental intensities of a new,
very powerful ray. known Vs the
neutron ray, which is more pene
trating and more highly endowed
with energy than the X-ray.
permit brings an inspector to the
farm, who carefully checks the
property and the herd.
Cows must bo tuberculin test
Old Chinese Is Police Mascot
Cooked in Philippines; Canned Salmon in Alaska
Ho Set 'On Duty
. At Walla Walla
Station Daily
SOLDIER of fortune, wartime
cook in the Philippines, gold
hunter and Alaskan cannery fore
man these are just a few of the
jobs 69-year-old Ho Set, Chinese
mascot of the Walla Walla,
Wash., police department, has
handled.
Now he's a wrinkled, toothless
old fellow with a cackling laugh,
who takes up his post at police
headquarters at 8 o'clock in the
morning and stays on duty faith
fully until 9 or 10 at night.
Perhaps the oldest police mas
cot on the Coast, Ho Set is a pet
of the officers, who provide him
with clothing and tobacco and
give him enough simple odd Jobs
to do in the summer lime to earn
money for his few wants.
Ho is a philosophical Chinese
who sees little reason for all the
hustle of the average person and
still less reason for worry about
the hereafter.
"Mclican people hurry too
fast." he aays through withered
gums, out of which the last tooth
dropped recently. "Alice same
wear out heap quick. Worry help
wear out, too. No need worry
'bout die. Man only die one time.
After that heap long sleep. Me
not hurry. Me not worry. Me
happy."
BORN in Montana In 1S67, Ho
was taken to Canton by his
parents when only throe years
old. He stayed with them until he
was 17. when the I'nlted States
called him- For several years he
lived in San Francisco, but life
got humdrum.
When one of the periodic Chi-
shown above. Left to right: an Inspector advising a dairy farmer on the care of his cattle; Inspector
Ice box; home Inspection to warn housewives of the dangers from torn screens.
ed; must be free from the ail
ments which transmit themselves
to human beings through the
milk. Raw milk, unpasteurized,
must be delivered double-capped.
FROM the herd, the inspector
travels to the barns. Cattle
must be properly housed and, of
prime importance, properly fed.
The barn where the milking
operation is carried out must
have proper lighting, ventilation
and drainage, with a concrete
floor and side walls. Tho animals
themselves must be kept as clean
as their houses.
After the barns the milker.
He must pass a laboratory and
physical examination. He must
pass a test on the correct way to
care for cows.
Then to other equipment: steam
boiler for washing and steriliza
tion; ice machine to allow for
cold storage. This latter opera
tion takes place directly after the
milk is strained, and the liquid is
kept at a temperature of 50 de
grees F. in storage and in deliv
ery trucks.
Once a permit is Issued, in
spectors make regular visits to
obtain specimens of milk for the
city laboratory, where a chemist
Meet Ho Set, who has been
places and done things and now,
ct the young old age of 69, Is
settled down In Walla Walla,
Wash., as mascot of the police
department. "Me no worry"
that's his motto.
new revolutions broke out In
1SS7. he hurriedly booked pas
sage for Poking, where he en
listed in the revolutionary army.
After two months of fighting, his
side was victorious, and the war
was over.
He then returned to San Fran
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and bacteriologist are constantly
watching. Samples are labeled
with an identifying number, and
all receive the same treatment.
The requirements are that milk
must
Arrive at the distribution plant
at 55 degrees F., or less.
Be free from physical sediment.
Contain not less than 3.4 per
cent butterfat.
Contain not less than 8.5 per
cent solids not fat.
Be free fHm objectionable feed
flavors -and dors.
Have a bacteria count not over
100,000 per c.c. before pasteuri
zation. Strict, Indeed. And rigorous the
task faced by the farmer, who
'must supervise the diet of his
herd almost as carefully as that
of a young mother! Here is where
the inspector must have a com
plete knowledge of his subject
to advise the farmer and to prove
his contentions with the labora
tory analysis.
After these extensive safe
guards, it isn't infrequent that
Mr. and Mrs. Public Jeopardize
their health through Improper
handling of delivered milk. 1
SUPPOSE an inspector visited
your home some morning.
Hm! A bottle of milk on top of
the stove! He'll tell you that
warm milk is the perfect breed-
cisco and from there went to
Portland, where he opened a store.
Storekeeping was monotonous for
the energetic ex-soldier, however,
so he pulled stakes for the Philtn-
pincs with the beginning of the
Spanish-American war.
Army officers were in need of
cooks, so Ho promptly became a
cook and stayed through the en
tire campaign, learning to dish
up savory concoctions for his em
ployers. With the close of the war, Ho
returned to Oregon and became a
restaurant cook, finally getting a
cafe of his own In the eastern
part of the state.
GOLD was found shortly
thereafter, so he became a
miner with indifferent success.
The money came in so slowly that
he opened another cafe in Pendle
ton, later selling It to go to
Alaska ns the foreman of a Chi
nese cannery crew. He liked it
there, except that the weather
wasn't right for him.
"Heap freeze allec time," he
says. "Too cold for China boy, so
me come home quick."
For a time following his return
he cooked for Sheriff Tom Gur
dane of Pendleton. Umatilla coun
ty, Oregon, and then worked for
George Kanz. who later became
chief of police at Walla Walla.
H was then that he began to
work In as the station msscot. a
post he holds even though Kunz
is no longer connected with the
department
Ho takes a lot of good-natured
kidding from the officers, who ac
cuse him of having an Indian
wife and of being a hatchet man
He doesn't let any of tho Jests
bother him. however. "Me alloo
same cop. too." he declarer "Me
got plenty flat feet."
That's usually sufficient to hol.l
any of them! j
tng place for bacteria which may
cause serious illness; that milk
should be kept in the refrigera
tor at all times
And there a ragged patch of
broken screen on the back door.
YES the perfect inlet for germ-
laden flies, which, lighting on
your milk and other uncovered
foods, might bring you any one
of a dozen illnesses. George just
doesn't seem to be able to get
around to fixing it? Well, per
haps he will if he reads this.
That inspector might well feel
sarcastic about the whole thing.
Oakland, and most cities, con
duct "surprise" milk scoring con
tests Milk is taken off delivery
wag,;n3, at farms and pasteuriz
ing plants. No one knows when
or where these bottles will be
picked up for analysis. In Oak
land, Dr. Ashley relates, an av
erage score of 96.6 per cent is
made. And this purity and rich
ness is more than apt to be care
lessly handled by the house
wives! MILK is not Vie only thing
subject to Inspo-tion, of
course. Ico aceain and olher by
produ: 13 must be kept up to the
high standard.
But milk, on which countless
lives depend, serves to illustrate
the modern trend. Prevention
that's the watchword. Literally
hundreds of Inspectors, chemists,
health officers, scientists of all
sorts labor daily toward that very
end.
In 1935, Oakland's department
collected 13,091 samples for anal
sis a matter of 65,455 analyses.
Multiply that by the many health
departments In the West and
you'll see tho scope of this great
safety measure. '
Next time you gather in the
morning milk handle with re
spect. It's science-guarded!
dizzy
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will He on a dime every day in your
morning cup of tea or coffee or In
hot water.
After the jar it empty if you ar
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