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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1946 Food Price Survey Reveals Carolina Students Can Save Needed Money by Buying Groceries in Durham Stores By Roy C. Moose The already over-taxed buying pow er of the Carolina students' dollar on the average will not stretch as far in the purchase of the week's groceries in Chapel Hill stores as in those of Durham according to a food price survey just completed. However, this significant fact probably comesas no surprise to those who have Jjeen en during the skyrocketing cost of living on $90 a month. For a long time ru mors have been circulated that money could be saved on the purchasing of one weeks' groceries by taking the bus to Durham and shopping there. Indeed, the survey of food prices seems to bear out that contention, for a basket of 16 necessary items cost $4.74 at Fowler's in Chapel Hill and only $3.84 at the Big Star Stoe in Durham! Six Store Survey Four grocery stores in Chapel Hill Fowler's Market, Home Store, Pen ders, A & P and two of the most popular stores in Durham of Chapel Hill shoppers A & P and Big Star Store were chosen for the survey. Primary purpose of the survey was to compare prices on identical arti cles, consequently a list of 16 items was drawn up to be purchased at each of the six stores. Identical brands were bought where ( possible, and where the brand was not available, a com parative grade ofc-the item was pur chased. With the aid of Miss Darley Lochner, who certified the prices paid for each item, the survey was run on October 25 and 26. Differences in prices were eye-opening at their smallest and astounding at their great est. From the price lists received it was evident that Fowler's ;was . the most expensive with the Home Store, Penders, and A & P ranking in that order. Most economical was the Big Star Store in Durham with the Dur ham A & P store slightly higher. , i; The most outstanding price dif ference existed in the item of po tatoes. Ungraded potatoes range from 60 cents for ten pounds at Fowler's to 34 cents for ten pounds at the Durham A & P. Other prices paid were: Home Store, 50 cents; Penders, 54 cents; Chapel Hill A & P, 35 cents; and Big Star, 35 "cents. A more conclusive difference was apparent in the purchasing of coffee. The identical brand, Maxwell House, was purchased . at Fowler's for 48 cents a pound and at the Home Store for 49 cents while the Durham Big Star Store sold it for 42 cents a pound! Here a difference of 6 and 7 eents a pound existed in a standard brand that ordinarily should sell for the same price. Just as Amazing Just as amazing was the wide dif ference in the purchase of Groton's Look at the Facts The food price survey printed on this page is not a fly-by-night idea thought up on the spur of the moment. Certain mem bers of THE DAILY TAR HEEL staff have worked diligently in collecting facts and preparing them for print. The entire program was carried out impartially for the bene fit of the students concerned in an attempt to discern just how wide a difference in price here and in Durham really exists. The findings are presented above for interested students to mull over and digest. The conclusion is apparent. Even considering the natural faults that such a survey would include, those willing and able to go to Durham to do their shopping can do it cheaper than they can here. Tbm official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina rWrd BUI. where it U published daily, except Mondays, examination and vacatioa periods ; ferine tiw official summer terms. It to published semi-weekly on Wednesdays ana Saturdays. Catered u second-class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, M. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: 88.00 per college year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE The opinions expressed by the columnists are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar HeeL BILL WOESTENDIEK ROLAND GIDUZ IRWIN SMALL WOOD BILL SELIG . BURTON MYERS Amocxats EDrroaa: Gene Aenchbaaher. Fred Flaslsr, Eddie Allen. Xdrobiai. Staff: Jed Kiaaers;. Tom Eller. Matt Hodrson. Bob Jones, Sam Daniels. Bob Finehont. BeMfte Wast. Dbbk Ebitoi: Barron Mills. . Naws Staff! Roy Moose, Jo Pug-h, Monroe Towers, Darley Lochncr, Slgabee Miller, Brooksie Popkins, Burke Shipley, Ken Rothwell, Joy Blamenthal. Eddie Blankstein, Ed . Joyner, Harry Snowden, June Sauer,. Joe Duke, Fran Walker, Jane Pag-e Mean, Via Robinson,-Bob Morrison, Jinx Helm, Sam Whitehall, Helen Hlghwater. Night Editors: Barron Mills. Bill Sexton, Bookie Jabine. Nmht Sfobts EBrroaa : Howard Merry, Bob Goldwater. Jim Pharr. BusxNiaa Staff: Howard Bailey, Suzanne Barclay, Brantley McCoy, Natalia Bells; Bar bara Tborson. AoyBansZNO Mamacursi Xd Para ell. Nancy Wansh. AwmiuiNO Staff: Paul Baschon. Ed Campbell, Bettle Cheatham, Tommy Hashes, Jane Jolly, Adelaide McLarty, Colen Thomas, John York. SuMCMFTioif Manawk: J alia Meedy. FOR THIS Night Editor. Bill Sexton Cost of Items in Comparative Food Price Survey CHAPEL HILL MARKETS Item Fowler's Home Penders A & P Maxwell House Coffee, 1 lb. .48 .49 .44 .42' .42 Potatoes, not graded, 10 lbs. .60 .50 .54 .35 .34 .35 Cheese, lb. sliced .39 .37 .33 .31 .39 .33 Grade A Eggs, doz. , .36 " .35 .35 .35 .35 .51 Bread, 14 oz. ( 16 oz.) .13 .13 .12 Groton'sFIaked Fish, can, . . .12 .10 , (Cod & Haddock) .49 r Groton's Flaked Fish, can, .41 (Pollock) ..1. .39 .41 , No. 2 Can Green Beans .23 .14 .23 .13 .12 .21 No. 2 Can Grapefruit Juice .18 .17 .15 .19 .15 .13 No. . 2 Can Tomatoes - .24 .19 .17 . .... .16 No. 2 J2an Sweet Peas .21 .23 .19 .17 .13 .22 No. 2 Can Sweet Corn .15 ".15 .16 .17 ...... .15 Large Can Carnation Evaporated Milk .15 .15 14. .14 .14" .14 Butter, y2 lb. ' .49 .50 .47 .50 .49 .47 Tetley Tea, lb. .26 ,26 .18 .25 Lipton's Tea, lb. .30 .30 Celery, lb. (fsold by stalk but weighed & priced by lb) 17t .10f .07f ,05f .06f .07 t Lettuce, lb. (fby head but weighed & Priced by lb.) .17 .17 .10f .14f .13f .09f Total of Stores with ' . ' all items bought $4.74 . $3.84 Bold face prices are high and low cost of items. Items so starred are not brand named but stores' own particular brand1 that corresponds in quality with the brand called for. t Cost per pound jot Celery and Lettuce sold by the head or stalk will de pend a great deal on the size available at the time. However, very little variation from the prices determined will occur. - Flaked Fish, Cod and Haddock. Al though it was not available at most of the stores, the fish was found at Fowler's for 49 cents a can, whereas the Big Star sold it at 41 cents a can, a difference of 8 cents. On the average the green vegeta bles of lettuce and celery .seemed to be considerably more economical at the so-called chain stores A & P, Big Star, Penders than at the home owned stores of Fowler's and Home Store. Whereas Fowler's and the Home Store sold lettuce at 17 cents a pound, the other stores sold it by the head which when weighed figured as low as 9 cents a pound. Celery was all sold by the stalk at all stores and when converted to pound price rang ed from 17 cents a pound at Fowler's to 5 cents a pound at the Chapel Hill A & P. A conclusive comparison could not be run when the..green items are sold by the stalk or head for the cost per pound will depend largely upon the size available at the time of pur chase. However, on the average very little variation from the prices deter mined will occur. Differences found in canned goods again showed that the chain stores were the cheaper, which can be part--ly explained by the fact that they hanr die only their own brands of canned goods. Here it was very difficult t SERVICE OF UNITED PRESS - : Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor Business Manager Circulation Manager ISSUE Sports: Jim Pharr DURHAM MARKETS A & P Bisr Star make comparisons' because of the dif ference in brands encountered. How ever, in every case the same size and grade of canned goods were procured. Most marked difference occurred in the price of a No. 2 can of green beans which ranged from 23 cents at Fowler's and Pender's in Chapel Hill to 12 cents at the Durham A & P. Grapefruit juice in Chapel Hill sold for 18 cents for a No. 2 can at Fow ler's, 19 at the A & P, 17 at the Home Store and 15 at Penders while in Dur ham the same size was priced at 13 cents at vthe Big Star and 15 at the A & P. - Tomatoes fluctuated from 16 cents for a No. 2 can at the Big Star to 24 cents at Fowler's. A No. 2 can of sweet peas varied from 13 cents . Charge of Disloyalty ! An open letter to Manny Margolis: I enjoy your articles and utterances very much. I, too, enjoy the Ameri can right of free speech, and would be the last to seek to deprive anyone of his right to criticize his government. Such rights are unique and deserve to be perpetuated. In evaluating other people's expres sions of opinion I find it extremely helpful to know something of their underlying motives, don't you? I shall, therefore, state mine and request that you reciprocate in order that our readers and hearers may be enabled to better judge our subsequent writ ings and speeches. I am a loyal citizen of the United States of America. I believe it is a prime duty and privilege of every loyal U.S. citizen to make the wel fare of his own country one of his paramount interests. Now you, Manny, in your article in the Tar Heel, and in your spoken words at various meetings, have been so transparently, consistently and en- thuiastically Pro-Russian and anti-everything-else that, if you are a U.S. citizen, I consider, you to be guilty of extreme disloyalty to your country. I therefore invite you, if a citizen of the U.S., to defend yourself ' from my charges of disloyalty. If you are not a citizen, I request you to make that known, in order that we may judge your future efforts according ly- Frankly yours, BILL PATTERSON . More Students May Sign For Handicraft Classes The class in handicraft which began Monday night will still register a few more students, Mrs. John Foushee, di rector announced yesterday. The class, which will continue through December 2, meets on Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7 o'clock. The course is sponsored by the Per son Art gallery and townspeople as well as students may register. at the Durham A & P to 23 cents at the Home Store in Chapel Hill, while sweet corn remained almost constant throughout, varying from 15 cents at the Big Star, Fowler's, and Home Store to 16 cents at Pen ders to 17 cents at the Chapel Hill A & P. However, cheese was available at the cheapest price in Chapel Hill. The A & P here quoted 31 cents for yz pound while the most expensive, was found at Fowler's (39 cents) and the Durhsrr A & P (39 cents). Prices at the other stores were: Home Store, 37; Penders, 33; and the Big Star, 33. The difference here makes it evident that cheese may vary as much as 16 cents a pound! Not Without Faults Of course, the survey was not with out its faults as no survey is beyond fallacy, in that the difference in brands prevented it from being entirely j comprehensive. However, the brands bought werei the ones available to any shopper that buys at the various stores, and the oality remained con stant throughout. . The items chosen were selected ith . the .aid pi JLx. Upie JVteKeever, wife fit a Jaw school veteran, who explained jfchat they were the " "items . & student's wif e would mostikely buy. " " In every instance the survey was conducted in an unbiased, and impar tial manner and any difference in prices of the groceries were deter mined from the actual items bought. It's up to the students to judge the results, for 'THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES! Carolina student writing to his father Dear Dad, "Things are pretty tough in college. I think I'm going to flunk out." His father wrote back "Good God boy don't do that. It costs more to keep you'here at home." Said two students as they munched heir roommate's cookies "Tell your mother, that any other time she decides to send you nice things to eat, we will greatly appreci ate them." It's all in the way you look at it. For instance, a mama flea is glad to see her son go to the dogs. Bomb Sight. Bad System To the Editor: It appears that several human fac tors were not considered in the dis tribution of invitations to .rushees : (1) Few non-fraternity men were sure that they would receeive invita tions upon inquiring at Graham Me morial. (2) At the time of making such inquiry with the possibility of a nega tive reply, there was the chance that some f reinds and acquaintances of the non-fraternity man would be on duty at the lounge or within earshot. The longer an individual has been at Caro lina the less he would relish this in quiry. (3) To some individuals the gener al tone of the requirment that non fraternity students take the initiative in securing invitations tends to place the entire fraternity system in a re latively undersirable position on the campus. I did not go by Graham Me morial at the specified time because, frankly, I never expect to seek an in vitation to a fraternity by any means, although I must admit that at this time I would have given properly prof fered invitations serious consideration. In short, the issue involves a principle which some of us place above our own personal activities. The motivating element of this let ter is the realization that some of my friends in the fraternities will prob ably assume that since I did not make not interested in their friendship and even one visit to their house I was did not appreciate the invitation. They should know this is not the case, espec ially if the undistributed invitations, which I hear number quite a few, are returned to the several houses. More thorough hand coverage on the campus and postage stamps is the re medy. I personally will, welcome in vitations next time if every vestige of the initiative is placed where it be longs with the fraternity man.w-F.H. Name withheld on request. The most unfortunate man in the world: "The first time he went to a burlesque show he forgot his glasses." Washington Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson SIX HUNDRED JOBS GO TO REPUBLICANS ON CAPITOL HILL Washington. It has been exactly sixteen years since anyone save a Demo cratic elevator operator, doorkeeper, or page-boy derw a salary for chewing gum and pretending to administer to the needs of Congressmen in the halls of the Capitol. For sixteen long years, Republicans have been out in the v cold, patrnageless world. Now, however, comes the big job transfer. Begin ning with the new Republican Congress in January, 600 Democratic guards, ushers, clerks, stenographers, stationery room workers, sergeant-at-arms et al will get their walking papers, and 600 Republicans will take their places. Most important of all, however, willf 1 be the new chairmen of committees, since the committees of Congress shape legislation far more than most people realize. Republican Chairmen for the next two years will definitely affect the course of the nation. 0 Here. is the roll call of the most important committees and' the Repub licans who will run them: Foreign Affairs Under Con gressman Charles Eaton of New Jersey, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will continue a nonparti san Truman-Roosevelt policy. Born in Canada, trained as. a Baptist preacher, addicted to red neckties, Congressman . Eaton has been a staunch supporter of .U.S.-World co operation. When isolationist ex-Congressman Ham Fish tried, to dictate ,GQP policy on the Foreign Affairs 'Comm at his throat. As a result,! FRD in "Vvi'ted 'the ".New ' Jersev 'Representa tive tC e tthe. .White, ,Hpuse rjather than h. jEJaton has ' occupied' pulpits in Toronto, Cleveland,' Ne w : York, was once editor of Leslie's Weekly, ser ved as Canadian correspondent for The New York Tribune and The Boston Transcript. Ways and Means -Harold Knutson of Minnesota, new chairman of this vital committee, is bad news both to his party and the country. He voted against practically every defense mea sure before Pearl Harbor, claimed "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might well be emulated by states men of other countries." . . ."Per sonally," proclaimed the brazen Mr. Knutson, "I cannot see much differ ence between Germany's actions in Norway and the New, Deal program in this country.' Knutson is noisy, irrepressible, publicity-loving, has a mania for cutting taxes, especially in the higher brac kets. . .He once made a bitter attack on the late Cardinal Mundelein for favoring the Reorganization Bill ... When Time magazine called him "Fuz zy," Congresswoman Luce, wife of Time's publisher, smoothed it over by reciting Kipling's poem, "Fuzzy Wuz zy." Her irate colleague purred. . . Knutson will be God's gift to high bracket taxpayers, no gift to the little fellows. Appropriations This is the all important committee which decides how much the Government can spend. Its new chairman will be John Taber of Auburn, N. Y., a bank director and president of a water company. He is the bull-in-the-china-closet type who once engaged in a fist fight with Con gressman Cannon of Missouri and who yells so loud that he once restored the hearing of the late Congressmen Leo nard Schuetz of Chicago. Schuetz al ways used an ear trumpet on the floor, but during one of Taber's bel lowing tirades a nerve in his ear was restored and he discarded the trumpet. Taber glories in his reputation as a penny pincher. He delighted in chop ping New Deal expenditures, but once brought great grief to his iso lationist colleagues by making a speech strongly defending seven bil Crossword Puzzle ACROSS -Scheme 14 Heap i 8 Jump 11 Child's delight " 12 Goddess of i discord 13 Away from home J.4 Peace agency 15 Peak 47 Spartan magistrates 19 Greek letter SI Stray 23 Shaggy animal ol" China 24 Vessel 26 Over there 28 Equipment 31 Fairy queen 33 Distress call 35 Diameter abbr.) 3ft In direction of 38 Father and mother 41 Lieutenant (abbr.i 42 Put on 44 Weapon (slang) 45 Sweet potato 47 Saucy 49 Mountains (abbr.i 51 Swallow quickly 64 Boring tool 66 Goddess of dawn 68 Beetle 69 Partial blackness 62 Gambling game 64 Egyptian god of the sun 65 In the style 66 Russian city 68 Small boat . ( 70 Twice Jl French article .72 Parched 123 4 5 1 P I Is h k " 7" a 73 '9 so traT" 1 1 w w, 39 55 Mb ' 5? 60 W 3 oS lad . 67 68 69 t5- Tl " jr ' 1 Dutr k Uniirt fcsltirt tlcilf. Inc. lions for lend-lease. Colleagues were once aghast when Taber berated the Wild Life Division of the Interior Department for paying $11,00 to Mrs. E. Eugene Lay, for land near the Finger Lakes for which she wanted $16,500. Taber demanded that the Interior Department be pen alized ,f or this penny pinching by kill ing its entire $9,000,000 for wild life. It turned out that Mrs. Lay was a constituent of Congressman Taber's. Un-American Affairs New chair man will be J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, bald, a snappy dress er and a wordy wrangler. His last name once was Feeney, but he changed it to more high-sounding "J Parnell Thomas." Thomas is a Wall Street broker on leave from Paine, Webber and Company. If he had his way, the Un-American Com mittee would spend all its time har rying labor leaders. He will out Rankin Rankin and ex-Congressmam Ham Fish will be very happy. Rules Committee New chairman of this all-important committee, which decides what legislation can or cannot go to the floor of the House, will be Leo Allen of Illinois. Allen is pure Illinois cornbred, is Republican lead er Joe Martin's closest friend, talks little, is a middle-of-the-road conser vative, does exactly what Joe Martm tells him. In the first , world war he had a good record as a field artillery sergeant. Agriculture Committee New chair man of this important body will be Cliff Hope of Garden City, Kans., pro bably the ablest member of Congress in either party when it comes to agri culture. Hope wrote most of Wendell WiUkie's farm speeches and was scheduled to be Willkie's Secretary of Agriculture had Willkie been elected. Hope talks little, moves slowly, works hard. He is co-author of the Bill for Farm Research, believes that the USA must get ready to take care of farm surpluses again, should begin now to study quicK ireezmg, new packaging of farm products. The Veterans Committee This important committee will now shift from the chairmanship of Mississip pi's rootin-tootin John Rankin to that of a hard-working, effective lady Edith Nourse Rogers of Low ell, Mass. Mrs. Rogers is one of the oldest meinbers of Congress from the point of service, having succeed ed her husband in 1925. She has served the Government 25 years, is 64 years old, and not afraid to state her age. Her husband 1 was author of the Rogers Act which created the Amer ican career diplomatic service. Ever since, Mrs. Rogers has kept up her district. Few Congressmen work harder and get more accomplished. Probably she got more favors from the Democratic Administration thaii tfce average Democrat. 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