BY ‘A
WISE OWL |
Here it is January 6th and I
still haven't broken any of my
New Year's resolutions. Course
it could be because 1 resolved
THE BULLETIN
Larmon D. Smith, Publisher
John E. Schroll,
Editor and Publisher, 1901-1952
Subscription Rate $2.50 per
year by Mail
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Entered at the postoffice "at
Mount Joy, Pa,, as second-class
mail under the Act of March 3,
1879.
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paper Publishers’ Association,
EDITORIAL: |
FIRM PARTNERS
A news story from one of
the major automobile manufac-
turers does a splendid job of
showing the interdependence of
agriculture and industry. |
On the one hand, industry |
| depends on the farmer to con-
sume vast quantities of the]

|

not to make any cause I never
keep them anyway.
tor today and he told me a local
fellow had barely paid off his
I was talking to a bank direc- |
goods it produces. Without the |
vast agricultural market for |
| manufactured wares of endless]
varieties, the assembly lines
would slow and factories would |
close.

mortgage on the house when he
mortgaged it again to buy a car
and not too long after borrowed
money to build a garage.
the new loan, the latter hesitat-
ed and said, “If I do make this
new loan, how will you buy gas
for the car?’ __
“It seems to me,” the man re-
marked curtly, ‘that a fellow
who owns his own house, a car
and a garage should be able to
our big time fellows operate.

Old-fashioned courtship
gone? =

—= but that ain’t all.
Prior to Christmas,
a male shoplifter with
pairs of ladies’ panties.
coat pocket. The
sing to have asked the
girl.
head lately that
with your husband
ran aroun
before you
dyed
boner!
my
Did you ever notice
ple is to sit down and listen.

car lot when I struck up a con
versation with the
has | ‘‘average” American
A survey reports that after |
40 a woman's mind gets broader
it is re-|
ported, a Lancaster cop caught |
three |
in his |
man said it |
would have been too embarras- |
sales | @ good many people, apparently, | can. Mr. Wolgemuth states that
Upon meeting an old friend,
at a New Year's party I asked, |
“Have you seen that dizzy red- :
d small number of men or groups
were married?” Suddenly turn- |
ing red-faced, she sputtered, “I:
hair” — — What a
that the
best way to entertain some peo
I was foraging around a used |
attendant. |
He was chuckling to himself | .
On the other hand, industry is |
{a first-class farm customer, as|
{ the news release vividly shows. |
| This single company annually
When he asked the banker for | absarbs the yield of 78,000 acres | was ‘ial
| of cotton, along with 3,000,000
| pounds of wool, in order to
i make the upholstery for its cars |
land trucks. It needs, each year, |
37,000 acres of soybeans for the |
| body paint and 40,000 acres of |
| flaxseed for linseed oil. Deriva- |
| tives from about 48,000 acres of |
|
. : { "Nn are 0 SUC i S as | ~
get credit for gas.” --- mr — | corn are used for such things as | Dear Editor:
That's the way the majority of | adhesive agents in gray iron
| casting cores. |
All in all, it would take 2500
farms to |
{ the wool, leather, cotton and |
| ather agricultural products that |
enter, in its
{ erations.
manufacturing op- |
And this, mind you, is but one |
| large one. |
{ Farm and factory are firm part- |
ners in this complex modern |
| world
i company, albeit a
It's a rather curious fact that
| still believe the oil industry is
| an intensively competitive kind
| of business. Some think it ac-
tually is a monopoly.
Where a monopoly exists, a
dominate an industry and, as a
rule, their purpose is to keep
production down or constant, to
l jack up prices, and discourage
change and development.
In the light of that, take a
look at oil. To begin with, there
are 42,000 oil companies and
nearly 200,000 service stations
| operating in this country. In
| the brief space of 25 years, the
companies have increased pro-
“| duction by 166 per cent. And
| each year, because of the drive
competition, the industry
1,
SOME MONOPOLY |
and I asked why, “Well,” he ex-
ained, “just a s go |
plained, “just a short while 480 search to make present products
spends over $100,000,000 on re-|

ast week.”
“What's the matter?”
it?” 1
replied the parson.
Philosopher Enck says:
operation will solve many prob-
lems. Even freckles would be a
nice coat of tan if they would
ever get together.”
Old records show that George
Washington could broadjump 23
feet, a record in those days. —
-— — Just as a matter of filler.
Today we have politicians who
can sidestep further than that.
“One niece thing about money”
notes Earl Miller, ‘‘the color
never clashes with any outfit
you're wearing.”

Little Billy returned from a
birthday party. His mother, ap-
prehensive lest his appetite had
overcome his manners, asked:
“Are you sure you didn't ask
Mrs. Johnson for a second piece
of cake?”
5 “Oh, no, Mother exclaimed
© Billy. “I only asked her for the
recipe so you ' could make a
cake like it, then she gave me 2
more’ extra pieces.”

After looking over numerous
nodels of the 1955 cars I have
bme to the decision that ‘‘auto-
obiles now have more buttons
an some drivers.

ve, remember, you] won't

asked
the salesman. “Can't you drive
“Not and stay in the ministry”
“Co-
As you start to pass on a blind [with about four minutes work.
uct, gasoline, tells that story.
Since 1925, according to gov-|
ernment figures, commodity |
prices as a whole have risen 53.5
percent. The price of gasoline,
including the gas taxes, has in-
creased 31.9 percent. And if the |
taxes—over which the industry |
has no control — are deducted, |
the increase has been a mere 8-
.6 percent On top of that, two,
gallons of today’s gasoline do as |
much work as did three gallons
of the 1925 type

MORE FOOD FOR
MORE PEOPLE
{
{
Between now and 1975, if pre- |
!
dictions made by the census |
takers, there will be 200,000
,000 mouths to feed in this |
country—some 44 million more |
than at present. Yet the amount
of land for food production is ex- |
pected to increase little, if at all.
ber of people employed in agri-
culture will show no marked |
change.
How, then, can
possibly do the job?
mean that our living
are due for a decline, so far
food and fiber are concerned?
As Dean of agriculture Har-
ry J. Reed of Purdue Universi-
ty, has made clear, the history
of agriculture has been one of
greater production with less la-
bor. A century ago it took five
man-hours to produce a bushel
of corn_now it can be done
agriculture |
Does this |
standards
as
Even since 1940, farm output
per man-hour of labor - has in-

order Valentines.
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creased by 45° per cent—nearly
The most widely used oil prod- |
| And it is probable that the num- | §
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Published every Thursday at 11| Thursday, January 6 2
East Main Street, Mount Joy. | emo |
Lancaster County, Pa. half.
The main reason for stich re- |
volutionary progress is found in|
mechanized farm equipment. |
{ According to Dr. Reed, there are
4,400,000 tracors and 940,000
combines on American farms, |
along with more than. 2,500,000
trucks and some 4,500,000
mobiles. There are all kinds of
machines and attachments -
sprayers, dryers, milkers, and
so on. And, as the years pass,
both mere machines and better
machines become available, due
to the initiative of the highly
competitive farm equipment in- |
dustry. These machines in the
hands of efficient farmers, coup-
| led with help from people in ed-
ucation, science and industry,
will meet the call for continued
progress on the land.
— arr fermen - |
Trapper Makes Unusual Catch |
Game Protectro William E.|
Cowden reports: “On Novemb-|
er 28th Grover Kughn, a veter-
an Greene County trapper, dis-|
covered a peculiar-looking ani-
mal in one of his traps. Kughn|
has trapped for 55 years and|
was very surprised to learn he |
had caught a coyote. The animal |
en in a small stream in
|a set for a mink.”
Letters To The Editor |

POLIO AFTERMATH
VICTIMS NEEDING AID AT START OF EACH YEAR

70.000

6 7,000

60,000

5

1952 1953 1954 195
JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES JAN. 3 T0 31
Each year sees an increased number of polio patients from previous
{ epidemics who can be helped by long-term care paid for by the
| March of Dimes. As the proportion of deaths decreases, the cost
| of mending lives for the thousands who survive steadily increases.
|

vr Records, Maps, Index Cards
Mount Joy, Fa. |
Si 5 105 Assure Accurate Assessments
| (Editor's note: In the second crease the square foot of the
In reference to the letter
E. E. Wolgemuth regarding
the Dancing School I would like
to make this comment. I
: bs » “© >, Q 3 = | .
been discovered among the low- make up the hundreds of ‘thous- sure that dancing can be a good
er animals! So that's where it’s { ands of acres needed to supply | influence
on our children as
well as a bad one. The time that
| our young people spend at dan-
ces supervised correctly can
teach them to get along with
other ‘people and show them
{ that a good time can be had by
everyone.
Not everyone is fortunate
|
| enough to be able to spend a
| few months in Florida for va-
| so they have to do what they
| 90 percent of the population of
| Mount Joy are Church
| bers. This is fine and I am &ure
lit is ‘a percentage that “ew
| towns can, boast of still 1
| can’t understand why dancing,
lin Mr. Wolgemuth's mind, is
| bad for our children.
| As for the school not holding
| any activities on Wednesday
| nights so the children at
tend mid-week Services I
| ine that would be impossible to
keep this from happening some-
| times. Ms. Wolgemuth’s infer-
{ ence that Mount Joy is not $
| good a town as he thought if
| they permit this dancing school
can
mmag-
as
lis way out of line to my think-
{i 1
ing. He also remember
i that one of the largest (if not
| the largest) Christian organiza-
should
| tions (YWCA) for young peo-
a rather grim faced parson re- better and new products pos-| ple sponsors dances so I feel
urned to the used car . dealer! that he has the wrong idea a-
nd said: “I'm returning the! How does this work out to! bout condemning Mount Joy if]
econd-hand car you sold me the benefit of the consumer? | they permit this dancing school. that
Yours truly,
James N. Pennell
116 W. Main St.
Mount Joy, Pa
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PEANUTS
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Mount Joy
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of |
am
cation, recreation, and pleasure |
| having the evaluation of proper-
| ties determined by a system
| tables and charts the
| operation of the system
{ ments become permanent.
| . -
| only time an assessment will be
| maintain
i just so long as he does
article of this series the steps home. To enable the Chief As-
| the State Legislature had taken seshor to know where improve-
| toward modernization of assess- | ments are taking place, and el-
| ments Pennsylvania were iminate the need for costly *‘pol-
| discussed. How, by comparison
| with systems now in use in oth-
er states, a formula for equali-
| zation was used the basis file monthly, copies of the buil-
| for the New Assessment Law ding inspector's report, with the
| was described. In this article County Assessor. In communi-
| the Law itself will be discuss- ties where permits
| ed.) quired, the law states
property owner must
in
icing” to detect such improve-
ments, all communities
requiring building permits must
local
das
not re-
that the
report
are
What ic the new Pennsylvania
Real Estate Assessment Law
| which was devised by the State
Legislature in cooperation with
the Local Government Com-
mission of Fennsylvania?
ty assessment office
However, the cost of the im
provements need not be divulg-
ed, nor the contractor identified
in the latter case.
remembered
of the
it is not a new law but ra-
1 refinement of the "1943
[First it must be ar
that responsioility
County Assessor and his staff to
thor
It is then the
Chief
Real Estate Assessment Act) the visit sthe—property periodically,
Pennsylvania Local Govern. to see how the improvement 1s
progressing. When the valua-
ment Conference, representing
tion of the improvement is de-
the taxing governmental agenc- . . 3 ;
; splaine. Tt makes ‘manda termined, it is added to the val-
10 ans. ages d a- .
TE ttt y : ue of the land, based on the
tory, within a five year period, :
the use of ceflain provitions land unit value this total now
Sopa ao becomes the approximate re-
contained in the 1943 Act. such t ol i p il
as the establishment of a perm- P Atomentayaiue of the Droper-
: Vy.
anent record system having This 1 \ Ti} A {
“This | Not Lhe Assessed
| property record cards, land __ PN A
pe 8 i : Valuation, the Conference
maps, property owners index
| . . : warns.
cards, and cross indexing. Al- Tl
p . 1e assessed value 0 the
though the 1943 Act contained i 5 y
these tools, there were no pro- property will e a fraction o
the replacement
value. Th
Commissioners
centage of
placement value, and in no case
can the more
than 75 percent of the approxi-
approximate
visions wherein '
law requires that the
their applica-
| tion become obligatory on the
i part of the 59 affected counties
in the Commonwealth (Phila-
delphia, Allegheny and the six
third-class counties are covered
other legislation.)
Another important change
is affected in the 1951 Act!
{is that the Chief County Asses-
| sor is the responsible individ-
| ual making the assessment. By
bringing into existance a mod-
and by
must set a
per-
the approximate re-
assessed value be
by
: mate replacement value.
(The method of installing this
system in counties which
| have undertaken it in the Com-
" monwealth of Pennsylvania will
be analyzed in the next article.)
’
| Buller’s Beauty Salon
‘Main Street
Cold Waves Machineless
Permanents $5.00 up
Call Mt, Joy 3-4339
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| ern system of records,
of
need for
competent authority for efficient
ap.
parent, the Conference points
out. Obviously the Chief Coun-
ty Assessor is the logical person
to insure the success of such a
project.
Under the new system assess-
The
is

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A property owner can spend
as high as $1,000 per year to
his property without
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