The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-12
TO ELECT TODAY
Transmississippi Bakers Close
Meet This Afternoon.
Interesting Debate on Standard
Weight Law This Morning.

why should there be a standard
weight for bread?" asked Jay Burns
of Omaha, Neb., well known middle
western baker before the fifth annual
association of the baking industry in
second days session at the Chamber
of Commerce this morning.
Nearly all ingredients of bread are
sold by standard measure or weight"
he said but why should the product
be required to weigh a certain amount
when sold? A certain price a pound
is asked for wool, but when you buy
a suit of clothes, you don't buy 1t by
the pound. do you?"
The debate over the standard bread
weight law, with A. H. Bamford of
Chicago, supporting the affirmative,
and Jay Burns of Omaha, upholding
the negative, was the most interesting
event on the mornings program.
Says Public Demands II.
Bamford said the principal reason
for the establishment of a standard
bread weight law was that the public
/ is slowly but surely demanding it and
that it would be better for the bakers
to voluntarily establish such a law
than to be forced to do so.
| "If bakers do not wish to lose the
confidence of the consuming public
they will be in favor of a standard
weight" he said.
Gov. Henry J. Allen was out of the
city this morning but was to make
scheduled for the morning program
this afternoon.
! Relation of Operating Costs to Ma
terial Costs was the subject of great
interest to the bakers. as discussed by
| c. N Power of Kansas City, Mo.
Hiring Real Statesmen to Sell Bread"
was another interesting talk this
/ morning by J. B. Hinson of Kansas
City. Mo. Win NJ Campbell of Kan
sas City was unable to be present to-
day to present the subject, THE La
Dor Question-How to Meet It," but
his opinions on the subject were given
i in a paper at the afternoon meeting
1.-The Effect of Window Bakery on
the Industry" an address by John NJ.
| Hartley, secretary of the Retail Bak-
| ers' association Of America, Chicago
| ILL.,, expressed strong disapproval of
the window bakery methods.
Election Late Today.
Committee reports. reports of Of
ficers. the annual election of officers
and the choice of next years conven-
tion city will be on the late afternoon
program
The 1921 me citing of Kansas bakers
will be a four day session, it was de-
cided TuesdaY afternoon. to be held
prior to the Transmississippi conven-
/
one of the four days. and the remain
der of the convention time will be
spent at a school of technical training
at th@ Kansas State Agricultural COL
| lege.
Officers of the Kansas Master Bak-
ers' association elected Tuesday are A.
J. Cripe. Hutchinson, president; Ray
! y. Lattner, Topeka. first vice presi-
dent; c. J. Chenoweth, Junction City,
second vice president; c. ]. Gottschick,
Salina. secretary, and Amos Jenkins.
Salina, treasurer.
The bakers will leave late this after
noon on a special train for Kansas
City to attend a banquet to be given
in their honor at the Hotel Baltimore
by Kansas City millers and bakers
| A performance at the "Summerland"
I for the women and a smoker at the
| Kansas City Athletic club will be the
after dinner entertainment. Thursday
| the bakers will be given a motor car
ride over Kansas City and luncheon
at noon at the Automobile club.
The Topeka millers and bakers were
hosts at a banquet at the Chamber OF
| Commerce and a line party at the
| Novelty theater last night in compli-
ment to the visiting members of the
association.
No addresses were In order at the
banquet, the bakers preferring to dis
pense with speeches. Musical num-
/ her civ h1-f No ell St