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Show PRICE OP BREAD UKELY IR FULL ! Public Pressure May Force Bakers to Meet Slight Temporary Losses t i.l Eli VN1, 0 Nov. 29. The price of n -1 ounce loaf f bread . reduced from I t.i 12 writ torta) bj : grocer) company npi rating large number or store- I here. . .. n, i n i:d M i mi um N". IS. A. Staff OW wpomli-iil I) CHIf'AOn. Nov. 29. OUe US till" V dnv our dally bread"" 1 Thus von ;.sk for It. Vt you are I paying more for v...u- .un broad than I you tnouaht you would when you aaw K vheat and I loui gganlng I Wheat and flour prices, which be- I Kan to decline spectacularly several months K". are waj down and seem I certain to stay down Hut bread has ,,nlx begun to go down. I he decline not I being unlvetaal because bakers ttlll I contend high labor csts prohibit a ( rril recession from the 1920 national average retail price of 11 9 cents for H a pound loaf Puhllc pressure will continue to hammer down bread prices, f"t bakers H are now resigned to the necessity of H bearing ;l temporary loss. But you H can mitke up your mind that you will H never haw the pre-war 5-cent loaf or i Mhm? like M ( o i i 5I INS FRQM SCRVE1 These are conclusions obtained from H an exhaustive surve of the wheat H situation from the wheat field to the H dinner tabic in the wheat-flour bread situation, H you get an amazing conflict of opln-K opln-K ions and an endless circle of accuaa-K accuaa-K Hons fixing the Maine Each factor A blames the other. The farmer blames speculators, hankers, millers Ml Hera iii.ime farmers, bakers, the Shipping hoard. Bakers blame millers. Jobbers and labor And the public blames them all as profiteers Sifting the claims of everybodj brings ibis verdlci The basic tans, of the high COSl 01 bread Is labor's high wage standard. The Immediate cause of the collapse of wheat and flour markets is the foreign export buyer. Which enables you to hark hack and blame it all on the war! Wheat Is now al the lowest price level In four year? So Is flour. Farm-H Farm-H in losing m i ei 1 of wheat the) sell Flour mills are working at '. p-r cem capacltv i i it v i mx; oui "i ii i Nt i Everything Is out ol balance, experts agree. P.eajudstmcnt is bound to come. -they 6ay. The majority think wheat eventually Will Ko up a lot, flour will go up some and bread prlcea thereby will rebound from the present sporadic declines, unless labor cosH ui'e reduced materially. Hut optimists .ukI pessimists agree Ion this: That America never will see wheat at the pre-war figure of 90 cents a j bushel, flour at n cents pound and ' bread at 6 cents a loaf Flour consumption ha-- fallen so much that 1920 production is ': million mil-lion barrels b-.-s than the l ; l produc-J Hon of 13o million barrels. Farmers and millers are out of luck l because America aln Ldj hat exi too much wheat and not enough flour. I Flour exports, 2ti million barrels in m LSI 9, have decreased tremendously I j - i if v '.mi a i .- :.i rnifi or I I miller can justifiably blame the HI slump on the canny foreign buyer. DEPBVDS N i ll lit J r RINGS HI And If you are just a dislnteri sted eater of bread the onlj conclusion left for you is that bread pri ea will ri t .go dowtt very touch and will not stay down very long unless wheal and flour' islay down and labor costs ar.- reduced Farmers do not want the former to happen. And laboi does nol want the mit iu " iin n is lor i raRiiu why the price of bread probably will I remain disconcertingly unstable. |