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BREAD PRICES.

Everybody knows that the price of bread has gone up, but how many per- sons know how mueh-it has gone up and how it's price compares with the prices of ingredients incident to it's manufacture?
 One of the essential commodities which the government has undertaken to regulate in price, bread is the only one composed of several ingredients, says the Bakers Helper. Coal, sugar, milk and wheat are essentially simple things, but bread is composed not alone of wheat, lard and sugar, but also largely of the clements of labor cost, fuel and delivery charges.
 At q recent conference held under the federal governments auspices at Wichita, Kansas, the subject of bread prices and their relation to the ingre- dient costs was presented in a graphic form for the first time. A chart, which was displayed by Jay Burns Of Omaha, former president of the Ma tional Association of Bakers and mcm- Der of the war council of the baking industry, showed figures quite at vari- ance with the popular conception of prices.
 The chart was prepared to cover the period from July 1, 1916, to October l, 1917, the period during which ali price fluctuations have occurred. It shows that in that period flour had shown a maximum advance of 249 per cent, shortening 1O2 per cent, feed 122 per cent, fuel 65 per cent, and the av- 'erage cost of all ingredients in bread had maximum range of 194 per m. Bread, on the other hand, at no time has advanced more than B per cent.
 This is the bakers explanation why bread has not declined with the recent land relative slight decline in flour. Flour is still 12S per cent higher than it was at the beginning of the period covered and all ingredients are still 119 per cent higher than they were, so that the only explanation of the present bread prices is that the bakers are making less profit today than they were at the outset when flour was between S4 and $5 barrel and all other ingredients proportionatcly cheap.
 In making his calculations Mr. Burns did not take into account in- creases in the cost of labor, wrapping paper pans, machinery. upkccp and taxes.
 The prices from which the chart was platted arc prices paid in the open market in the middle west. Sugar prices were furnished by an Omaha broker. lard prices were quoted from the Chicago stock market and the bread prices were taken from the ac- tual selling prices of standard makes of bread
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The Brooklyn Institute museum re ceived a fine picture of the kaiser in 1906. but it was placed in cold stor- age three years ago. There is at least one institution that got wind of what was coming when lot of others were still listening. The picture is in cold storage, it should be explained, and not destroyed, because after the war a picture of the kaiser will be just as valuable as a picture of Napoleon was after he took up his residence on St Helena.
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ship papers granted Brocker Novem- Der 10, 1916. It is alleged that Brocker, a subject of Germany pre- vious to his naturalization, neglected to file with application statement from the department of labor show ing the time, date and place of his landing in this country
 This is the first naturalization suit of it's kind in the Southwest, and should the governments petition be sustained Brocker will not be per- mitted to have citizenship until the war with Germany concludes, as he comes under the classification that now prohibits citizenship
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They are wondering how Mr. Me Adoo is going to operate all the rail roads with half of his time. Mac only intends to boss the fellows who are going to do the operating, and that will take about half an hour day, mcbbe
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The practice of indiscria1!- nate economy carries with 1t the danger of injustice to legitin1 m a tc business with out cOrres- bonding bene- fits resulting thcrcfrom iii winning the war. And tll.s tendency pre-
 scnts tl!e pos.
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found asylum on U. s. s. Ny ack. fearing personal violence from the revolutionary party. : Twenty-Five Years Ago Today. 3-Republicans and Populists ef- fected separate organizations of the lower house of the Kan sas legislature.
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U. s. WOULD ANNUL
 PAPERS OF GERMAN

Fort Smith. Ark. Jan D. Charsiag the defendant failed to comply with the laws. slit against Johan II. Brocker of this city was filed in the Federal court D, the gov ernment yesterday to anaul citizen
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In spite of the cold weather through out the northern states, ice will prob, ably cost more next summer on ac- count of the we'll known Shortage"
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Talking peace on tho eastern front and massing guns and men on the western front is tho Hun way of not letting the right hand know what tho left hand is doing.
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One Year Ago Today in the War.


 Jan. 10. 1917-German commerce raiders reported in the Atlantic; Constantine of Greece indorsed President Wilson's peace note; Russians extended their offensive to Dvina river sector and along Dvinsk-Vilna railroad.
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The wise girl in town-that is, the so-called wise person who is looking for the moneycd partner--now need
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
One Hundred Years Ago Today.

UnC Hundrfd 1eafS Ag0 I0da!. lS1S-MrS. John Drew. for many years prominent actress of the American stage. born in London Died at Larchmont. x. r.. July ,. lS2S,
 Se,eney.iive Years Ago Today. Resolution for the impeach meht of President Johnson of fered in congress by Johl N. Bolts of Virginia.
 Fifty Years Ago Today. 1S6S--EX-President Prado of Peru
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When the attention of The Graphic is called to any mis-statement of facts, or to any error concerning any man or thing, correction will cheerfully be made.
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arc on the trucks for one driver while the other sits at the wheel.
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By now the kaiser must be con iinced he is not conquering the world
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WORTH REM EMB BERlNG.

Courage consists not in blind- ly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conqucring it.
 Richter.
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FaShiOn'SDecree

 Style has at last found it's way into eyeWear. No longer can one, with proper regard for personal appear ance, wear ill-fitting or unbeconling glasses. It is just as necessary to have stylish glasses as it is to be prop erly clothed,
 No doubt you have noticed the inl- provement in eyeglasses. Eyeglass science now provides good. looking glasseS as well as a greater degree of comfort and efficiency for the weHrer. We are proud of our success as q re~ tractionist We take great pleasure in fitting glasses that are becoming to your personality Asb any of your friends, who wear good looking glasses and they will probably tell you they were fitted by
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Book News
Authors and Publishers and
Their Doines

Harper & Brothers will publish i'm
called Social Democracy Explained. y
Mr.. Spargo left the American Socialist
party because Of its pro-German point
of view.
Sir Edward Creasys book, Fifteen
Decisive Battles of the World" has
been brought up to date in the latest
edition and to be published immedi-
ately by Harper & Brothers. Giving
descriptions of battles from earliest
times, the book now comprises added
chapters, taking into special account
the Battle of the Marne.
Harper & Brothers announce for
early publication The Girl in His
House" by Harold Mac cGrath; "Puss
in Boots, Jr., in Fairyland," and
Travels of Puss in Boots, Jr," by
David Cory; worrying Won't VIM"
by Montague Glass, and "War Gar
dens," by Montague Free.
Captains o. o. Ellis and E. B. Garev.
authors of the "Plattsburg MANUAL
have both just been promoted to the
rank of major. VAN
The Second Jungle Book" last month
entered its thirty-ffth edition, and
"Captains Courageous" its twenty
eighth. Evidently the fortunes of war
| or peace have no influence upon the
success of Rudyard Kipling's writings.
=, The Century Company will publish
THIS month Keeping Our Fighters Fit"
ny Edward Frank Allen, written under
the supervision of Raymond B. Fos-
dick, chairman of the War Departm mt
and Navy Department Commissions on
Training Camp Activities. This is the
first complete official statement of
what the government has done to pro
VIDE clean, wholesome environment
tor enlisted men. 1t is official. vet most
Interesting mt and readable. President
wilson mas written a special statement
an regard to the work of the commits
slons' and this is printed in the front
OF the book. The publication of this
book is not private enterprise, Any
royalties from its sale will 90 into the
commlsslon's auxiliary fund. Neither
40 the commissions seek credit for
their work. But the book contains
message which the War Department is
most anxious to get across-one of re-
assurance to the people back home that
the Doys now being drafted will find
not only clean and decent conditions in
camp, out conditions which positively
educate and inspire.
b. W.: Huebsch will publish this
mo mgnth francis Hackett's first book.
horlzons." The book relates largely
to the significant writer's and move
ments ml OF the last six or eight years.
me John Lane Company is publish
ing The Correspondence of Sir Arthur
helps, X c. B. D. C. L., edited by his
son, dealing. with the topics of his dav.
IN including the American Civil War:
CrIos5numous ~ Poems of Algernon
Charles S%inburne," edited by Edmund
1osse, =: B., and Thomas James Wise.
the whole range of his career as an
author; "Liege, on the Line of March"
by Glenna L. Bigelow, the personal ex-
perlences of the author, who was one of
the sufferers of the German invasion Of
Belgium and who has been called to
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
ldealisn Run Mad

POLITICAL IDEALS. BY Bertrand Russell 16mo.
pp l72. The Century Company
The author of "Why Men Fight" now
seeks to tell US what is wrong with the
world and how to set it all right. Cap
italism and the wage system are wrong,
and socialism is environed with pit
falls, into some Of which it is bound to
tumble. We cannot ask all men to be
Industrious or self-sacrifcing, yet they
ought all to nave strong creative i'm
pulses and reverence for others! In
brief, we ought to note the contrast be-
tween tweedledum and tweedledee.
Government has no business to use
force excepting to abolish force; and
the law should intervene against polyg-
amy or anything Of the sort only
when somebody is being injured
against his or her consent. There is
no reason to desire that nation shall
be able to supply all it's own needs.
And so forth. The arguments are con-
Trajectory; the generalizations are en-
tirely too sweeping. The purport of it
amounts to little more than this, that
everything now is wrong, but if only
everybody would be good and set things
right, why, then, everything would be
right. Which nobody can deny.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

lble things are told which happened

able things are told which happened
20 those men cooped in the coal bunk
ers, with men going insane, men kept
IN their underclothes for eighteen days
and having to burrow in the coal to
keep warm, and without proper food,
and shot at the least provocation. To
quote the author, Splitting on prison
ers is the favorite indoor and outdoor
sport for the Germans, men and women
alike; and calling them all kinds of
.schwcinhunde." This was simply a
frollc compared to what the men had
to tolerate as prisoners of war and
what Mr.. Depew tolerated for three
months in German prison camp. The
author was at Ddlmen, where he had
an interview with Ambassador Gerard,
at Brandcnburg and Havcl, place
which is known as "the he'll hole of
Germany"
Mr.. Depew has told his experiences
IN straightforward way. without
mlnclng his words, and one wonders
how any human being could possibly
live through all the inhuman crueltv
and the nauseating conditions with
which the Huns treat their prisoners
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
In the Crucible
A Hopeless Tragedy of Fate in
jerusalem
TIE I. .,.I1o! HOLY CITY; JERUSALEM IL By se,m.

THE HOLY CITY: JERUSALEM H. By Selma
Lagcrlof- Translated by velna Swanston How
ara svo pp. sis. Doubleday. Page & Co
Readers of Miss Lagerlof's socio-
religious romance of "Jerusalem" will
find in the present volume q fitting
sequel to that impressive work. The
former told us of the religious ire
vlval" which sent the Dalecarlian en-
thusists from their homes to the Holv
City, for better or for worse. In it,
self it was complete. Yet it was quite
susceptible of having a second part,
which should tell of what befell the
modern pilgrims after their migration.
1T is powerful story, but we can
not say that it is pleasant one.
Life in modern Jerusalem is shown to
be a sordid thing, filled with envy,
malice and all uncharitableness SLOW
these Christians hate each other!" ia
the lrrepressible reflection at contem-
plation of the rivalries of sect with
sect The linking of the fortunes of a
Scandinavian family with such scenes,
passions and conditions is not as in
congruous as it might be supposed,
seeing the essential cosmopolitanism
OF the place. But the combination Of
sombre gloom and sordid tragedy makes
the work, great as it is, inevitably de-
pressing. The occasional touches Of
comedy serve chiefly to emphasize the
prevailing darkness
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
A Real War Bride

OVER HERE BY Ethel NJ Kelley. With fronts
piece by Charles Dana Gibson. limo, DID, 25o
Tho Bobbe-M Merrill Company
Not many war books have been moro
thoroughly instinct with human
nature than this poignant idyl, or have
in more simple and unpretentious YET
most effective manner analyzed the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

more than spaced prose. but it amply
justifies it's form. His songs of Poland
and Russia and his "Chant of Loyalty"
are living and moving verse.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

is precious in a very different sense
from the too common one of that
abused word. 1t contains, we should
say, perhaps the very best work, thus
far, of that very remarkable man. In
both depth and breadth of vision, in
copiousness of imagery, in knowledge
beauty, these little word-etchings are
unsurpassed in current literature, and
have not often been rivalled in any
literature or at any time. They are
largely meditative, upon the most fruit
full and engaging themes of life. They
are all tinged with mysticism, as is all
of life that is worth living. But they
are as practical as they are meditative
and as sane as they are mystical. And
higher tribute than that it would be
impnssihle to paY.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

the colors as an army nurse; "Anglo-
Irish Essays" by John Eglinton," and
"French Literary Studies," by T. B..
Rudmose- Brown, D. Lift, professor of
Romance Languages in the University
of Dublin.
The Putnams offer for publication
"Genseric, King Of the Vandals and
First Prussian KAISER" by Poultney
Bigelow. Mr.. Bigelow's friendship with
William II began during the Franco
German War of 1870 and ended abb
ruptly in 1896.
Robert E. Cushman's Excess Con-
demnation" is the latest volume in the
excellent National Municipal League
Series," edited by Clinton Rogers Wood
ruff. 1t discusses in most instructive
manner principle and practice which
an increasing number of municipalities
appears to find profitable.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
lagore's s Prose Poems
The Philosophy of Meditation
and Mysticism

LOVERS GIFT AND CROSSING BY Rabindra
Company. "' 'A"onAAi@1i
Fads and cults rise, run their little
round, and pass away. Sometimes, gen.
orally, that is their full desert; or the
desert of their subjects. Sometimes.
more rarely, the subject is superior to
the fad and far outlasts the cult. Not
long ago, weeks or months or years, we
are not sure, there seemed to be fad
tor Rabindranath Tagore; just as there
might be fad for sunrise. 1t has van
lshed, so far as we can perceive. So
would the sunrise fad vanish. But the
sun would continue to rise. So now
that people have ceased to affect to ad-
mlre the philosopher who is above
their ken, he continues to enrich the
world with the outpourings of his opu-
lent mind, just the same as though fads
and cults had never been.
The present is little volume, but it
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Voices of Singers
In Many Keys and on Many
Themes

A part of the wars record is the vol.
ume of verse by Marion Couthouy
Smith collected under the title "The
Final Star" (James T. White & Coz
Readers of The Tribune will remember
how valiantly her voice has spoker
throughout, including that happy day
year ago when "The Flag Is Upl'
| flew from one of our pages. Its end
ing speaks to-day as then:
| But now you are lifted up,
The symbol again of mercy,
Again of justice,
| Again of power.
| You shall lead host
Against ruthless and bitter wrong,
host-the ranks of Cod
Millions on millions strong;
And you shall defend a fortress,
fortress OF right,
Where a sword shall be lifted high
In Gods own light,
Against dark. besieging mass;
And where you fly
Flag-fag of mine
Then shall not pGssl
Miss Smith has a real gift for writ
ing out of the heat of battle and the
headlines. She seems at her best
under such stress. There is no way
of estimating the effect of such splen-
did eloquence, but it must be large
and continuing.
John Oxenham is not so much poet
as preacher. His other volumes have
gone far and wide, and the present
volume carries on his labor for mill
tant Christianity with equal eloquence
("The Fiery Cross" George H. Doran
Company. His poems may seem rather
too "bracing" and Smashing" for our
American mood. But by the time we
have taken our losses our mood may
be different. Mr. Oxenham's Chris
tianity in verse bears eloquent testi-
mony to the spiritual awakening that
the war has brought to England.
1t is in his most ambitious pieces
that Elias Lieberman is at his best
("Paved Streets" The Cornhill Com
pany). An odd and persistent lack Of
mental dexterity hampers his humor,
his epigram, and his lighter song
When he writes from the depths Of
his American faith he achieves real
eloquence. II Am an American" is no
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
In a Hell Hole
A True Story of Three Months
Among the Huns

cs,NNER DEPEw. BY Himself. With maps and
Illustrations l2gno. pp. Sl9. The Reilly &
Britton Company.
An amazing story of what the author
did of what he saw, and of what he
endured in two years of fighting on
land and sea with the Foreign Legion.
Mr.. Depew gives thrilling account of
the fighting at Dixmude, and of the
horrors endured in the trenches, when
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Murder in High Life

MRS Rs, MARDEN's ORDEAL. BY James Hay, tr.
WI WIN fronttspiece by Armand Both. limo pp
S07. Little. Brown K Co. w.
This is partly a detective or mystery
story, and partly psychological study,
and also physiological study. 1t is
the self-told story of a brilliant young
social leader who is driven almost
crazy by jealousy Of her philandering
husband and by the shock of the muir
der, at her own reception, of girl to
whom her husband has been attentive.
She herself knows the secret of the
tragedy, but her memory is Temporal
rily destroyed by shock, and she is un-
able to give the testimony needed to
save an innocent man from conviction
until the last moment, when the ex-
'traordinary treatment of her physician
solves the maddening problem. 1t is
book Of intense though at times
somewhat morbid interest.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
The Love of Lust
HE WHO BREAKS. By lima Dement'S. l2
pp. 349. Dodd. Mead & Co.

HE WHO BREAKS. By lima Dement'S. l2mo
pp. 349. Dodd. Mead & Co.
Miss Demens has told an offensive
story exceedingly we'll. We have not
often met with so lucid and lifelike a
portrayal of the workings of sensual
lust under the guise of Glove" or "art"
For that, after all, is what it is. When
man casts the glances of desire upon
a pretty girl, and sets himse to wheed-
ling her into the belief that she must
become his mistress in order to arouse
her artistic temperament and enable her
to attain supreme heights of achieve
ment, we have only one word for it.
To our mind the theme, as old as sim
is worn threadbare and is not worthy
of the fine talent which Miss Demens
has so copiously expended upon it.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Current Poems of Worth
Book News and Miscellany

more than spaced prose. but it amply
justifies it's form. His songs of Poland
and Russia and his "Chant of Loyalty"
are living and moving verse.
Berton Braley's new book is not as
good as it's title, "a Banjo at Armaged-
don" George H. Doran Company),
which is perfect. But it is cheerful
and amusing, and occasionally some
thing considerably more. "The Ancient
Thrill" has the true Tilt of what it de-
street." "Vale Buffalo Bll'" is true
poetry. And all the downright frivo-
lous pieces score an idea neatly and
we'll.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an institu-
Peruna, that is wiser to accept than
try to explain. To say that she is
eternal Seventeen" does not fix the
sources of her great popularity, for
every one who writes Of Unseen Help
ers and for whom barques always ap-
proach strands, and who I wis-es Of
anguished lips and mystic borders, is
not best selling poetess, however
good and pure. No, there is an utter
sincerity of self-rcvelation in Mrs.
w lc0xS verse that makes even
banality seem important When q
reader is convinced that he has been
admitted to the holy of holes of a
soul he is moved, even though the
soul be that of a sentimental, trite-
minded American woman. Her new
volume, "Sonnets of Sorrow and
Triumph" George Fl. Doran Company
is unquestionably true document. To
read it is to sit before a movie to
Mrs. Wilcox's emotions in great
grief. Surely it is a talent and a con-
siderable one to convince a reader of
this intimacy. The limitation of art
involved is simply the character of
what is revealed. G.P.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

And here it is-Art, expressing a
something which is distressingly vague,
but presumably universal. The expert
ment must be accorded the privileges
of all experiments. Some of us doubt
the possibility of discovering themes
sufficiently concrete to be universal.
When an idea is vague people don't
care about it, and when it is clear they
quarrel about it. Yet those who have
danced and sung with the community
report new and hearty quality of Joy
in the ritual. And they have the hu-
man data, as we skeptics have not.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Near the Battle Line

JUST BEHIND THE FRONT IN FRANCE nv
Noble Foster Hoggson Illustrated Syo. m
III. John Lane Company. WV ''
The author, member of the Amer
lean Industrial Commission to France,
gives impressive word pictures, to-
gether with actual photographs, of the
places which have been ravaged by the
war in Northern France. Happily, he
not only portrays the destruction and
desolation caused by the war, but also
the irrepressible vision of the future,
the France that is to be, partly in spite
OF and partly because Of the great war.
1T Is book greatly to be priced.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

heart of young girl suddenly called
from the butterfly carelessness of
youth to meet the sternest realities
and to bear the heaviest burdens of
life. Just out of school, not yet be-
to take serious view of life;
quickly married, in order that she may
actually be a wife before she sends
her lover abroad to fight the Hun; and
soon. left a widow, resolved to "raise
her boy to be soldier"-the father
less boy whom she expects. That is
the story, which you cannot read with
out both laughter and tears, tighten
ing of the throat and gripping of the
heart. 1t is worthy to be a classic to
the girlhood of America,