2—The Bulletin, Mi. Joy, Pa., Thursday, February 23, 1950 | The Mount Joy Bulletin Jno. E. Schroll, E | ESTABLISHED JUNE, 1901 Published Bvery Thursday at No. Bast Main St, Mount Joy, Pa. ditor and Publisher School News From (From Page 1) Subscription, per year .. $2.00 | Stephens, Will Brubaker, Donald Six Months .............. $1.00 Mowrer, Ruth Mille Clara Anna oe } 3 . Thre e Months Casares rs 60 Sata’ ‘Martha Single Copies. «.......c000i0. 0B Ri 3s Miller. R Sample Copies ......... FREE | toi Pauline Miliel vcnare . Marti Ri 1 Humbert, Jove Entered at the Postoflice at Mt, ( Ja Waller, Marian Ney Joy, Pa., as second-class mail mat-' jeanne Miller. Ohmer Gingrich ter under the Act of March 3, 1879 Shirl Warfel Winn Member, Pennsylvania Newspaper ( Hi Bee we 1st Publishers’ Association Vi I n Pauline M d Marth Rol 1 Publivation Day, Thur led e | ented to all wir Copy for change ol ng Vins Vera Gingrich should reach this office Tuesday : i | | rst lass; M We will not guarantee insertion of nee for th fir class: Mi any advertising unless copy reaches ne Wilson was judge and M the office not later than 9 a. m. | Rol Slaugh was scorer. Mi preceding lay of publication. Robert Fhillips taught the senio Classified ads will be accepted to h classes; Mr. Stanley Datiare: 9 a. m. publication day Ss - = = g— : | EDITORIAL + + + Many folks take the road of honesty because there is so much competition these days in being crooked. ® ee» They say we have no idea of | we many uses to which aleohol | may be put, but we d ubt if there | is any persen who can’t name ai | least onc | © ® WHAT A DIFFERENCE How many of you was judge and Mr. John Hart was the score A scnool avings program wa eorganized in the East Donegal | Junior High as a math project. Ad- | | visors are Mr. Alva Bender and | | Mr. Stanley | Dotterer 1Ise a part of a week for depositing Students math period money, using regula: banking forms Each student keeps a duplicate of ‘his own account. Glenn Forney and Jeanne Miller | attended the Open Forum of the Women’s Republican Club Thurs- | 16th afternoon, Febr know that | ways to solve the critical highway ! : . TT : 3 only zbout half the circulars dis- | ¢estruction problem. tributed (nct sale bills) are read. | That is actually true. Bu: with a newspaper its differ- ent. Dad reads it, mother it, the children read. it and then | the neighb rs read it. Can vou realize how much better it pays to z-dvertise int newspapers” © oe | CROSSING THE BRIDGE | . s ’ Moving this country’s meat from | reads | the farms and ranches where it is raised to the centers where it is | | consumed is a man-sizel job. First of all, it requires a big and and alert industry. There are A trizl will réadily convince the | Scmething like 4.000 meat packers most skeptical individual: in the United States and 1409) oe 8 { other commercial slaughterers of | IT SOUNDS GOOD | Bvestock. They are constantly | Once upen a time there was a farmer who raised two chickens, took them te the cily, sold: them tr a factory worker and with the proceeds hought two shirts. So the farmer had {wo shirts and the city man hod two chickens. Ob- serving the transaction, the plin- ner told the farmer he could get more money for his chickens hy making . them scarcer, I. he did not raise so many he would ge! mere income for those he did raise. The planner also told the werkingman in the city that he must werk fewer hours and get more money for his labor. This would raise the prices on the ar- | ticles he made so he would have | mere money with which te buy. | Se the farmer brought one chicken | to the city market. He got as much money for it as he had. pre- viously gotten for (we chickens. This was the life. | | | $ { He felt fine. | | | { | But when he went to buy some shirts, he feund that the shirts had price. So... .he | Now the farm- | and the city man whereas if they ed to the sitvery- | pseude - eccnomist, they also doubled in he got one shirt. er has cgne shirt has one cl had not Ii could e:ch kave had twice as | much. And his, called “the more abundant life”. | ec 9 FREIGHT TRAIN ON THE MIGHWAYS Cne of the most important. gues- tions affecting the taxpayers of the | nafign is this; Are the huge mod- | ern ‘rucks paying their | caildren, is now | | ample, | grass. | grasses and grains which are £1 | [only fer consumption by competing among themselves for the available supply of meat ani- mals, and they offer the producer a year-round cash market, | Secend, there is a long bridze | hetween the producer and the con- | mer. Mos! of the meat is now vdised: west. of the while most of it is eaten in the | cast. The main task of the pack- ers is to cross that bridge and tc | : . | see that the meat is ready ond Mississippi. waiting for the consumer when he gees to market. Third, the demand properly met by just bringing cer- tain quantitics of meat to the mar- cannot be kets. In some parts of the coun- ry, the heavy cuts of beef are in areat demand. In other sections! consumer preference runs, for ex- to light lean cuts of perk. So it goes. In cther words, the particular kind of meat which the consumer wanis must be made available, ® & 0 YOU CAN'T EAT GRASS You, a human being, cannot eat But a cow or a sheep can. and they'll turn the grass into many things you can cat and wear. There yeu have the fundamental + reason why the country should go cn maintaining its herds of live- stock at the highest possible level. A very large part of our live | | stock pepulation is raised on the | it | these weren't for the fivesteck industry, they would be entirely If it wasted, The meat ani- way--or ire the vast sums. needed [mals wax fat and healthy on them— te build and maintain highways | suitable fer this kind of traffic be- | ing raid by the rest of us? | Various authorities have spoken And here is what some of them say. The Chief Engineer of Highways, on the subjec’. State of California, said: “Big trucks | tually help materially in in this state are responsible for 55 | per cent of the total cosi of now highway construction.” the producer's livestock. Prob- is wasied-- everything plays a part | The Highway and Traffic and thus the nation gets its beef and lamb, slong with hundreds of sther commodities, ranging sa wide scale from fertilizer to such vital | drugs as insulin, which are hy pre- duc's of the packing industry. ihese by products incidentally, ac- holding | down the price of meat to the con- . sumer and increasing the value of Nothing ! lems Commission of IHlinois said: | in meeting the cost of carrying on “Private zutemeobiles in this state | the business, And, the i packers are paying three times more tax | a prefit of but a fraction of a per ton mile than the largest type ‘ent per pound. i truck.” «| It is ferecast that as our popu- | The U. S. Commissioner of Pub- |! lic Roads said: “The chief destruc- | V tive factor of highways is over- |’ leading (of heavy trucks).” it, The Cincinnati Post said: What | f every slate is up against is an ef- | © ation grows the demand for meat | vill continue te increase and that | he meat supply will increase with | From the point ¢f view of the I firmer, meat animals constitute | ne of the very best crops. A fort to put freight trains on the | year-round cash market is always highways, with the taxpayers pro- | open to him. the | varies, but it is an honest reflec- railroads, as happens when freight tion of the supply demand situa- cars are kept on rails.” | fom at the time he sells, The American Automobile Assoc. | moreover, said: “Billions of dollars worth of | Source of cash income, viding the right of way net are, © the nafion’s finest highways being ded to pieces by jpver- { small scale or a large. 1 pa ial vehicles.” | in some form finally, is It's no wonder that more more highway officials--to say thing of the peaple who pay ° bil are | kin : ly for The price naturally Meat is, agriculturg’s principal Livestock ” an be raised and marketed on al And meat : fond in | | the daily diet of every- | 0 | one, ~ t Bo 3 ll Subscribe {0 the Bulletin. The Time The Anti-Trust Lawyers i » | For ten years the anti-trust lawyers have been attacking the business methods that make it possible to give the public the best quality food at the lowest prices. In our last ad we told you how Federal Judge W. H. Atwell, at Dallas, threw the ail . . aves of: 1 > 100 0 ‘i. trust lawyers and all their inflammatory charges against A&P right out of his com . » » - . | 3 ee But the anti-trust lawyers were not satisfied with decisions against them by three federal judges, . . . > They still wanted to destroy, A&P. - . They Appealed to New Orleans They Quit in Dallas So they appealed Judge Atwell’s decision to the three-judge Circuit On February 26th, while the judge was still waiting for his i Court at New Orleans. without any previous notice to him, the anti-trust lawyers gave a story 3 war to the newspapers in Washington, announcing that they were dropping One of the three, Judge Curtis L. Waller, agreed with Judge Atwell that the case in Dallas. dibs the case should be dismissed. 3 lv simil ” asad : - fling wv sald that if was their intention “to file a substantially similar sult The other two members of the Circuit Court, Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, hy biol i as Ue Sgr gol A : Jr., and Judge Allen Cox, although saying the case should be fd frend Qn appropriale Jur: Pl ei : » indictment was vague : ine anv ations which were . ; : - th it the indictme nt was vague and contained many allegations whic The “early date” turned out to be the same day, inflammatory. al : They decided that Judge Atwell at Dallas should protect ‘A&P from these As soon as one anti-trust lawyer killed the case in Dallas, another anid inflammatory allegations and could order the anti-trust lawyers to supply, trust lawyer filed a new case in Danville, Illinois. This non Hag Tia Fx the defendants with a bill of particulars, - most of the same allegations that had heen made and dropped mn Dalias 1 . . and that are being made against us today. So the case was back in Dallas again. { q . i ois zg . anti-trust lawvers, : ‘our judges who ha Judge Atwell, carrying out the decision of the Circuit Court, struck So now, according to the anti trust | wwyers, all four judg ¢ out the inflammatory. matter. ruled on the Dallas case were wrong. He said that without this inflammatory and prejudicial matter the Grand Despite defeats in three federal courts in widely separated parts of the Jury might never have returned the indictment. country, they continued their campaign to destroy A&P. Judge Atwell said to the anti-trust lawyers: . : te ot : hen Tudee Atwell heard of their acti i ordered the anti-trust lawyers “There are many statements in the indictment which are not af all ~~ When Judge Ma Bn ma Oi alien Bid Dallas cate. vs in violation, and are highly prejudicial and inflammatory.” Lo prepare an order 10r his signature dishiissills i The anti-trust lawyers objected. They advanced an amazing argument. Ip siening this order he said to the anti-trust lawyers: ies 4 They said that the removal of their inflammatory allegations (which all four “This nolle prosequi does not have the sanction or approval of this judges had agreed did not belong in the indictment), destroyed their case. | court. That is not necessary, nor that the government ask for the Judge Atwell instructed the anti-trust lawyers to furnish the court court’s approval, with a bill of particulars. In short, he wanted specific charges instead Si J of vague generalities. He set the deadline for furnishing this material “It is, however, a maller that may be presented to the other. court and. at January 15th, 1944, v may be of interest to the people at large, Wis anil tons Ln ied for nore tise, pl aging Seki So after their efforts to destroy A&P had failed in Washington, D. C., among their Staff, Judge Atwe | extended the time to february Zoth because "North Carolina, and Dallas, Texas, the anti-trust lawyers moved he believed that they were honestly trying, in good faith, to prepare the on to Danville. Illinois : material hre had requested. > ¥ ? ye Actually, it developed, they were using the time to get ready to drop the ~~ They were still determined to destroy this company which had brought. case in Dallas and start it in another court. more and better food at lower cost to millions of American families. et he They Wy €re . W rong Three Times eiore. Three times the anti-trust lawyers went into federal courts and made serious and damaging charges against A&P. | Three times federal judges said the anti-trust lawyers were wrong and rendered decisions against them, "In previous ads in this series we told you about these other anti-trust “cases” involving us, which the judges said were not cases at all. We think you should know about these previous cases, because once again the anti-trust lawyers are making damaging “allegations” that could seriously affect our business if they were believed by the public. There was the time in Washington, D. C., when they © There was the time in Wilson, North Carolina, they There was the time in Dallas, Texas, when they made said we and other good American citizens conspired ° said we and other good American citizens conspired practically the same “allegations” they are making i to fix the price of bread in that city. to fix prices paid farmers for their potatoes, today. ir / ivi. . ~_ 1 y : : . This was the time Federal Judge C. C. Wychesdirected his was the time Federal Judge W. H. Atwell ruled: ; This was the time Federal Judge T. Alan I ! i a, 18 ie St pre ae onilty”’ that the case should not even be tried. He said that the .'! oD : : the jury to bring in a verdict of “not guilty”, that L ; ruled that A&P and the other defendants did not even : : ., — indictment contained inflammatory statements that he: need to put in a defense. He instructed the jury to bring © he was the time Judge Wyche said to the anti-trust would not permit to be presented to a jury. in a verdict of “not guilty”. or It was the time Judge Atwell said to the anti-trust / . ‘ fr, . “In my opinion there is no testimony produced from lawvers: It was the time Judge Goldshorough said to the anti- hich if: p OT Inf > de- ; ; trust lawwers: Be. ghs : 2c) it oul be Smiley thi the de. “I know of no American rule, and I wish I had the i 2 : Sends enje eq Mina ANALIGR 10 crepes! power to underscore the word ‘American, which | “If you were to show this record Ro any experienced oly i . permits us lo try a man because of his size. . trial lawyer in the world, he would tell you that “I might say that I never tried a fase 1 my life “If I thought I was presiding over a court and that there was not any evidence aty all, where a greater effort, more work, more investi- I might have to sentence some person because he | gation had been done, combing almost with a fine- was a great big fellow, or because he was a Lilli« “Honestly, I have never in myfover forty years’ ex tooth comb to gather evidence. putian, I would feel like resigning. God knows we J perience seen tried a case twat was as absolutely ‘But, as was said a long time ago, you can’t make don’t want it ever to occur in America that the size devoid of evidence as this. That is the honest truth. brick without siraw, and you can’t make a case is going lo determine whether a man is guilty or { I have fever seen one like it.” without facts.” innocent.” | ~ { yoo { / THE GREAT ATLANTIC & / tf J —- PACIFIC TEA COMPANY P Th Li bridge Moe Mel McC wit Case | used t cut, N Little ( plows: tooth h tivator: side d two to Deere or: mo compre picked forks, ¢ mentio Dc 1950. Sc tions w Walter —— P Tu In V Mariett east of Sale EDGAR Paul Ble wl —— ( Ban | TN | the SO All thar app
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