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Show LABOR AND SUPPLY BUREAU SERVICE i plenty of men and boys want work. y Several young ladies want employment employ-ment as domestics or In offices. Let us list your property, whether land, nnlmaU, machinery, or what not. Wo found buyers for a lot of things 'last week. Inquiries come to tho bureau dally for 'berries, currants, garden stuffs,, otc. Soon we will have calls for farm products. Let us hear from you asrsoon a3'you havo anything to sell. Farmers, road this from tho pen of Harris Dixon: "Consider the price of bread. Last year the farmer sold his wheat at an average of $1.50 a bushel. Wheat bread In the national nation-al capital today sells for between 10 and 11 cents a pound, which Is at tho rate of $20 a barrel for flour. "Tho European formula for tho ratio of bread to flour is that tho prlco of bread should bo tho samo as tho prlco of flour. Tho baker gets a 30 per cent swell In tho water, yeast, etc., out of which 30 per cent he Is supposed to pay his expenses and mako a profit. Bread at 10 cents should represent flour at $20 a barrel, bar-rel, and twenty-dollar flour means nearly $4.25 a bUBhol for wheat. But tho farmer got only $1.50. Between Be-tween tho wheat maker and the bread cater thero yawns a mysterious margin mar-gin of $2.75 excess baggage of t nearly double tho original price of hoat. Who was It that got nearly "twlco as much for doing nothing as the farmer got for raising tho wheat? "Allowing "for legitimate trade profits, wheat at $1.60 should havo meant bread at less than flvo cents a pound. "Practically tho cntlro wheat supply sup-ply of Belgium Is Imported from tho United States. Yet, in spite of tho extraordinary cost and risk of transportation, trans-portation, tho price of bread In Bel-Slum Bel-Slum Is 60 per cont of tho price in New York City. A large proportion of tho wheat In Franco conies from this country, yet the prlco of bread In Franco Is 40 por cent below ours. Bread Is now selling In England for 28 cents for four pounds, tho highest prlco since tho Crimean war 30 per cent below our prices. "Assuming that the farmer last year received tho highest average prlco, $1.60, for his wheat. Then, with all normal costs and profits added, tho wholesale prlco of flour I should not have exceeded $9 a barrel. bar-rel. Yet during tho past few weeks at many centers It has soared at high as $15. A probable average throughout through-out tho country Is $14. Some one Is taking $5 a barrel on 10,000,000 barrcU a month $50,000,0100 a month absolutely picked from the American pocket. Since this riBO In prlco abovo $9, as before the now crop, wo may nssumo that over $250,-000,000 $250,-000,000 lias been snatched from the mouth of hunger, In excess of normal profits of trado and distribution. This In part accounts for a statement recently mado to mo that wo havo thirty thousand moro millionaires than wo had boforo tho war com-tnenceed." com-tnenceed." In tho face of th03o conditions, Is It any wonder that tho farmers of Dakota havo taken things in their own hands, and that laborers and pro-,vlucers pro-,vlucers throughout tho wholo land J:o restless and discontented? Lord! Got behind Hoover. Office in the Commercial-Booster's rooms, riiono 56, |