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# Bell Methods By Another Bell Employe. I want to thank "Bell Employe" for his letter of May 12. I hope the company doesn't find out his identity—nor mine, for the company does a lot of "pussyfooting" on the employes. It has to do this to protect its methods toward its workers. What the company may mistake for loyalty on the part of its employes is simply their helpless obedience because the company holds the whiphand as jobs no longer exist for the dissatisfied. Our company organization meetings for the workers are a grim joke because company officials have an ironclad power of veto on any suggestions to their disliking. We sit at these meetings and listen to "hooey" and we are supposed to believe that the company decisions we are forced to accept are in ac- times readers are invited to express views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) E. Garnett. May I express my sentiments in regard to an item that I saw published in your paper, stating that Indiana bakers are intending to raise the price of bread 1 to 10 cents a loaf? I think that 10 cents for a pound quality bread is a fair price. Here are a few of the things that it takes to manufacture bread and put it on the market: It takes the money, building, machinery, electricity, fuel and wa-ter. It takes the ingredients for the bread. In the bakery there are several departments, maintenance, stockroom, bakers, wrapping, check-out, order clerk, garage, trucks, sales and office. Figure how much it costs to operate the departments and see how much it would cost for them to manufacture a loaf of bread. confidence, sacrificing months of interest on their original deposits. Many years ago, raw rumor started a great "run" on the Society for Saving, one of the oldest and best banks of Cleveland, of which my comparatively young friends, Myron T. Herrick, later the famous ambassador to France, was the head. There were lines of anxious depositors from the bank's entrance for four blocks, mostly wage-earners, house-help and others of moderate means. My meeting Herrick led to this little dialog, which yours truly never forgot after he became able to make a bank deposit: "Cousin Myron, they seem to be seriously raiding your bank." "Cousin Paine, they are. We are paying and will pay every dollar demanded." They, with a smile, Herrick added: "It looks as if our bank would gain something like $50,000 through interest sacrificed by those depositors you see in line there." Verily, 'tis an ill wind that blows no sound bank good.
