Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-04-20

and parts with no considerable guam
tity of It.
Those who lack the heroic insides
TO digest the war bread have to pay
. cents for ten pieces of zwieback at
the bakers or cents for three pieces
If they order 1t in hotels.
Bread Tickets Vary.
For the benefit of small families
the packets of bread tickets are
made up Of cards stamped for differ
ent quantities OF bread and flour. The
ticket of the highest value permits
the purchase of a two-pound or
l,OOO-gram loaf, which is the ordinary
size. There are also tickets for one
pound loaves OF 500 grams each Ca
German pound) Tickets for the pur-
chase of -four run as high as 1000
grams and as low as twenty grams.
Thirty grams Of war bread Is con-
sidered the equivalent in nutritlonal
value of twenty grams of pure wheat
| flour.
The first card empowering the pur-
chase of bread and flour is given
| free. But il the recipient loses II he
must pay rs cents for a new one. II
| he loses any of his bread tickets the
authorities will not make good the
loss. He must simply do without
bread until the next issue of tickets.
The system is extremely rigorous IL
the working of all its details. There
can be no equiyocation, funny bust
Less. or naneuyering, and If any Is at
tempted II Is promptly detected ant
the offender is admonished not to try
| it again
| 4 toll 4tl
are issued for each person in con
rection with the dwelling in which h
sleeps and in no other connection NJ
matter how many hours of the twent!
four he may spend elsewhere.
Distribution Limited.
A dressmaker eating two meals 1
day with the household for which shl
is sewing must bring her own bread
for her employer can give her nom
without depriving a member of tn
household of his share of bread.
A maid servant who does not sleel
under her employers roof but has al
arrangement by which the ernploye
provides her with meals, still mus
bring her own bread. because he
mother. having registered the girl a
sleeping under the maternal roof, ha
already obtained bread tickets for her
Hence when the servant brings he
bread to her employers house the EN-
| ployer must pay her for it,
A workman who lives In Elberfield
over fifty miles from Aachen, come
| to Aachen every Monday morning 4
! take up his weeks duties and does no
| go home until saturday afternoon. Blu
he must bring his bread from Elber
| field because as he is a taxpayer there
Elberfeld has already given him hi
bread card. Aachen cannot duplicat
| the issue.
Bakers and the proprietors Of bake
shops who break any Of the rules gov
erning the amount of flour and tn
proportion of potato and wheat flou
they are to use are punished by havini
their establishments closed for from
one to three days or by fine of from
$3.50 to $500.
How Hotels Manage.
Hotel proprietors are given brea,
tickets for the average number o
guests they entertain. Guests VIII
wish occasionally to dine elsewher
must go to the porter at their hotel
and ask for bread tickets. which the
then present at the restaurant of thei
choice Without them they canno
have bread with the meal In tn
| dining rooms of all the hotels piacard
inform guests of the arrangement.
At first many people thought tina
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