Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-06-27
IS Experimenting TO
CUT HIGH LIVING COST
Tests Being Made By the Food
Analyst OF Kansas State
Board Of Health.

Topeka, Kan. Special. The high
cost of living, which has been the sub
ject of numerous Investigations and
much writing in the last two or three
years, hits the laboring man harder
than any one else. Kansas has under
taken series of Investigations and ex-
perimcnts to reduce the living cost and
1t Is doing this for the particular bene-
fit of the workers in the shops and
factories of the state that they may
have better food for less money.
Prof. T.. II. S. Bailey, food analyst
for the Kansas state board of health,
the state a copy of the preliminary
Food Thrift" experiments which he is
conducting in the state food labora-
tories Each union is to read the rules
for stopping household wastes and then
the little booklet is to be passed from
one member TO the other to taA. home
and study
Here are the first eight rules OF
Food Thrift as worked out by Pro-
fessor Bailey:
Stop eating more than is desired;
stop the waste in the selection of food;
do not waste good food by throwing 1T
away; food bought in small packages
often costs more than 1t is worth; the
most expensive food is not always the
best; do not purchase fods out of sea-
son; the best food may be spoiled by
bad cooking; have u system in prepar-
ing foods and avoid the purchase of
more than is needed for immediate
use.
",rhc appetite often excites a person
to take more food than is necessary
or is good for his system" said Pro-
lessor Bailey in his 4ecture. "Often
men and women. struck by the excep-
tional goodness of some particular ar
ticle of diet, eat more than can be di-
gested without inconvenience. Unre-
strained appetite in either food or drink
leads to a loss of efficiency and adds
to the cost of living. The heaviest
waste In the average family comes
from the improper selection of food,
mistakes In keeping or storing and in
preparation for the table.
There Is standard for foods which
can tell fairly WE'LL but not absolutely.
the relative food values. The calorie
is taken as the basis for all food values.
and the more calories in pound of
calorie is the energy required to do a
certain amount of work and by compar-
ing the number of Galleries q pound of
one food gives with that of another, we
can determine the relative value of one
food with another and determine which
gives the most nutritvc value for the
same amount of money"
1t has been asserted that the Amer
lean people are the most wasteful peo-
pie on earth. and it is asserted that one
cause of this waste is the poor prepara-
ton of foods for the table. Too much
is thrown away. To stop as much of
this waste as possible by teaching the
housewives how to cook, the state is
paying a bonus to every high school
that maintains a complete domestic
science course in its schools. This bonus
is $500 a year. In addition to this the
state. through the agricultural college,
is sending out a dozen domestic science
schools each year. These are known
as movable schools and stay one week
in each town, and the women arc In
vited to attend the lectures by experts
and do practical work in cooking. No
fee is charged. except that those who
attend the schools pay for the food
they use and the gas bill for the stoves