The Washington times., 1916-12-09
CORBY TELLS OF
Big BREAD WASTE
Baker Declares That Most of
the People Do Not Know
> How to Eat Product.
ADDRESSES HOUSEWIVES
Points Out Economic Practices
In Making and Consuming
Bread to Cheaper Living.

VT waking anu NOUSuIiHlB
Bread to Cheaper Living.
Organized housewives OF Washing
TON today are discussing the unusual
experience of having a representative
of one OF washington's biggest indus.
tries tell them they are using more
OF his product than they need to be-
cause they are wasting n third Of Il.
Then he gave them concrete sugges.
tions for reducing their purchases NJ
this product, and for aiding in reduc-
tribution.
This was what Charles !. Corby, of
the Corby Baking Company, did when
he addressed the Housekeepers' ALL
snce yesterday afternoon. meeting at
1905 Twentieth street.
Attack Cost OF Livins.
The alliance meeting was the FIRST
or series by which the organization
hopes to attack the cost of living by
reducing waste in kitchens and edu-
eating women In intelligent buying.
Because, they announced, they wish
TO cooperate with business men and
not adept sensational .boycotts, they
invited three experts to address them
hrst meeting. when they outliped
plans for their campaign.
Talked Of Dairy Products.
Mr.. Corby advised them about
bread buying, Ivan C. Weld. of the
George NJ. Oyster, Jr.. Company,
talked about dairy products, and DIR.
w. O. Bigelow. In charge OF the lab.
oratory OF the Chemists Association,
spoke about the rising price OF can.
ned goods.
After stating that he believed at
esst one.third OF the bread purchased
In Washington was wasted, Mr.. Corby
made these suggestions:
=. Slice bread before using and warm
IL, and warm IL over again II neces-
sary, thus using the entire loaf.
Buy only as many loaves as are
needed, and if necessary buy smaller
ioaves II the Gcent ioaves are too
large.
Increases ~ Fer Cent.
Mr.. corby said that. since 1914 |
the price OF bread In Washington has |
Eone up ~ per cent. taking into ac- !
count the recent raise OF cent per |
loaf and the reduced size OF the loaf. |
In that same period, he said, the \
prices OF materials which 20 into the
bread have scared 81 per cent; other
materials the baker must use have
gone up 81 per cent and the operat.
Ing expenses OF bakeries have In.
creased rs per cent
Most folks believe that the ingredi.
and salt" he said. There are ex.
actly 40 different items that enter
into the manufacture. delivery and
sale or our bread.
How To Eat Bresa.
"The majority OF people do not
know how 20 eat bread. In my fam.
lily the entire loaf is sliced. these are
put into the oven and warmed about
four or five minutes before serving
and the slices that remain are then
taken and warmed with others at the
next meal"
Mr.. Corby said his own firm had
been contemplating In the past month
starting an advertising campaign In
ing public In how To eat bread.
Before the Increase In price TO
cents loaf" he stated. "our
sales went.up. appreciably because
est form OF food to be had. II stili
10. when the increase OF price went I
on our business dropped on seventh. !.
That showed that families could
make bread go further.
Would Hold Out Longer.
"You may think we did not like
that. But we did. because we real.
ized that the more people economize
the longer the supply OF wheat would
hold out"
Mr.. corby said that the shortage
of wheat has been oyerdrawn, Just
as the bumper crops" are eNagger- |
ated. and said that he believed that a
some farmers had been holding wheat :
to await further increase OF prices.
He said he does not believe further q
advances In wheat flour are TO be c
expected: instead the approaching 4
time for another wheat crop is likely =
TO force them lower.
Makes Extra Expense. c
Mr.. Corby said tho expense OF de.
livery is growing greater daily. He
said the tendency toward late OF. a
dering OF special breads Is increasing. e
This, he pointed out, makes for extra
expense for the retailer and the 1
baker. {
Is the growing demand for various
kinds OF bread and rolls.
"Two kinds OF bread and rolls Is
enough" he stated. "but the Corby
and sizes OF bread and rolls.
81 believe the public could receive
three or four more ounces TO tho loaf r
In they would unite in action which
and cut down the costs OF n
special deliveries and the necessity
for taking back what is not sold"
Maintains Laboratory.
Citing some items OF cost that go a,
into bread making, he said that his
maintained a testing labora,
tory that costs $4,000 a year; "a
physician, and that the item of clean C
Ing, painting, and scrubbing alone
costs the Corby Company $25 a day. 4
In answer to questions regarding
the relative merits of whole wheat
and process flour bread, Mr.. Corby
said the State OF Connecticut had paid
Prof. Osborne OF Yale $4,000 TO make
! scientific study of this subject.
He said the result had been that
Prof Osborne had concluded that the
nutritive element of bread lay in the
nner portion of the wheat grain, that