Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 236, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1938 — Page 7

IpfYj)® Kenl Eiw'™ ... ! ■ Bowling ResultbJ standings ■ a League ■ W L Pct. ■ 5 1 .SB3 5 4 -555 ■ 54 .555 ■R OO " 1 3 3 .500 ■ 4 5 .444 B* 4 5 .444 ■ s League B 9 0 3 .667 fc"" 4 5 444 B* 17 4 5 .444 ■ 30 333 ■l I A LEAGUE I Office | urteuau 125 208 164 t, 139 158 120 Et7 - 16178178 E hor I‘l 87 177 I 1-3 120 123 I Total . ... 828 751 762 I Stator* L. 197 131 133 I 128 116 196 Khural I® B Ewider 158 190 177 K,. nn 158 199 161 I Totals — 809 777 815 I Switches ■_„ 113 154 164 E£r 134 140 134 E* 214 170 167 Em’”’,. 157 159 173 Baler I? 6 188 174 I Flanges ■felt. Punch Press loaglaud 215 158 189 155 155 155 Brd .. 135 170 117 159 159 159 Totals 787 792 774 Assembly lajc ... 163 156 199 tesesot! 130 200 143 luber 148 156 160 tear 160 169 174 IciWosh .... 179 189 141 Totals 780 870 817

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Tool Room R. Eady 199 155 195 R. Gage 144 158 137 H. Lankenau 141 144 165 A. Miller 141 158 179 137 137 137 Totals 762 750 813 Rotors 11. King 144 141 89 D. Gage 113 170 126 P. Busse 158 138 128 T. Haubold 129 108 140 W. Lindeman 165 181 186 Totals 709 738 669 ■ o «►— 4 Decatur Bowling League Results ELKS LEAGUE Legs Laurent •. 158 176 172 ! G. Gage 178 158 168 Metzler 192 166 124 A. Appelman 201 202 160 Mies ....„ 169 188 170 Totals 893 890 794 Tails Macklin 158 Shoaf 177 159 .... Baker • 182 176 144 Beal 165 191 Schneider 150 ... IM Stump 220 ?O2 166 Strickler 193 179 Total .894 888 870 Hoofs ! Brunnegraf i. 173 D. Gage 165 191 179 Fuhrman 140 137 Jones 155 148 Reynolds 182 128

Weather A Week Ahead As Forecast By PROF. SELBY MAXWELL, Noted Meteorologist 1 ' V' 7our. 10-16,1038 I ' \ /oct io-ib,i93o” : Pwl ts X-v UW'v ' Zi- 1 ’ j *y i $ COLD | S WET 8< DRY TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR INDIANA October 10 to 16 The North central and East portions of Indiana will be warm. The 1 Southwest portion will be cool. The remaining areas will be normal. The South. Northwest and North central portions will be moderately I wet The central and parts of the Northeast sections will be wet. ‘ Copyright 1938, John F. Dille Company.

WEATHER ON OTHERWORLDS Two planets now visible in the evening sky clearly show the relationship of moons to weather. On earth our weather is made largely by the gravity attraction of the moon, pulling this wn" ■> d lat, to make moving air masses, or winds. The theory tnat jr is due to the gravity attraction of the moon is a comparatively I new one, and if valid, it must be , true wherever worlds and moons exist. We are fortunate in having two other conspicuous examples tn plain view. Shortly after sunset you will see a white star low on the southwestern horizon. This is the , planet Venus. This world is a globe only slightly smalle 1 ' than the earth, and from an astronoiucal point of view she is the earths twin sister. But Venus has no moon, and she has no weather. The air on Venus is calm, and a veil of brilliant white clouds always surrounds her. In the southern sky you will see a brilliant blue white star This is the planet Jupiter. Jupiter has tour large moons These four moons tug upon the atmosphere of Jupiter and make this world the stormiest body in the sky. so that as we look at Jupiter through the telescope his air seems to boil with storms. One of the moons of Jupiter is a globe almost as large as the planet Mars. Two are slightly larger than our moon, and one is larger than the planet Mercury — together an efficient battery of weather makers. It is an odd fact that the weather on Jupiter is better known than the weather upon the earth. This is because we can see all of Jupiter as lie spins on his axis, and we can survey his weather from the outside with comfort and security. Here on the earth, threo-cnarters of the surface of tlie globe is covered by water and fully a .half of the remaining quarter is mountainous, desert, or otherwise unsun eyed. We know relatively less about the weather of our own earth than we do about the weather of the planet worlds about us. WEATHER QUESTIONS Question —Will there be niuch snow in Minnesota this wintei . Will it be cold? Will next spring in Minnesota be wet or dry.’ J. I Answer —Snowfall in Minnesota will be moderate, possibly heavy in the northern part. Temperatures will be colder than last winter. Next spring will be a little dry.

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Mutachler 202 158 164 Beal 153 151 Total 844 778 804 Antlers Briede 221 151 182 P Miller 162 154 135 Keller 121 120 DeVoss 129 150 140 Ehler 137 131 178 Ehinger 116 Totals 770 702 755 o EUROPE DOUBTS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) regarded this domination as Germany's inalienable right due to her population of almost 80,000,000, her political and industrial organization and the ‘'genius” of the German people. Already Hitler's hatred of Edouard Benes has led to resignation of the Czech president. I I , I And there, U’ best informed i opinion, lies the crux of the , danger ahead; the answer to i whether Europe is heading for a l period of peace or merely a ' breathing space before war. Great Britain's traditional pol--1 icy, which she has always considered necessary for her security, 1 has been to pievent the rise of 1 any predominant military power 1 on the continent. History shows that Britain felt herself compell--1 ed to halt the rise of other great powers in the past—the Dutch, I the Spanish and, in Napoleon’s • time, the French. I If Europe again is faced with a general war, it probably will be . on the fundamental issue of “stop

“OCT ” 1938 10 11 12 15 14 15 16 17 INDIANA The maps show total effect of Hot, Cold, Wet, and Dry Air to be expected next week. DAIL FORECAST Question —What is the exceedingly brilliant star which rises shortly nfter sunset and sets eight | hours later in the southwest? it is so blight that one cannot miss seeing it. M. M. Answer—The planet Jupiter. Question—What are the chances of a devastating hurricane on I the Texas coast? J. J. Answer —Hurricans in the Gulf of Mexico so far this season have been of only moderate intensity. 1 The advancing cold of winter will I now tend to push these storms to I the Atlantic seaboard, so that the chances of one reaching Texas are not great. Question — Should one avoid | sleeping in the moonlight ? Is it true that moonlight affects health? S. G. W. Answer — There are supersti- : tions that moonlight affects sanity, and in fact our word 'lunatic’ means 'nioon-struck.’ But there is no evidence that moonlight has I any affect whatever upon people's i health. ■ — — ♦ 1 I Professor Maxwell's plan for | ‘ 1 : building a telescope continues to hold its popularity undiniinI ished. From the plan you can j easily make a cheap, practical. | i and accurate astronomical ; ; telescope, so powerful that it will give you a ringside seat ; at the greatest show in the i world—the heavens. Letters ' ! trem thqusands of readers tell of the pleasure and satisfae- ■ tion they have derived from 'H' looking through their tele- ; : ' scope built after Professor I Maxwell's plan. You can have i this Telescope Plan, FREE up- , on request, with the compliments of this newspaper. Just address Professor Selby Max- ' well, care of this newspaper. Enclose a stamped (3c), self- . addressed envelope for your i reply. Just ask for "Telescope ! Plans." Copyright 1938, John F. Dille Co.

Hitler." Three days of debate in parliament have furnished slight ogrunds tor belief that the British government in entirely satisfied that peace will follow the Munich agreement. The more closely you study the joint declaration of Hitler and Chamberlain, symbolizing that their nations would never go to war again, the less bearing It up-

A Statement of Public Policy by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company

The Honorable Wright Patman, representative in Congress of the first district of Texas, has announced that he will introduce in the next Congress a punitive and discriminatory tax bill frankly designed to put chain stores out of business. In the past, Mr. Patman has been very successful in securing enactment of legislation which he has sponsored. He has demonstrated that he is a very able lobbyist and propagandist for his own bills. The management of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company is therefore faced with the necessity of deciding upon a course of action in relation to this proposed legislation—whether to do nothing and risk the possibility of the passage of the bill and the resulting forced dissolution of this business, or to engage in an active campaign in opposition to the bill. In arriving at a decision, the interests of several groups of people deserve consideration—the management, the 85,600 employees of the company, the consuming public, the millions of farmers producing the country’s food, and labor. 1. The Interests of the Management The interests of the management can be dismissed as of very little importance. , The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company is managed by George L. Hartford and John A. Hartford under an arrangement made by their father, George Huntington Hartford, the founder of the business. George L. Hartford has been actively engaged in the grocery business for 58 years, working generally six days a week. 52 weeks a year during that entire period. John A. Hartford has been actively engaged in the business for 50 years, working generally six days a week. 52 weeks a year during that period. Both of these men could, of course, retire without personal or financial inconvenience and live very comfortably if chain stores were put out of business. The record of the last calendar year shows that out of any money earned annually from the business, in the case of George L. Hartford, 82 percent is paid to government in taxes; in the case of John A. Hartford, 83 percent is paid to government in taxes. As neither of the brothers has any children, any monies left out of their earnings would accrue to their estates, and in the event of their death, inheritance taxes would probably amount to two-thirds of such accrued earnings, leaving approximately 6 cents on the dollar as a motive for continued personal service. It is therefore apparent that the interests of management need hardly be taken into consideration in arriving at a decision. 2. The Interests of the Employees The interests of the employees of the company are, however. a matter of very grave concern. It is simply a statement of fact to say that the employees of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company generally throughout the United States receive the highest wages and have the shortest working hours of any workers in the grocery business, whether chain store or individual grocer. Many of them have devoted all of their working lives to the interests of the company. The management, therefore, has a definite obligation and duty to defend the interests of these 85,600 employees against legislation intended to throw all of them out of work. 3. The Interests of the Consumer Since this business has been built by the voluntary patronage of millions of American families, we believe that we must give consideration to their interests in this matter. Millions of women know how acute is the present problem of providing food, clothing and shelter for themselves, their husbands and their children out of their present income. When food prices go up it is not a question of paying more for the same food. They do not have the additional money with which to pay. Therefore, they must buy less and eat less. A & P Food Stores last year distributed at retail $881,700,000 worth of food at a net profit of 1 %. . This food was sold to the public at prices averaging from eight to ten percent lower than the prices of the average individual grocer. Literally, millions of sales were made at prices twenty-five percent lower than those of the average individual grocer. This saving of eight to twenty-five cents on each dollar is of vital importance to these millions of families. If they were denied the opportunity to buy at these lower prices it would simply mean that in millions of homes they would have to leave meat off the table another day a week, eat less fresh fruits and vegetables, give the growing child one bottle of milk less every week or stint on butter, cheese, poultry, eggs and many other or the most nourishing foods. In the last 10 years during the greatest period of chain store growth, the number of individual dealers has increased rather than decreased. We maintain that there is nothing wrong when these dealers charge more than we charge. They must charge these prices in order to make a fair profit. The average grocer will, upon request, deliver the groceries to the customer's door and in many cases extends credit to some of his customers. Delivery service costs money. The grocer must put this added cost in the prices to his customers. In the same way the extension of credit involves the expense of bookkeeping, the tying up of capital, and credit losses. There is nothing wrong in the higher mark up of the individual grocer, because he is rendering a service that justifies his prices. If some customers can afford and voluntarily elect to pay a higher price for groceries and meats because they want credit or because they want delivery to their homes it is quite proper that they should pay an additional price for such service. However, the millions of families in this country whose income is limited and who can have more and better food because they are willing to pay cash and carry home their own purchases, should not be denied this opportunity. Millions of families of limited incomes can only enjoy their present standard of living through these economies and savings. These millions of Ameri - can families have helped us build a great business because they believe we have rendered them a great service. The company, therefore, has an obligation and a duty to protect the interests of these customers.

pears to have on future peace. j Chumoerlaln. in the house off commons, drew the loudest cheers ‘ when he said that British re-arm-•tmcni would be continued. Earl Baldwin, the former prime I minister, in a speech praising j Chamberlain, followed this up j with discussion of means of mob-i ilizhig the nation's industries to make war preparations more efficient.

i The assertion of Chamberlain i that Hitler had said ha had not ' more territorial ambitions In i Europe has failed to ullay general | uneasiness. I Some of tlie most astute obi servers of European politics bei Here that the future holds at j least a breathing space, but they I feel that the danger of eventual | war la not dissipated. I The outlook can be summed up

4. The Interests of the Farmer Eight million farm families are engaged in producing the food consumed by the American people. All of the farm homes in America, therefore, comprising one-fourth of all of the population of the United States, have a direct interest in the methods of distribution by which the products of their labor and of the soil are marketed. Approximately 30% of their production is marketed through the chain food stores: about 70% through individual grocers. Their fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs are sold through the chainstoresat prices averaging 8% to l O'/o cheaper than the prices at which they are sold by many grocers. If the farmer sells a given product to both at the same price, the individual grocer must charge the public more to take care of his higher costs. Thus 30% of the farmer’s products reach the public at low prices and 70% of his products reach the public at higher prices. If the public cannot consume a given crop of apples, potatoes, berries or any other product, at the prices at which they are offered, these goods do not move from the grocer s shelves; a surplus accumulates and the farmer finds that he either cannot sell the balance of his crop or must sell it at a substantial loss. Only too often a situation arises when it is literally cheaper for the farmer to let his apples or his peaches rot on the ground than to expend the labor costs necessary to pack and ship them. Every farm economist knows that a 10% surplus does not mean 10% less return to the farmer but often more than 20% less return. In other words, the farmer’s problem is to sell his products at the cost of production plus a fair profit and to get them to the public with as few intermediate costs and profits as possible. It is therefore obviously unfair to the farmer to propose legislation which would, at a single blow, wipe out 30% of his distributing machinery—and that 30% the part which maintains the price to the farmer yet reaches the public at low cost because of economical distribution. It would be just as unfair to the farmer to propose putting out of business all of the individual grocers of the country who distribute 70% of his produce. Both chain food stores and individual grocers perform a distributive function vita! to the interests of the farmer. If either failed to function the farmer would be faced with tremendous surpluses and heartbreaking losses. For years the A & P has dealt with the farmers both aa producers and consumers. We feel that we have a definite obligation and duty to oppose any legislative attack upon their best interests. 5. The Interests of Labor Every business in this country has a vital interest in the purchasing power of labor. When labor has high wages and great purchasing power, everyone is prosperous. When labor s purchasing power is curtailed, all business suffers and the American standard of living is impaired. For many years it has been the wise policy of the national government to protect real wages and the purchasing power of the worker’s dollar. Combinations or agreements to raise prices, thus reducing real wages, have been declared illegal. It certainly seems strange that it should now be proposed to destroy a group of businesses for the frankly admitted reason that they furnish the necessities of life to the wage earner and his family at low prices. There are approximately 900,000 workers directly employed in the chain store industry. What course is open to us but to oppose the action of a man who, at a time when more than 1 1,000.000 wage earners are already out of work and 3,000,000 families on relief, proposes a bill that would add almost another million to the roll of unemployed, wipe out 30% of the distributing machinery of all of the farmers of the United States, and raise the cost of living of the wage earners of the United States. We believe that our organization has rendered a great service to the American people and that it is as a result of that service that we have prospered. If we consulted our own interest it would be very easy to stop and enjoy whatever leisure we have earned. No one is dependent upon us except our fellow workers. However, after the fullest consideration of all interests, we have arrived at the decision that we would be doing less than our full duty if we failed to oppose, by every fair means, legislation proposed by the Honorable Wright Patman. As we have said, Mr. Patman is an able politician, an able lobbyist and an able propagandist. In that field he is an expert. We are experts only in the grocery business. We believe the chain stores have a right to present their case to the American people. We will not go into politics, nor will we establish a lobby in Washington for the purpose of attempting to influence the vote of any member of the Congress. We expect only a full and fair opportunity to present the case for the chain stores as a great service organization for the American people. Since the task we have set before us is one involving the widest dissemination of complete informetion to all of the American people, and since this is a profession in which we are not expert, we have engaged Carl Byoir & Associates, public relations counsel, to do this work. We realize that our views are seldom news. We know, therefore, that we must be prepared to spend a substantial sum of money in telling our story to all of the American people. We declare now that this money will be spent in the dissemination of information through paid advertising and every medium available to us. and in cooperating in the work or formation of study groups among consumers, farmers and workers, which provide open forums for a discussion of all measures affecting the cost of living. We believe that when the American people have all of the facts they will make their decision known to their representatives in Congress. As Americans we will be content with that decision. zT (/ •«OWOI L- HARTFORD // J (y JOHN A. HARTFORD

i [ much more vividly than that for i| those who are looking for straws i in the wind of war or peace. I The British government has decided not to collect the gas masks - distributed to the people for pro- ■ tection against air raids. 0 500 Sheets B'/jxII. 16-lb. i White Paragon Bond typeI writing paper 55c. The De1 catur Democrat Co.tf

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Two Youths Arc Held After Anderson Fire Anderson, Ind., Oct. 6—(UP)— Two youths were held in ja.ll today while authorities Investigated the 810,000 grand hotel fire in an effort to determine If the youths had . set the fire which sent about 50 . hotel guests running to the street [ in their night clothes