Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-27

such a mixture we know, nowith-
standing the statement of the vice.
president of the concern that has pat
ented 1t, that 1t is not the failure of
the baker to use ingredients of this
kind which makes commercial white
bread a grossly inadequate and neu-
ritis-producing food.
We have examined the evidence that
proves the miller who sifts, bolts,
screens, and ref1nes the wheat, thereby
removing the BODYBUILDING and
other bio-chemic elements from his
product, is the man who is RESPONSE
BILE for the denaturing of white bread.
However, the testimony taken be-
fore Referee Nussbaum was not with
out its value. 1t placed on record the
admission of one of the most promi-
nent white bread bakers in the world
that white bread is worthless bread,
devoid of food value unless 1t contains
a certain chemical compound manu-
factured under the direction and con-
troll of certain commercial conditions.
When the people are informed that
the way to restore the food value of
white bread is to add to 1T a COM
pound of gypsum or plaster of Paris.
in amounts however small, all the in
dictments charged against the broken
stan of life are unwittingly confirmed.
1t may make little difference to the
foods whether his bread be impover-
ished or even worthless, or whether 1t
contain plaster OF Paris or any other
chemical addition.
The highest of high prices paid for
denatured bread means nothing to the
we'll fed or to those in comfortable
circumstances, but 10 the average
American family. whose daily diet
consists largely of bread, 1t means
decay.
The poor and the rich together are
consuming an inadequate substitute
for wheat in the form of white flour
food. but the poor, who need all the
honest nourishment they can get, con-
sumo by far the greatest quantity of
this foodless form or food.
In New York City the common peo-
pie know that the European war was
merely an excuse for advancing the
price of bread to six cents. It was be-
cause they cried out against this ad-
vance that the attorney general of
New York State interfered.
They know that it was due to his
interference that the price was not
only returned to five cents, but that
one year later, February, 1916, when
the raw materials from which bread
is made, were bringing even higher
prices than when the six cent rate
was arbitrarily fixed, one large con-
SSi II III -NtN OIh lily SOtu lIe same
bread made by the same people at
four cents a loaf.
BY its clamor the public had af-
fected the price of bread while re-
naming in ignorance concerning its
devitalized character. Growing chill
dren who eat bread three or four
times day are not concerned in an
advance of one cent a loaf or in a re-
duction of one cent loaf
They are unable for themselves to
heed the significance of the fact that
chickens and other animals perish in
a period of six or seven weeks when
fed on an exclusive diet of white
bread.
Their parents, who know nothing Of
physiological chemistry. have little
conception Of the meaning of bread.
and so they cast their eyes upon the
significance of a penny saved, and,
confining their interest to that issue,
pay heavy toll to the Great Reaper
who gathers his richest harvest from
the underfed and enfeebled children
OF the white bread addict.
The bread inquiry OF the attorney
general of New York State, through
the extraordinary admissions which it
provoked on the part of the bakers
themselves, shocked and for a time
confounded the entire white -four in
dustry of the United States.
We shall now examine the signif
cance OF those admissions.