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How The Scandal Grew From a Whisper at DyerRefusal to Deliver a Can Of Milk To Orphanage Home At East Chicago Brought About Revelation.theOut of the village of Dyer came gossip. From the general store to the barbershop and the lunch counter the story spread until Anally an excited parishioner went scurrying to the home of the kindly, old priest who can be seen every day plodding in his picturesque garden concerned about the welfare of the plants and buds.Farmers stopping on the road to pass the time of day carried the tale farther away each day until Anally it found its way. as rumors will, into a newspaper ofTlce. The office was that of The Times.THE SECRET LEAKS OUT.Thirty-Ave cans of fresh milk are hauled each day from Dyer to Indiana Harbor and dumped into the sewer.”That was the tip on which a reporter went to Dyer. It was an in-deAnite rumor. Traced from lip to lip it seemed a mauverlck until the reporter found that pretty garden with the kindly old priest in his black robe, smiling to himself as he packed the soft earth about the bulb of a plant.The reporter talked to the housekeeper. Is It true that when theFather was told that they were throwing the milk from Dyer into the sewer at Indiana Harbor that he appealed to them to donate some ofthe milk to the poor sick little girlsat the Carmelite Sisters' orphanage in East Chicago and that tiny refused to give the milk to the orphans unless paid for it?”That is partly true..- ,aid thehousekeeper. The father heard that there was more milk than they could sell and we asked Mr. Ehrsam to give a can of the milk to the orphans. He said they couldn't donate the milk but t »• would deliver It tor . email sum, thirty cents a can.”ehrsam makes admissions.Mr. Ehrsam was the man the reporter had been told by several people to see. He was found at his home..„ r® th6 who takes themilk to Indiana Harbor?” Ehrsam wasasked. He answered in the afflrmative.About how many cans do you take a day.’Thirty-Ave. Why do you ask?” Well. I'm Interested In milk. jJo you suppose I could buy this milk?”I don't know. Perhaps.It’s poured Into the sewer at Indiana Harbor, itsn’t it?”Yes, after the butter fat is removed.”Could be used for condensing, making cheese, milk powder, ice cream or it could be given to the poor hungry kids over at the Harbor?”It certainly could.”How much do they throw in the sewer?”East month it was over 500 can* a day at Indiana Harbor. There's eight gallons to a can.”Do you take this milk to Indiana Harbor in a school truck?”Yes.Doesn’t it appeal to you as ironical to haul good milk to a sewer In a truck built for'kids to whom milk Is so precious? Did you ever stop to think that this milk flows Into a sewer and passes under tho homes In the tenement districts of Indiana Harbor where kids go to bed every night in these hard times with their stomachs aching for food?No it ain’t right,” Ehrsam agreed. Who employs you?”'The Milk Producers Co-operative Marketing Company.”How much are you paid?”About |10 for gathering the milk from the farms and hauling it to Indiana Harbor.”The officers of the company vili they didn't know Ehrsam. They said they had never refused to donate a can of skimmed milk to the Carmelite orphans. But Ehrsam was there yesterday, nevertheless, unloading his cans of milk and watching the life-sustaining Auld Aow Into the sewer.It goes to show that gossip is not always evil.It cries to heaven for revenge,’'cried the kindly old priest,
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East Chicago Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Thu, May 12, 1921
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