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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...has my admiration and respect as a business man and a gentleman. Your Mr. Holmes is my ideal of a business executive and a doer of things worth while. May you all live long and prosper. "Very respectfully, (Signed) EARL F. GREEN, Captain Sanitary Corps." But we do know this, that during the beginning and making of this ordinance, we were never invited to be present; we were never consulted, and all we knew about it was that we learned second-hand many times from rawmilk purchasers that they were holding meetings with Mrs. Hoxie somewhere out south here in regard to this ordinance. It was openly claimed that the raw milk men from time to time claimed that when this ordinance was prepared and introduced and published that it was the finish of pasteurized milk in this city. That, without doubt, was a self-evident fact in the minds of the raw producers. Now, about all the plants sticking together. She made that statement, that it was peculiar that all the plants stuck together always. I wonder. Do you think it is peculiar, Doctor North, when a set of men in any one line of business, a set of men in any one walk of life, are being attacked along some line that affects each one alike, is it not human nature--men, animals, or anything, from the lowest to the highest, to band together under attack? And we have been attacked from that day to this. They have attacked pasteurization, and that is what naturally would make all the plants fight for the same cause and reason. Is that not so?. There were twenty-one milk plants in Kansas City then, Doctor North, supplying milk to homes in bottles. As to their character, type, variety, I am not qualified to say. All but one fought the ordinance. That was six years ago. Today, after six years of...