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THE CITIZENS JOURNAL, ATLANTA, TEXAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1989
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The Citizens Journal
J. W. HARRELL, Editor and Publisher
(Founded 1879)
Entered at the postoffice in Atlanta, Texas, as second-class mail matter,
issued Thursday of each week—209 East Main Street—Ihone No. 178
SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable in Advance)
In Cass and Adjoining Counties. State aid Foreign:
One Year 11.00 One Year - -J11.80
Six Months 75 Six Months
Three Months 60 Three Months C5
UNWISE CLASS LEGISLATION
The mania for regulating every-
body continues to exhibit itself.
Among the most recent bills in-
troduced into the Texas legisla-
ture is one which would prohibit
the advertising of prices for eye-
glasses. It would confine adver-
tising to what is known as "edu-
cational or institutional" copy.
Now, we see no reason why an
optometrist or a firm of optome-
trists should not have as much
right to advertise their prices as
a furniture store or a grocery
store. The service which is ren-
dered is dependent wholly upon
the character of the individual and
cannot be made a matter of legis-
lation, except that there are gener-
al statutes which cover fraud and
misrepresentations, but the ad-
vertising of prices is in itself a
measure of protection to the pub-
lic against fraud. And it is the
customer's priviledge to seek ser-
vice from whom he pleases with
knowledge of knowing what it is
going to cost before he enters the
door.
Such restrictions be legislation
as are proposed could have only
one tendency, and that is to make
easier the charging of higher
prices. Any restriction on price
publication is a restraint on com-
petition which is the life of busi-
ness.
How very far this tendency to
regulate and restrict is being car-
ried was revealed Thursday by the
Dispatch-Journal's Austin corres-
pondent, who pointed out that
there are now bill before the legis-
lature to license and regulate
these classes: naturopathic practi-
tioners (those who treat ailments
through diets), itinerant merchants
plumbers, librarians, blacksmiths,
shorthand reporters, school jani-
tors, real estate operators, con-
tractors, religious practitioners,
school equipment dealers, hospitals
chiropodists, loan brokers and wel-
deis.
Anyone who will read the list
will agree that it is ridiculous to
require the examination and licen-
sing of workers in some of these
trades or professions. The pur-
pose in many instances, as the cor-
respondent points out, is to self-
ishly restrict the number of per-
sons who engage in these occupa-
tions. Carried to the ultimate ex-
treme, we could have all occupa-
tions so bound round with prohi-
bitions that we would have practi-
cally a caste system set up, with
the chances slim for any person
changing his occupation. And the
cost of government by reason of
the number of bureaus created to
administer and enforce regulations
continually goes higher.
The legislature will be wise if it
pitches most of these proposals
into the wastebasket and confine
its work to the passing of laws
which are unquestionably essen-
tial to the public welfare.
Dallas Dispatch-Journal, Feb. 10,
l'J39.
PRICE FIXING IN TEXAS
When the legislature adjourned
in 1937, the so-called Fair Trade
Practice Law which had passed
the lower house fortunately was
smothered on the Senate's over-
crowded docket. In the form of
two measures labeled the Fair
Trade Practice Act and the Anti-
Discrimination Law another effort
will be made in the current ses-
sion to saddle the Texas consum-
ing public with legislation that
will increase its cost of living
Under the first bill, now in ef-
fect in forty-three of the forty-
eight states, the manufacturer is
authorized to fix the retail price
of his products. The second law
would prohibit sale of goods below
cost, cost estimated at purchase
price plus 6 per cent for overhead.
Statutes embodying this principle
are estimated to have raised the
cost in New York State on some
4800 items in general use about 8
per cent. Staple groceries are re-
tailed in Texas at much less than
6 per cent additional for overhead.
Passage of the sale below cost
prohibition would immediately run
up the housewife's bill on such
items as flour, sugar, lard, bacon,
beans, rice and other products in
daily use.
Here is nothing more nor less
than a price-fixing law. Other
names cannot disguise it. Sound
competitive trade practice recog-
nizes the evil in price-fixing. The
so-called Fair Trade Practice Law
covers all ti-ade-marked items,
food, drugs, and not only enables
the manufacturer with a monoply
to fix a retail price that may be
too high but prevents the over-
stocked merchants from clearing
his shelves and giving his custo-
mers good values by sales.
The buying public has the great-
est interest in the two bills. It
will have to pay the freight. Price
fixing measures are vicious and
these are admittedly so on their
face.
Price-fixing has been foisted off
on forty-three states before the
consumer had a chance to under-
stand the legislation. Now the
consumer pays through the nose
WHAT ABOUT TEXAS?—Dallas
News.
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THE FAIR (?) TRADE
LAW
Gives manufacturers power by law
to fix prices YOU PAY for his
products. It does NOT provide
higher wages or better prices for
farmer - producers. YOUR COST
OF LIVING will be determined by
men who live in New York, Boston
and elsewhere If this law passes.
T%H E ANTI- DISCRIMINATION
LAW prohibits sale of any Item at
less than invoiced cost PLUS SIX
PER CENT. Goodbye sales and bar-
gains if this one passes.
PROTESTS FROM FARMS
AND KITCHENS.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE says:
"Therefore, be it resolved, that the
National Grange urges immediate
repeal of the Miller>Tydings Act
and recommends to STATE
GRANGES that they move to se-
cure repeal of equivalent state laws
erroneously called STATE 'FAIR
TRADE ACTS/"
THE AMERICAN HOME ECONOM-
ICS ASSOCIATION says: . . con-
tinue opposition to legislation for
resale price maintenance and other
forms of price-fixing."
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
SAYS:
"When prices are privately man-
aged at levels above those for which
would be determined by free com-
petition, everybody pays."
FORT WORTH PRESS, FEB. 2, 1939
—An editorial:
"The best way to Judge such laws
Is to see how they have worked in
states where they operate.
"In New York, for instance, a sur-
vey by R. II. Macy A Co. showed
that prices of cosmetics had been
raised 8.6 per cent; liquor, 11.8;
drags, 15.8; books, 17.6; miscellan-
eous items, 16 per cent."
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Island of Guam
The bill in the House to increase
the size of the Navy had a pro-
vision, which authorized the im-
provement of the Island of Guam
for the purpose of making it a
more desirable airplane base. It
was not a proposal to fortify the
Island as charged; it was merely
for the purpose of making im-
provements, which has been done
year after year since 1!)20. One
argument considered greatly in
favor of the proposal was that
even if $5,000,000 should be spent
and Japan should declare war
against us and seize the Island,
that the money would be well
spent, if through its use our peo-
ple were warned a few days or
even a few hours of the advance of
a foreign enemy. Using this Is-
land as a Naval Air Base, our for-
ces can at all times accurately de-
termine what is going on in that
election of the world relative to
preparations for war and military
maneuvers.
Old Age Pensions
The Ways and Means Commit-
tee of the House is continuing
hearings on amendments to the
Social Security Act. If Congress
should adopt my bill, H. R. 105,
providing for the payment of $30
a month to every American citizen
over sixty-five years of age, who
does not have sufficient income to
be required to pay a Federal in-
come tax, it would result in the
following:
(a)—A Federal check direct
from the Government each month.
(b)—No investigators to pass
upon fine questions of need, •
(c)—Elimination of even the
charge of politics.
(d)—Would not prevent the per
sons receiving such pensions from
going to different places in the
United States without reference
to State lines on account of fami-
ly relationships or health.
(e)—Would not interfere with
the State that desired to pay more
than $30 a month. This would be
left up to each State.
National Defense
One of the questions uppermost
in the minds of the American peo-
ple today is the question of war.
All sensible people abhor war. We
are concerned, as Americans, about
what effects a foreign war, which
is not inevitable, will have upon
this country. J icersonally cannot
conceive of a "Option existing
The increase in the production
of dairy products in our District
during recent years is surprising.
I expect to give full information
about this great growing industry
in our District in the near future.
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that will cause Congress to vote
for a war that will compel the
sending of our boys to foreign
countries. It is now generally con-
ceded that if England and France
and the United States had been
prepared in 1914, there would not
have been a world war. Germany
believed that she would be able
to conquer England and France be
tore they could possibly prepare
themselves. England has now de-
cided—so has France—that it is
better to spend a few billion dol-
lars at this time in order to pre-
vent a war than be thrown into a
war by reason of lack of prepara-
tion and cause the loss of millions
of men and the expenditure of bil-
lions of dollars in money, if the
United States had spent a couple
of billion dollars and had been
well prepared at the time of the
commencement of the last world
war, it is thought the war would
not have occurred and we would
have been spared the awful con-
sequence that follows, including
not only the human sacrifices, but
the expenditure of $20,000,000,000
by our Government and more yet
to be spent.
Railroad Freight Hates
Those of us, who favor legisla-
tion that will eliminate discrimi-
natory freight rates against the
South have gained considerable
headway. Our m6vement is back-
ed by the Administration and we
are expecting some action at this
session of Congress.
Farmers
The tendency in Congress is
more and more in favor of encou-
' raging the actual farmer, who
works on the farm himself to earn
a livelihood for himself and fami-
ly, as distinguished from the farm
speculator or the big operator,
who is engaged in agriculture for
profit and not necessarily to earn
a livelihood. One farm leader
suggested to a Congressional com-
mittee this last week that the
Wage and Hour Law should apply
to farming. His reason was that
the man, who lived on a farm and
did his own work, would have less
competition from those, who were
engaged in farming for profit and
speculation, since they could not
pay the wage scale that would be
required. His argument was that
there would be much less cotton
produced but the actual farmers,
who produced it, would receive
more for their work.
King- Cotton Wins
War Over Rayon
Announcement that license has
been issued to an English cotton
textile maufacturer to produce
the patented Bibb Heat Resistant
Cotton Cord for consumption in
the British Isles marks a milestone
in the victory of cotton over rayon
for use throughout the world in
automobile and truck tires. The in-
formation given out by W. D.
Anderson, President of Bibb Manu-
facturing Company, at the annual
banquet for the salemen in Macon,
Georgia, last week is of vital in-
terest to cotton farmers and others
concerned with the welfare of the
fleecy staple.
Cotton interests have been dis-
tributed recently by reports that
the use of rayon would cut heav-
ily into the 300,000,000 pound mar-
ket previously supplied by cotton j
for use in the manufacture of I
tires. This figure represents rough ]
ly percent of domestic production.
The new patented method of pro-
cessing cotton, which shows per-
formance strikingly superior both
to rayon cords and cords made of
cotton by old precesses, has been
shown by actual service tests over
a period of three years to outlast
any rubber tread the tire makers
have been able to produce. Tires
do not get as hot in heavy duty
service, do not grow in size, and
regularly outlast two or more re-
treads.
This purely Southren product,
developed and produceed by South-
erners, no longer depends entirely
upon twist to give strength to
cord, as has been the case since
the beginning of time. The new
process bonds together the cotton
fibers and finishing the cord while
these waxes are soft, meanwhile
compressing them and permitting
them to harden,resulting in a cord
of revolutonary characteristics.
Reports of extensive research
and tests indicate that tires made
of the Heat Resistant Precessed
Cotton Cords last longer, are safer,
and cost less than rayon tires.
Southerners demanding them their
pocket book two ways at the same
time.
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MA TCHES 3 boxes 10c
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K. C. BAKING POWDER 25-oz. 17c
SPUDS 10 lbs 19c
GREEN CABBAGE lb ll/2c
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