Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1913 — BETTER TO ELIMINATE HAND [ARTICLE]

BETTER TO ELIMINATE HAND

World Will Improve When Machinery Takes Its Place as the Motive Power. The elimination of, the human hand is the watchword or battle cry of many of the workers for pure-food laws and regulations. And it is the aim of many of the big producers of foods, too. The state of New Hampshire not long ago rendered a decision forcing bread to be wrapped when it was sold. And some of the big factories where crackers and biscuits are made, for instance, have so far eliminated the human hand that you see human hands only manipulating the big steel machine hands that touch the food. So much for the efforts of state and factory. How about your own bouse? Does the'human hand have a too prominent part in the making of your home-made bread? Even if it is your own hand, it had better not be used unnecessarily in the preparation of food. From both the standpoint of health and that of economy, the use of the human hand when it is possible not to use it ought to bo avoided.

Make this the watchword of j your kitchen, and so help advance a, na-tion-wide effort for better food and better economy in its making.