Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1948 — Page 6

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Walter E. Berghoff Dies At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 24 — (UP) — Services will be held Thursday morning for Walter E. Berghoff, 50, president of the HoffBrau Brewing corporation, who died Monday after a long illness. o Report Damage To Wheat And Grass Berne, Feb. 24 — Farmers reported today that the recent cold weather, with intermittent freezing and thawing, has been doing heavy damage to the wheat and grass crops. The crops w'ere protected most of

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the winter by snow, but the ground has been bare the past two weeks and unless more snow or warm weather with rain come soon, dam- ! age may be heavy. ' o Sale Os Nine Mile House Is Announced Weldon “Jack” Zehr, of this city, today took over the Nine Mile House on the Fort Wayne - Decatur road, which he recently purchased from Urban Sorg. He will continue to operate the business under the same name. Elmer Roth will operate the tavern. Sale of the business was conducted by the Kent Realty company of this city. In the deal, Mr. Zehr traded his 80-

l acre farm located on Mud Pike, > south of Decatur. i o Two Amish Families Leave For Missouri Berne, Feb. 24 —The trek to Missouri of a number of Amish families of this community is starting 1 this w r eek. At least two of the 10 or 12 families who are moving to Pike county, in Missouri, are leaving this week. The families are those of Sam J. Schwartz and Noah E. Schwartz. They have sold their farms here and bought land in Missouri. The other families will join them soon in the new location. 0 -

Annual Conference Os Math Teachers The national council of teachers of mathematics will hold its 26th annual conference, April 2 and 3, at Indianapolis. Thfe two-day conference will include section programs for every mathematics teacher from elementary grades through junior college. The program includes talks by prominent educational leaders, discussion groups for the various levels of teaching and exhibits of multi-sensory aids. o Pl>*rw r— Jr JK2 I Jr II M-y|ll| ’ ■ ;- ; Z BSw® SITTING in a room in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, where he is undergoing a checkup is Mayor William O’Dwyer. He will take a complete 7-day examination anc will then go to California for a vacation when he leaves the hospital His Honor was ordered to take a rest after it was discovered he hac a heart condition. (International) A Weak,Run-Down Feeling 1$ Often A Warning That The Red-Blood Is Getting Low 'lf you do not feel like your real self, do not have the urge to be up and doing, why not check-up on your blood strength? Look at the palms of your hands, your fingernails, your lips, the lobes of your ears—are they pale and off color? Every day—every hour—millions of tiny red-blood-cells must pour forth from the marrow of your bones to replace those that are worn-out. A low blood count may affect you In several ways: no appetite, underweight, no energy, a run-down condition, lack of resistance to Infection and disease. To get real relief you must keep up your blood strength. Medical authorities, by analysis of the blood, have by positive proof shown that SSS Tonic Is amazingly effective In building up low blood strength In non-organlc nutritional anemia. This Is due to the SSS Tonic formula which contains special and potent activating Ingredients. Also, SSS Tonic helps you enjoy the £°°d T° u . eat by Increasing the gastric digestive juice when It Is non-organi-cally too little or scanty—thus the stomach will have little cause to get balky with gas, bloat and give off that sour food taste. ,<3? > -2.^ lt L E ?. erglze your body with rich, red-blood. Start on SSS Tonic now. b J otxl surges throughout your whole body, greater freshness and strength should make you eat better sleep better, feel better, work better,’ play better, have a healthy color glow in your skin—firm flesh fill out hollow places. Millions of bottles sold. Get a bottle from your drug store. SSS Tonic helps Build Sturdy Health.

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Europe Federation Is Urged By Hoover Strengthen Nations Under Marshall Plan New York, Feb. 24—(UP)—Former president Herbert Hoover last night urged a regional federation of Europe under the United Nations to strengthen the Marshall plan nations in peace and war. Mr. Hoover, in a speech to the sons of the revolution at a Washingtons birthday banquet at the Waldorf - Astoria hotel, asserted that such a federation was needed because at present “we have no certainty of military allies in the world.” He said that the federation plan “would avoid the United States being involved in military alliances.” “Today we are not only compelled to remain armed on what amounts to a gigantic-war footing,” said Mr. Hoover, “but we must realize that in case some one would make war upon us we have no certainty of military allies in the world. “At the moment Britain and western Europe might remain neutral. This is not an accusation as to their good faith or their gratitude for our having spent so much

PRICES WILL KEEP ON GOING DOWN Z

... if we each do our part. You have seen commodity prices breaking, wholesale and retail prices following, the stock market being affected. Why are prices coming down? It isn’t because of increased supply yet. A better public understanding of the basis for the present inflation, and more resulting public resistance to high prices, have caused speculators in commodities and livestock to change their guesses BB about the future. They are guessing that consumers will stop bidding against themselves and using both their savings & and their incomes to support prices at fantastic levels. Who's helping you bring prices down? Some manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers have cut 5 their prices because of reductions in their costs. Others, more courageous and wiser about what is to come, are cutting prices in advance of reducing their costs and then doing what they can about getting their costs down. Who's unhappy about falling prices? f f Some, who now would like to gain from a rising market, are urging the government to begin buying enough grain for -» foreign consumption to put prices back up. Some, who held their grain off the market too long, would like to see prices r ‘ se a g a in* Some union labor leaders — who have said all X I along that they would rather have lower prices than higher JI I ( wages — are calling the price break "purely speculative and \A temporary” or see it as "a flutter that will have no important ’ impact on retail prices.” How wrong this opinion is can be judged from the column opposite. Where does "big business" stand? . r i "Big business,” the favorite whipping boy of rabble rousers f° r yearS ’ c °ntinues to provide many admirable examples of self-restraint in keeping prices below what the public has VyV been willing to pay. Many of the largest companies have cut BrnreV prices immediately after —or even in advance of— commodify declines. .**• * E oinrFS I Some of the largest food chains, as shown opposite, took ‘ the lead in cutting retail prices after the commodity market break. Automobile manufacturers, incidentally, have right along kept their list prices firm at a figure several hundred dollars below what the public has demonstrated its willingness to pay regular dealers or black market operators. $ In the face of a continuing big demand for its products, General Electric voluntarily announced at the beginning of the year new lower prices expected to save consumers 50 million dollars this year on the purchase of many G.E. products.

If government, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, farmers, and wage earners can all use some self-restraint for a little while yet, while at the same time they are getting their costs ‘ down, then they will all profit by the lowering of prices ail along the line. The public, by frugal buying and a little selfdenial, can bring prices of food and other scarce items down to

American treasure and blood in their liberation from Hitler. It is j the bare stark fact of divided and I weakened European nations in the face of red armies of 2,500,000 men along the iron curtain.” Mr. Hoover said that unless western Europe adopts some form of economic and political unity the Marshall plan will fall short of its goal. He said a federation under the terms of the U. N. charter would help strengthen that organization.

“Such an action would bring more vitality and strength into the I United Nations.” he said. “It would avoid the United States being involved in military alliances. Such an approach would point toward peace rather than toward war which is the bane of military alliances. It could bring greater solidarity of action among all peace-loving nations.” He suggested that the proposed federation might cause greater cooperation by Russia. “Although the prospect is indeed very dim,” Mr. Hoover said, “perhaps sometime the Russian regional group might also cooperate for the common welfare of mankind. More especially is this possible if they witnessed the consolidation of strength of other great groups.” ■————O Don’t take less than the best . . . Don’t take less than a Lee Hat.—Cal E. Peterson clothier. 1

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,' , L - - — & MjL sIQMmMir y 111 llil IN WASHINGTON, nine southern Congressmen leave the capitol building after organizing to join group of southern governors in demanding the Democratic party disavow President Truman’s civil rights program or be faced with an election-year revolt in the “solid south.” From left, the repre- I sentatives are Howard W. Smith, Va.; J. Bayard Clark, N. C.; James P. Richards, S. C.; Robert T, F. Sikes, Fla.; William M. Colmer, Miss.; E. E. Cox, Ga.; Oren Harris, Ask.; Sam Hobbs, Ala and Ed Gossett Tex. Colmer is chairman of the “rebel” erouo. (International'}

a reasonable well-balanced level. Businessmen, by making voluntary cuts even before they are forced to make them/ can speed up this sound and desirable readjustment. Thus# by enlightened voluntary action, income and savings will quickly gain added purchasing power. To reach that goal is just intelligent self-interest-for all of us-

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LOOK AT THE RECORD Here are notes from the news of February 14. They indicate what is going on. The story might be expanded by the news of price reductions in every city ana town in the United States. Grain (Chicago) —Wheat (May), down 74V$tf a bushel from Jan. 16. Corn (May), down Livestock (Chicago) —Cattle, choice, $28.50 cwt., off $5.50 from Feb. 3. Hogs $24, off $3. Meat (N. Y. retail) — Bacon 70< off 17tf from Jan. 15. Ham off 12(. Beef ribs 65tf, off 10< Sirloin steak off 201. Dairy products, etc. (N. Y. retail) — Butter 85 <1, off 12t Eggs off 18tf. Soap— All three big soap manufacturers dropped wholesale prices 5 % during the week, and retail prices fell accordingly. Other products — Staley Mfg. Co. slashed prices 8-10% on corn starches and syrups and 35% on soybean products. Consumers cooperative stores announced reductions in fifty prices. And "substantial price reductions” were being made at retail grocery stores throughout the country also, according to the National Association of Retail Grocers, DEPARTMENT STORES IN THE PARADE In New York, Macy’s ran four-page ads announcing savings "up to 50% in Macy’s whale-of-a-sale.” Hearn’s advertised food reductions from 10-18%. NEW PURCHASING POWER RELEASED Philadelphia—Wroe Alderson, president of the American Marketing Association, said "an average lOtf-a-pound cut in meat prices would release in Philadelphia $30,000,000 a year in purchasing power for other goods and services.’ SNOWBALLING ON LONG ISLAND Brooklyn — Charles Dilbert, vice president of Dilbert Bros., who operate 57 stores on Long Island, said many reductions were the result of action by wholesalers who were willing to move out old stocks at a loss to replace them with lower-priced supplies. "A few started the movement and it snowballed.” NOT TO MISS THE PARADE New York—A. F. Guckenberger, executive secretary of the N. Y. State Food Merchants Association, advised its 5,000 members to meet market reductions immediately. "We want to urge you again that no time be lost in reducing prices to your customers, irrespective of quantities of merchandise on hand.” SOME OTHER NOTABLE ASPECTS Considering the grain price developments particularly, The New York Times remarks editorially: "The decline in grain prices could conceivably have numerous important repercussions on the home front. Certainly it represents a serious setback to plans just taking shape for another round of wage increases by union labor. It could affect public thinking materially on tax policy and price control. ... .”