Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-28 | Page 3 | Working to Revive Five-Cent Loaf of Bread

S SATURDAY IOP I WORKING TO REVIVE FIVE GENT LOAF OF OP BREAD Farmers Farmer of North Dakota Regard Present Price of Wheat as Justification BY HAROLD D. D JACOBS United Press Pross Staff Correspondent NEW YORK May 28 The The farmers of North Dakota were web working to bring back the cent 5 loaf of bread breid They declare bread could now be besold besold besold sold at the old standard figure based on the present price of w wheat eat and they are planning to demonstrate this to the rest of the country Horace A A. Davis of ot Brookline Mass Eastern representative of th the Bank of ot North Dakota said in an Interview interview in interview In- In with the United Press today that the state will soon issue a bond issue through its bank to establish a flour mill at Grand Forks through which the demonstration will fro pe carried out Bread could be selling at 5 cents a loaf now and it should be Davis said The difference between the present price of bread and the nickel is unfairly taken by millers transportation transportation transportation trans trans- men middlemen and ond others operating between the farmer and the consumer consume The experiment now being carried out in North Dakota will show that this waste can be eliminated and that wheat can be brought to the public public pub pub- lic lie in the form of a cent 5 loaf of bread brea d. d Former Vice President Marshall I declared some time ago that what this country needs is a a. good cent 5 Cigar ig I feel Zeel that a good tood cent 5 loaf loat of bread would be more indicative of ofa a return to normalcy Davis explained that a small ex experimental experimental experimental ex- ex mill established at the North Dakota state agricultural college college college col col- col- col lege about a a. year ear ago had shown that so called lower grades of wheat for which the farmers were forced to accept accept accept ac ac- ac- ac a much lower price from the millers hM hl been used to make high- high grade flour for which the millers re received received re- re usual prices The extra profit for the millers was said to range from 21 to per cent I