Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1938 — Page 11

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S. Meridian St. Repaving Approved

Proposal for repaving this section of S. Meridian St., between Maryland St. and Jackson Place, has been approved by the Works Board. The estimated cost is $26,429. Property owners have 10 days in

sought. 75 per cent of

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which to remonstrate, after which bids may be The proposal provides for the City paying

the cost and the affected property

owners the remainder.

~ CIRCLING THE CITY

Chi Sigma Chi Fraternity will] Former Sunday School pupils of hold pledging and installation serv- MA M. PRP RO Rg he Lh ' ci A , |M. C. A. Happy Time Club, will ho jces at 8 p. m. today at 630 W.|°© C.: APD} ‘ : x A a reunion Nov. 6 at the Beech Grove Drive, Woodruff Place. M. L. Ed- christian Church. wards will be installing officer, as-| More than 150 former members of sisted by William T. White Jr. | Sunday School classes taught during Pledges to be inducted arejthe last 43 Jom id ss Jisuiiion Ab uid wean | @r€ expected to attend. A pitch-in Rabert Thompson, Orville Lawrenc ©, | dinner will follow the morning worHenry Hesselgrave and Theodore ship service, and a program and meSteinkamp. New officers are John |, i 1 service will be held at 2 p. m. Sullivan, president; Mr. White, vice | Mr. Hamilton Was & carrier boy president; Reginald Hesselgrave, {¢... the first issue of the Sun, which treasurer; Daniel Maiden, recording later became The Times secretary; Joseph Greenen, corre-| sponding secretary, and Mr. Ed- | wards, sergeant-at-arms. A chili supper will follow.

One hundred additional National | Youth Administration project worklers today began a program of landA benefit euchre and bridge party Scaping and painting the new _Inwill be sponsored by Service Post|dianapolis dog pound, 2501 S. Bel128 of the American Legion tomor- mont Ave. The project will not be row night at the Legion Hall in Oak-| completed until next March, Robert landon. Helping with arrangements S. Richey, state director, said. “ Ta ~y arnl ra | Mohler {apolis physician who studied in Ger- . { many, will address the Indianapolis DeWitt S. Morgan, Schools Super- | Exchange Club at the Hotel Washintendent, is to speak next Thurs- Dgton tomorrcw noon. day at the Tri-State Conference on | Pupil Personnel at Gary. Miss Ber- | tha O. Leming, Indianapolis, is president of the Conference.

Plans for a past commanders’ dinner will be outlined by members of | Broad Ripple Post 312, American | Legion, at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Mrs. Elizabeth A. Boyle, secretary | clubrooms, 61st St. and College Ave.

to the Indiana Bell Telephone Co.| y : . president, today celebrated 30 years | hp Cathedral ar Society will service in telephone work. She has O03 Cary Darly a tJ tomore held her position for 14 years, and previously held positions as clerk in various departments.

dent of the society and general chairman of the affair is Mrs. Kath- | erine Hallinan. |

The South Side Civic Club will] A meeting of the Maj. Harold] meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the g. Megrew Camp, United Spanish | community room of the Madison war Veterans. 1s to be held at 8! Avenue State Bank. (Pp. m. tomorrow at Ft. Friendly, | A wiener roast is to be attended 312 N. Illinois St. Commander | by members of the Washington |John E. Hicks will preside. Township Republican Club at 63 p. m. tomorrow at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, Haverstick Park. Mrs. Emilie Engle is chairman.

row in the Block auditorium. Presi- (agency director.

SEED DISTRIBUTORS T0 GET TRAINING

Farm Bureau Co-operative Maps Weed Fight.

A series of training schools for seed distributors will be one step taken by the Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative Association, Inc, to combat weed problems, according to M. K. Derrick, manager of the newly {established Agronomy Department of the association. “The situation has become more acute with the introduction of new weeds in Indiana,” he explained.

“They are bind weed, Johnson grass, perennial sow-thistle, bitter winter criss and field paper grass.” The schools will be held during November,

Life Insurance "Increase Reported

| A 68 per cent increase in life insurance issued by the Hoosier Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. of In- | dianapolis during August was announced today by B. H. Eversmeyer, The comparison was made with July records.

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LION IS SLAIN AFTER KILLING AUCTIONEER

Victim's Neck Broken in New Jersey Tragedy.

WILDWOOD, N. J, Oct. 6 (U. P.). —A T-year-old lion, so civilized he would ride around the walls of a| motordrome in a sidecar, became a | jungle brute after a few minutes of unexpected freedom last night. He stalked and killed a man and carried him off in his jaws. He was called “Tuffy,” and was cwned by Joseph Dobish, who operated the motordrome. When the master entered the cage at feeding time, the lion charged out the door. Loose on the boardwalk, the beast

strolled leisurely while Dobish ran to telephone the police. He soon found the new scenery not to his liking and went back to the cage.

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sitting in the front seat of the car Neighbor’s Life Threatened!

But Mr. Dobish had closed the door. ALLI A | R The lion could not get back in. 6 TOR-MURDE He stole away. Thomas Saito, 37, a Japanese INQUIRY CONTINUES auctioneer, heard the screams of the employer | ;

Mr. Saito was preparing to enter.| The lion bore him down. The impact of the beast stunned Mr. Saito. The lion dragged him SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 6 (U. in'o we darkness under the Board- p, ap unidentified man who said The boy sat paralyzed with fright. he saw Joe Ball throw the disBy that time 100 state and local po- membered parts of a woman's body licemen and firemen had responded into his alligator pen said today

0 ne arm. d been at large . two Ball had tried to tell him the body hours when Patrolman John Gares,| Was that of a cat.

searching along the Boardwalk, | The witness told his story to heard a rustling sound and saw him | mexas Ranger Lee Miller. Ball, who - 3 S “q 3 f . ¢ | : 3 ’ crouching to spring at him from a ended his own life by putting a bul-

few feet away. Mr. Gares already | : : had his revolver in his hand. let through his heart, is suspected

He would not have had time to of having killed an unknown numfire more than one shot, but he sent | ber of women to whom he had made the one bullet gb Tiss ont yiove and either buried their bodies fell dead in its tracks, a bullet or fed them to his five pet allithrough his eye. Then the hunters gators. found Mr. Saito’s body, mangled by | “I saw him shoving a woman's tooth and claws, the clothes ripped | head and arms into the alligator off. His neck had been broken. pool,” the man told Mr. Miller.

If He Told, Prober Says.

“Ball came over and drew his gun and told me to get off my horse. “Then he said, ‘You've been my best neighbor and never meddled in my business, but you are in it now. You saw me put a cat in that pool.’ *“‘It didn’t look like a cat to me,’ I replied,” the witness said. “Ball then told me, “If you ever tell what you saw, I'll kill you. If they arrest me, I'll have someone else kill you.””

ESCAPED CONVICTS

SOUGHT IN HOLDUP

OTTAWA, 11, Oct. 6 (U. P)— G-Men and State Police today sought two Ohio convicts as the bandits who robbed two bank employees of $60,000 in cash on a downtown street late yesterday. State Police blockaded all highways, believing that the bandits had headed toward Chicago. Sheriff Ralph H. Desper said the bandits had been identified tentatively as Harry Zenz, 38, and Chester Phelps, 35, who escaped with four other prisoners from a prison farm at Lonodn, O., July 29. Ray E. Thomas, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of

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Ottawa, “and Charles O'Reilly, a clerk, were the men held up. They made the tentative identification through protographs.

SLAYS SISTER-IN-LAW WHO PROTECTED WIFE

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. 6 (U. FP.) —An estranged husband broke into an apartment today, shot and killed his sister-in-law, wounded two patrolmen in a running gun battle and then was shot down. Louis Rooney, 30, was charged with assault wiih attempt to kill, but police indicated that a more serious . charge would be lodged against him. The victim was Mrs. Agnes Mc Caulley, 25, who threw herself in front of Mrs. Rooney.

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A Statement of Public Policy

by The Great Atlantic

The Honorable Wright Patman, representative in Con« gress 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 grocery 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 thave devoted all of their working lives to the interests of &¢he 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 of 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. f 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 American 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. a

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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 pricesaveraging 8 % to 10 % cheaperthantheprices 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 309% the part which maintains the price to the farmer yet reaches the public at low cost because of eco- - nomical 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 vital 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 as producers and consumers. We feel that we have a definite obliga"tion and duty to oppose any legislative attack upon their best interests. 5. The Interests of Labor Every business in this country has a vital interést ini the pur» chasing 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 11,000,000 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. 4 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 daty if we failed to oppose, by every fair means, legislation pros posed by the Honorable Wright Patman. oe 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 information 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, there fore, 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 dise semination 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.

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GEORGE L. HARTFORD