Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-23
HOOVER WAR
BREAD Plan
IS Perfected
President Wilson Issues Proc
iamation to Standardlze Ma
tons Loaf on Dec. 10

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1f.-Herbert
C. Hoover, United States food admin.
istrator, today outlined his solution OF
the country's bread problem. HIS an.
swer avoids the use of war bread, as
European countries know it, but is In.
tended to simplify and cheaper Amerl-
can bread at the same time 1t effects
tremendous savings in the stores OIL
flour, lard and sugar. - 1
President Wilson viii issue proc
lamation tomorrow standardlZing the
nations bread and setting Dec.e 10
as the date on which the new loaf
shall be put on the market.
This new loaf will be of one pound,
one and one-half pounds or two or
four pounds No other sizes will be
permitted, and the weights are to be
determined after the bread has been
baked and stood for twelve hours
Prices are to be brought down by IN
direct methods rather than by official
price fixing. 80
Hoover announced his program to-
day after an intensive study. of the
baking industry and the flour, sugar
and lard situations with the aid OF
the Federal Trade Commission.
Method Of Procedure
Finding that 20 per cent OF the ma
tons bread is produced in bakeries
as against so per cent in the nations
homes, he determined on the follow
ing procedures:
Reduction in the costs OF public
baking and distribution, in waste OF
flour and in use of sugar and lard. By
setting maximum limits on the uses OF
the principal ingredients and STABILIZE
ing the price of flour, Hoover hopes to
eliminate the present variable cost
units in bread making.
The food administration has no
power to fix prices, but Hoover hopes
to work conditions around to a point
where a pound loaf of bread may be
bought generally at z cents or near 1t.
Small bakers and grocers with little
or no delivery will be able to sell at
that price, he believes, but bigger
shops cannot sell at z cents unless
they cut off deliveries and otherwise
reduce expenses radically. Credit
dealers must also obtain more than
cents, he believes.
Prices to Drop.
Hoover is confident prices will come
down. but he feels that an even
greater. good will rebound in the form
of tremendous savings in bread mate
rails. Bakers will not be permitted
to accept returned bread, grocers be-
ing required to sell all they take from
the shops. This will do away with
waste in the form of stale bread, and
is expected to save 100000 barrels of
flour annually.
Reduction of the sugar used in
bread to a maximum of three pounds
per barrel of flour as against an aver
age of six pounds now is expected to
save 100,o00,000 pounds of sugar.
Reduction OF the amount of shorten
ing to a maximum of two pounds per
barrel of flour as against an average
of six pounds with the substitution OF
some vegetable oils is expected to save
1e0,000,0G0 pounds of lard annually.
Because each barrel of flour makes
about 275 loaves of bread tn, reduc
tons in sugar and shortening will not
be noticed by the consumer. Hoover
points out that the French are eating
bread that contains neither shortening
nor sugar and that the English employ
very little of either in making their
bread.