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THE ZEBULON RECORD, ZEBULON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th, 1938. Washington Letter Washington, D. C., There is a native thinker in Every town who has come to the conclusion that if only 5 million people were out of work that the lazy would be better cared for, and if the additional 10 million who are now unemployed could be given jobs that the Na tion’s troubles would be over. There is another native thinker in Everytown who is convinced that if everyone would start bjying ev erything he needs that the 10 mil lion unemployed who really want jobs would all be called back to work to supply what the professors and experts call “the demands of the consumers”. The native thinkers in Every town are keeping their eyes on the same rainbow, and in the variegat ed colors they discover the end of the Nation's troubles. A good old lady thjat I know keeps a little table of statistics of her own that show that most of the telephones, radios, automobiles, electrical appliances and other pos sessions to make life more cheerful are owned by Americans. She tells her friends that she ‘‘counts her blessings every morning.” She grows old gracefully. The thinkers in Everytown make their own personal surveys of fine streets, lined with shops and stores, and as they catalogue their fellow citizens and neighbors they are glad that they live in the U. S. A. instead of Europe or Asia. The thinker who wants every body employer! cannot miss seeing and watching the moving streams of automobiles that constantly pass by his door. And when he looks in to his own car and considers how it came out of the line of science, skill and planning, he is confronted with material facts. The metal that comes first from the mines and steel mills and factories is in that car. And the machine is partly made of lumber from primeval for ests, that was finished in millls and factories. It is partly glass, made from sand. It is partly leather, from the hides of cattle that graze on ranches and farms. It is partly coal, mica, clay, manganese, salt, sugar cane, wood-pulp, copper, wheat straw, chromium, turpentine asbestos—that come from nature’s riches in the bowels of the earth; or from the surface of the land, or from the laboratories and work shops where Yankee ingenuity pro duces its wonders. There is wool, mohair and cotton in the upholster ing. There is cotton used as the basis of lacquers that give the car its rich coatings. The thinker in Everytown who wants employment for 10 million people who need work is vocal in insisting that if all the great in dustries that contribute to making automobiles were busy, that the business of all the States are af fected would boom. If the cities and countryside boom, a thinker in Ev erytown visions huge waves of buying. A few of the business ‘‘charts” are easy to understand. The easiest chart of all is the one that blocks off the months in a square with one waved line that shows how con sumers are buying goods and pro ducts. Another similar line runs through the chart and shows how busy the industries are. The clear est chart is the one of the automo bile industry; because the automo bile industry is something that in terests 30 million owners of cars. It is a National picture of local significance because stores, service stations, eating and drinking plac es, salesrooms, and other classes of business in every settled area are a part of that chart in all the 48 states of tbe Union. The automobile industry led the procession that pulled the Nation out of the last depression. Now the Nation is given a tem porary nmning-start by the Na tional Government and the indus tries must get into the race and win it—or we’re sunk. But the United States never will be sunk. It never has been, in times and under conditions worse than now. Seeing America There has been a whole lot in the papers in years gone by about “seeing America first”—but that referred to travel. There is a significant trend shown by a study just completed by the United States Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics. An official statement says that there has been a steadily rising income among farmers, and Uncle Sam figures it out that the crop prospects for 19- 38 will guarantee that part of Amerira outside the metropolitan area an exceptionally high degree of prosperity. Many large advertisers of the United States, led by the automo biles, electrical supplies, radios, wearing apparel, tobaccos, mail order houses, oils, foods, building maerials, furniture, etc., are pre paring to increase their advertising appropriations this fall. Local news papers are included in the planning. This indicates that big business is seeing the biggest part of Ameri ca, at last —because it’s sound sense to spend dollars and cents that way for advertising. Busine 8 s and Laws The only business that seems to profit by the passage of more laws is the law business. That appears to be the conclusion to which busi ness as a whole is arriving after several experiments in trying to build business by law. In the last seven years or so there has been something of a fever on, particularly among small town merchants, to erect a sort of legis lative wall around their towns, with the idea of keeping all their trade for themselves. They have been especially hostile toward the direct-selling or house to-house method of distribution by .some of the most reputable manu facturers in Ameirca. But now they are finding that what they overlooked is that this legislation bears most heavily on their own neighbors and fellow townspeople, who engage in direct selling either as a livelihood or to augment an otherwise inadequate income. They have discovered that these people in 90% of the cases live where they sell, pay taxes there, send their children to school there, buy their cars from local dealers, support local community enterpris es. As a consequence, ordinances of the “Green River” type are not being enforced, but still, so long as they are on the books, constitute a hazard to good, decent citizens as much as to the disreputables at whom they were originally aimed. It's probably natural to wash that one could get all the business in his particular line. Rut there never was nor can be a law that wall bring this about. Listen to Hector Laze, the ex ecutive president of a large grocery co-operative: “The cry for laws to do this, laws to do that, is always loudest,” he says, “from those who want to regulate or restrict the other fellow. . . We’ll have a law to put him out of business, or to hold him down, so “we can get all the business ourselves.” It never works. People will for ever buy where it is to their own best advantage in value and ser vice. There is something, though, that will always work in favor of the small-town merchant who really be longs in business. A little newspap er up in Minnesota said it all a few days back. Said the Ortonville (Minn) Independent: “The greatest requisite in mer chandising is inviting the prospec tive customers to buy. . . the great est invitation to buy is letting the customer know what the merchant has to sell, and here again one looks to the method of the large) city department stores —newspap- er advertising.” The Patent System J All the greatest inventions of our country are protected by pat- [ ents issued by the United States Government. For 150 years the Government has stood back of in ventors and their inventions, in or der that the full benefits of their contributions to progress might go to the people of the United States. The patent system began with the beginning of the government. The stean engine, nail machine, cast iron plow and cotton gin were all patented in George Washington’s time. The reaper and mowing ma chine, harvster, sewing machine, rotary printing press, vulcanized rubber and the safety pin came dur ing the next fifty years. No one has ever offered serious objections to giving monopolistic control of the inventors who have contributed s much to the national progress during the century and a half. Now, most strangely, patents fall under suspicion. Electricity, communication, transportation, photography, flying, radio and the most scientific improvements the World has ever known are to be searched for traces of monopolies. Senator McAdoo has a bill pend ing in Congress for the establish ment of what he calls a Court of Patents Appeals. This is supposed T laiilbiiiAiiiuiniiFi Jj^n Imt IWSI coodAear urn* 4.40-21 R-l M *8” TIRE 4.75-11 Wide. flat heavy $Q7$ tread lor long. 7 saio mileago . . . -- patented Super- V OO ' ,T twist Cord plies for $4 A55 greatest blowout * protection. Prices 5.25-17 are amazingly low , . . . for such high * J 1 10 i quality tires! Buy L—_______ no w. 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Phone ZEBULON -- i , iii 1 1 s ij» i 4.40-21 sgss 4.75-1 * s£7s 5.00-1 * *10” ui.it *11 10 United States Patent Office and 8,000 lawyers comprising the pat ent bar oppose the bill.
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