The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-09-04
.LONDON'S BAKERS
ASSERT THAT WAR
BREAD IS DANGER
Bread Order, They Demand
Should Be Changed for
Public's Welfare.
(Copyright, 1917, bys the international
News Bureau.)

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News Bureau.)
By Marie Corelli.)
London, Sept. 4.-Complaints are rife
and bitter concerning the tough, indi-
gestible, and injurious mixture per-
mitted to the .axpaying .palblic as
ttwar bread General condemnation
of government -four has been ex-
pressed at a meeting of the, London
Master Bakers Protection society.
where a resolution was passed asking
for an interview with the Prime Min
lister. to point out the .ineptitude" OF
the MINISTRY of food. Thousands OF
US are Of the same mind with the
Master Bakers! Thousands of US at
firm the, 'ineptitude'' of which they
speak. Thousands Of us know that a
more lamentable display of ignorance
concerning the things that matter
could hardly be seen between now and
the next world. Furthermore, the
Master Bakers Good bless them!) have
actually declared that if the Bread
Order is not revoked Or amended they,
to safeguard the health of consumers
will be compelled to take drastic &C.
ton"
Well done, Master Bakers!
The sooner this drastic action is eff
fected the better for many ailing, suf-
fering human creatures. The faddists
and health specialists may talk as
they will, nothing can satisfy the APP
petite or suit the palate of the aver
age man and woman 50 well and so
safely as bread made with pure white
-four. The raw germ of wheat, though
In a sense nutritious, exercises a very
tdeleterious effect" SO say the bakers,
on the color and keeping qualities of
the loaf In. many cases war bread
lcauses internal hemorrhage, to say
nothing of Preventative dyspepsia and
severe Inflammation Of the delicate
coating of ones interior mechanism,
and itwould be easy to compile a vol
ume Of statistics proving the poison
stuff on our soldiers in hospital who
are slowly recovering from gunshot
wounds or shell shock, and who are
peculiarly sensitive to the quality of
| their food
Our distinguished muddlers who
are muddling with the grain and the
milling thereof, seems to Judge the
fine and complex human organism as
somewhat tougher than shoe leather
and less liable to injury than pigiron
But they are not the first of their
class by any means!
! There were muddlers before them
as senseless, as ca1lous, and as deaf to
reason as they-men who, like them
selves, were dressed in little brief
authority during that terrific up
heaval of with the very sham is ON
fnous-the great French Revolution
Here is what Carlyle writes Of the
bread troubles in this days:
Complaints there are that the food
is spoiled and produces an effect on
/ the infASfinaS 90 ,yfi,
in the throat and palate which a
| municipal proclamation warns you tc
| disregard or even to consider as
drastic beneficial! But :.
the Mayor of Saint Dennis, so black
was his bread, has by a dyspeptie
l populace been hanged on La Ian
terne' there"
| La Lanterne" is not a pleasant
theme to dwell upon, and we may be
deeply thankful that we have some
thing nowadays less ferocious thar
such form of settling disputes be-
tween the people and their rulers
the great trade unions and protection
| societies, consolidated bodies Of rea-
soning and reasonable men who can
| when necessity calls, take concerted
action against Sentimental Cant and
| wilful Ignorance. For, to quote Car
lyle again, sis not Cant the materia
prima of the Devil, from which all
i falsehoods, inbecilities and abomina.
tions body themselves. from which nc
| true thing can Gomez" And are not
the Master Bakers, as we'll as the
Seasons and Firemen's Union, con.
| scious of this Cant somewhere
7 Whether in pacifism Of food-controll.
ing, matters little, SO long as they
can put an discriminating finger or