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Show HQOVEn SOLVES 8fl10 PROBLEM By HAHffSTUDY Avoids Use of Var Loaves of European Countries, but Expects to Cheapen American ArticI?. PROCLAMATION TO BE ISSUED TODAY Food Administrator Has No Power to Fix Prices, but Hopes Consumer Will Be Benefited. Iy Intem.it ion.i I News Service. WASHINGTON. Nov. 11. He "be it O. Hoo cr, I nltcil Suites food ad mi-iistr.i -tor. u!.iy ou; '.iutd hii solution o." t :: country's lu ed prohlivn. I lis i.r.sw e.r a olds the use of war tnv i 1 as Karo pear, countries kivtw it. tut is i rite rule d ,o simplify and ihpen Aii.'ncm bread. At the sa:ne time it efffets trenu ndous sa vires in t :e stores of flour, lard a ud st-Kr. rresiden: Wilson ill is-sue a pr" -hi-matinn tcrr.on'ow, sTar,d.r..l z.n-t o im-tion's im-tion's tiejid and aettir.c h-o; ..-! 1 ) .if the date on whh-h the p.cv 1 nutli be put on the n arktt. Th'.1 nen Icjif will be r.f ore pnurd, r,.-ind r,.-ind a '-.&'. pounds, or two or four pound-. No ci her s:r.es will be perm it t.-) nnd the w.-:i;lits are :o N d:er:r.-n:d .V':er tl'e brca.1 his been hiike 1 and h.is s'.od for twelve hours. Pri.-es aro to ho brought iewn by Indirect method, rather than by official pri'-e fi!;u-. Result of Much Study. Mr. Uoover anuoun.". :. s p-v-snmce to-lr.v. after an mter?:ve study of the baklnc industry and the flour, sucar and Lut situations, with the a: I of Lh federal fed-eral trade commission. nndins that 4: per cent of the nation's na-tion's bread is procured m bakerirs, as , against per cent In th.e pvi.'i's homes, he determined on the fo'.lo!n prw- j ceiure: KeduiTion In the cost of puMic hnk'.rt; ' and n:s;r:hut:o:i. ui wks: of flour ana in us1 of sucar and Inrd. B setting iuh-m iuh-m im iinnts on the uses of th pr inc. pal .ntrredlerts and stabiiizir.sr the prh'e of fhur. Mr. floovrr hones tn eliminate tlie present variable cost units in bread mikklnc. 1 No Power to Fix Prices. The food ad minis: ration has no power to f'.x p rices, but ilr. Hoover hopes to work conditions around to a point where a pourd loaf of bread m;t y i.i boupht TKsrAhy. at 7 rents, cr near it. Pmail ha k era and procers i!o:nc litt'e .VI. very will be able to s.-U at thct frr he believes, be-lieves, but biEErer shops ,iumt sell at 7 cnts unless thev cut off d. -liveries and other-ivise reduce cxvus-'r radically. Credit dealers niu-t aho obtain more t h P. n T cents, he b e M e v e s . Mr. Hoover !s conf'd-nt pri ep rome down, but he feels t!u t an e en ercater jtoo i Ti!d reibuind in the form of (tern (te-rn end ous s i vln:: h in brrari materials. Bakers will not bo per mined to accept returned broad, srer? bimr reuuired ro pell ell t ney take from t.e shops. This will do away with waste in rhe form of stale bread, and Is expected to save 600.-"iM 600.-"iM barrels of Hour annmlly. Saving in Sugar. Reduction of the sutror ue, .n !read to a n'RX'nunu nf t'are-e pounds t-er barrel bar-rel of flour as aiming hp montrm of s! nou nds now. Is expected to sj.'.'c b"1 ".iii . Ooo pounds of miliar. Reduction of the amoitht o" s''nrt.-nln,c to a maximum or nv( pounds m-r h.j.rri or Hour, as against an pver;s of six r-jinids, with the substitution of sone oils, 's xne'td to effe.'t a rhvimc of 1 rui.rii . ''"'f pounds of 'ard a nnualh . pe.--rfnse ea.h barrel of Hour makes 2n loaves of bread, the reductions hi suJ.-.r and shortenin; will tint b noticed bv the mnumer. Mr. lom-r aunouncpd. however, how-ever, tiat the l.mch nre eat'its;' broad that coniains? ne'ther shorts nor s-ipar and ti-at t'-e Fnilih otnplo- -erv utile of either in making thofr hrad. ,Iur-t as the French n.n Knlii ha iven no all forms or fiim-y bread, made wi ; h mi Ik. svrar and lars'e amounts nf siiertentni,-' yU Hoover expects Annri.-ans in --onsrnt to a rodiictlon In th.e use of expensive ingredients. in-gredients. The bakers are "'otinSvl upon to ofr.-t savincs through tho standardh-um in siie ami ingredients of their Iohvcp. The food administration hones to focus rmrii.'i jfiim on rhe rtdce and irood hakini;. Rolt will practically d! sun pear from the n-aiket. Retrencnient Expected. Pi-'-ad iro.j.!.-,-l and deltverod b- hi; I Kal-:eriev ;-::d through growers is s.ld a fiKure that al!o s ;"or " per cent i"or TrihuTK-n. or noul " cents p-r pound loaf, l-h'i'orts win bo nade to reduce this margin. rn:i!er takcrs that do no ad-vertisintr. ad-vertisintr. pay no commissions and have no evtencive ce'i'ery or credit business, will be eper-rod letren.-h tlirousii the smndardisatlou of th.e loaf and ch-'.vpcr floijr. tnly skininied mW-. Mhicb 1 much beeper than w hole mi Ik. may he usrd In oresd undo- th new rules. T'-'S Is e-pe-u --d to h.elp fea ; -n bread? : u fi s. M . I o-'ver i,i rods v thai h.e d id no; expect t-- be ahio to meet the demand for (Continued an Paga Two.) none solves ihe WMI BREAD PROBLEM (Continued from Page One.) a '.-oepi loi. Th.e onb- wav in which a ."-cent !o;.f en ee produced is tnrouirh v ' I ad this 11 not o-oiio-ri' ,il. Tho pound le-a f Hi a bout 7 cents i believed be-lieved to h.- lcj-nc.M f.-oim-nv. 1.und 'oaves have been selling ai an average of al-.'lU 11 rents. Answering h 0"ie.-'on fre,.;o.nriv :ts"ed. M r. Moo fr sn id i he Fpclish Wa f sel's at l'i- ivnt a pound, v en tho bnver calls i"r r, and iny c;i:i. "ts hre.nl, h de- ari-d. foruains other cereals Than n-""ir. " so-nenmes poritoe-. and f irt'.e: more, he added, the baking iuduMrv in K'land ,:is br-e.) ';iw'd..i-d bv ihe co ern men t to the t xt-mi of SJcc, r,r. i. m, ui. |