The Cordova Daily Times
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v°‘»WDOyA, ALASKA, WKDN Kft.OAY, DECEMBER 5, 1917
SAVING Wh^..
Out of tlu> conservation pro
paganda of Food Commission
er Hoover is coming some in
teresting data with respect to
the tremendous totals reached
jn this country in small fam
ily wastages. For instance:
If one ounce of meat a day
is saved in each home in the
United States for one year it
will amount to a total of 465,
000,000 pounds. Since the av
erage weight of food cattle is
1,200 pounds, this means a sav
ing of. 383,000 animals in a
year. ^.
One slice of bread saved
daily amounts to 365,000,000
loaves annually, or enough to
supply half a loaf of bread a
day for a year to 2,000,000 peo
ple. —
One pat of butter less a day
amounts to 114,000,000 poVJius'
ft year saved.
These figures lead to furth
er analysis. The making of
bread on a large scale is much
less wasteful than making it
in the home oven. It is less
wasteful for three reasons:
First—Because it is possible
with large masses of dough to
secure more complete chemical
combinations, and therefore,
better bread.
Second—Because it is poss
ible in handling large quanti
ties, to eliminate the small
wastes. No matter how care
ful the housewife may be,
some dough will stick to her
fingers, some will adhere to
the bread board; some flour
will be scattered out of the pan
and onto the table or floor, in
sifting, and some waste, there
fore, will occur. It will be min
or, it is true, but will amount
on the average to something
like»an ounce of flour. Multi
ply this ounce by hundreds o1
thousands—the number of in
dividuals who make their owr
bread—and it becomes tons ii:
quantity. These tons, handler
in the large baking institu
j lions, are reduced again to
1 “oucea so far ns waste is con
Mined, r“ •C0UJerti toto
loaves through savi..^ '
age made possible by larger
handling.
Third—Heat. This element
enters into the tremendous
waste of home-made bread. It
is physically impossible for
the housewife to secure the
economy of fuel in the litnne
oven that is to be had in the
larger ovens of the industrial
bakeries. It is not possible for
the housewife to load her oven
to a capacity proportionate to
the heat employed. She must
needs waste gas or wood or
coal—which means fuel wast
age—in heating the oven pre
paratory to putting in her bak
ing, and then must maintain
heat sufficient to bake several
more loaves of bread than her
oven will accommodate in or
der properly to cook |f
commercial institutions this
Item of heat wastage proved
an enormous one and lias been
overcome by scientific con
struction of the ovens and the
enlarging of the capacity in
loaves.
If the individual Housewife
will set down the items of cost
in her home baking, including
the flour and the potatoes and
the yeast and the water and
the labor, and then will make
note of the time she lights the
gas or the fire, and will com
pute the cost of the fuel con
sumed, she will find that the
home-made loaf costs her much
more than the baker’s loaf.
This is not an argument for
baker’s bread. It is a plain
statement of fact based on in
quiries made by attaches of
the food commission. In the
interest of food and fuel econ
omy, housewives are urged to
make similar comparisons for
themselves. When they find
that the home-made loaf costs
almost twice as much as the
commercial-made loaf, they
will turn to the bake shops for
their bread. In doing so they
will not only save wheat and
save fuel, but they will also
save money which they may
trun to better uses.
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A NEW JOB.
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A new job has been creat
ed. It is an easy one and there
can be litle doubt but that of
fice-seeking politicians will be
hot-foot after it. It pays well
and it will be stricklv a politic
al plum with no “silly” civil
service handicaps attached to
it. This new job goes underj
the title of “Inpector of Ex
plosives, ” I). C. Sargent, of I
Cordoya, won the plum for this
territory.
> duties of the job Art, IT;!
fleeted in *1,e title. The man
who holds the office is to be
charged with the responsibil
ity of inspecting dynamite, ni
troglycerine and other power
ful explosives which are not
listed in the catalog of things
for babies to play with. j
J lie law, creating this new
position was passed in the
closing days of the recent ses
sion of congress. It slid
through without a great deal
of publicity. It provides that
the President, by and with the
advice and consent of the sen
ate, may appoint in each state
and in Alaska an explosive in
spector whose duty it sb«1’ * .
under Uih , ;r“*l be’
^nection of the bur- '
eau of mines, to see that this
act is faithuflly executed and
observed. Each inspector shall
receive a salary of $2,400 a
year. He may be detailed at
any time for service outside
his own territory and, of
course, will be entitled in that
event to expenses.
In passing this legislation,
congress “handed on#’ tp the
civil service commission. It
waived civil service on the pre
text that the jobs would expire
when the war ends and that
the work is of such a charact
er that men best fitted to do
it shuold be selected outside of
civil service.
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Instruction received by the vari
ous United States marshals and their
deputies throughout the territory re
cently, are to the effect that alien ene
mies, native born citizens of Germany
who have not ben naturalized, may
not travel from parts of Alaska to
another or from Alaska to the States
without first having received a per
mit from the marshal or deputy mar-’
shal.
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astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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FIRE!
A resident of Cordova had a
small fire in his house the other
day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of $150.00. The
next day he insured through us.
The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss at this trifling fire. Are
you, Mr. Property Owner, going
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
loss?
Any person wishing to build
can secure a fine residential or
business lot in Cordova from us
on exceptionally liberal terms.
Five hundred lots listed.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
ABSTRACTS
SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
Bank of Alaska
ALASKA’S BRANCH BANKING SYSTEM
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Banks At
CORDOVA
Anchorage Skagway Wrangell
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $105,500.00
Resources Over $1,000,000.00
CORDOVA OFFICERS
ANDREW STEVENSON W R. HILLERY
w '■>- resident x Vice-Pres. (Managing)
B. R. COLKETT
Asst, Cashier
COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
Safe Deposit Boxes Travelers Checks
The NATIONAL ARMY is Neither wage-earner nor mer
drawn from our reserves of chant can afford to always 1)
men. If you are drawn will live close to the margin of I
you leave a cash reserve in the their resources. Whether you ?
bank? You may not need it join the colors or not, start 1
during the war but you cer- now building up a reserve by 1
tainly will when you are mus- depositing with the BANK OF \
tered out. ALASKA, an institution that I
carries ample reserves and I
builds for the future. \ I
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If You
ARE LAID UP IN THE HOSPITAL
YOUR EARNING POWER
Stops
Does your Insurance cover you? If not
Get a ^ IN 1 P0LICY IN THE I- D. Hollenbeck
O A NORTHERN LIFE District Agent, Cordova
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