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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1913.
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The Business Benefits of
The Wilson Administration.
The wholesome business effect of the Government’s
assistance to Southern and Western banks for crop
moving purposes is becoming broadly manifest. From
the moment Secretary McAdoo announced that the
treasury department stood ready to place-fifty mil
lions of its money in the agricultural sections on
terms that could easily be met the entire country’s
“nnancial temper grew more confident and composed.
The offer within itself was reassuring; it allayed
fear of an early autumn stringency and, furthermore,
At showed not only that the administration was
friendly and constructive in its attitude to business
Interests but also t..at it was prepared with definite
plans and means to make this policy count
Wall Street, for a while, was rather supercilious
toward the McAdoo announcement. It assumed that
.there was no need for special aid to the South and
the West and that the Government’s proposition would
meet with a chill response. But when conservative
hanking institution., throughout these sections has
tened to avail themselves of the offer, there was no
longer room for doubt or criticism of the adminis
tration’s plan. Even the most re ctiocary financial
centers were forced to admit its popularity and suc
cess.-
Since then the markets have been steadily^ advanc
ing. Stocks and bonds have appreciably strengthen
ed and such fluctuations as we note today are of a per
fectly normal character. Though the continued drouth
in the West, which cuts down the corn crop, has had
an influence somewhat adverse, conditions generally
are sounder than they have been for months past.
The outlook for abu-bant food harvests is still excep
tionally bright. The underlying sources of prosperity
are undisturbed; and since the Government’s timely
-action to prevent . financial stringency, business of
all kinds is moving hopefully forward.
The primary bee 'fit of the administratirm’s assist
ance is felt, of course, among agricultura' interests
but its good influence exte u.s much further. By
'making fifty million dollars a mailable for crop moving
needs, the treasury department has relieved New York
and other flnan iai centers of their usual responsi
bility in meeting cuch demands; and thus they will
be able to accommodate mercantile and manufactur
ing enterprises without hesitancy or inconvenience.
At this season in years gone by the South and West
have found it difficult to get money for crop move
ments and at the same time, as a result of this ex
traordinary demand, commercial interests in other
sections have been embarrassed. But when the Gov
ernment placed its funds directly where the money
was most urgently in demand, this pressure was re
moved from the country as a whole and business was
enabled to go freely forward.
Besides the reassuring and stimulating effect
which this policy has already produced, other impor
tant i-esults are coming to pass. For one thing, the
country is realizm s that there is no natural reason
why it should be financially dependent, as it aas
been, upon New York or any other monetary center.
It is even now experiencing the healthful influence
of a new freedom in this regard. Bankers and busi
ness men are asking, why not make permanently
available the Government’s plan bj which we are now
profiting? And lb..- leads logically to another ques
tion: why not put into effect as soon as possible the
pending banking and currency bill, of which this
helpful plan is a distinctive feature?
The fact is the administration has not only ren
dered seasonable service to the South and West and
helped immediate conditions the nation over, but it
has also established a concrete, convincing example
of the value of the banking and currency bill now be
fore Congress. With tangible evidence on every hand
showing the good sense and the good results of the
principles which this measure mbodies, the business
public is naturally urging its adoption The New
York Commercial declares in this connection that pri
vate advices received by New York banks from out-of
town correspondents “prove to them that the banks
of the interior will go to Chicago to attend the con
vention of the National Banking Association, nre-
pared to support the currency bill as well as the
policy of the treasury department to lend abundant
funds for crop-moving purposes.”
The Wilson administration has undoubtedly won
the support of the country’s sober financial thought
in its plan for banking and currency reform. It
has proved its ability as well as its sincere wish to
deal wisely with those great economic issues on which
business freedom and enduring prbsperity depend.
It has demonstrated that progressive government is
truly sane government and that the American peo
ple have at length found a leadership under whom
their political rights and their practical welfare are,
equally secure.
The cost of war would he dire enough; were it
limited to the season of actual conflict, but not until
the tumult and the shouting die does a nation begin
to feel the full burden of its debt. The months of
struggle are nothing beside the years of depression
that ensue. The sacrifice of money and life on the
battlefield is followed by a scarcity of labor, and a
stringency of credit long after peace returns; and the
pains of recuperation, even for the victor, are beyond
reckoning. The New York Commercial cites, in this
connection, a particularly striking example, that of
Italy, which is no.v wrestling with all manner of in
dustrial problems entailed by its brief campaign in
northern Africa:
“Italy wrested Tripoli from Turkey at com
paratively little expense in lives and treasure,
but the disturbance of industries in northern
Italy, the most prosperous and progressive part
of the kingdom, has resulted in so much misery
that strikes and riots have assumed dangerous
proportions. Agriculture was neglected during
the war, and the cost of living has risen, while
manufacturers find trade depressed and claim to
be unable to pay higher wages though the de
mands of the united workers amount to only half
a cent an hour of added pay. Taxes are higher
all round and the trouble has been rendered more
acute by keeping conscripts with the colors
through fear of general war arising out of the
Balkan struggle, and the dismemberment of Tur
key, which Italy virtually began.”
Italy will doubtless emerge from these embarrass
ments unweakened but how soon that will be Is be
yond prediction. If she retains her conquered terri
tory, it will prove a rich asset in decades to come;
hut today her manufacturers, as we are told, find
it hard to finance their business operations on ac
count of the general scarcity of money and the high
rates of interest; they have stocks of unsold goods
on hand and the people are without means to buy.
In like manner, all Europe is feeling the economic
burden of the Balkan war. Money that might have
gone into productive channels has been withdrawn to
increase and maintain vast armaments; and the
uncertainties of the peninsula conflict have kept the
business of the entire continent in suspense.
It is such evidence as this that leads the majority
of the’ American people to approve the wise policy of
our government in its dealings with the Mexican
situation, and to condemn the jingoes who would
needlessly plunge the country into a long-drawn and
wofully burdensome war. Should national honor
make it necesskry to send a' United States army
across the Rio Grande, the cost of such a step would
no longer be open for debate. But until that moment
comes, imperative^ and unavoidably, the interests of
the nation demand that we move with the utmost
prudence and restraint.
Present indications all point to a peaceful solu
tion of this problem The president’s special ehvoy,
John Lind, far from being expelled from Mexico or
treated with indignity, as was predicted, has been
received in a friendly manner; and he is today in
practical, if not official, communication with the pro
visional government. He Jias already conveyed the
preliminaries of the plan he was commissioned to
present and within the next few days, it is expected,
he will have completed his task.
Besides this, there is reassuring evidence in the
attitude of England, Japan and other foreign powers
toward the Mexican policy of the United States.
These nations have expressed tacit sympathy with
our efforts to bring about a quiet settlement of Mex
ico’s turbulent conditions.
There is thus every reason for confidence in the
administration’s program and no reason whatsoever
for coubt or opposition. Certainly, until all peaceful
means, have proven futile, there should be no insis
tence upon measures of force that would lead to
war.
Every Georgian with a sense of social justice or
economy will applaud the Legislature for its enact
ment. of the bill establishing a State reformatory
for wayward girjs This measure involved more
than a matter of worthy sentimen. or compassion, it
involved a clear-cut public duty from which tne State
could not shrink at the peril of public interests
and human rights The establishment of suen an I
institution is not to be regarded as an act of charity, j
unless we use the term in its larger meaning, but j
as an act of practical wisdom; and indifference or op- '
position to a claim like this is not so much the evi
dence of a hard neart as it is of a darkened or feeble j
understanding.
Time was when there were backward-looking men
who begrudged the appropriation of a dollar for the
conservation of natural resources. They would rid
icule the idea of the State’s spending money to pro
tect field and orchard against insect pests, or to in
crease the productive power of the soil or to prevent
the waste and sacrifice of elements on which material
welfare depends. They decried the scientist as vis
ionary and all plans for agricultural betterment as
extravagant. But happily for themselves as well as
for society, they were long since forgotten in the
march of progress.
We are awakening today to the importance of hu
man conservation, realizing that if it be needful to
save and to develop the sources of our physical
wealth it is incomparbaly more so to care for our
social well-being. Problems of this kind are seen to
day in their vital relationaship to the community
as well as to the individual: and among such prob
lems none could be more urgent than that of the way
ward girl, with tremendous possibilities for harm,
If neglected, but' with immeasurable possibilities for
good, if reclaimed.
The Legislature has shown admirable judgment
in opening the way for a State institution that will
cerve the same purpose for delinquent girls as that
of the reformatory already established for delinquent
boys. It is to he regretted that a more adequate
fund to this end could not be secured hut the sig
nificant and cheering fact is that the State has recog
nized its plain duty in this regard and has moved
f orward in the right direction.
DISCARDED THINGS
BY DR. PRANK CRANE.
iCopyri«lit. lyJ4. uy riant* Crane.*)
OUR DAILY BREAD
THE BAKERY AND THE WOMAN.
B\ Frederic J Haskin
President Wilson also shows an ability to govern
Mexico.
President Wilson doesn’t see the necessity of a
summer vacation when important work is on hand.
That $<ew Jersey woman who can keep awake only
by standing presents an unusual case; although we’ve
known people who could snore lying down.
A Reprimand Well Deserved.
The President’s reprimand of Ambassador Henry-
Lane Wilson for the latter's ill-timea and grossly
improper attack on the British foreign office came
seasonably and well deserved/ Though the discred
ited diplomat is virtually out of the Government's
service, his resignation does not take formal euect
until Octooer. Hence his renections upon tne in
tegrity of the British office, . had tuey not been
promptly disclaimed at Washington, mignt have
Deen regarded in at least a semi-official light and
have led to unfortu .ate misunderstandings.
Ambassador Wiisou could not have hit upon a
more inopportune time to vent his petulance. Tne
American government is now relying upon the moral
support of European Powers to carry forward its
peace program in respect to Mexico and the response
it has received, paticularly irom England' has been
very encouraging and valuable.
In these circumstance good taste and good sense
should have admonished Ambassador Wilson to hold
his tongue at least until his official connection with
the Department of State was severed. That he was
n.i dismissed forthwith upon his return from Mexico
waS due solely to an act of generous sufferance on
the President’s part, for, lie had misrepresented the
policies of the onited States about as rankly as a
tactless, irresponsiDle man could have done.
Instead of appreciating the administration’s for
bearance in leaving him a graceful exit from the
office he had abused, he broke ashly forth in slurs
upon English diplomacy at the very moment when
delicate negotiations, in which our Government was
in need of English support, were pending. The Presi
dent timely rebuke, of this act, has prevented possi
ble complications; and there is every reason to be
lieve that the United States will have the cordial
sympathy of foreign Powers in its wise Mexican
policy.
Good Work Against a Bad’ Bill.
The people of Georgia are especially indebted to
those members of the Senate who by their firm and
resourceful opposition to a bill, proposing that prima
ries should be held not later than June the fifteenth
preceding a general election, saved the State
from the political corruption and the injus
tice which the enactment of that outrageous
measure would inevitably have invited. The
filibuster led by Senator G. Y. Harrell, of
the twelfth district, and skillfully supported
by Senators Elkins, McNeil, Allen and others
who realized the public danger that was imminent,
resulted in the tabling of the bill until the session
of 1914. In the meantime, the people will doubtless
become fully aware of the sinister meaning of this
attempt to change the date of primaries and will con
demn it so forcefully that it will be defeated once
and for all.
The manifest purpose of the bill was to nullify
the registration law which now safeguards the purity
of the Georgia ballot and protects the Interests of
rightful voters. There have been divers reactionary
efforts to repeal this law but in each instance they
have failed because the rank and nle of citizens rec
ognize that adequate requirements for registration
are essential, if our primaries are to be spared the
degrading Influence of illegal and purchasable votes.
Having despaired of their open fight against this
wholesome law, its enemies sought in the hurried,
eleventh hour of the recent Legislative session to slip
through a bill which craftily avoided any reference'
to the registration sytem itself but which would ef
fectually rob that system of its force
Their scheme was to move the date of the primary !
hack to the limit of the registration period, so that
the registrars would have uttle or no time in wnich j
to purge their lists of unqualified names. The bill
provided that primaries should be held not later than
Juiie the fifteenth; it made no provision as to how
early they might be held. Thus It would have been
possible to order a primary for the very day follow
ing the closing of the registratibn books. Thus, too,
the date of the primary would have been fixed for a
season of the year when farmers find it well-nigh im
possible to leave their crops, and the result would
have been the disbarment of a very large element of
our rural citizenship from a fair participation in the
government of the State.
The House would never have permitted the pas
sage of so unjust and dangerous a measure had its
members had time and opportunity to realize the im
port of the matter ... hand. But, as we have said, the
bill was smuggled through under false colors with
out a chance for due consideration or debate.
Hence those members of the Senate who challenged
this evil measure when it came before that body and
who stood unbending until they were assured it
would he tabled, rendered a service that was partic
ularly opportune and valuable. The people have thus
been afforded an opportunity to assert themselves
against a scheme J o rob them of their rights.
The seerfet of health is the elimination of waste.
The first thing the physician prescribes usually is
a physic. No matter wfiat ails the patient it hardly
ever can be a mistake to see that
the body is well rid of its waste.
H the organs of excretion go on
a strike it is fatal.
The same law holds in affairs.
Every business man knows what
Pains he must take to keep his
desk clean,. and how papers will
accumulate on the table and get
choked into pigeonholes and ob-
stipate letter files and pile up in
drawers and cases. There are so
many things we are not quite
ready to do today, and tomorrow
finds us still indecisive, and so
the documents drift into for
gotten holes and before long the
desk is a jungle of undone matters. It fakes moral
courage to use the waste basket vigorously.
Some men can work in litter, with papers on their
desk like snowdrift, pagers stuffed bulging full into
boxes, papers on the floor about them, “thick as au
tumnal leaves that strew the vale of Vallombrosa,"
but I don't understand how they do it. An unanswered
letter haunts me like the ghost of Banquo. An uri-
pigeonholed receipt on my table irritates me like a fly.
The art of life is to discard.
Progress is clogged by the persistent remnants of
the outworn past.
Clogged! clogged! clogged! That is the story of the
Church, the School, the State.
Clogged with moth-eaten ideas, with traditional
passions, with antiquated ideals, with petty moralities:
The past makes the present; the bracts protect the
flower, but if the bracts persist and the blossom can
not throw them off they become throttling instruments
of death.
The curse and weakness of the law is precedent, of
which it beauts.
All unjust privilege is but the constipation of life.
When justice refuses to flow, is dammed up by cus
tom, and will not follow in the new channels of rea
son, there we find the iniquitous, stagnant pools of
privilege, full of poison, parasitic lives.
What a world it would be if we could swing for
ward unhampered by the past!
The past is to teach us, not to bind us. It is a bane
and not a blessing if it does not invigorate us to go on.
The world keeps sweet and sound, young and green,
because plants die and rot, and the waters flow forever
by, and institutions crumble, and old ideas fade, and
Nature is strong enough to throw away continually
her waste, bring up every spring new flowers, and
every autumn new fruits.
Teach the Chi d Its Importance
Straightening it Uut
The manipulators of the h-gh cost of beef will
blame it on the drouth.
The powers seem to believe that Huerta doesn’t
quite know it all.
Foss, the Flopper.
’ To Governor Foss, of Massachusetts, variety is the
spice of politics, and of principles, too.
It is not what a man believes hut how often
’ he can change his belief that counts with Eugene.
Whether he began as a Republican or a Democrat he
| himself perhaps has forgotten but everyone remem-
j hers that his notoriety has grown through a steady
series of party,“flops.”
A few years ago when the Democratic tide was
running high, Mr. Foss abandoned his Republican
brethren and ran for Congress on the Democratic
ticket. He was elected and shcrtly thereafter sought
the Democratic nomination for the governorship and
was again successful. But since the administration
| at Washington has proved its purpose and its capacity
j to put Democratic principles genuinely into effect,
: Governor Foss has grown very much disturbed over
! certain tariff-pampered interests .r> which he is per-
i sonally concerned; and now he intimates that he will
seek the Republican nomination for the governorship
at next month’s primaries.
The average housewife in most parts of the country
is becoming more interested in her local bakery than in
anv other food producing establishment. According to
a careful estimate made last
year nearly half the bread used
in the country comes from the
bakery instead of the home
kitchen. The bake/--, would be
glad to bake all the bread and
the average woman would be
more than willing to have them
do so if she had satisfactory as
surance that the bakery product
was as clean, nutiitious and sat
isfactory as the loaf she her-
otiii couui uiiHe. \ •
(Annie F. McClelland in the Mothers’ Magazine.)
Last year a home congress was held in Brussels.
Delegates from all over the world gathered to discuss
the welfare of the child and the home.
Every delegate agreed that two demoralizing fea
tures in the lives of boys and girls are: Failure Vn
the home life to make any effort to give them a pro
ductive occupation, and arbitrary effort in the home to
impose vocations untitted in the physical or mental
temperaments of the children. One .delegate said:
“it is an utter impossibility for any parent to dic
tate absolutely what a child’s future vocation shall be.
To attempt it is a crime against all that is natural. In
selecting a vocation for a child so that its heart and
physical spirit will enter it at their highest key of
enthusiasm years of study must be given to the nature
of the chi‘d The child also must be consulted. True
judgments on its part must be recognized ana accepted
and faulty ones corrected through diploimic proced
ure.
‘*The impression must never be removed from the
child’s mind that it is a free agent and that the par^t
is acting solely in the position of an experienced
and loving counselor and guide.
“Home unity and the highest average of working
productiveness is impossible in anything where the
children are directly or indirectly taught that they are
dependent and not independent. To produce the high
est degree of usefulness in children they must be ed
ucated from babyhood to the idea that in thdr partic
ular place they are Just as important to the home as
is the father in his place or the mother in hers. No
successful home unity is possible where part of the
members of the family work and part are idle. An
unfair division of labor is created and the sense of co
hesiveness is lost."
(New York World.)
The headway which John JL.ud is making in Mexico
is due not more to the dignity of his mission and the
firmness of the president whose personal representa
tive he is than to the evident purpose of other na
tions to support the United States in its policy soutn
of the Rio Grande. The American whose presence in
Mexico was said a week ago to, be “undesirable" is
now in amicable but unofficial communication with
General Huerta’s minister of foreign relations. From
this fact much may be expected.
Japan’s rebuff to Feliz Diaz and Great Britain’s an
nouncement that its recognition of the usurper was
simply as provisional president is now followed by the j
explanation that France and Germany recognized
Huerta only because American Ambassador Henry Lane
Wilson, at the head of the diplomatic corps, last win
ter publicly congratulated him upon his accession to
office. These disclosures are as full of admonition
to Huerta as they are confirmatory of the mischievous
activity of the representative of the United States u»
iviexico at the time or the overthrow and assassina
tion of President *.iadero.
By his partisanship Ambassador Wilson involved
his own country unnecessarily in a shameful revolu
tion and at the same time misled several friendly pow
ers which were inclined to act in harmony with our
selves. He is now engaged in abusing Great Britain
for not standing by the Huerta government. It has !
been a bad business all around, but the president is i
straightening it out.
Wliat a difference between countries! France
has no suffragettes.
Pointed Paragraphs
A man isn’t necessarily a coward because he is
afraid of consequences.
»;
Time flies and we’ll soon be face to face with
the annual problem of who’s who in the Christmas
gift line.
Make few promises and' keep what you make.
* * *
One satisfactory thing about marriage is the pre
lude.
... .
Excuses will not hold the friends that promises
make.
m m m
It takes a woman to look cool on a warm day
when she isn’t.
• • •
An egotist is a man who thinks he is better than
you are.
m m m
That girl who admitted she was twenty-five in
1900 must be nearly thirty by this time.
* * *
A girl without a beau is as lonesome as a flea
without a dog.
• « *
The man who is too effusive in expressing his
gratitude for a small favor is halting his hook for a
larger one.
• • *
bne of the first thing! a young man should j
learn is to take a hint.
Many reasons exist for the
preference being given to baker’s
bread. The chief one is econom
ic. It costs practically three times as much to bake
bread at home as In the bakery. The relative value or _
the fuel alone consumed in the baking of a small quan
tity of bread for a single family is much greater in
proportion than that used to bake the same quantity
in the large output of a big bakery. The woman who
lives in town and bakes bread in a gas range can reck
on this even more readily than the woman who de
pends upon coal or wood for fuel, but the fuel value
actually has to be taken Into consideration in most
households. The cost of flour and other ingredients
when purchased at retail by the housewife is greater
than when purchased in large quantities by the baker.
...
The baker is often able to make a better and more
wholesome loaf of bread than can be furnished in the
home because his equipment is so much better. He
takes no chances, makes no guesses at the relative
quantities ot ius ingredient*. tuvery thing is weighed
with scientific care and in most bakeries the mixing
and kneading is no .v done by machinery, rendering the
urocess lar more thorough than the most patient hand
labor can insure. One of the greatest drawbacks to
the home baked bread is the uncertainty of the average
kitchen range. There is no means of accurately gaug
ing its temperature. The oven of a bakery is equipped
with a register of its temperature and a means of
keeping It uniform during the baiting process.
» ...
The housewife of today really has little advantage
over the methods her mother employed when it comes
to bread baking. The baker, upon the other baud, has
taken advantage ol every bianuu oi science to help
mm to produce a loaf of bread which will most nearly
approach perfection. In recognition of this no less
an autnority than Dr. Harvey W. Wiley says: “The
baking of bread is an art most successiully piacticed
by proiessionais and the American metupd of dome
bread baking is not to be too highly commended.”
. . •
The modern woman agrees with the theory that
baker's bread ought to be best for her family providing _j
it is baked under proper conditions. Too often she
finds that this is not the case and she Is compelled
to organize a crusade against dirt and Insanitary meth
ods beiore the baaery product comes up to her high
ideal of purity and wnoiesom-ncss. At mst life bak
ers wefe disposed deeply to resent this feminine inva
sion of their terriccey. Much opposition was ouered
to the first reforms suggested. In most towns now,
however, a dilferent attitude is apparent. The mas
ter bakers, through their organizations, are recogniz
ing the value of securing the good will of the women
they desire for customers, and feel that it is worth
while to come up to their requirements.
...
The Housewives' league of New York has been giv
ing special attention to the bakeries of that city since v
the first of January and issued a special "bakers’ num
ber” of the magazine which they publish monthly as
the organ of the league. Mrs. Julian Heath, ths
president of the league, has appeal eo beiore the board
of health of New York several times in the interest
of vfiean bakeries and is receiving the hearty co-op
eration of the,bakers themselves, who in most cases
are anxious to raise tne standards of their own calling.
Mrs. Heath lakes the stand that “the commercialized
home industries ’are still home industries,” and urges
upon every member of the league the duty of being
her own inspector, and of reporting upon the conditions
of the bakery from which her dally bread is served.
...
In some towns the bakers are rising to the occa
sion by inviting the women to visit their bakeries. In
one city a large bakery recently placed a placard in
the window reading: "Five hundred dollars reward
will be paid to the treasury of the Housewives’ league
if any bakery in this city can be found in a more san
itary condition than ours. The inspection of eacn
housewife is cordially invited.”
...
In a western towp, one of the large bakery plants
extended a personal invitation to the members of lead
ing women’s clubs to inspect their wo»k and each de
tail was carefully explained.
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While in some towns the work of the’- women has
brought about almost ideal conditions in the bakeries
much is left to be accomplished. Bakeries still exist
in which files are found in profusion. A Long Island
woman recently reported findilig a fly In the middle of
a ioaf of bread. When she told the baker of the mat
ter he good-naturedly replied: “Well, when it hap
pens again, I will give you another loaf of bread.” It
did not happen again so far as that woman was con
cerned, since she promptly turned her patronage'to a
cleaner shop, and not only her own but the patronage
of as many friends as she could influence by telling
the story.
...
In Chicago one of the members of the pure food
club w'as Invited to address the bakers' organization
and her remarks have been widely circulated in trade
journals and commented upon with favor by many mas
ter bakers. She summed up the qualities to be desired
in the products of a bakery under three heads: Good
and wholesome qualities of materials used in the prod
ucts; cleanliness throughout, including materials, sur
roundings and handling; reasonable cost. Another
woman invited to address a bakers’ organization added
to these three requisites that of attractive appearance
and flavor. She cit -d the fact that in some large bak
eries visited where the sanitary conditions were' all
that could be desired and the quality of the materials
undeniably the best, the flavor of the bread was not
equal to that produced in the home oven. In order to
gratify th e palates of their families the women are de
manding that the bakers give them bread which has
the so-called home-made flavor, and that the cakes
and pies also have the real taste produced by the
home cook. This is sometimes lost in the bakery by
the large quantity of material handled and to regain
it is one of the problems presented by the woman In
her demands of the taker.
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The Consumers’ league of Massachusetts has taken
up the conditions of bakeries in a rigid investigation.
As a result it has compiled a "white 1! «t” of bakeries
similar to the list the league has provided for stores
and factories. To be placed upon the “white list— a
bakery must comply with all the requirements of the
league, which are the same as those adopted by the
National Association of Master Bakers at its annual
convention last September. These requirements In
clude proper lighting and ventilating; freedom from all
kinds of vermin; floors, walls and ceilings of imper
vious material with smooth surface easily kept clean;
adequate plumbing; sufficient supply of pure water;
health certificates for the employes showing freedom
from skin diseases, tuberculosis and other contagious
diseases; the enforcement of a regulation requiring the
employes to be properly and cleanly clothed in addi
tion to' a guaranteed quality of all materials used in ilk*
baking products.