The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-08

countries. This leaves only Argen-
 tina, Australia and the United States
 to furnish the world with is wheat
 and the supply is short.
 For that reason it is improbable that there will be any permanent drop of any account in the price or
 wheat and as result in the price of bread this year.
 Bakers have to buy their supplies of flour at least three months in ad- vance There is not baker in Bridgeport who has not at least 90 days supply on hand and some of impossibility to make good bread out
 of flour that has not had an oppor-
 tunity to ripen. That can not be
 done in less than three months. During the war. and for some time
 after, the bakers were not allowed to
 set their own prices .on bread. Her bert Hoover's department prevented them from doing it. Not until they
 could show that they had begun to use the flour that cost them more m money were they allowed to raise the
 price. Four times this occurred. A year altogether the sbakers were kept from realizing the profits of rising
 market as other lines of business were
 doing. Now, having done that, it does not seem as though they should be expected to cut the price of bread faster than they use up their present stocks of flour and commence to use that bought at lower price, Frank Cunningham of the Steinert Company said: we are satisfied with business and business conditions. Our | bushes is fairly good and I do not see any reason for thinking it is not going to be. It can not be expected 1 that business is going to always be | just the same every month in the year and every year fin concussion as the boy said.
 l "The only people who need to be | anxious when little lull in business comes are the people who have over borrowed or have made foolish
 moves; who have over-played their hand as it were. I imagine that all l this vail of pessimism that we are hearing comes from that class of bus mess.
 ..I do not think that any business which has been managed on conser vative lines has any reason for worry ing at all. There is plenty of busi- ness to be had by going out after it.
 In fact I think that a little slowing up in business is a good thing for the
 men engaged in it.
 "For a spell back men in business have just been taking orders. People have come in in large numbers ready to buy and all a salesman had to do was to name prices and write down | orders. Now he has to become a | salesman again; find out where the potential business is, exercise his in genuity and salesmanship in getting at it, and making it actual. It is a much more healthy condition. There is nothing to be alarmed | over in this shutting down of fac | tories. It had to come and everyone l will be better off for it. During the | war period large numbers of men
 without previous experience obtained l jobs at very high wages as mechanics and skilled workers. They are what you might call weeds. They need to be gotten rid of. The only way it | can be done is to shut down plants and discriminate when re-employing i the men again.
 NO in my opinion there is no req | son for pessimism. If men will only | take an optimistic view of the situa- 1 ton and go out and create business | everything will be all right M. B. Erlanger, District Manager | for the P. & Q. Organiza tion is of the | opinion that the downward trend O.
 prices has reached it's limit and tha
 from now on they will be more or les
 stable.
 MT. Erlanger, who had just conn
 from New York, said: "All the mer chants and manufacturers with whom
 I talked seemed to agree that not onl.
 are prices lower here but we are sell
 ing goods at the lowest prices tha
 can be had for some time. If ther