Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-21
ITO IMPROVE SERv|CE|C|vE VIEWS ON FLOUR
Promise Made Patrons of Additional Witnesses Appear
Falls Church Line at Inquiry Today.
MEANING OF new LEASE LOCAL BAKER TESTlFlES
Better Be President Masters
Put On Favors Branding.
NEW STATION AT R0sSLYN OPPOSITION TO BLEACHING
to
counanv commu- and
Approval Effects OF nitrogen
LOCAL BAKER TESTIFIES
President of Masters Association
Favors Branding.
OPPOSITION TO BLEACHING
Marcus Bernheimer Makes Use Of
Paraphernalia and Mixes Dough.
Effects of Nitrogen.

Little progress was made in the bleach
ed -four inquiry by the Department or
Agriculture at the session this morning.
The president of the Master Bakers Asso-
citation went on record fayorinS the
branding of bleached flour for the benefit
of the bakers. though 1t was held by some
of the witnesses that bleached -four could
be recognized by "A baker without being
branded. Robert l.. Corby, OF the Corby
Baking Company. this city. told OF his en-
periences with bleached flour. The at
torneys for the -four men wanted him TO
either say he is not making good bread
as formerly, or that the bleaching pro-
cess does not make any difference in the
bread.
The star witness of the day was Marcus
Bernheimer of ST. Louis, who said he had
been In the -four busiress a broker
since the civil war and is now a miller.
He remarked that he is one of the few
millers who has persistently refused 10
use bleaching process. He objected to
it on ethical and esthetic grounds, calling
the commodity so treated "blondined
four. The attorney for the defense tried
to bring out that Mr. Bernheimer had
been threatened with a suit for using
infringement of the bleaching process. He
explained that a small plant had been in
stalled by his miller, but he had 1t
thrown out.
Seeks to Compel Branding.
Simon Hubig, the president of the Mas
ter Bakers Association, said that he is
the head of an association that had 800
delegates at its last meeting and was rep
in all hint fha
Union. A resolution was adopted asking
the Department of Agriculture to compel
the branding of bleached hour. The as
ISOLATION had not undertaken to say
whether it is harmful or not.
Mr.. Corby said he is opposed to the
bleaching of flour. He can determGe by
test, he declared, whether flour is
bleached or naturally aged, but that
many small bakers are unable to do So.
He went into the process of bread max
ing at some length and said that 1t Is
hard to get unbieached Hour, even when
1t is ordered. Asked by the members
Of the board whether he had ever tried
duran wheat for bread, he said that he
had made 26O loaves as an ex-
pertinent and was we'll satisfied with
them, but that he had not been abe
since TO get the came grade OF duran
flour, and had discontinued it.
Bleached VS.. Unbleached Flour.
After dwelling on the fact that as high
grade a loaf could not be made out OF
bleached, as unbleached flour, Mr.. Corby
was asked if ne meant by that that he Is
not turning out as good bread now as
he was six years ago. He said he merely
do.
incidentally he remarked, and with
spirit, that he would never label his
bread maze from b.eached flour.
The only object OF bleaching -four, Mr..
Corby further said, Is to enable the mill
high grade -four out of the same quantity
of wheat The results are not the same,
he insisted, when the flour is baked.
Marcus Bernheimer fortified himself be-
hind a small breastwork of hour sacks on
the table before he began TO speak. He
had glass beakers, mixing glasses and
various paraphernalia. lie dlved into
the flour SACKS and tshed out samples
which he sprinkled literally over Or.
Wiley as he mixed dough and showed how
high grade flour can be told from the in
ferior grades.
Inception of Bleaching Idea.
Mr. Bernheimer told of the inception
Of the bleaching idea in 10000. He said
that he had sold between 4,OOO.OOU and
100000 bags OF flour prior to that and
had never heard of a call for white flour.
out only for good flour.
About 1903 the bleaching process be-
came prominent, and close corporation
Of a lew millers threatened to wreck the
whole business by selling bleached hour.
tie and some of his associates got hold Oh
another process that would do the same
work, bu; he decided that using peroxido
of nitrogen on flour was about equ,va lent
10 using peroxide of hydrogen OH a wo.n-
ans hair II spoiled the fiour to no good
end, ana he refused to USE the process.
tie said that he would not UNDERTAKE "
say the process was positively POISONOUS,
put he presented the BOARD with some u
the res.uium from the pipes OIL nitratlns
plant and said they coulu Judge for t..eln-
selves on that point.
The meeting was then adjourned until
afternoon
Not Cry Of Womankind.
After the three days testimony on the
millers' side ended yesterday afternoon.
the representatives of the housewives,
WIN have been used as defense by the
millers, in that they said the women
wanted bleached -four" took the stand
demand for bleached Hour is the result
OF the cry OF womankind.
Mrs. Frederic Leslie Ransome, repre-
senting the HouseKeepers Alliance, was
called to the Slanu, ana sad that well
informed women are becoming dissatisfied
with pleached flour because 1t Is lmpos-
sipIe to diIterentlate between good and
poor -four. She, of course, had reference
10 the average buyer. Her friends and
associates demand that bleached hour be
branded so that every one can tell which
hour is natural color and which had been
subjected to the bleaching process.
More Wholesome Flour.
An aptly named flour manufacturer, }.
d. Miller, was called by the opposition
to the bleaching process, and testified
that his experience is that the demand
is for wholesome flour, not for merely
white -four. His reasons for opposing
bleaching are as follows:
That 1t is hard for buyers TO differenti-
ate between grades of flour. thus making
deception easy; that it makes the sale
of the best unbleached -four difficult in
competition with the poorer grades of
bleached flour. and that bleached Hour
detracts from the best flavor OF bread.
SUIT AGAINST CHAPLIN BROWN.