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Show An Interesting Parallel A prominent state agricultural college, through its extension serv-1 ice, has just issued a 24-page bulle- tin entitled, "Use Butter. Use Cheese, Use More Milk." Various' menus are given to impress upon public the idea that each individual should consume one pint of milk, ' four tablespoons of butter and an ounce of cheese daily. After witnessing a 'two-year pol- ; itical crusade against the electric companies for cooperating with the schools and colleges in work tending tend-ing to inform the public on many phases of the electric industry, including in-cluding farm electrification, one ; wonders what political criticism will ! be launched against this state ag-1 ricultural college for the booklet which it is distributing oseensibly in tht interest of a healthful diet but which is also a direct business building talk for the great butter and cheese manufacturers and milk distributing concerns of the country. coun-try. The politicians will say that butter, but-ter, cheese and milk propaganda is in the interest of farmers; but so is dissemination of information which ... i , , encourages the use of electricity, for butter, checsea nd milk can be produced pro-duced mere cheaply with the help of electricity than they can by other oth-er methods. The parallel is an interesting one. |