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Show FIVE-CENT LOAF EC0N0M1CWASTE Pueblo Speaker at Master Bakers' Convention Discusses Dis-cusses Small Loaf and Why Large Loaf Is Better. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 8. A five-cent loaf of bread Is an ecouomlc waste, in the opinion of C. B. Power Df Pueblo, Colorado, who today addressed ad-dressed the convention of the Master Bakers of the United States. He discussed dis-cussed the "ten-cent loaf and why " Efficiency, declared Mr. Power demanded de-manded the baking of ten-cent loaves Dt bread rather than the five-cent 3izo. Ho estimated the cost of baking bak-ing one thousand loaves of bread at five cents per loaf Is $3.55 more than the cost of baking the same flour Into five hundred ton-cent loaves. The extra cost he Itemized as follows: fol-lows: Additional material, 12 cents- additional ad-ditional non-productive labor 15 cents; cost of wrapping, 30 cents'; ad-dltlonal ad-dltlonal cost of wrapping paper si 5-maintenance, 5-maintenance, depreciation and Inter est on additional machinery 40 cents additional numher of "burns and cripples" (spoiled loaves) 3 cents-added cents-added selllug expense, $130 J7,l)CThend c5arg0 'Qnot be Justified," continued Mr. Power " baker should regard himself as agent of tho people who use hrnnrt with the sacred responsibility of Z' vldlng the people with the VoatT gestive and nutritious bread it i. nn sble to make. This cannot bac ceptcd with a five-cent loaf." |