THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
10
The Jewish Woman
JEWISH BAKERS CO-OPERATE
WITH UNITED STATES
FOOD COMMISSION.
Will Discontinue Saturday Baking—
Jewish Public Asked to Help
Correct Return Abuses.
The Government of the United States,
through the Commercial Economy Board
of the Council of National Defense, has
recently asked the bakers of the coun-
try to discontinue the practice of ex-
changing unsold bread for freshly baked
bread. The board is now asking the
consumers of the country to assist the
baker in his efforts to do away with
this wasteful practice.
A country-wide investigation conduct-
ed by the Commercial Ecodomy Board
convinced it that fully 5 per cent. of
the bread baked by wholesale bakers was
returned to ,them by the bread retailers.
Part of this bread was sold to the poor
and to charitable institutions, but nearly
half of it was disposed of for chicken
and hog feed. The result has been that
some 500,000 barrels of good wheat and
rye flour, made up for human consump-
tion at great cost of manufacture and
distribution, has been fed to animals or
thrown away. Ultimately the public has
paid for this waste in the higher price
necessarily charged by the baker to cov-
er this loss.
Bread one day old is good food—it is,
in fact, better and more digestible than
fresh bread. When the Jewish public
considers that all of Europe is eating
war bread—bread in which potatoes,
oats, barley and even fibre is substituted
for wheat, and that no fresh bread what-
ever may be sold in England, it will be
ready to do its share by accepting day
old bread, when necessary. Even this
will not be necessary if the consumer
will assist the retailer by ordering her
bread in advance.
The bakers of this city have loyally
agreed to abide by the wish of the
Council of National Defense, made
doubly urgent on account of the war
and paucity of flour. The public has
proved itself ready to co-operate with
the large department stores in limiting
the return goods nuisance, a costly and
unnecessary waste of human labor.
There is much or more need for the
whole-hearted co-operation of the pub-
lic in this movement to abolish the re-
turn bread nuisance, which has meant so
unpardonable a destruction of the bread
of human life.
The Jewish public of this city, which
buys its bread to so large an extent
from small retailers and delicatessen
stores, will prove their patriotism and
their Jewish traditional sense of the
wrong of food wasting by making it
possible for these retailers to co-oper-
ate with the bakers in abolishing the
costly and unnecessary return of unsold
bread.
One of the unexpected results of the
movement for food conservation neces-
sitated by the diminishing supply of
food in the world has been the action
of the Jewish bakers in resolving to
discontinue Saturday baking. This ac-
tion is at once a patriotic one and that
is of peculiar appropriateness for Jew-
ish bakers to take. It is a tribute to
their willingness to forego personal profit
for the sake of the country. It is a
splendid sign of the readiness to make
personal sacrifices when the country
calls.
In order that this, action shall be sus-
tained and shall have the widest influ-
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once, the co-operation of the public Is
necessary. The public must show that
they approve of the patriotic action of
the bakers, by accepting the new situa-
tion gladly and without complaint. The
public must show that they appreciate
both the gravity of the situation created
by the world-wide food shortage and the
motives of action of the Jewish bakers.
Particularly the Jewish public should,
and undoubtedly will, support the bakers
in this move because of the Jewish value
of rescuing the Saturday Sabbath for a
group of hard-worked purveyors to the
public need. The old Jewish law of "six
days shalt thou labor and do all thy
work, but the seventh day is the Sab-
bath," is a law the fundamental wisdom
of which has been vindicated every day
more and more in these times of fierce
economic stress and competition. The
universal movement for shorter hours
of labor and a legally fixed working day,
which has been gaining in strength for
the last century, is in spirit nothing more
than the working of the old Jewish
law of the Sabbath. Assuredly the Jew-
ish baker is entitled to his Sabbath rest.
and the public will readily and gladly
accept the new regime of no baking on
Saturday, admirable as this is both from
the Jewish and from the patriotic
American point of view.
PITTSBURGH HAS "PUBLIC DE-
FENDER OF THE JEWS."
Will Investigate Cases of Jewish
Prisoners For Possible Reclama-
tion Through Employment.
WAR STOPS
the manufacturing and importation of whiskey and
other liquors. We still have a good selection of
Cognacs, Wines and Whiskeys
Imported and Domestic Stocks
Buy NOW, before prices are greatly advanced.
FREE DELIVERY.
PeterVass Liquor House
1150 Russell St.
Telephone Your Orders—Market 4915.
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Pittsburgh, Pa.—In the apointment of
Morris Scherr as "public defender of the
Jews," the latter people have obtained
recognition in the police courts of the
city for which Mrs. Enoch Rauh, presi-
dent of the Council of Jewish Women;
Joseph Engelsberg, Mr, Scherr and oth-
ers have been striving for years. Mrs.
Rauh's connection with such movements
has been known for years and Mr.
Scherr has been working in many of the
penal institutions among Jewish prison-
ers, but the entrance of Mr. Engelsberg
into the activity gave it an additional
impetus which was felt. The latter has
been a great friend and helper to the
"greenhorn" Jews and has stood be-
tween them and those who would exploit
the newcomers for private gain.
Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong gave the
necessary notice to the various police
stations and magistrates last Saturday,
and the young Jewish advocate will be
made to feel at home in all the local
courts. His work will be to investigate
the cases of Jewish prisoners and, if
earned, to do something for them in•the
way of reclamation through employ-
ment. If he deems it expedient and jus-
tified, he will ask the magistrates for
mercy in sonic cases and then immedi-
ately start to work on the, prisoner to
have him mend his ways. If the case
must necessarily be sentenced, then he
follows the prisoner through his term,
and if amenable to reason and experi-
ence, will try to have him placed in em-
ployment on his release.
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