The Detroit times., 1910-12-23
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPLE.
Where's the Full Pound Loaf?

To the Editor of The Times In all
the daily papers last Monday. the slid
| ing scale bakers showed their So
| licitous fatherly care Through Inc
grocers) for the bread consumers.
! Some grccers refused TO sign the
! bakers resolution. and one grocer IN
| the north end was told he was not
! looking TO his OWN INTERESTS as
he could sell more Bounce than To-
ounce loaves during the year. hence
more profits, but he did not sign the
so-cal!ed grocers' resolution concocted
| by the solicitious bakers
In their full-page advertisement
they made several erroneous charges,
one of which was: AN effort is be-
Ing made by political organization
to change the bread ordinance
Why did they not say. A meeting
was called last June by the ordinance
committee to consider a petition OF
over 300 citizens tincluding erocers)
TO destroy the sliding scale ordinance?
What about the petition from 500.
| members OF the peddlers' union, and
other citizens, all hard working peo-
pie, consumers OF more bread than
| anything else?
The Taft club took no part in the
petition or meeting last June. but did
take action last month when they
were informed that seven months
had elapsed and still no action in the
council The Taft club is not only a
4 hYt oil
ization, looking after the north end
improvements, and its personnel is
| composed of good law-abiding citi-
Zens.
Second, The present ordinance pro-
tects you by label showing the
weight of each loaf"
What farce this label has proven
10 be. protected by the new ordi-
nance. When wheat and -four drop
ped all this year. had they rightly
used 15-ounce instead of Bounce
label, the sliding scale would have
| worked more equitably to the con-
sumer.
Third. "The cid ordinance provides
no such protection
This statement is intended to be-
| fog the issue.
The old ordinance demanded full
pound loaf. and when detectives found
! bakers cheating the consumer. they
were hailed into court and fined.
| Under the amended ordinance, any
/ baker, or all. can make any size loaf
/ just by putting on stamp. Under
the present conditions. it would take
an army OF detectives to keep track
90 Ii nfH nf
! measures and seals. says: Give us
| the old ordinance 10 work under
| Fourth. Your grocer says the pres
ent ordinance is best, and has you in
mind when he says So
What a combined. persuasive force
to instruct our citizens and aldermen
what is best for them in the way OF
an ordinance that commands n full
mound loaf, or a labeled loaf governed
| by sliding scale, which so far has
slid into the Golfers of bakers aud
/ their confederates.
| If the bakeis are so solicitous for
! the consumers interests. and must
raise cent on both the one and two
pound loaf they can set their dough
| cutting machines 10 II or 1S ounces
/ to make up the difference OF frac-
ton OF n cent But they say: NO
We will have our own way-or moth
ing"
ON hearing many complaints from
citizens of my ward last spring, | con.
| ferred with my old colleague. AID.
Gutman, who is practical baker. and
ne said If petitions were circulated
he would present them TO the council.
l.. IL
self as against the present ordinance.
saying IL gave too much power
into the hands Of few" And no
doubt he with other bakers who are
making full£ loaf, are still OF
the same opinion.
WIN. T. KINGSLEY.
Ex-Alderman.
Detroit. Mich. Dec. %, 1910.
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