Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-05-02
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No regulation has yet been s.
sued limiting the amount of flour
which bakers may purchase or
bread and rolls. except that cne
pound of substitutes must be %, r.
chased with each three pounds of
wheat flour For all other %, J.
ducts bakers may use only sever ty
per cent of their consumption Or
the corresponding quarter |; st
year. If bakers bread output sh wv
an Increase over the first quarter
of 1918, regulation limiting'the
flour allotment for bread may Ie-
come necessary. In some stat, S.
bakers are meeting the situati) IN
by voluntary agreement not to
increase their use of flour in the
bread. They can meet the increa s.
ed demand by baking breads of
class five, which contain only one
third wheat
You can't scare an Iowa breld
maker. Yhen they were told in an
nual convention here that they
might be required by Herbert H 30
YER to put more than the present
twenty-five per cent of other Ger
ais in wheat bread they passed
resolution plcdging themselves to
comply i'm every respect with the
requirements of the Federal FOOD
The Trans Mississippi Master
Administration
Tho message was conveyed to
Bakers convention from Mr.. Hoo
Yer by w. G. Edgar of Minneapo-
lis, but it was given a silcer lining
by The announcement that the
Food Administration looks for an
$50 million bushe wheat crop,
which will almost restore the nor
NAL level of supply for this coun-
Try in addition to taking care of
our soldiers in the trenches and
our associates in the war.
Il. Il. Frankenberg of Columbus
said that the bakers convention in
Burlington was the best one of
the craft he had ever attended and
he has attended all of them. Mar
ccllus ZinZmaster OF DesMoines,
was the retiring president of the
association which includes the
bakers of four states, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Nebraska. The
bakers spent much time in con-
ference with Food Administrator
Deems, while at the convention in
Burlington.
Food Administrator Deems IS
in receipt of this message from
DR.. Allen w. Freeman, health
commissioner of Ohio, formerly
with the United States Health
Service:
'Wc can eliminate wheat fro
our diet from now until the ne t
harvest without endangering O. r
health in the slightest. We shou
be careful, of course, to have a
balanced ration.
That means eat plenty of veg
tables and potatoes.
Milk and eggs should be us
freely
Our Pilgrim fathers lived el-
tirely without wheat. They ust
corn meal. No one can say tn
We're weaklings. Our soldiers az 1
associate sin this war canno
use corn meal 1t cannot be shil
ped to them. If it could, durab
loaf could not be made of it. tt
soldiers must have loaves whit 4
will stand up under terrific abu
i'm transportation and trenches. t
is impossible to give them corr :
bread. We can eat it. That is wi
the wheat flour goes abroad al
the corn remains behind. 1t h; 8
been ruled by the United Stat,
Food Administration that regulf :
tions governing bakers which re-
quire license to use wheat flol
substitute in the manufacture cf
bread and rolls does not apply ID
bread that is made to be used in
the observance of religious rites,
if such religious rites require the
use of all wheat flour bread.