Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 171, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1949 Page: 3 of 8
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Mt Pleasant, Texas, Dally Times, Thursday Evening, November 10, 1949
Isn’t America
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THE GREAT ATLANTIC &
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H.T.VAN NATTA
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The Anti-Trust Suit Against
The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
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BECAUSE
A&P taught me to serve the public BETTER—MORE
ECONOMICAL and MORE EFFICIENT, thanks to the
start given me by B. F. VINSON.
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All over the world today there are people teaching bitterness
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PATMAN'S PARAGRAPHS
By Wright Patman, Congressman, 1st District of Texas
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SIMPSON’S SUPER MARKETS
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• • • • During the depression of the thirties, A&P paid
higher wages than any other chain. A&P has striven to
keep up the standard of living in this country. I shudder to
think what would happen to its 110,000 employees if it was
forced out of business.
• • • • I am not afraid of A&P competition—I welcome
it. It's democratic—it's the American Way.
And the friends on your gift list. Your
photograph is the most personal, the
most appreciated of all gifts.
PRAYTOR STUDIO
Mrs. Hal Buford, Owner
any fair competition
bring lower food prices
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We welcome
which helps us
• • e • like myself, many hundreds of independent groc-
ers got their start with the TEA COMPANY.
• • • • The great A&P is not detrimental to the progress
of the grocery business. On the contrary, A&P has always
been beneficial to any open-minded businessman who be-
lieves in FREE ENTERPRISE. Founded on the principle of
FAIR PLAY and FAIR PRICES, A&P developed from a
humble start to its present commanding position in the field
of retail merchandising.
• • • • My experience as a former employee of the TEA
COMPANY has served me well. I attribute my success to the
ideas and methods tried, tested and proven by the A&P
stores—at a great cost.
o o • o A&P upholds the rights and privileges of a good
worker. I know this from personal experience. A&P is ever
on the lookout to promote sincere and ambitious employees
to trustworthy and important positions and has never
crossed the efforts of any employee to enter into business
tor himself. A&P helped me to start in business ... IS THAT
AN ACT OF A COMPANY MONOPOLIZING THE GROCERY
BUSINESS? NO:
SCHWEGMANN
BROTHERS
. GIANT SUPER MARKET
2222 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans
Atlanta, Georgia
♦Mr. Simpson was named "Grocer of the Year for 1948” by the
National Retailer Owner Grocers’ Association.
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This suit is another threat against our great
American system of free enterprise. The
A&P Co. has always been clean, above board
competition and any successful independent
merchant, if he is honest, will admit that they
have taught him a great many things regard*
ing merchandising, reducing overhead, bet*
ter buying, etc., thus lowering food costs for
the great American Public.
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became we know what it would mean 1
to the American people without them. '
We are only one store and are striv. |
ing to serve our community with good
food at low prices, but the A&P is a
nationwide organisation serving the
American people everywhere with
good food at low price*. I!
Destroying the A&P would mean elim- I
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food field which every poor man knows I
consumes the major portion of his I
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well done. Keep up the fight. I
Who want* him to break up A&P?
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handled over 15 billion dollars worth of food.
WHOLESALE GROCERS? Hardly. For many of
them are directly or indirectly engaged in or nupport-
ing some form of voluntary or cooperative chain to
match chain economies.
THE EMPLOYEES? That would be funny - except
that some folk, probably believe it. Actually,rless than
25 years ago many food chain .tore, could have paid
all expenses— rent, heat, light, wages, et. ' ou*of the
money a store manager elone get. paid now And
store manager of 25 years ago would have been happy
to get what a clerk gets today.
PRODUCERS? Well, take farmers. Certainly part
of their prosperity must be attributed to the markets
that big chains create for them. The big chains buy
the entire pack of many a cannery. Those canneries
pack the farmers’ crops. What would the farmer do
with his highly perishable crop if the food chains were
eliminated as big volume buyers?
COMPETING CHAINS, MAYBE? No. Practically
every chain in the grocery business had more sales last
year than the year before. One chain that we know a
Yetout inereased it. food business 21% last year
and is up 19% in the first eight months of this year.
THEN IT CERTAINLY MUST BE THE PEOPLE!
Like fun. If the people hated food chain stores would
they have spent 9% billion dollars in them last year?
Folks like the low prices and high standards of chains
- and the better the chain, are run, the better folks
like them.
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Does This Sound as Though We Need Help?
Thorofare Super Market, came into existence 10 years
aeo The food chain. Thorofare replaced were doing
about three million dollars worth of business a year.
Housewives liked our policies well enoughtoboost
their purchases in our 90 stores to about 30 milion
dollars a year.
We call that e vote of confidence. And we’re going to
keep right on proving that as long as we stick to good
brands and better-than-average selections at rock-
bottom prices, we can compete with anybody in the
business. And keep right on growing, too!
We don't believe any chain will be punished for being
efficient, or for pleasing housewives so well that it is
forced to grow.
We, too, believe that it is a storekeeper’s duty to bring
the public the best food at the lowest possible prices,
and hope to see the chain store way of doing busi-
ness vindicated.
And as long as the producers, the employees, the cus-
tomers, the wholesale grocers, the independents end
the competing chains thrive so well, we will continue
to think it’s a good way to do business.
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Here in America we have learned to live together in friendship.
For us here at A&P, it has been a wonderful and thrilling ex-
perience to get from those with whom we compete day after day
such astounding evidence of friendship and respect.
The things that have happened since the anti-trust lawyers from
Washington brought suit to destroy A&P have amazed us.
While we sincerely believed that we had earned the friendship
of millions of consumers for whom we have provided better food
at lower prices, and the friendship of millions of farm families
for whom we have provided a better market for their produce,
we were not prepared for the avalanche of offers of support.
But most of all, we have to confess that we had underestimated
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should be at or, slightly above the
soil level. It may be desirable
to hill the soil up about the plants
to prevent drying until roots are
established. Miss Williams cau-
tions, however, that it is impera-
tive to remove the soil before
active growth starts in the spring.
Last, but not least, there should
be a label for each bush. Some
bushes come labeled; if not, then
put a durable label on each bush,
until it is established and the
merits of the variety are discov-
ered.
For those who have rose bushes
already established, Miss Wil-
liams offers these suggestions. If
pruning is to be done, study care-
fully the shape of the bush and
prune to enhance the shape, cut-
ting roseblooms for the home is
the most common form of prun-
ing.
One of the purposes for prun-
ing is to control diseases. This
year it has been most prevalent.
During the dormant season, the
bushes should be stripped of all
the diseased leaves in order to
eliminate them as a possible
source oil blackspot spores, which
will spread to new growth in the
spring. Leaves on the ground
should be raked and burned. All
stems showing any signs of die-
back should be pruned. Then,
whenever new growth appears
constant dusting, especially dur-
ing rainy seasons, with sulphur or
rose dust (sulphur and copper
mixture) will help to keep down
the spread of the disease.
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THE ROSE GARDEN
November is the month to
check up on your roses. Dig up
4 the rose bushes that have not
done well and examine them for
galls, root rot and nematodes.
Check the soil where they have
been to see that there are no
obstacles preventing the bushes
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find the answers to many ques-
tions you’ve been wondering
about. If plants are healthy, put
them back in the soil; if not, burn
them.
Roses usually grow better, says
Claudia Williams, county home
demonstration agent, in soil
where grass has been, growing
for about five years. Prepare
the soil for planting exactly as
you would prepare a garden. If
there is a suspicion of nematodes,
use a good soil (fumigant.
If you plan to select new rose
bushes this fall, select only No. 1
h of 1*4 grades, regardless of age;
“ it will be less expensive in the
long run. When plants arrive from
the nursery, they should be plant-
ed immediately. If this is not
possible, then heel out in soil un-
til they can be planted.
Before setting the bushes out,
prune the tops to balance the
root system, unless already done
, at the nursery. Very little prun-
ing needs to be done to the roots.
All injured roots should, of
course, be removed.
The planting operation is sim-
ple. Dig the holes in which the
plants are to be set. Build a
mound in the hole and let the
roots straddle it and partially fill
with soil. Firm the soil by tramp-
ing on it. Failure to do this may
result in air pockets instead of
soil about the roots. When fin-
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the fine sportsmanship of many of our competitors all over the .
country.
Can anyone believe that these competitors would rush to our
defense if, as the anti-trust lawyers allege, we had been trying
to put them out of business?
We and they have fought hard for business.
There are nearly 350,000 individual grocers competing with us.
They have a larger share of the nation’s grocery business today
than they had ten years ago or twenty years ago.
Many of them do as good a job as we do, and they make it
plenty tough for us.
Now, day after day, these same competitors are letting us know
that they are in our comer.
All we can say is, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Isn’t America A Wonderful Country!
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European Trip
Congress appropriated money
- for the banking and currency
committee of the House to visit
Sweden, Switzerland and several
other European countries to in-
vestigate housing situations,
which are considered improve-
ments over our own, especially
for the middle income groups. I
was made chairman of this com-
mittee, but due to the short
length of time I will have in the
• district between now and when
Congress re-eonvenes, my re-
signation has gone in with the re-
quest that some other member be
selected for the chairmanship, as
. I do not feel that I can leave at
this time. ‘ ■
Better Living For Farmers
Farmers are privileged-to ob-
tain several different kinds of
loans through government agen-
cies. This money will be paid
back with interest. Character-is
the best security on earth, but
modern day lending institutions
demand more than character as
collateral. The government,
through county and local com-
mittees, carefully screen appli-
cants and determine their eligi-
bility, making it possible for
many deserving families to buy
and pay for a home.
Recently I visited two farm
homes in Delta County that were
financed through the F. H. A.
These families not only had nice-
ly painted and papered houses
with rugs, carpets and linoleum,
but they also had electricity,
telephones, hot and cold running
water and the houses were adja-
cent to all-weather roads. In addi
tion, the farms are well terraced
and protected against erosion.
This is all possible through price
supports of the basic commodi-
ties. These two families will pay
for these homes without great
inconvenience to themselves and
they will eventually be owners
of these farms. Without this aid
such ownership will eventually
be possible.
It is noticeable in Delta Coun-
ty that farmers who have their
houses away- from all-weather
roads are moving their houses by
truck. A local mover guarantees
not to even break the paper in
the wall, and one farm house-
wife prepared the noon meal
while the house was on tht truck.
More than one hundred houses
were moved in this one county
during the last ninety days.
Family-Size Farms
The Brannan farm plan con-
templates encouraging the fam-
ily-size farm. People with large
plantations will not be diserim-
inated against, because they can
either continue to supply them
or they can sell them in small
parcels to some families, who
wil be in position to pay a good
price for them because of sup-
port prices. The Columbia River
Basin in Washington State em-
braces two and a half million
acres of land, and more than a
million acres of this land is class-
ed as desirable for irrigation. The
'first block at this land to re-
ceive water in 1952 includes
5,552 acres and is divided into
84 family-size farm units, or a
fraction over 66 acres to the
farm on the average. This land
will be sold by the government
to farm families, who will be in
a position to pay for it and be-
come farm owners.
Texas Pays 1%% Interest
The first block of five million
dollars in bonds out of an auth-
orized $25,000,000 has been sold
to a New York banking concern
The annual interest rate is an
average of one and a half per-
cent. The veterans to purchase
enable veterans to purchase
homes on long terms and at a low
rate of interest.
Lone Star Steel
Bids will come in soon from
contractors who would like to
construct the steel plant at Lone
Star. The cost of the plant is es-
timated at $52,506,000. The R. F.
C. has agreed to provide $36,-
000,000. The president of the com-
pany, Mr. Germany, is polling
the present stockholders to de-
termine approximately the a-
mount of new equity capital that
they are willing to subscribe.
Any portion of the proposed is-
sue not subscribed by present
stockholders will be offered to
the public.
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