The Story of Bread (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Story of Bread (Classic Reprint) written by Edwin Lincoln Barker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Bread It seems rather strange that people should be forced to fight for bread. That is to say, it seems strange to us who live in this Age of Plenty. Oh, yes, it's true that our large cities still have their bread lines. But bread lines are not for the lack of bread. They are for the lack of something or other which puts up the fight that gets bread, and all that goes with it. There is plenty of bread today, and it is cheap enough, too. Every bread line and every soup house 18 a sign that somewhere in our civic, indus trial, or social machinery, something is out of gear. If a man is willing to work, he should be given work to do; if he is not willing, he should be given some thing else - say, a loaf of bread, a bowl of soup, and numerous kicks, all properly placed. However, this is a problem to be worked out by our economical and sociological friends. But to go back to the days when people fought for bread - no farther back than your great grand father and mine. They might better have saved their strength, for there was no bread to be had, for there was no flour, for there was no wheat, for there were no large fields planted, for there were no quick ways of gathering the harvests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.