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- -.• I .......... ..... tgi, nuitiltiglIWIJI4n ■ inst ig. ^t • , , 0 ..910,1 mmm Oh - 0 I 0 .s fr ' ammo OrMiettrOttla ••• ■ ••• •■■ ■ .• •• - — . 7 4 - 1.i. 1:• ■•■• ■ ••. ■ .4-..... ■ :: IA ma.s•••.11•• ••• i., 4 . 1 ■ •• ■ • ' • •• • .... 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. The Gorham Sho amommmommaimmommminotootommonnoommimmiumumummitomonnitommomommiimothommommimmommimmonnamimmonotimmuutimmutoommatimumutomm il mommi 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. 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