2==The Bulletin,
Mount Joy, Pa.,
Thursday, December 20, 1951 |

The Mount Joy Bulletin
Jno. E. Schroll, E
ESTABLISHED JUNE, 1901
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EDITORIAL
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A Lancaster motorist faces the
loss of bis driving privileges for
six months because he was arrvest-
ed seven times in five years for
trafic vielations. Why not let him
drive until he hurts someone?
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Recently a woman wen. a divoree
from her husband because she fail-
ed to get the fur ceat he had prom-
ised her while he was courting her.
Suppose something like that ever |
happens te politicians.
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Fulton Lewis. the well known |
commentator,
ling figures, and claims them au-
thovative, that this nation has spent
15 billions more money since Tru- |
man tcok over as President in 1545
than the nation has spent in all its |
previous history.
down te and including Roosevelt.
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There may be or may have been |
a better method of meeting the pro- |
blem of the communist menace, hut |
that better mcthod can never be
found until we face the stark re-|
ality that coramunism is absorbing
pecples and territory more rapidly
than any congueror in history.
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We are’ not ike first peoples to
trave] aleng the resd toward com-
plete subjugaticn by a govern-
ment’s bureaucratic hierarchy, but
we at least have the advantage of |
knowing what has gene before and |
thus. are able to recognize the
symptoms that already are beginn-
ing to ceme to the surface.
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WEER ALL VICTIMS
Prices are high but that doesn’t|o
mean that retailers are enjoying an |

Actually, their
.down
eccnomic paradise.
profits hove keen .on .the
grade.
For example, reports frem thirty
fcod companies recently show that, |
en the average, their gross carn-
percentage
peints and their net earnings were
off 1.77 percentzze before
taxes for the third quarter of 1951
2s compared with the same period’
of 1550. Typical retailers dealing
in commedities other than
have zlso reported drops in profit. |
In seme cases the
been heavy. .
Moreover. this marks a shrirk-
aze of profits which weve very
modest to Login with,
food distributors
only one to two cents prefit out of
each dolar spent with them. Gen- |
eral merchandise steres and varie- |
ty shors earn hut three
or four cents. Competition, which is
retailing’s dominant
teristic, always ho’ds profits to the
lewest figure under which stoves
can cafely and efficiently operate.
Eetriling isn't complaining about
its earnings. But it kas complained,
end properly, at government price
contre] policies and interpretations
which weve designed to force ve- |
tailers to abserb whalesile price
increases and other costs stone
which they could doc nothing. Re.
tailing just doesn’t have enowvg
profit margin to make that possi-
ble. As in any other business, un-
#voidable cust inereases must be |
passed on to the consumer if the |
stores are te survive and do the |
job thet is expected of them
Retailing did not eause inition
and it is not benefiting from infla-
tion, Like all the rest of us, it is |
ene of imflation’s. victims.
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THOSE. GREENER FIELDS
A great many city people are of
the epinion that farmers and ran- |
chers who roise beef are making |
huge sums «ff money. But those
who have & first hand |
of the mest producing busi
tke a somewhat different view. |
A recent issue of the Saturday |
Evening Post carvied, on its pdi-
torial page, a brief article by Bill
irgs were dewn 15
points
foods
declines have
Many large
normally earn

8s |

gives cut the start-
from Washington |
| | viciia office
RP v
| Bureau has disclesed tha
| day ef
| low and Rev.
ditor and Publisher
Best a
comer to the Southwestern eat -
who is a comparative new.
tle industry, In the course
ke said “To buy and stock a
cent ranch which will support 106
cows casts today about $55,000. And
i's bargain at that price. If you,
1s a buyer, were fortunate enough
to be able to get bred cows at that
price, vou will have a qalf crop
ready for sale in from six to eight
months after all the calves are born
or probably a year or more after
veu bought your ranch. If you are
lucky you'll get a 90 percent. crop,
or ninety calves. For their sale as
weaners at the very good weight—
for the Southwest—of 400 pounds
at thirly-eight cents per pound, al- |
0 a very good price, you will re-
ceive a gross return of something
Letter than $13.000. From that you
must deduct Uncle
toke and all your operating expen-
ses for a year or more. Unless you |
are one of the rare individuals who
| paid cash in the first place, you'll
principal pay-
ments {0 meet. In short you are-
n't going to end up with enough
money to buy sleek limousines or
invest in oil wells,
EE easy for the
| have interest and
uninformed
housewife to blame ranchers for!
the money she must spend on beef, |
| but I'li bet anything that she would
defend the rancher if she knew the
| facts in the case, just as she would |
| defend her husband's (1951) wages
which also have a bearing on why |
prices are high.”
The truth is that the profits
wade in the meat industry—all the
way from producer to packer to!
| retailer—have been greatly exag- |
| gerated in the public mind. As with
everything else, it's a case where
| the other fellow’s fields look much |
jigrectior than they actually are.
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‘The State Council :
(From page 1)
boa
| there are low-cost
lands readily a-
daptable for such purposes adjacent
to fertile areas and that such adja-
cent less fertile lands can be devel-
coped and used for governmental
purposes at no greater costs.” |
Citing that the proposed air
is expected to require an area of |
about 3,000 acres, the
went on to say that “the popula-|
base |
resolution |
tion in the United States is increas-
ting at the rate of 1.5 percentum |
| per annum and at the same time
| the number of farms and acres and |
[land under cultivation is steadily |
decreasing in spite of the shortage |
f food in the world.”
J. Collins McSparran,
R1, whe was
of Drumore
elected president of |
| the Council, released the resolution |
{upon his return to Lancaster. He | be had In
seid that copies of the resolution |
ill be sent to all of the Pennsyl-
vania Congressmen and Senators.
3 well as “to the White House.”
Sparran said the council
serves as a policy
tor Pennsylvania

clearing grou
agriculture. “We
work closely with the Department
f Ag and Penn State Col-
| lege,” said McSparran.
Representatives to the Council
te said, are heads of thé various
farm organizations throughout
Pennsylvania. It was estimated
that about 80,000 Grange members
ire represented in’ the Council, as.
well as about

50,000 farmers who |
ire members of various coopera-
tives in the Commonwealth.
Other Lancaster Countians who
itended the meeting in Harrisburg
were Charles Cowan, who is secre-
tary of the Interstate Milk Produc- |
cis; Leslie Hubbard, of the State
Producers Federation, and |
Simegn A. Horton, of the Mount |
Poultry
Joy Farmers Cooperative Asse lam
tion
SC
' IN EASTERN PENNA.
© 8i7 MILLICN IN TAXES
The 23-county Eastern Pennsyl-

the Internal Revenue |
almost
persons in the district owe
ac U. 8. more than 17 million dol-
fare in taxes.
Ccllector Smith set the |
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total owed which is less than one
per cent. ci the amount collected
emnually in the area, at $17 782.689.
He indicated that 26,111 individ- |
uasl and firms owe the government
$13,814,920 for income taxes. The
rest of the money i= owed with-
holding,

I security and feder- |
al excise ces
etl B- eee |

IT SURE WAS CCLD
Monday morning was the coldest
the Winter thus far. At this
cffice it was one below, ai other
Flags around her: it was eight be-
Koder said on his
back porch it was 12 below. |
the purebred Hol
Sam's onerous |

Vr IR WEY
HAPPENINGS
of —
LONG AGO
SET) Years Ago
Decanter 23, 1531

There are 101 patients in the
Crippled Childrens Home at Eliz
abethtown, its full capacity, and
100 more waiting to entel
N. Baer, of Salunga, joined
tein-Friesian Cat-
{le Association of America
There were 33 conversions at the
lose of the revival at Ruhl's Unit=
d Brethren church.
Ten motor busses will replace the
f Conestoga Trans-
troileys of the
portation Cempany at Lancaster.
Robert Leonard 13, of Mount-
ville, wos discharged from the Gen-
eral Hospital as being well. He
still has a bullet in his heart
The Christmas number of the
Fattersonian was distributed this
| le
weer
James, son of M:. and Mrs. J
Darvin Pennell,
in a game of basket ball.
Karl Fngle, a student at Tusc
Christ~
mag vacation here with his parent.

loosé, Ala. is spending his
| Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Enggle.
Miss Christine Weidman was giv-
en a birthday party on her fifth
birthday.
Mrs. Matilda M.
ppointed a representative of the!
Equitable Life Insurance Company. |
Ray H. Collins, 14, was treated at
the General Hos
ed knee.
Over 200 persons were present at
the barn raising on the E. S. Wea- |
ver farm at Florin.
The postoffice will be closed all
| day on Christmas
Miss Father Heary was struck
and injured ky a motorist in an
attempt to cress the street.
Four steers weighing 8,890 were
sold at the Lancaster Stock Yards
1
six cents a pound
The Church of God Men's Bible
class met ai Roy Hoffman's Friday
evening,
The musical organizations of the
Mount Joy High
good Christmas program,
A new switch-beard is being in-
stalled here hy the Columbia Tele-
phone Company.
While Charlie
parked on West Main street some
one crashed into it and mashed the
left front fender.
a
Donegal Society
(From page 1)
| and a needless waste of the tax-
payers’ money to set up the base
in the midst of fertile farming ter-
rit ry, when SO many other areas
f comparative waste land are to |
fraction of the cost.
“Furthermore, the displai:ement
of so many
ly populated region, many of whom
have occupied their lands for
generations, is hard to justify on
grounds cf military necessity with
so many other sites of light popu-
lation density available.
“The Donegal Society earnestly
bopes that the Air Force on fur-
ther consideration will select some
other location for its new base.’
Commenting cn a repert that the
| Ain Force, if it took 3,000 to 3.500
acres in the Donegal area, would
not disturb Donegal Springs.
Prentis added: “Any land taken

or Farm and Hore

pictures is illustrated
ping lag, culting and ere
Fake a ship-
ing it as in-

dicated. Glue it to the back of the frame, |
SHIPPING

i taking care to fasten the tag =o that the
picture will hang straight. This is a
simpler method than using eve hooks
and picture wire and will be just as satis.
factory. (Illustration courtesy Popular
Mechanics.)
fractured his knee |
Newpher was |
pital for an infect- |
school rendered a
Roth's car was]
Fastern Pennsylvania at
families in this dense- !
mein
'
How to Hao Small Pictures
AN EFFECTIVE way of hanging small |

es —
i in the general area would have an
effect on Donegal Springs.”
SIMON P. NISSLEY y
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