The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-06-13

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They ask us especially, however, for
wheat. They ask it as the necessary
basis for their necessary loaf. They
must have bread, and they must have
bread which will keep sweet and pal
atable for several days.
Wheat is the basis for the durable
raised bread loaf.
Troops must have bread carried to
the front from bakeries behind the
lines; it must be a durable raised
loaf.
Workers in the war factories must
have bread from commercial baker
les. The women in the factories can
not be bakers also. Their bread must
oe the durable raised loaf.
All France depends on the bakeries
for its bread. The people do not know
how to bake in the home. They have
no ovens for baking, nor could they
afford fuel for them if they had.
All the bread of France and Eng
land and Italy to-day is war bread.
1t is made of gray wheat -four milled
at high extraction rate, that is,
larger proportion of the wheat grain
is now put into the -four than former
ly was the case. Their -four now con-
tains more of the outer parts of the
wheat grain, parts which formerly
were separated from the -four and
used as feed for animals. This -four
is then mixed with as large per-
centage-usually 25 per cent-of
-four made from other cereals as can
be used and still permit the making
of the raised loaf.
In England this war bread can not
be sold until it is II hours old, so
that the people won't be tempted to
eat too much fresh bread. In France
and Italy the bread is rationed ac-
cording to the age and occupation of
each person. A child has less than
an adult; a light worker less than
one who does heavy work.
France has always lived on bread
OF the average Frenchman's normal
diet 50 per cent is composed of bread
and but 4S per cent of other foods
France has just put her whole people
on a rigorous bread ration which lin
its them to only two-thirds of the
amount they have been accustomed
to. In all the Allied countries they
are using as little wheat as will give
them bread at all and as little of this
bread as is possible to keep them in
health and strength.
The people of Belgium are living
on a relief ration Over 100000
of them get their daily bread and
soup by standing in line long hours
before the relief kitchens. They have
stood in these long soup lines every
day for three and one-half years. But
they do not complain. They only ask
that the soup and bread be there ev-
cry day They depend upon America
We are, as we have said, sending
corn and other cereals to England,
France, Italy and Belgium. These
cereals are shipped as fast as they
can be used. But the people can not
live on them alone. They do not
know how. They are unable to cook
them properly They must have
wheat to mix with them and with po-
tatoes to make their bread. We are
now sending wheat to the limit of our
cargo space, yet we are only meet
ing the minimum requirements of
these people In order to continue
doing this, our people must share
their present wheat supply.
We are dividing our wheat evenly
today between ourselves and the AL
lies. We must not use before the
next harvest more than one-half of
the wheat we have. Even with one
half of our wheat the loaf Of the AL
lies is small. 1t can not be made
smaller without undermining their
strength and morale. Is there any
doubt what we shall do in this emer-
gency? We have just one thing to
do, and that is to save wheat and
send wheat.
s. S.