Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1930, Page 36

THE ' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON.® D. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, costs . | _Flour, 26.7; other nts, 14.5; menufacture, 25 4; distribut.on , 384 Toted, 100, it ||Enlistéd With the m Forces When 14—Was Mason and ¢ ! 0dd Fellaw. Expi Friggze f.:un p : =% \Charles Augustus _ Flofo, - 83, Union musket. He was at Lee's 3 © T sumer§ Do Not Get [ mome e e i qieaeral | veteran of the Civil War, died Tues- M. Floto was a Lutheran, Mason and > : of Abram F. Myers, then acting chair- Lower Quotations. men. When a purchaser pays 8.549 cents for a loaf of bread, here is where BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. L J [ J [ J the money goes: T (Wheat is down to pre-war prices.. Un- e 4 Producer of wheat, 1.145; country ele- vator, 0:068: wheat transportation and [ A P s terminal charges, 0.278; flour miller, condi ¥ 9 cents a foaf. It is now around 9 cents, |0:408: flour transportation, 0263; al Farmers in’ wheat-growing States and ‘consumers in the great cities are asking some urgemt questions about falling Wheat' prives and fized bread prices. Lemuel F. Purton, special staff corre- «#vondent of The Star, inquires into the +Jundementals of bread ecomomics.) NEW YORK, October 2.—Around 20 years ago, with wheat at about the resents price levels, a loaf of bread cost. cents; Tt now costs 9 cents. I ‘This is the culmination of a long period of intense application of labor- | mass saving machinery to the manufacture|the consumer's 3 and distribution of bread. Here is a|velopment of the sutomvbile and other case in the experiment in!tramsportation econgmies of the last mass production. Allowing for the in-|two decades hiking up the distribution cnr:. in ;ver-fim.c‘;:g:’ejover :fi y‘u‘;a item in the price of bread. consumer just about the| gince the war, wheat consumption has. Same proportion of his income for this|'qecreased about 130,000,000 bushels an- basic commodity. The zechnnlog:z: m and the per capita comsumption advance has meant nothing to of .5.3 bushels annuslly has fallen to Who Wins? about: 4.6 bushels. Obviously this would Farmers in Ohio, Iowa, Kansas and| tend to bring about high-pressure sales- other wheat-growing States are asking| manship in the bread-making industry this question insistently. The farmers|and boost sales and ibution costs. this year get $300,000,000 less for their| Flour, ingredients and labor costs than they did last year.|appear to be out in the open. Will i Board bought 69,000,000 | further inquiry by the Federal Trade bushels of wheat at $1.18 to: stabilize | Commission or by the bakers themselves the market. With wheat now segging down into the low seventies and carry- ing charges added, the board takes a bread costs except ingredients, inclue labor, overhead, machinery, etc., 3.538; ingredient costs other than flour, 0.921; net profit to baker, 0.651; retail grocer, 11.278; total, 8.549. ‘This inguirer was unable to ascer- tain whether any one had ever broken down . the prependerant L FS¥larger: only.5¢.. International Salt:is]pure,: erystalline and always free-running. Askyour, grocer for_the big handy package. INTERNATIONAL SALT CO., ING. SCRANTON, PiL throw more light on such items as ad- ministration, overhead, sales and dis- tribution? 1930. SUES CLUB OWNER cine Park, Okla, Era B. Flynn filed named, he is survived by two sons, suit in District Court here against Robert M., Akron, Ohio, and Harry W. Wright for breach of contract. She Floto, this city. charged Wright owes her $1,800 salary for her work in his Aj Club, contract S Mrs. Fiynn's peti sald Wright | the club. 100 trucks in Lithuanis [ruseq 4o Hyuoe- te tiflflhl':;l-n h‘hudsbnom- TEA EXPERTS' FAVORITE A experts everywhere praise India Tea for its alluring depth of flavor, full-body and delightful fragrance. And tea packers the world over use India Tea as the “prime in- gredient” of their tea blends.”.. an ingredient that adds extr . flavor and fragrance to fine blends .°’ tea. India Tea is subtly different from other teas: Tt has that “elusive something™ tea drinkers K TO BE SURE THATYOU have always wanted but have never found in GIT GENUINE INDIA TEA “plain Jane™ teas. Know real tea satisfaction! LOOK FOR THE MAP OF Buy,India\Tea!.To get genuine India Tes, INDIA ON THE PACKAGE look; for the Map of India on the rekm of OF TEA YOU BUY, tea you buy, HORLICK S MALTED MILK ~ Stimulants stultify —drink a Horlick’s And keep your system beyond the need of stimulants. At the soda bar insist on Horlick’s. There is none other like it. Un- matchable! Take a package home. Or send ten cents for sample and free mixer to RACINE, WISCONSIN wHY INDIA TEA" i1s THE loss of nearly $40,000,000. Unable to Peg Market. Nobody has been able to peg the mar- ket where the farmer sells: It is only the mariet where he buys that remains pnchanged. Every individual and interest who ts a cut in the consumers’ § cents a plausible “out.” If the lemk in mass production is to be found and thef) (Copyrishit, 1930.) —_— 11 Die in Ammunition Blast. SATONIKA, Greece, October 2 (#).— Three officers and eight men of Jugoslavian army were killed by an explosion Tuesday fn an ammunition dump at Guevgueli, Jugosiavia, close to the greelt fromtier. Fourteen soldiers were wounded. THIS NEW AND GREATER SALT VALUE IS PRESENTED TO YOU BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST SALT PRODUCER CINTERNATIONAL'S PLANTS. REFINERIES AND LABORATORIES ARE UNRIVALLED vings of machinery and science are be ted among the consumers, distribu it will not be found in any surface ac- pound Ioaf of bread. The records of the largest bukingymnln- ica, iy cor- showed approximately this check on the de- hich the bakers submit | bureaus st Wash- l‘ee - 15 Betty Crocker " “Kitehen-lested” Recipes By 12 Leading Stars of American Cookery e All-Star *Kidchen- tesied” Revipe by Anna B: Scott, of the Philadelphia Inguirer. Axnna B. 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