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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1955
VISION AND FAITH
This country has 40 per cent of the
world’s coal reserves. But reserves of any
resource in the ground are 0f limited value
unless we have an efficient producing in
dustry that can make the best and most
economical use of them.
Our coal industry is the world’s best,
judged by any standard.
During recent years coal, like other
enterprises, has had to meet higher cost
in wages, taxes, transportation service,
and material prices. Despite that, the cost
of coal at the mine has been reduced.
This has been possible because coal
has mechanized and redesigned its mining
processes. At the recent Coal Show in
Cleveland, almost unbelieable mechanical
wonders were demonstrated—including a
power shovel standing as high as a 12
story building, a new continuous mining
machine that will mine coal at the rate of
eight tons per minute, and a new electric
bus which cuts the travel t ime of miners
underground in half.
The industry has been spending huge
sums of money on mechanization and oth
er improvements at a time when profits
Have virtually disappeared. That is a
measure of coal's spirit-—and of coal’s
faith in the future.
THE FARM EQUIPMENT DOLLAR
Modern farm equipment is an abso
lute necessity today. The time when hu
man and animal power could do the basic
work of agriculture has gone, never to re
turn. The tractor and the other machines
make possible maximum production at
minimum cost in both money and effort.
The selling price of these machines
is an important matter to the farmer. And
no doubt, many a farmer has sometimes
wondered if the price tag contained an
excessive amount of profit.
An answer to that is found in a sur
vey made of hundreds of farm equipment
dealers scattered throughout the country
and covering the 1947-54 period. It shows
that profits have gone down steadily sharp
ly. In 1947 those profits, before taxes,
amounted to 9.35 per cent of the gross bus
iness. In 1950 they came to 4.95 per cent.
In 1953 the figure was 2.5 per cent. And
last year it was only fractionally higher—
2.62 per cent.
The reasons why farm machinery
costs more now than it used to are simple
enough. In the first place, the expenses
that must be borne by the manufacturers
and dealers have soared, just as in the
case of any other business. They must pay
the high going price for labor and every
thing else. Secondly, the farmer has de
manded and received more complicated ,
and more versatile machines that do a
better production job. But he can be cer
tain that he is getting top value for his
equipment dollar.
BUILT-IN-COOK SERVICE!
A publication of the American Meat i
Institute observes: "Price spreads—the j
difference between what the farmer gets
and what the consumer pays for food
items—have been steadily widening and
for good reason."
The ‘‘good reason’’ in this case has
various facets. Labor costs, direct and
indirect, make up about 75 per cent of to
tal marketing costs in the food business.
These have risen substantially, and so ov
er a period of years, have other such un
avoidable operating costs as packaging,
transportation, taxes, rents and so on. On
top of th at, one of the big and relatively
new factors in the farm-retail price spread
situation is found in consumer demand for
foods in a form that will save labor and
time in the home. As the Institute’s pub
lication puts it, “The housewife, buying
more ready-to-serve, ready-to-cook and
ready-to-mix foods, actualy is getting what
amounts to a ‘built-in-cook’ service/’ Pro
cessing of this character costs money—
and the consumer must pay the bill.
Even so, our food dollar does a good
job. Despite the rise in prices for foods,
family purchasing power has kept up with
it. Meat is a good example, being a food
which practically everyone consumes dai
ly in one form or another. According to
Department of Agriculture figuers, for
many years, in good times and bad, the
public has spent roughly the same pro
portion of take-home pay for meat—five
;o esven per cent. The only exceptions
ire war periods when government con
sols and other abnormal factors make
jomparisons impossible. We eat better
than ever, and at a reasonable cost.
FREE ROOM AND BOARD
Farm and Ranch magazine is publish
ed in Nashville, Tennessee—right in the
Tennessee Valley Authority region. And
that fact gives unusual force and interest
to an editorial which recently appeared- m
the magazine, signed by publisher Tom
Anderson.
Mr. Anderson began by saying:
"Here in the Tennessee ^ alley 1 \ A is al
6most holy. I guess ‘*0 per cent of the p.eo
' pie are tor TV A—and against socialism.'
He went on to show how TVA is a social
istic enterprise, with low rates mad epossi
ble by tax subsidies, tax avoidance, and
other taxpayer-paid advantages. He said.
"Almost half of each power bill we valley
residents pay is charged to the taxpayers
of the Nation. I want to pay all of my
power bill. . . . "
Then Mr. Anderson made a number
of suggestions whereby TVA could be put
on a business 'basis—including the pay
ment of taxes, and interest on the money
invested in it. by all the people. He con
cluded with these words: “The above pro
posals would inevitably mean higher TVA
power rates. But they would put TVA
and other public power projects on a self
sustaining .... basis ....
“Why not? If TVA is what its advo
cates claim, how would it be hurt? TVA
is a big boy now. Twenty-two years old.
Almost grown we hope. A big bank ac
count of his own. Good job. A booming
business.
“How much longer is he going to
want an allowance? He'swelcome to keep
his feet under our table. . . . But an't it j
high time he paid his room and board?
There is plenty of evidence tnat this j
attitude is widely shared throughout the
country. Something like 80 per cent of!
the taxpayers are subsidizing the power
bills of the 20 per cent who are served by ■
socialized systems—and the.v’r getting sick !
of it. The proper ultimate solution is to j
sell the government plants to regulated, j
taxpaying private enterprise. Meanwhile, ]
let every government commercial opera-}
tion pay its own room and board.
WE’RE IN LUCK
How many Americans, in their day
by-day shopping in lavishly-stocked retail j
stores, ever seriously think about the sys
tem that makes all this abundance possi
ble? |
That system is called by various nam-i
es—private enterprise;, capitalism.-a com
petitive econonmy, and so on. Regardless
of semantics, is is based on just one thing
—freedom. Producers are free to make
what they like, retailers are free to stock'
what they like, and the consumer is free
to buy what he likes and where he likes.
We take all this for granted. We
know that some conveniently-located storel
will have on sale whatever we happen to]
want, at the moment, and at a reasonable
price which is held down by competition. I
But we wouldn't take it for granted if we
could see. at first hand, what the situation
is in countries where these freedoms don't
exist.' arid the government owns, operates,
or in some way controls everything.
Coiumnis Martin S. Hayden recently
wrote about what communism has done ]
to livng standards in Czechoslovakia—a
country which, before it was commumzed,
was among the most prosperous and ad
vanced in Europe. The average Czech
worker has a monthly take home pay of
about 900 crowns. This will buy the bare
necessities, but little else. For, in Prague,
a seven-inch screen TV set costs 2,000
crowns, a pound of coffee 109 crowns, a
small car 27.000 crowns (30 months pay!)
and a two-burner hot-plate 560 crowns.
Mr. Hayden .adds that housewives queue
ap at five in the morning in the hope ol
getting a piece of meat.
A sure-fire reflection of any nation's
living standards is found in its retail stores
—in the range of goods offered and the
prices charged. We Americans, with our
free system, are the luckiest people on
earth.
WRONG NOTION
There is a fairly widespread nption
that the growth of big business in this
country has been made possible by tne
absorption and destruction of small busi
ness.
In 1900 there were 21 independent
establishments per 1000 population—half
a century later there were 27. And big
business needs and supports smail busi
ness. One of our biggest businesses has
over 33,000 suppliers and subcontractors,
most of them small. Another buys goods
and services from 21,000 independent sup
pliers.
In some lines big business can do a
job best—in others small business is su
perior. The country has to have both.
By Lewis
HERE S HEALTH!
PLUMS ARE NATIVE TO
THIS HEMISPHERE, BUT THE
PILGRIMS PLANTED VARIETIES
THEY HAP KNOWN IN THEIR
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SANTA CLARA WERE AMONG
THE FIRST TO PLANT EUROPEAN
PLUMS IN CALIFORNIA
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN AMERICAN BUSINESS
—B i RENOLDS KNIGHT—
NEW YOKE, Sept. 26 — Home
sale.-', after a two-month lull, have
picked up again. When June and
July saw new-home starts falling
below the like months of 1954—
the first such year-to-year decline
in several years—some ctjnmen
tators hastened to say the vast
housing boom was beginning to
taper off.
August starts,- just now being
counted, reversed the brief dip.
With 123,000 starts—-8,000 more
than in July — it was the best
August since 1950. While the up
turn seemed to be in the face of
the slightly more stringent terms
on housing loans, put into effect
July 50. those terms were not ef
fective for most August-started
homes. That is because the new
regulations exempted homes for
which commitments on the older
basis had already been made.
Strength in the economy out
side the home-building field must
be given much of the credit for
continuance of the housing boom.
So many observers have neon say
ing that postwar prosperity rest
ed solely on demand for homes
and automobiles that many of us
had cosme to believe it. This sum
mer. with sales of both noil-dur
able goods and hard goods other
than automobiles making new
highs, the boom has shown itself
to have a much broader basis
than any two industries, import
ant as those industries are.
( AN OUTPUT RISES—Ameri
cans are getting more and more
from tin cans. Fruit, vegetables,
juices, beer and pet foods were
mainly responsible for the in
crease of almost 6 per cent in
can production for the first half
of Iu55 compared with first-half
1954, according to the American
Can Company.
More than four and a quarter
billion cans were produced for
fruits, vegetables and juices in
the six-month period, and more
than three billion beer cans were
turned out. Roth figures repre
sent in per cent gains, the com
pany said.
Another gainer was the. tinless
motor oil can. a pioneer in Uan
co’s constant campaign to free
the nation from the danger of tin
shortages. Production of those
tinless cans rose 6 per cent. Other
production increases were regis
tered in seafood and shortening
containers.
THINGS TO COME—One pipe
stem, made of gold-plated alumi
num, comes with as many* as nine
removable bowls . . . An electron
ic dingbat for signaling when a
shaft or bearing is wobbling can
he attached to any machine which
must operate for long periods . .
An aluminum device to be at
tached to a fishing line between
hook and sinker is supposed to
help the rig miss submerged ob
stacles as it’s retrieved ... A
folding picnic table, complete
with two benches, seats 16 per
° BOTTLENECK BROKEN—For
all the advantages of aluminum
in castings, its users have for
vears been faced with the prob
lem of the metal’s high oxidation,
which made it necessary to melt
ingots in small batches.
Now comes news that for a
year the first automatic, continu
ous in-line melting of aluminum
alloys for castings has been going
on in the Pittsburgh plant of the
Monarch Aluminum Manufactur
ing Co., a large maker of alumi
num shapes in permanent molds.
A new type of radiant gas-mred
tunnel furnace, engineered joint
ly by Monarch and Selas Corpora
tion of America. Philadelphia
heat engineering firm, has made
possible this radical advance in
aluminum casting practice. Fur
tnaf6S can be built to process 3000
‘pounds of castings an hour, and
start-up time is cut from 24 hours
to three. Gas consumption is less
[than two-thirds that of the earlier
“hatch” process, and heat in the
working area is no longer a prob
lem.
The tunnel furnace uses 6.0
Selas ceramic burners in the last
10 feet of the roof of the 30
foot-long furnace. Combustion
gases flow hack up the furnace
to preheat the ingots.
WEATHER WORRIES — This
summer has seen two visitations
of hurricanes in farming areas of
the East, spreading blessings and
disaster. Unfortunately, from the
viewpoint of the worried Wash
ington directors of national farm
policy, the disaster came where it
hurt and the blessings where they
didn’t help too much.
High winds and lashing rains
ruined the Connecticut shade
tobacco crop, and left little of
North Carolina’s flue-cured tobac
co. Aided by rising export de
mand, those two crops had been
good earners for their growers,
and not much trouble to the price
proppers.
On the other hand, the accom
panying rain was just what the
Piedmont cotton crop needed, so
now there will he a few score
thousand more bales of excess
At the western edge of the
Missippi Valley, crops are now
suffering from drought, with corn
and wheat not worth harvesting.
The main Corn Belt, however, is
having ideal growing weather, so
far. Which means that the unfor
tunate Minnesotans and Dakotans
won’t even have the solace of
good prices for what they do man
age to market.
BITS O’ BUSINESS — Auto
dealers sold 5.1 million new cars
and 7.0 million used ones in the
first eight months of 1955 ■ • •
The Labor Day week-end cut
87,617 cars off weekly loadings,
said the Association of American
Railroads . . Department store
sales in the September 10 week
were 11 per cent above the year
befort* period.
News In The
World Of Religion
BY W. W. REID
A huge bronze statue that es
caped the ravages of the Hiro
shima atomic bomb has been un
veiled in New York City as a
“religous symbol of peace and
serenity.” The two-and-a-talf-ton
figure of buddhist religious lead
er. St. Shinran, is at the entrance
of the New American Buddhist
Academy chapel, 331 Riverside
Drive, near 106th Street, Both
the statue and its donor, Seichi
Hirose, a Japanese businessman,
were honored at a ground-break
ing: ceremony. Mr. Hirose said he
made the gift to help create a
spirit of “no more Hiroshimas.
Glenn Memorial Methodist
Church, Atlanta, gives almost
cne-half its annual budget “for
others.” The 1954-55 income was
$118,711. Of this amount, $50,
435 was earmarked for projects
I outside the local church. The
church, on the Emory University
campus, supports two missionaries
overseas and provides ten theo
logical scholarships for white and
Negro students. Glenn Memorial
is believed to be the only church
in the nation to provide a cottage
at a Methodist orphanage. Glenn
Cottage, now under construction
at the Methodist Children's Home
in Decatur, will cost $68,000. the
money being supplied by Glenn
Memorial. The church gave $12.
000 to this project out of last
year’s budget. The Rev. (. andler
Budd is pastor.
The first Mormon temple on' the
European continent was dedicated
in Zollikofen, Switzerland, re
cently. David O. MtKay, president
of the Church of Latter Day |
Saints; Ezra Taft Benson, United
States Secretary of Agriculture,
and Senator Wallace Bennett of
Utah, were among the 1,500
members of the Mormon Church
from the United States and many
European countries who took
part in the ceremony. Before the I
dedication of' this edifice, the 45,
000 Mormons in Europe had
prayer houses in a number of
cities, but no consecrated temple.
Reports from two major Chris
tian universities in the Ear East
indicate record or near record en
rollments fop the academic year
just closed. Aoyama Gakuin, an
S1-year-old Christian school in
Tokyo, Japan, had an enrollment j
of 9,500 students, both men and j
women, in the second semester |
last year. That was an increase |
of about 1.000 students over the :
■ first semester. Of that number.!
.“,700 students were enrolled m !
the college. 1,700 in night college
classes, 900 in junior college,
1,600 in senior and junior high
school and 57 in primary school.
A new. 52-room primary school is
be completed in 1958. A record
4,000 students enrolled at the
Ewha Woman's University. Seoul,
Korea. Dr. Helen Kim, Mie presi- !
dent, has reported. To acconmio- |
date the student influx, Dr. Kim j
said. 10 classrooms seating 60 to |
90 persons have been added, a j
temporary dining room seating |
600 has been built and temporary j
dormitories are under construe- j
The United Council of Church |
Women — arm of the National :
Council of Churches and repre
senting some 10,000,000 Protest
ant women throughout the United
States—will hold its national as
sembly in Cleveland, Ohio, from
Nov. 7 to 10. Mrs. James D.
Wyker, national president, will
preside over the sessions of this
body that is "fast becoming one
of the major church agencies in
effecting social change in the lo
cal communities'' of the nation.
According to the UCCW, Ameri
can women in thousands of com- |
[ munities are tackling community I
I problems as organized councils of
church women. They point out |
[that in Atlanta church women, I
aided by other community groups, '
have carried out successful hous- ‘
ing and nursery projects; and are;
now grappling with mental health, j
In Des Moines they have been
busy in fighting race discrimina
tion and "many doors to employ
ment, previously opened only to ,
j whites are being gently battered
I down.” Sioux City has found jobs
j and homes for 26 displaced fam
ilies; and Greenwich, Conn., has
resettled 60 refugees. In Gaines
I ville, Ga., and Lenoir, N. C.,
] i hurch women have established
day-care centers for children of
working Negro mothers. The
women of Bloomsburg, Pa., have
purchased play equipment for the
children of migrants; and in
towns scattered as far apart as
Washington State, Long Island,
Ohio and Arkansas, they have
directed Halloween “tricks” into
collections for UNICEF. In Ponca
City, Okla., and in Modesto, Cal., I
anil in many other communities,
the women are promoting better
race relations; elsewhere tney are
fighting the sale of comic books,
aiding students from countries
overseas, opening schools and
1 providing food, shelter and relief
1 for needy families . . . Their
| Cleveland assembly will devote
its eq(Torts to the “building of a
world Christian community”
through action in local situations.
A shorn wool incentive price of
62 cents per pound of wool,
grease basis, and a mohair incen
tive price of 70 cents per pound
have been announced by USDA.
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is a Lntberan?
On October 31, 1517 there was only one Protestant and
one Lutheran, and that was Martin Luther, a former
Roman Catholic priest. Luther had "protested” against
the Church’s sale of certificates called indulgences, which
were said to reduce the time a soul must spend in purga
tory. From Scripture, Luther had learned that FLJLL
FORGIVENESS OF SIN IS PROMISED THROUGH
FAITH IN THE MERCIFUL GOD, REVEALED IN
CHRIST. This and other similar differences led to an
open break. Lutherans don't claim any doctrines differ
ent from the common Christian faith described in the
New Testament and first summarized in the Apostles
Creed.
ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Leroy C. Trexler, Pastor
Gov’t. Encourages
Needed Conservation
The state Minimarv of partici
pation in ARC's Apricultural ( on
servation Prop-ram shows that
$5,840,000 was spent by the Gov
ernment last year to encourage
needed conservation over the
state.
H. D. Godfrey, administrative
officer for the state A SC com
mittee, says that this fijrurc re
presents only a small fraction of
the' value of the conservation
purchased through Federal funds.
This compares with federal cost
sharing in 1053 amounting: to
$5,400,000.
One out of foui*Tar Heel farms
took part in this propram last
year. Godfrey says that although
25 per rent of the farms in
North Carolina took part in the
program last year, farms partici
patinp in the propram represent
ed nearly 40 per rent of the
state’s cropland.
This Federal assistance, God
frey says, was made for carryinp
out the primary objective of the
Apricultural Conservation Pro
g-ram. Under the program, the
Government shares the cost of
carrying out needed soil and wa
ter ’conservation practices that
or,- necessary to achieve a good
•svstem of soil and water man
agement. The 1 y r, 4 A CP was used
to advance conservation fanning
in the state by assisting farmers
in carrying out approved prac
tices that would not or could not
have been carried out without this
assistance.
Godfrey says that agriculture
in our state is far from reaching
any sort of conservation goal. He
urged farmers to do everything
they can to conserve soil and wa
ter on their farm and to improve
the productive capacity of their
farm. This, he said, should be
done as far as possible with the
farmers own funds; however, he
says the AGP was designed to
look out for the public's interest
in our limited agricultural re
sources. and for this reason, all
farmers should make use of the
program to carry out addition*!
conservation.
Reports of damage to pine*
by bark beetles are becoming
more frequent in the northeast
ern section of North Carolina
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