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Jr. THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917. 1 BAKERIES WILL . OPERATE UNDER LICENSE ONLY Beginning December 10 Gov- ernment Will Standardize Bread and Reduce Waste in Distribution. Washington, Nov. 12. All bakeries in every city of the land are to be put under government license begin ning December 18, and made subject to food administration rules govern ing ingredients and weights of loaves by President Wilson's proclamation planned for issuance today. The ef fect, as forecast by the food admin istration, will be to standardize bread, eliminate waste in distribution to con sumers and to gradually force prices for pound loaves downward, per haps to 7 or 8 cents a loaf. While prices are not to be fixed, fancy breads are to be eliminated and all bread baked in regular sizes of one, one and a half, two and four pounds, with a midway increase on each to permit the sale of half a loaf. Fixed standard weights are to let con sumers know which loaf is really the cheapest. Three pounds of sugar in stead of six are to be allowed for a barrel of flour, and two pounds of vegetable oil instead of six pounds of lard or oil. i Reductions for Cash. Through the co-operation of the baking industry and also with the backing of the licensing system, Food Administrator Hooover hopes to work reforms in the present method of dis tribution from wholesale bakeries to retailers, and from retailers to cus tomers.. He will urge grocers, for in stance, to buy regular quantities of bread, limiting their purchases to a single bakery instead of buying from four or five, as at present, and to make lower charges to customers who pay cash and carry their goods home than to those insisting on delivery and credit On the "cash and carry" basis, he says, bread can be sold at a profit of 1 cent a pound loaf. In addition, an attempt will be made to persuade wholesale bakeries to sell their prod uct direct to customers who will pay cash and carry their purchases. No Attempt to Mix Flour. In licensing the baking industry, which produces about 40 per cent of the country's bread, Mr. Hoover indi cated no effort would be made to en courage use of mixed flout containing other cereal products than wheat, since experiments have shown such flour does not keep well. Neither will the administration ask housekeepers who bake their own bread to mix flour, but will seek instead to have them observe one- wheatless meal a day a week. Restaurants and hotels, which use about IS per cent of the total bakery output, will be asked to have one wheatless day a week. The food ' administration estimates that about 40, per cent of the bread pro duction of the country is in commer cial bakeries and 60 per r.ent id..hornes. Milling Standards Efficient. Milling standards, now requiring manufacture of about 72 per cent of the wheat grain into flour, have been found most efficient, from considera tions of health and keeping qualities, and probably will not be changed. "The requirement that all bread shall be baked in multiples of one pound," Mr. Hoover said in his state ment announcing the forthcoming proclamation, "has several objectives economy in labor of baking and economy in materials, as small breads are more wasteful in, baking than larger units. The bread remains fresh longer in larger loaves, and there will be less stale bread, v "Furthermore,- a standard weight will protect the consumer. At the present time" the tendency is to adjust the weight to. the. cost of the bread in an endeavor to maintain a unit of price. If the bread in the codntry is of fixed weights, the consumer will be able to determine at once the cheapest bread, of which he is now incapable because of he variability in weight from six ounces up to. four pounds. . Distribution; Cost Enormous. "The cost of, distribution from the wholesale baker's door," says Mr. Hoover, "represents 33 per cent of the cost of bread or over 3 cents a pound at present prices. . "Some relief can be found in that section of the community most in need of care if the wholesale bakers will place bread on sale to 'cash and carry' customers at the bakery door at a margin above wholesale prices, sufficient to cover the extra expense. "The food administration has had the co-operation of many bakers, and wishes to express its appreciation for their support. The whole1 of the reg ulations have been under a continuous and extended test, and any capable baker will have no difficulty. in .com pliance and the production of good bread. Food Propaganda Helps. "The nrice of English bread is now 4' cents per pound 'cash'and carry.' lhis bread contains 25 per cent of . other cereals or potatoes and it is sub sidized by the government, an appro prfcuion of $200,000,000. having been , Reports reaching Mr. Hoover indi :ate that since September 1. from 1 to 14 per cent of the flour supply has been saved by household. economies oromoted by the food administration The bakers' voluntary rule against ar ceoting returns of stale bread is esti mated to have saved 600,000 barrels of flour. to the American people and to our al lies, and last, but not least, to the em peror of Germany. And I want to say to you that o far as we have gone, the answer is on the side of Germany. We are still washing our dirty linen and we have not as yet settled down to a realization of our condition. The German propaganda is abroa . in the land and may be numbered among your delegates. And why not? They are in House of Par liament in England; they were in the Duma of Russia; they were in the Chamber of Deputies, in Italy; they were in the Chamber of Deputies in France. They had Greece bj the throat, and, if such is the case, why should they not be in our own legis lative bodies, national, state and mu nicipal? And if there. I repeat, whv not here; and if here, how are we going to know him? He won't tell us. We can only judge by his actions and how he approaches this great problem of winning the war. Must Not Aid Germany. "It matters not what a man claims as a reason for justifying the retard ing or holding back of our war ac tivities. We must stand on results or any man or any body of men who assume to get in the way of the re sults of winning this war for democ racy, conservation and humanity is on the side of Germany, regardless of what his method of reasoning may be. Why Did They Leave Germany. "Do you imagine that under Ger man rule you could possibly have the riKlits you now have under a dem ocracy? Ask any man who has come from Germany. Ask him why he Iett Germany He will tell you the an swer, if he is honest. If we continue to argue among ourselves as to the right and wrong of this principle and that principle, and if we continue trying to satisfy our personal ambi tions and our pocketbooks at the ex pense of our national efficiency, what we will say when our boys return trom France? How are we going to ex cuse our negligence to them when they return legless, armless and eye less (it tney return at an;, knowing that the reason for it was that we failed to back our boys at the front. That the boy's -very father refused lor some reason or other to make him anther shell to shoot or another LABOR MUST HELP OR AMERICA WILL ; PERISH-LANDON (Continued From Page One.) " completed with the exception of a small firing put. 1 was told that they could not be delivered in less than three weeks, for the reason that the workmen were taking their usual summer's holiday. Think of that! While their own brothers and sons and relatives were undergoing the hardships and tortures of hell and the very nation was to danger. ,' Workmen to Give Answer. "And now we are in this war and J this convention is going to give the i answer, so tar as we are concerned. bayonet to defend himself or refused to load a sufficient amount of food supplies on ships so that he could be fed, or refused to build 6hips so that the food and clothing, comfort, even medical supplies, might be carried to him across the sea. What are you going to tell them? How are we going to square ourselves with him and how are we going to square ourselves with our conscience? Loyal to Own Blood. "Personal disagreement here or ef forts to take advantage of this war, either by capital or labor, is un-American, and if the men are not loyal to the nation they should at least be loyal to their own flesh and blood. "If Germany wins this war it will be because it has beaten us to our knees. If it beats us to our knees, how do we know that Belgium will not be a side show compared to what Germany will do to America? And it will be no time then to say, 'I didn't know,' because we do know. It will be no time then to say that 'I wish I had done differently,' because it will be too late. Message to Kaiser. "May we hope that a national spirit may be reborn here. May we not hope that a message will come from this convention into the very teeth of the kaiser, saying to him that this is a democracy, that marching shoulder to shoulder in France is the rich man and the poor man. everyone striving to the common end honor and vic tory for democracy and self-preservationand being sure that we have given to those sons of ours and those brothers of ours who are in France, everything that could possibly be re quired so that they may do their work well; so that they may be a credit to American traditions; so that they may never be able to say, 'Why didn't you back me up. Oh, father, why did you stop when I was suffering and hungry. Why didn't you help me?'" Supreme Court Sustains I. C. C. Power to Fix Rates Washington, Nov. 12. -The inter state commerce commission, the su preme court held today, has authority to compel railroads to establish through routes and joint rates in con nection with other carriers. Support Gompers And We Will Win, Says Wilson (Condoned From Page One.) it "not satisfied? What more does it want?" German Expansion. The president described Germany's expansion as a nation. "You have one answer to the question why it was not satisfied in its methods of competition," he said, telling how the government of Germany had "laid hold on industry" and controlled the competition. He said it was not only industrial control of iabor, but politi cal control as well. The Berlin-Bagdad railroad pro gram was designed to run the force of threat down the flanks of half a dozen other nations. The president referred to Ger many's "map of Europe" and said: "If it can keep that its power can disturb the world as long as it keeps it, provided the present authorities that control Germany can continue to control." "Power cannot be used against free people when the power is controlled by the people," he added, a statement which the audience loudly applauded. "Germany is determined that the political power of tiie world shall be long to it. It is amazing to me that any groups should be so misin formed, as in certain circles of Rus sia, as to believe that they can live without danger from Germany. I op pose not the feeling of pacifists, but their stupidity. The pacifists do not know how to get peace, but I do." Refers to House. The president referred to the seiid ing of Colonel House to Europe as "having sent a greater lover of peace than any man in the world, but I did not send him to negotiate peace. I sent him to determine how the war is to be won." Taking up the labor questions in the United States, the president said: "If we are true friends of freedom, we will see that power and produc tivity of the country shall be kept at maximum. Nobody shall be allowed to stand in the way, The govern ment won't keep them from doing this, but the spirit of the American people will. "We must stand together night and day until the war 'is over." said the president, adding that "while we are fighting for freedom, we must insure the freedom of labor." "The horses that kick over the traces must be put in a corral," he asserted. Labor Is Reasonable. The president praised the work of Samuel Gompers and the labor lead ers' support of the government. "Nobody has the right," said the president, "to stop the processes of labor until all methods of councilia tion have been exhausted. And I do not speak to you alone. I have found labor in many instances more reason able than the other side." The president appealed for co-operation. He said that he "would like to see all the critics exported." He said "we must get down to business and everyone must do the right thing." "Never show ourselves Americans by going off in separate groups, to talk by ourselves, but by co-operating in a common enterprise which is to release the spirit of the world from bondage," he declared. The president denounced organiza tions Which, he said, are trying to de stroy the law, but in every case, they should be dealt justice. "I am op posed," he said, "to our taking the law into our own hands, as much as I ! dislike the activities of these organi zations." Must Close Up Now. "The man who takes the law into his own hands is not the man to co operate in any development of laws and institutions," the president as serted. "We must not only take com mon counsel, but we must obey com mon counsel." Instrumentalities must be devised where they do not exist, said the pres ident, to bring the proper amount of co-operation between labor and capi tal. "The reason I came away from Washington," he continued, "is that I get lonely down there. There are so many people in Washington who do not know what the rest of the peoe of the country want, I have come away to find out." The president concluded by saying. "I'm with you, if you are with me." explaining he didn't mean he wanted cc-operation with himself personally, but as the representative of the whole United States government." U. S. Endeavors to Sell Huge German Stores Found in N.Y. Washington, Nov. 12. The mil lions of dollars worth of foodstuffs discovered by secret service agents in New York warehouses will be put on the American market, unless the foreign owners can show that they are entitled to the products and that no embargo against their exportation is in effect. The food administration has opened negotiations by cable with the foreign owners in the hope of obtaining their permission for the purchase of the foodstuffs, but other action willVe taken unless the permission is' iortft- coming. , Officials were interested today the fact that the foodstutts inci mr than 2 000.000 bushels of o consigned to Dutch importers. 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