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• - - -Vffi ■ THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL: ATLANTA, SA., 5 NOKTH FOBSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mall Matter ol the Second Class. The Business Depression ot War. i Not Chanty, but simple Justice. james a. gsay, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75s Six months 4 0c Three months 25o The Semi-Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday and Friday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distlnguls led contributors, with strong department! of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted ct every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have ara J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to ^he above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper ■hows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAJU Atlanta. Ga. 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. . . •» 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. • l * a 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.