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Efficient G. P. U. ''Every morning there is a bazaar down by the bay, with hundreds of Chinese selling a few radishes or a handful of onions or macaroni or rice, and peasant women with geese or chickens, butter, eggs, milk. The whole town jams into the square for the bazaar, and pickpockets do a rushing business. I saw the G. P. U. arrest 15 pickpockets in less than an hour...
Your Jan. 12 issue reported a statement by Filippo Tomaso Marinetti, citizen of Italy and disciple of Fascism, inveighing against spaghetti and other wheat paste products as inducing "torpor and pessimism." Signer Marinetti proposed to reduce the consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and kindred foods whose popularity now necessitates the importation of considerable quantities of wheat, as well as the finished product, chiefly from America. His plan involved the substitution of synthetic foods, on the basis that macaroni products are not "sufficiently dynamic" for hardy patriots...
This unwarranted condemnation of macaroni products was obviously inspired by political expediency-the desire to utilize Italy's rice surplus in place of American-grown durum wheat and American-made macaroni. Nevertheless, it tends to create a mistaken idea of the dietetic value of wheat paste foods. Macaroni, spaghetti and egg noodles, the three dominant members of the family, have long been known for their nourishing, tissue-building qualities. Significantly, they are grouped in the co-operative advertising of the National Macaroni Manufacturers Association as "The Energy Trio...
Counsel for Board of Advertising Trustees National Macaroni Manufacturers Association Indianapolis...
...containers in which they are frozen and then kept at from zero to 5° Cent.). Annually 6,000,000 cases (30 doz. in a case) are "broken out" for this purpose, used extensively by wholesale bakers. Recently frozen eggs have been used to some extent by manufacturers of macaroni, mayonnaise, ice cream and candy, who previously used only dried eggs imported exclusively from China. China, the only competitor of U. S. egg farmers, supplied about 40% of U. S. consumption of frozen and dried eggs despite the tariff which was raised last year from 6 to 7? per pound...