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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917.
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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. It w
that Holland is noLorc
..;i,r i cpr nf nats. but German
has been short of oats for her cavalry
Activities of the secret servic
York were said to b
only a part of an investigation
throughout the United States to dis
cover if large quantities of food
stuffs are being held in storage.
Northcliffe Reaches Home.
New York, Nov. 12. Announce
ment was made today that Lord
Northcliffe and Lord Reading who
spent some time in the United States
on missions, had arrived in England.
Akron Car Men Strike.
Akron, 0.' Nov. 12. More than 1,4
000 street car men were on strike to
day. The men are striking for a wage
increase of 10 cents an hour.
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