Bulletin, Mi. Joy, Pa., Thursday, January 35, 1950
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EDITORIAL
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Here's news for bread winners
in a family. Now's the time you
start paying for your Christmas
present,
Instead of counting sheep trying
to get to sleep, why not count
the cars in a drive-in theatre.
oo
A man is jailed for stealing your
watch and readily forgiven for
stealing your time.
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The farmers tnruout Lancaster
County enter the New Year of |
1950 with a degree of satisfaction.
Practically all their tobacco is
sold and at a price that was as
easy to take as a plate of ice
cream.
Several weeks age a few inde-
pendent dealers began buying a
crop here and there at 20 cents
thru. Later they paid 25 and 15.
Later still 27 and 15 and when
several of the county's largest
dealers broke the ice about a week
age, practically three-fourths of
the entire crop was bought at 30
and 15.
Here and there was an extra
special crep sold for 31 to 32
cents.
This gives the farmer ample
time to decide just what he wants
to do 2s far as acreage is con-
cerned, the coming season.
SHEER NONSENSE
The December issue of Fortune
features a lengthy article on the
government's anti-trust suit against |
chain store
Atlantic and
American
Great
the largest
system, the
| 1943 on Manhattan
| search, tells you how, and in a
| very few pages.
However, don't get excited in the |
| belief that Dr. Campbell has come |
| out in a magazine of general cir-
| culation with the most
| eret” information conceivable,
| That he hasn't’ is the point of his
| article. For what he
| «utline of a method,
| with the ore and ending with the
explosion, which is known to
| physicists everywhere, The
| erets” of the bomb, he argues, are
not in the method or
ials, Rather, to
gives is
the mater-
use his own
| words, they “are in the minds of |
thousands of men who have work- |
"led on the bomb project, the men
| who personally accomplish the my-
| iad small steps leading to the fin-
[al explosion.” Later on, he offers
| this contribution to an extremely
| controversial question: “There |
lis a very real question...
| further tightening of secrecy re-
| qulations will not merely result
lin the discovery of fewer secrets,
| and thus weaken, than
strengthen, the the
United States.”
| Be that as it may, the
has been stirred hy
| started by a very popular radio
| commentator, to the effect that
| during the war atomic materials
| and much valuable information
| were given to the Russians,
| that some very high government
| officials insisted that they be given
it. There has been a
denials,
rather
security of
country
allegations,
series of
charges and counter-
| charges. No one knows at this
writing what the wuth is. But,
regardless of these developments,
it is now generally believed that
Russia, through infinite effort and
with the aid of captured German
scientists, has the homb, has ex-
cing bombs.
When this was first learned
experts had leaned with happy
couldn’t make the bomb
about 1957 at the earliest.
there seems to be a similer kind
of cenfidence which holds
even though this forecast
stage of development that she can't
produce enough bombs, to
the same league with us.
can prove whether that view is
correct or not. But it takes
expert te understand that it could
be suicidal to depend on it. A
| geod general always considers
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Project re- |
“top se-
. |
starting
“se |
whether |
and |
ploded at least one, and is produ- | Washington Bread Case”,
came as a shock--many American |
confidence on the idea that Russia | yas not
before | Honestly,” he said, “I
Now | in my forty years’ experience tried
that, |
| proved it”
| as wrong as wrong could be, the | The fact is crystal clear, the foodd
Russian technology is in so low a | chain points out, that while the an-
. | that they are not against
stay in | they only brought their bread suit
No one | against the big companies that sold |
no |
the | ype going to be encouraged to do
worst possible eventuality when he |a better and more efficient job; or
~The Bulletins |
~~ Scrapbook!
|
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| Week's Best Recipe
Shrimp Casserole: 2
| sauce, 1-4 ¢ finely chopped green
| pepper, 1T 6 hard
cooked eggs, sliced, 1 ¢ canned |
minced onion,
shrimp, drained, 1 1-2 ¢ canned
peas, 1 ¢ buttered bread
lon bottom of greased baking dish. |
Add
eges and shrimp and peas to white
crumbs.
green pepper, onion, sliced
sauce and mix gently Place in
pan and top with remainings of
Bake in
Lrown,
hot
akout 25 |
the crumbs. oven
until crumbs are
niinutes. Serves 6.
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| MRS. ALWINE WAS NAMED
TEACHER AT WOODLAND
The Mount Joy Township School
Board met Tuesday evening at the
School. President
was in charge. Mrs. Paul |
|
|
|
|
Floyin Joseph
Greiner
| Alwine, Elizabethtown was elected
teacher at the Woodland school.
The proposed merger of the Eliz- |
abethtown Borough and Mount Joy |
discussed but
| school districts was
| no action taken.
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| tising in the Bulletin.
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| A&P CHARGES SUIT AIMED TO
PREVENT REAL COMPETITION
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
| Company charged today that the
current anti-trust suit against the
| company is really “a suit against
| efficiency and against real competi-
tion.”
{ The company announced its in- |
tenticn of running a series of adver=- |
tisements telling about “previous
suits brought against A&P by the
anti-trust lawyers in which the
charges were proven to be false.
“In case after case they made |
| charges against A&P which were
proved in court to be utterly with-
out foundation.” the ad stated.
Today's ad cited one such suit in |
i which it was cleared of anti-trust
charges of conspiracy to fix bread
prices. Under the caption, “The |
the de-
Allen T. |
Federal Judge
cision of
it | Goldsborough is quoted:
“If you were to show this record |
| to any experienced trial lawyer in
| the world he would tell you there
any evidence at all
have
never
| a case that was absolutely devoid of
evidence as this. This is the honest
truch. I have never seen one like
| ti-trust
i lawyers constantly protest)
“bigness” |
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good bread at the lowest prices, just
as the cwrrent suit attacks a big
| company that sells good food cheap |
|
|
\ this
involved in|
businessmen |
“The real question
suit is whether
¢ white |
|
| truck,
Pacific Tea Co.. written by ‘M. A. plans his campaign. | whether we are going to let the |
Adelmzn, assistant professor of | Recent events again have de. [anti-trust lawyers in Washington
del- | monstrated how the A-boml . | blow the whistle cn anybody who
economics at M. L T. Mr. Adel- | : OND 13 | gets big by giving the people the |
man discusses in detail various oring all our lives. Its dark | ost for their money. |
Jezal and economic ramifications shadows lies over the entire world! The food chain points out that it |
of the’ action. Near the end. he and how to make it is no secret. | was forced to carry out its present |
5 ; Eas i { newspaper campaign to protect its |
avs: Fe s a little | see its |
says: Economic life i JR t A Sea | retinas against the charges which |
more complicated than it seglls STRIKE FOR WHAT? | the anti-trust lawyers were making |
and....one needs to look at the | In 1949, the leadership for which | in press releases, in speeches and |
whole picture. Varicus studies | cecal miners pay high salaries was 0 the radio.
have done so and the verdict has |
been unanimeus. Of
food retailing is the most
to imagine as ever
moneply. It is
and too cheap io enter. The
independent retailers, wholesalers
and feod forced by
competiticn to improve their me-
all trades, |
difficult |
approaching |
simply too easy | for a
|
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chain-store | eau of Mines,
“Charges,” says A&P, “that would
seriously damage our business, if
they were believed by the public.”
Pointing out that many of A&P’s
patrons “would not want to deal
with the kind of people that the |
anti-trust lawyers represent us to |
be,” the ad states that the anti- |
trust lawyers “have been wrong be-
fore,” and “in this case we know |
| they are wrong.”
responsible for a $1,420,000 fine for |
lawbreaking. The miners paid.
The same leadership in March |
cest the miners two pay
strike ordered to protest
the appointment of James Boyd as |
director of the United States Bur- |
weeks’
It has failed to negotiate a new
thods in order to survive, but | contract to replace the old one| “We think,” the company states, |
survive they bave. There is no | expired June 30. {“that we have a right to protect this |
sign of their disappearance.” put the miners on a three. 90-year-old business which has
There is ano‘ber
deserves mention.
ways thought of monopolies
remarkable | day week ‘in
phase of the A and P case which | keavy loss in pay.
We have al- |
as | days which ended November 10.
made it possible fer millions of Am-
erican families to get more and bet- |
ter food for their money, which is |
It called a second strike for 52 [providing high-wage employment |
| for 110,060 Americans, and which is |
| helping millions of farmers to im-
mid-summer with
combinations in restraint of f{rade| It has dissipated the welfare i thods of distiibuti
; : rove the methods of distributing |
whose goal was to gain a corner | fund -- no coal mined, no 20- | Heir produce PE
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on semething in demand and
it at the highest price to
helpless consumers. But A and P
crime, according to the govern-
ment, is that it bas used its buy-
ing power and its other assets {fo
sell goeds cheaper. Yet that is
what any geod merchant, in any
| 1049,
line of retailing tries to do. It]
is an inevitable product of compe-
| days due to strikes.
| ticular company for the period in hout the criminal suit that the anti-
tition. And it is one of the]
reasuns for cur high living stan-
dards.
In any event, the government
has entered a legal morass
just doesn’t make sense tio the
praciical Izy mind. Every cus-
tomer of A and P, or any other
retailer, has a choice of many
other stores which would like to
have his trade. No store can
“command” trade---it earns it in
competition or it doesn't
To talk about a menopoly in any
branch of retailing is the sheerest
nonsense. yi of A
CRE 1
Do yeu want to know how fo
make an atom bomb? In the
December issue of Harper's Maga-
zine, Dr. J. Arthur Campbell, as-
sistant professor of chemistry at
Oberlin College, who worked from
get it. |
| question was $1,250 per unirn em- | trust lawyers won at Danville, Ill.”
| ployee.
which |
sell | cents a ton royalty.
“The anti-trust lawyers tell the
public they won a previous aati- |
| trust suit against us in Danville, |
| linois. They did. What they do |
[not tell you is that they brought |
case after case against the A&P in
It insulted the head
S. mediation service.
The current report of one of
the leading coal companies for the
nine months ended September 30. | federal courts all over the United
shows that on a five-day | States. Beiore they won this case |
basis frem January 1 to | they suffered three defeats.” }
the mines lest 82 | In conclusion the ad states the |
The loss jn | COMPANY will tell about the other |
Joss | suits. “We are not going to duck,
this par- | We are going to tell you a=
of the U.
week
November 9,
wages to the miners in
| "No one can tell us that it is a
crime to try to sell the best quality
Labor leadership i >
leadership in the coal | 404 at the lcwest possible prices.”
mines has iept them closed for | ==
| long intervals for many years, That is part of the reason the
| been enormous.
| lines of
| have incressed without
| strikes each year.
|
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and the miners’ Ices in wages has | industry is only employing |
Wages in other | 400.000 men and that is why it,
business and industry | 1 losing a large percentage of |
disastrous | the American fuel business that |
| it used to have.
The United Mine Workers’ long | Labor rates, like other commod- |
continued policy of insolence show ities, are supposed to be compe |
the lengths to ‘which an uncontrol- | itive. = But coal mine labor rates |
do monopoly will” go’ to! gain “Hits under the United Mine Workers’ |
Hf
. It has forced hours, work- moxiGply are not. The product |
ing conditions and‘ wages ‘on’! ‘the cf the mines, however, must be |
coal industry, regardless -of the Sold in a highly competitive field.
laws of economics, that make it| Thus U. M. W. leadership is ra- |
impossible for that industry under | Pidly turning the coal business |
normal conditions to pay i
those | Over to competitive fuels and des- |
wages and operate at a profit, | troying jobs of miners,
HAPPENINGS
LONG AGO |
20 Years Ago
The
Lancaster will be open for inspec-
new post office building at
tion to the public.
The borough of Ephrata is facing
a water famine at present
L. Schroll, who drives the
Co's
express
John
Conestoga Traction express
will deliver thru
Florin free of charge.
Messrs, Mumper and Behman will
succeed Mr. Walter Welfley in the
| garage business at Ed. Ream’s gar-
age,
David Zerphey who conducted a
greenhouse, sold it to Wm. Beamen-
derfer,
The Legion home at Quarryville
| collapsed, injuring 40 persons while
dancing on the second floor.
Lebanon public schools have been
closed due to a scarlet fever epi-
demic.
Since Christmas, eggs dropped
in price 20c per doz, now selling
at 42¢c.
Ephrata sold eighty bonds at $1.-
C00 each, the money to be used for
1 filtration plant.
Mr. W. D. Chandler will succeed
H. H. Engle as Burgess.
Henry Eby, of Erisman’s Church
sold a fine fat bull for 1lc per lb.
Fo-
Sipling Bros. Rheems, just
ceived a carload of the famous Wil-
Columbia Phone
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The company said it can no longer of that responsibility hondy 1 oday, many diffe rent;
hold to the “1920-30 price level” for And it's wise to let Harleys. financial agencies are
ville furnish it by means of its db Cp is for
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The two residences on the Lloyd
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Mifflin estate at Columbia
opened as a memorial home
aged and disabled school teacher
A bad check artist is operating in
Mount Joy and Elizabethtown vi-
cinity.
2d persons were killed and 200
wounded during the hunting season
this year
Jacch Horst, 13, Elizabethtown
was seriously injured when a truck
crashed into a team of six horse
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‘What Can The People Believe!
When the anti-trust lawyers in Washington filed their suit to put the A&P out of business, they immediately
handed out for all the newspapers of the United States a story giving in detail their “allegations” against
this company.
When we published advertisements giving our side of the case, they protested, even though they had made,
and have continued to make, in newspapers, in speeches and over the radio these charges that would seri-
ously damage our business, if they were believed by the public.
Every week millions of American housewives patronize A&P stores. Many of them would not want to deal
with the kind of people that the anti-trust lawyers represent us to be.
We think we have a right to protect this 90-year old business which has made it possible for millions of
American families to get more and better food for their money, which is providing high-wage employment
for 110,000 Americans and which is helping millions of farmers to improve the methods of distributing
their produce.
No answer by us would be necessary if the anti-trust lawyers were always right.
But they, like all other human beings, can be wrong.
In this case we know they are wrong.
They have been wrong before.
In case after case they made charges against A&P which were proved in court to be utterly without foun-
dation.
We will prove that statement right up to the hilt.
The anti-trust lawyers tell the public that they won a previous anti-trust suit against us at Danville, Illinois.
They did.
What they do not tell you is that they brought case after case against the A&P in federal courts all over
the United States. Before they won this case they suffered three defeats.
The anti-trust lawyers have told everybody about the time that the courts said they were right. We think
you are entitled to know about the three times the courts said they were wrong.
Now we are going to tell you about the first one. In future advertisements we will tell you about all of them.
The Washington Bread Case
in April, 1941, the anti-trust lawyers brought a criminal Suit in Wash.
ington, D. C.
They charged that the A&P, two grocery chain competitors, two labor
good American citizens had conspired to fix the price
unions and other
of bread,
Can anyone imagine any charge calculated to be more damaging to a
retail grocery business? They asked millions of people to believe that
we were the kind of grocers who would take bread out of the mouths of
So here was a case in which the anti-trust lawyers made seriously damaging
charges against the A&P, in support of which, in the words of the court,
they did not have ‘‘any evidence at all.”
This was not the only time the anti-trust lawyers made charges against
the A&P which the courts said were not true. In future ads we are going
to tell you about these other suits. We are not going to duck, either. We
are going to tell you about the criminal suit that the anti-trust lawyers
won at Danville, Illinois
poor people and make it harder for a wife and mother to feed her family
These charges were false.
The anti-trust lawyers presented and argued their case. When they were
through, Federal District Judge Allen T. Goldsborough ruled that A&P
and the other defendants did not even have to put in a defense. He
In that case it developed that the A&P and the two competitors who were
charged with conspiring with us to maintain high bread prices actually
sold bread cheaper than most of the other stores in Washington.
ordered the jury to bring in a verdict of ‘not guilty.”
Judge Goldsborough said to the anti-trust lawyers:
“If you were to show this record to any experienced
trial lawyer in the world, he would tell you thai there
was not any evidence at all.
“Honestly, I have never in my over forty years’ experi-
The anti-trust lawyers say that they are not attacking ‘'bigness’ or
efficiency. They have to say that because the courts have decided that
bigness” and efficiency and selling at low prices is not a crime.
But the fact is crystal clear that they only brought their bread suit against
the big companies and against companies that sold good bread at the
lowest prices; just as in this current suit they are attacking a big company
that sells good food cheap.
We are going to show the American people that the suit to destroy A&P
is really a suit against efficiency and against real competition.
The real question involved in this suit is whether businessmen are going
to be encouraged to do a better and more efficient job; or whether wo
are going to let the anti-trust lawyers in Washington blow the whistle on
anybody who gets big by giving the people more for their money,
ence seen tried a case that was as absolutely devoid of
evidence as this. That is the honest truth. I have never
seen one like it.”
(HE GREAT ATLANTIC &
No one can make us believe that it is a crime to try to sell
the best quality food at the lowest possible price,
PACIFIC TEA COMPANY
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