An  ordinance  adopted  in  Baltimore  regulating  the  produc-
tion and  dislribution  of  milk  and  milk  products  in  the  city
constitutes  a  valid  exercise  of  the  city's  ^ower  to  provide
for  cleanliness  and  health.  The  ordinance  is  not  invalidated
by  difficulties  encountered  by  milk  producers  and  distributors
in  adapting  their  plants  to  the  ordinance  by  reason  of  war
conditions  interfering  with  securing  necessary  labor  and  mate-
rials. (Maryland  Court  of  Appeals,  Creaghan  vs.  Baltimore,
104  Atlantic  Reporter,  180.)

Pre^illing  of  taxes,  required  by  Detroit's  new  charter,
seems  to  be  Anding  favor  and  working  satisfactorily.  Collec-
tions for  the  regular  thirty-day  period  were  36  per  cent  in
1918,  as  compared  with  26  per  cent  in  1917  under  the  old

Cleveland  city  officials  have  no  delusions  about  the  "non-
essential" character  of  the  common,  wasteful  practice  of  cor
existing  city  and  county  government,  as  is  shown  by  the
following  resolution,  passed  by  the  city  council  and  approved
by  the  mayor :

"Whereas  it  is  necessary  that  the  greatest  economy  be  prac-
tised in  the  administration  of  public  affairs  by  reason  of  the
loss  of  revenue  from  the  liquor  taxes ;  and

"Whereas  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  could  be  saved
for  the  city  of  Cleveland  "and  county  of  Cuyahoga  by  having
the  city  of  Cleveland  merged  with  the  county  of  Cuyahoga:

"Now,  therefore,  be  it  resolved  by  the  Council  of  the  City
of  Cleveland  and  State  of  Ohio,  that  the  Cuyahoga  County
legislative  delegation  be  requested  to  hold  public  meetings,  to
the  end  that  the  dty,  the  county,  the  civic  bodies  of  the  city,
and  the  general  public  may  have  an  opportunity  to  be  heard
in  reference  thereto,  that  a  bill  may  be  introduced  in  the
next  session  of  Legislature  to  this  end.
