Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1915 — BREAD TOO HIGH; THEN EAT SPUDS [ARTICLE]

BREAD TOO HIGH; THEN EAT SPUDS

Chicago Board of Trade President Suggests Potatoes As Substitute. The recent increase in the cost of wheat, bread and flour will not cause suffering among the poor, in the opinion of C. B. Canby, president of the Chicago board of trade, who testified at the investigation Of the New York state attorney general into the causes of this increase. This rise in the price of wheat, he said, would be balanced by a decrease in the price of potatoes and dther edibles. The witness also expressed the belief that despite the heavy exportation of wheat there will be a surplus at the end of the crop year, June 30. ‘The poor will not stop eating bread because it is raised in price one cent a loaf,” asserted Mr. Vauby, “but they will not eat so much of it. They will economize.”