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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ogletrec
and son, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thomp
son and children, and Mrs. Sam
Thompson spent Wednesday ir
Richmond.
Miss Emily Dunning and Miss
Ann Campbell Taylor of W.C.U.N
C., Miss Margaret Hines of Mere
dith College, Miss Lillian Lee and
Miss Sara Crawford Towe of Duke
University have arrived to spend
the holidays here with their par
ents.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith of Ra
leigh visited their sisters, Mrs. R.
I. Starke and Mrs. W. E. Hawkins,
Sunday.
Mrs. Mildred Fulghum, Mrs. Char
lie Smith and Mrs. W. E. Hawkins
spent Wednesday in Rocky Mount.
Miss Helen Hedgepeth and Mrs.
Stafford Bolton spent Saturday in
Richmond. They were accompa
nied home by Miss Doris Hedge
peth.
Miss Mable Williams spent the
Christmas holidays in Newport
News, Va_, visiting Mr. and Mrs.
George Pruden.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Stokes
and son, Donald, spent Wednesday
in Durham and Hillsboro visiting
friends.
Misses Margaret Williams and
Laura Jane Epperson spent the
Christmas holidays in Richmond,
Va., visiting friends and relatives
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Stokes
and son, Donald; Mrs. M. C. Ben
nett; Mrs. G. H. Stokes, and Miss
Juanita Stokes spent Friday in
Washington, D. C., visiting friends.
Miss Juanita Stokes spent Fri
day in " Washington, Drc.f visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barlowe.
Larry Tucker Meade spent the
week-end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. J. Meade.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Parker
spent Christmas with relatives in
Wallace.
We pledge ourselves to this cause
A Statement by
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
We make this pledge publicly to our national government and to the people of
the United States:
That we will cooperate unhesitatingly in every effort of authorized govern
ment agencies to prevent unwarranted rises in prices of foods.
That we will continue our efforts to reduce the spread between prices paid to
the grower and prices charged to the consumers.
That to this end we will continue to do everything in our power to assist the
farmers and growers of America in the prderly marketing ef their products at the
fairest possible prices to them*
That we will make every effort to hold our inventories at the lowest point con
sistent with good service to our customers because hoarding, whether by whole
salers, retailers, or consumers, will cause higher prices.
That we will endeavor to continue to pay our employees the highest wages
and to give them the best working conditions in the grocery business generally.
That we will make every effort to continue to sell food at retail at the lowest
gross margin of profit in the history of the retail grocery business.
Today we are providing food for our customers at the lowest gross
profit rate in the history of the retail grocery business. This means
that we have achieved efficiencies in the distribution of food never
before attained. More of your food dollar goes for food and less for
overhead expenses than ever before. No other great retail business in
the United States in any field is operated with such a low cost of
distribution.
No one in the food business can control the wholesale price of food.
Only the government of the United States has power to do this, and
for the protection of our people this power in the government is now
a necessary power.
Today, with the nation at war, we believe that no private interest
has any rights in conflict with the general public interest.
The armed forces of the United States are today receiving more
and better food than ever before in our national, history. It is equally
important that all of our people working and living behind the lines,
men, women and children, shall be better fed and better nourished
than ever before in our national history.