9_"The Bulletin, Mt. Joy, Pa.,
Thursday, March 20, 1947
The Mount Joy Bulletin
Jno. E. Schroll, Editor and Publisher
ESTABLISHED JUNE, 1901
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EDITORIAL
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People whe live in glass houses |
at least have a place to live.
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If a golden wedding signifies 50
years together, and a silver wedd-
ing means 25 years, these quickies
of today that are ending in divorce
courts might be called the wooden
nickel weddings.
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The following may give you an
idea why there was such a scar-
city of soap the past few years. At
the Mechanicsburg Depot, 1,250,-
000 lbs. of salt water soap is being
sold. But there’s a catch — you
can’t buy less than twenty-five tons
or 50,000 1bs.
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WORTH RECOGNITION
{ The railroads are criticized for
things they do or dv net do. They
serve so many people that it is im-
possible to please ten-thousand-
and-one different tasies and ideas.
But they de their best, and the
American people have superlative
rail transportation:
The recent ending of furlough
fares brings to mind an act of the
‘r@ilrcads which deserves recoz-
nition — namely, beginning seven
months before Pearl Harbor and
extending: sixteen and one-half
months after’ V-J Day, or sixty-
nine months, approximately two
hundred million furlotigh tickets
were sold te men and women of
the Armed Services at the special
reduced rate «f one and one-
quarter cents a mile. It is estimated
that this resulted in savings to
service meen and women of approx-
imately $440,000,000. And that is a
lot of money even in these multi-
p= billion-dollar days!
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A NEW EXPLOITER
In his Mexico City speech, Presi-
dent Truman observed that one
phase of American foreign policy
consists of protecting small and
relatively defenseless nations a-
gainst the rapacity of great and
powerful nations.
It would be well if that great
principle were first applied to the
domestic affairs of the United
States, in the matter of guarantee-
ing the “small” man the right to
earn his daily bread, without first
paying tribute to the rapaciousness
ef a labor dicatcrship.
For a great many years the in-
dividual] worker fought for his
rights and liberties. Initially, he
was exploited by some greedy em-
ployers. Then the power of law
and government, under the impe-
tus of an aroused public opinion,
crrrected that abuse. A long list of
statutes was placed on the books.
The union labor movement thrived.
Today the worker is protected in
every conceivable way from em-
ployer coercion, exploitation and
doemination.
But a new exploiter has arisen —
labor itself. The unions,
through the closed shop, hold the
power of life and death over the
individual worker, He must pay
tribute, whether he desires mem-
bership or not, or starve, so far as
working at his trade is concerned.
If a union member offends the
labor bosses, he may be suspended
or discharged — and again, he has
the right to starve. And the law
actually protects the wumions in
their right to perpetuate and ex-
tend this form of tyranny over
Iabor.
There can be no free labor un-
less it is freed both from exploi-
tation by the employer, which it
has been — znd from exploitation
by the unions. There can be no
free labor, there can be no real
rights for labor, se long as a man
must join a private
Congress, in pussyfooting and
dedgding the closed shop issue is
evading the basic labor problem -—-
organization, |
the union, before he can earn a
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a sense of sadness now
as they remember those wartime
advertisements which pictured the
“dream home’ of the future — 2
miracle of convenience, beauty and
functional design, in which all you
had to do was to touch a few but-
would
your
machines
mix
silent
clothes,
practically every-
advertisements
pleas to
you'd
tons and
press your
drinks and do
thing else. These
were often tied in with
buy more war bonds so
have the wherewithal to purchase
the dream house once peace res
turned.
Peace has been around quite a-
while now, but the dream house
The
hasn't put in an appearance.
erim (ruth is that obtaining any
kind of a house at all is the tough-
millions of
short-
est problem faced by
Americans. Most commodity
ages are being rapidly made up —
but the shortage grows
worse than ever.
Business Week
article on housing with the cynical,
accurate, title: "Home
Sweet Home — At a Price.” It
t-uches on some of the most im-
mediate problems facing the home-
builder and homebuyer. First of
these problems, of course, is cost.
were
housing
recently ran an
and highly
Existing homes that worth
six thousand a few
command ten ar twelve.
vou enter the never-
construction,
five or years
ago now
And when
hever land of
anything can happen — and usual
ly does. Few contractors will now
build en a firm contract — they
insist on a fee or cost-plus basis of
carry
new
work. Business journals
pccounts of homes which
were designed to be built for ten
thousand or under — and wound
up in the twenty thousand dollar
bracket. Crmmercial builders, who
used to develop subdivisions, have
drawn in their horns and some of
them have stepped out of the
picture entirely for the present. A
number of building and loan com-
panies, in the larger cities, the
backbone of whose business used
te be homes, have announced they
will not make more loans for these
purposes until the situation stabil-
izes.
The veteran home program, with
its emphasis on under - $10,000
houses, in the doldrums
as to be practically invisible. Many |
is so far
veterans, who put only a few
dollars of their own money into
projected homes, have found pay-
ments beyond their means and
have let them go.
The reasons for high costs are
obvicus enough. Labor costs about
twice as much as it used to, and
complaints are heard that labor
productivity is low. Materia] costs
run to as high as three times the
prewar level. Land values have |
followed the trend, and in many
regions you must pay as much for
a lot as you used to for an acre or
so. But, logical as high cests may
be, that doesn’t help solve the basic
problem — which is that homes
cost a great deal more than the
average family can possibly afford
to pay. As Business Week says.
“Costs must come down sharply,
many in the industry are certain,
if home building in 1947 is to come
anywhere near the level predicted
by the Department of Commerce
— $6,600,000.600 in private resi-
dential building and a million
private dwellings started.”
High hopes have been held by
some for prefabricated houses.
These represent an atiempt to ap-
ply mass-production principles to
the building problem. A number
of concerns are producing prefabs.
However, so far at feast, they
have certainly not proven a revo-
Iutionary influence. They, too, cost |
more than prospective buyers |
think they should — and they must
namely, the right of a man to work, | be erected on a piece of land, and
with-ut fear of management bosses
ing to join or net ts join any group |
Or organization, unless he so de-
sires. ow dg
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A great many aceple si
| average American is
feel | drive a car just like Jones’
i plumbed, heated and wired, all of
or labor bosses, and without hav- | which runs into money. Again, the | We can afford. Many
| sameness in design which is an in-
distasteful to many people. The |
willing to |
HAPPEN INGS
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: LON G AGO
20 Yoors pg
M:. Joseph Sheaffer accepted a
position with the J. M. Cain Sign
Co., at Lancaster.
J. H. Levenight of Elizabeth
town purchased the former Jac.
Springer farm near Green Tree.
The-e were eight cases of scarlet
fever in the Mastersonville school.
Middletown School Board decid-
ed against girls wearing knickers
ta school.
Miss Marian Blackenship, harp-
ist, gave a concert at Maytown for
the benefit of the high school.
Markets, Eggs, 21-23c¢; Butter,
40c; Lard, 15c.
Rubin & Rubin Optometrists of
Harrisburg reopened their office at
the Chandler Drug Store.
The Wide Awake Literary So-
ciety of Newtown gave the ren-
dition of “A Night in Songland” m
Mt. Joy Hall.
Miss Caroline Nissley was on the
teaching staff at Penn State Coll-
ege during the summer semester.
Senior class of MJHS gave a
birthday “surprise party to one of
its members, Paul Hershey, at his
home.
Men's Federation was addressed
by Prof. Gordinier of Millersville
State Teachers College.
At a meeting of the
Club, definite arrangements
made to organize a Building and
Loan Association.
Prof. Grover C. Bair attended a
buffet luncheon tc the principals
and athletic coaches of Lancaster
city and county, held at Lancas-
Booster
were
ter. :
Thirty-two converts
ceived during the Evangelistic ser-
the U. B. Church con-
Rev. and Mrs. C. A.
were re-
vices at
ducted by
Thompson:
Hardy Ramblers
As the name indicates, hardy
rambler roses are resistant to
frost injury. They bloom one time
during the summer and because the
canes grow to extreme lengths,
they are good for trellis and wall
decoration.
Indian Superstition
a father,
of his child, was careless in his
meat diet, the child would suffer
and inherit the physical faults and
peculiarities of the animals eaten.
Congress Grows
The house of representatives has
grown from 65 to 435 members
since 1789, according to the Ency-
clopaedia Britannica. The senate,
too, has grown from 26 to 96 mem-
bers.
Strong Egg Shells
To have eggs with strong shells,
| keep limestone or oyster shell be-
fore the hens.
der to form strong-shelled eggs.
Fuel Bed
Ashes should be kept level with
the andirons to provide a bed for
glowing charcoal which will yield
| steady heat and help ignite new
logs as they are added.
Turbine Efficiency Stride
The modern steam turbine in
World War II developed six times
the total of electric power with only
twice the amount of coal consumed
in World War TI.
door — but he wants his home to
be different.
Ancther complaint is that newly-
built homes are inferior as well as
expensive. Instances are cited of
However,
the quality of materials in general |
has improved of late. But price |
has gone up along with quality.
So far as existing homes are con-
cerned, they are still being
at very high prices
everywhere. But — and this is a
very important “but” indeed —
they are moving much more slow- |
ly than they did even a few mon- |
costs,
ths ago. Buyer resistance is the
reason. The owners want big |
money — the buyers want to pay
less. It's comparable to the old an-
alogy of the irresistable force and
the immovable chject.
concerned — and it's come down |
to a question of how to get four |
authorities |
are afraid the situation will get |
escapable feature of prefabs, is| Worse before it gets better.
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Stimulate your business by adver-
next in the Bulletin.
American Indians believed that if f
near the time of the birth |
Hens must have di-
rect sunshine or cod liver oil in or- |
Food Trends
During World War II as compared
with World War I, Americans con-
sumed 10 to 15 per cent more food
per person. Diets included more of
such ‘‘shortage’’ items as meats, sug-
ars, fats and coffee, as well as more
eggs, dairy products, vegetables,
and fruits. The food supply was
richer in calcium, iron, vitamin A,
vitamin C, and B-vitamins riboflavin
and niacin. Throughout a 37-year
period, the calcium, riboflavin, and
vitamins A and C in the food supply
increased steadily. On the other
‘hand, protein, iron, and B-vitaming
niacin and thiamine declined from
1909 to the mid-thirties, then took
an upward swing with increasing
meat consumption and enrichment
‘of grain products.
Clean Silver
All tarnish can be removed from
silver in this almost effortless way:
Take a carefully cleaned aluminum
container, fill it with water and pour
in enough salt to make a saturate
solution. (This means put in all salt
the water will dissolve and a little
more, so that a small amount of salt
is standing in the bottom of the
utensil.) Place silver in this solution’
and heat until salt water boils for:
three or four minutes. When the wa-
ter cools, silver will be shining clean
without danger of scratching or
wearing the surface as when silvep
cleaners and polishes are used.
Hotel Fires
At least 200 persons have been
killed in U. S. hotel fires in the past
six months, more than one-fourth
of the total 789 hotel fire deaths in
both the U. S. and Canada since
1858. In addition to the Chicago and
Atlanta holocausts, hotel fires since
June have taken death tolls in Du-
buque, Philadelphia, San Fran-
cisco, Saskatoon, Sask. and other
cities.
Prosperous Year
According to a Twentieth Century
fund report, 1941 was unquestiona-
bly our most prosperous prewar year.
Gross national product rose by more
than 28 billion dollars over 1940 to
nearly 121 billion dollars in 1941;
corporate savings were more than
twice as large as in 1940; and per-
sonal savings of 14 billion dollars
were almost double the 1940 volume,
Hotter Fire
Softwoods from cone - bearing
trees make a quicker and hotter
fire but also a shorter-lasting fire
than hardwoods. The lighter hard-
woods make a hotter and shorter:
lasting fire than the heavier hard-
woods. Woods that give the most
heat for their weight are—oak,
hickory, sweet birch, hard maple,
rock elm, locust and longleaf pine.
Aids Defrosting
To speed up the defrosting of your
{freezing compartment with hot wa-
ter. Turn the control knob to ‘off’
and close the refrigerator. In about
15 minutes the ice will scale off and.
freezing.
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| Rural Roads
A report on multi-laned highways
jin 1943 showed that only 6 per cent
iof our primary rural highways had
more than two lanes, and of the
20,879 miles in this class, 14,661
were 3-laned, a type condemned as
dangerous by safety engineers.
Economy Tip
Farm families should not discard
flat irons or oil lamps. The flat irons
will make strong decorative book
ends and the oil lamps may be
economically converted to electric
lamps.
Killer of the Seas
The “demon of the seas” is the
killer ‘“‘whale” or orca. It has the
appetite of a hog, the cruelty of a
| wolf, the courage of a bull dog and
the most terrible jaws afloat.
Mountain Sheep’s Nemesis
The mountain sheep successfully
defies all enemies except two—man |
and domestic sheep. From the for-
mer he receives bullets, from the
latter disease.
Investment Counsellors
In the period from 1928 to 1934, in-
| vestment counsel firms, which origi-
nated in America after the First
World war, grew from 20 firms to
green lumber, bad foundaticns,
flimsy hardware, inefficient heat-
ing plants, etc. These are unfortu-
nate results of efforts to shave |
it is reported that:
listed |
practically |
What it all adds up to is that | The jumping misuse is only about
housing is a problem to which ne | three inches long in body, yet it
one has found a solution. The aR jump from 8 to 10 feet.
dream home is farther away than | eam
Young Round Horns
ever, so far as the bulk of us is |
walls, a resf and a floor at a price |
about 3,000.
First Sewing Machine
In 1846 Elias Howe was granted
first patent on a machine that actu-
ally sewed! Afier many set-backs,
| his invention made his fortune.
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King’s Property
Sturgeons found in English wa-
fers belong to the King of England.
| They were made crown property
| by a decree of Edward II.
| Practical Invention
In 1851 Isaac Singer patented the
| first practical domestic sewing ma-
chine and is credited with placing
| it in the home.
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Jumping Mouse
The young of nearly all round-
refrigerator, fill ice trays in they
ithe unit will be ready to reset for | >=
Thomas F. X. Moran, Marietta.
Frank O'Connell, brother of the
bridegroom, served as
Mt.
the immediate families and friends
at the home of the bride.
Upon their return from a
the couple will reside at the home
of the bride.
Beatrice Martin
Robert E. Sentz
Miss Beatrice
of Mr. and Mrs, Paul A. Martin,
Rchert E. Sentz, son cf Mr.
Mrys. Seth J. Sentz, Hellam, Rl, at
Real Estate
WE have many ready buyers §1
for houses in Mt, Joy.
prompt service,
house for sale with us.
Lride, was the maid of honor and imately 90 guests.
the best man was Richard Sentz
brother of the groom. The ushers
were Donald Engle and Blaine
2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15 in
the Cross Roads Brethren-in-Christ
best man, | Church, Florin.
as beokkeeper in
Miss Jean Martin, sister
Mrs. Sentz, a graduate of East
Donegal High School, is employed
the cffice of her
and other attendants were the im-| The Rev. David Brehm, grand-
mediate family of the bride. father of the groom, officiated at Wingert. father. Mr. Sentz, a graduate of
Following the ceremony a res the ceremony. The Ambassador Following the ceremony a Willi Fenn High School, York,
céption fer 65 guests was held for | Quartette furnished the music. | ception was held at Hostetters’ is emiloyed as a carpenter by Mr.
of the Banquet Hall, Mt. Joy for approx- Mortin.
trip,
Hager’s Plain Clothing Dept.
Invites You To See Their Fine Collection Of
Spring Coats
$23.50 to $37.50
Choose your Spring coat from our large as-
Martin, daughter
bride of
and
Joy, became the
sortments and enjoy comfort cand ed
appearance in a wool crepe, twill, or shetland
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