Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 46, Number 10, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 December 1951 — Page 5

FRIDAY, DECMEBBR 21, 19.51

JUNIOR MOTHER'S CLUB The Junior Mother’s Club met at the Ferris Inn for their Christmas party Monday evening, December 17. A delicious chicken dinner was served at beautifully decorated tables in keeping with the Christmas season. Places were marked with the gift exchange presents. After dinner the presents were opened, with everyone receiving pretty and useful gifts. Door prizes were won by Mrs. Dean Pittman, Mrs. Howard Juday and Mrs. Fred Traster, Jr. Card games had been planned for. the evening’s entertainment but due to the snow storm, the program was omitted. Hostesses for the evening were: Mrs. Harry Appenzeller, Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs. Charles Garner and Mrs. Karl Stoelting. Mrs. Carl Johnston of Bourbon, and son, Richard, of Fort Jackson, S. C., and Sally Gall, of Nappanee, spent Sunday here with Mrs. Muriel Sharp and daughter, Shirley. Coopers or Wilson Brothers Quality Socks for men from 75c to $3.50 at Pilcher’s.

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One for the money, Two for the show... ‘Three For’ the Savings That Grieger’s list below!! Saturday Specials — NOTICE— ' TENDER LEAF TEA BAGS MONDAY, DEC. 24 Our store closed all day Christmas. 16 Connt • • 19c , CHEESE SALE J 1/2 lb. Sliced Piementoe2lc New Year’s — Tuesday, Jan. Ist CARNATION MILK PEARS ci- i nn TUESDAY, DEC. 25 Calirose Brand, Ig. can .... 29c BURCO FLOUR SOFTASILK Cake Flour .... 39c “MERRY CHRISTMAS!” — TTOT . —: — DID YOU KNOWCLIMALINE, large sxse2lc of S ALE FRANCO AMERICAN ° f B ° livia W ° Oed by P romises ’ j? kajnlu AJYUJ.KILAJN of o f i ove> Miracle Whip Salad Dressing Beef Grav y 15c Full Quart 49c - — KARoGreenLabel — MEATS-MEATS-MEATS —TT777T— Maple Flavor for Your Pancakes SLICED BACON, lb 39c mmwc nro or ’ll/ TU 1A IxiUxvb., AI 1 2 lb ’ Bottle 19c Fresh PICNICS, lb 39c , „ „ - Chase & Sanborn Coffee Laurents FRANKFURTS, 1b... 59c 83c lb. Breakfast of Champions Smoker SAUSAGE, lb 65c j day Sale —We Close at Noon, for 29c PORK LIVER, lb 29c Knockers, Gar. Frankfurts LB. 55c -SALENew — JELLO — New FRIDAY, DEC. 28 Cocoanut Cream Pie Filling 8c BREEZE MARSHMALLOW » f It B Lever Bros New Washing Large Cellophane Bag .....'. 15c I J I I = Sensation - large pkg. -25 c — W. Ipi LET SANTA’S w e reS erve right to limit quantities AUNT JEMINA JOLLY SPIRIT T Buck Wheat Pancake Flour... 17c v BE YOUR ~ bUKKI . i QLHOE THIS The above will be sold at these OUR,STORE CLOSED ALL DAY IDAY prices ONLY °? the advertis ‘ ; ed. Under no circumstances can we CHRISTMAS and SEASON do otherwise. PLEASE do not ask NEW YEARS for exception to this policy. Our Store 57 Hours Each U| BBl Daily. ■■ P TU t ■» Th nT* 11 SAT. ’til ® 11 IHn wl Closed Thursday ernoons. ’|' Closed Sundays.

ART CLUB Mrs. Merton Meredith entertained the Syracuse Art Club at her’home Friday evening, December 14. A buffet dinner was served at 6:30 o’clock to the club members and two guests, Mr. Meredith’s mother and Mrs. Luther Vance. After a short business session, Mr. Al Baker of Sidney, gave an interesting talk on the making of ceramics, and displayed some of his own art work. The remainder of the evening was spent arranging Christmas wreaths and table decorations. BRIDGE PARTY Mrs. Ed Kleinknight was hostess to the members of her bridge club at her home Monday evening. A delicious turkey dinner which was pot luck, began the evening’s festivities. The room and table was beautiful in its Christmas setting. Following the dinner the hostess played ‘Santa’ and every one received a gift in the exchange. Two tables of bridge were then played with much rivalry for the white elephant traveling prize. t High score winner was Mrs. Leon Connolly and low, Lois Schleeter.

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ROUNDTABLE The Chrismtas meeting of the Ladies of the Round Table -was held Monday evening, with 28 members and friends present. A chicken dinner was served at the Legion Hall. The tables were beautifully decorated in keeping with the holiday season. Following the dinner, the group went to the beautifully decorated home of Mrs. Lolita Blocker. One has but to step inside to realize the true meaning of' Christmas. One outstanding decoration was a table depicting the Nativity, with the open Bible and a lighted candle before it and an electrically lighted angel on the wall above. Readings were given by Njta Kline and Velma Penn. After singing Christmas carols, there was a clever distribution of gifts from under a lovely trimmed Christmas tree. The committee in charge was Nita Kline, Lolita Blocker, Qlela Hoopingarner, 'Etmily Smeeton, Edna Geyer and Louise Connolly. Ice Fishing Caps — wonderful Gifts, at $2.50 at Pilcher’s.

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Appoint Administrator Nelson L. Auer has been appointed administrator in circuit court for the estate of William F. Wogoman, who died at Elkhart Aug. 19, 19i51, leaving s's‘o in personal property and $2,000 in real estate. Heirs are Martha A. Cable and Etta M. Auer, sisters, of Syracuse; Frances Berry and Eula Johnson, nieces, of Syracuse, and Roy Wogoman, of Elkhart, and Harry Wogoman, of Niles, Mich., both nephews. FINED FOR SPEEDING Robert Wiles of Syracuse, was fined $ I.o‘o and costs in the local J. P. Court last Saturday, for speeding on South Huntington street. Purchase Angus Cows Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Vail & Son, Syracuse, recently purchased two purebred Aberdeen-Angus cows from Benjamin C. Evans, Crawfordsville, Ind. Wood Requires Filler To insure a surface that is perfectly smooth, open grain wood requires a filler—no matter what the final finish is to be. The filler is usually applied direct to the bare wood.

ARE FOOD PRICES TOO HIGH I —Earl L. Butz, Agricultural Economics, Purdue University Agricultural Ex* | tension Service. A concerted effort is underway these days to make food producers, processors and distributors the “whipping boys” of inflation. The motivating force behind this move is more political than it is economic. Everyone agrees that the threat of inflation which we face is serious, and that something must be done about it. We disagree on what must be done about it. (The majority of us like infla-; tion, as it influences our in- j comes. Even when we bid j against each other with our increased incomes and thereby force prices of certain consum- i er’s goods up, we still “squawk.” j Consumers buy food more fre- j quently than any other single item. Therefore, a change in the! price of food registers more often ’ with the public than a change in • the price of any other single com- • modity. The price of household furnishings rose more from June, 19'5'0; to June, I*sl, than did the price of food at retail, but people buy household fur- j nishings so infrequently that we! didn’t head much about that in-, crease in price. But since all of us buy meat, it’s not difficult to get a lot of | popular support when one as-1 serts that meat prices are too high, and must be “rolled back.” And he can make political capital with everybody (except a small minority of meat produc- ! ers) by infering that meat pro-1 ducers and processors are “goug- j ing the public.” Food Production Is Up Such assertions are without foundation in fact. People who' believe that meat prices, for ex- . ample, are high because producers are striking, or because processors and distributors are taking an undue profit, simply are not aware of the facts. In 1950, Americans ate 144 ; pounds of meat per person (excluding fish and poultry). Thisj was more than they ate in 1949. [ Indications at this time are that . they will eat approximately 144 , pounds of meat per person in 19<51. This compares with 126 J pounds per person in 1935-’39. j In 1950 Americans ate 32 pounds of poultry per person, and 1951 indications are hat this figure will be about 3,5 pounds per person. This compares with 20 pounds in 1935-’39, or an increase of 75 j per cent. • ‘ { Let’s take beef, which is sup- j posed to be in short supply. In | 19i50, we ate 63 pounds of beef | per person. Indications are that we will eat nearly the same; amount in 1951. This compares with 55 pounds per person in 193i5-’39, or a gain 0f.14 percent. It is true that sirloin steaks at $1.2 5 a pound seem high to us. However, that price is not set by the cattle producer or meat processor. Steaks are selling at that price today because so many Americans have so much money, and are bidding against each other for the available supply of meat. The! American people today are eating > from 10' to 12 percent more meat today than they did in 19'39. There is no shortage of protein in this country. If anybody gets j tired of paying $1.'25 for steak, he can find an excellent source of protein in other meats. Dressed I frying chickens sell at around 69 cents a pound. And most of us get along pretty well eating fried chicken. If the American housewife is firmly convinced that steak at $1.25 a ppund is too high, all she has to do is to buy j cheaper meat. Steak will come down fast. The plain fact is that all Am-j erican housewives, er, have decided that steak is not' too high at $1.25. That’s why: it sells at that price. Incomes Have Increased In the 12 months period from, June, 19i50‘, to June, 1951, re-; tail food prices in America in-, creased 9 percent, while the. weekly earnings of laborers in-1 creased 10 1 percent. But retail food prices started from a low, base, as they had declined substantially from their post-war' high reached in July, 1948. At t that time, the index of retail food ' prices in America was 217 (193’5-1 ’39 equal 100). This figure subsequently declined to 195 in February, (19150, and had risen, to 205 by June, 1950'. It rose from this figure to 226 in February, 1951. and then declined 3 points by June, 1951. The weekly earnings of laborers employed in manufacturing in July, 1948 was $52.95. This figure rose steadily following that. to $65.44 in June, 19'51. This represented an increase of $12.49 per week, or about 23 percent. This comparison points to the underlying cause for increased retail prices of foods. So many people have so much more money, and are bidding against each other for choicer foods. As a re-

sult, food prices rise. Meat is a luxury food. We all want more of it when we have more money. Consequently we bid the price up. Food Cheap in Terms of Labor Food prices are not high in terms of the amount of labor required to earn it. In 19'50, one hour of factory worker’s wages would buy 16 percent more food than could be purchased with the same hour of labor before the war. Compared with 1939, one hour of factory wages in early 195'1 (when retail food prices were at a peak) would buy at retail 2/5 more potatoes, 1/3 more bottled milk and eggs, and % more bread and bacon. lEiven pork chops were nearly the'same cost, when measured in terms of relative wage rates. In 193 5-’3 9 Atiiericans were spending 23 percenFof their disposable income for food, or sll9 per person. By 1950 actual food expenditures were $343 per person, or 26 percent of disposable income. However, if Americans had been content to eat the same quantity and same quality of food per person in 1950 as in 19'315.-39, they could have purchased it with only 18 percent of their disposable income. It is not the high cost of living that hurts so much as the COST OF HIGH LIVING. Subsidied Food Is Not Our Birthright Food is cheap in America in terms of the effort required to earn it. There is no place on the face of the earth where the working man spends so small a proportion of his working day earning the food he eats, and ( where he has so large a proportion of his working day left to earn other things that make life so pleasant, as in America. It takes the average American worker about nine minutes to earn a quart of milk. The Russian worker does it in an hour and 10 minutes. The American worker gets his loaf of bread in 10‘ minutes. The Russian spends an hour and 20 minutes on the job. It takes the American worker half an hour to get a pound of butter. The Frenchman does it in two hours and a half, and the Russian, if Jie can get butter, does it in 9 hours. The philosophy that America must have cheap subsidized food is more political than economic. This philosophy under-girded the “Brannan Farm Plan” proposed a couple of years ago. and also underlies current pressure for price ceilings on food. Food is now relatively cheap in America because of the efficient production of American agriculture. The basic question is not whether meat producers are making too much money, not enough money, or just the right amount of money. The basic question is whether we want to distribute the meat we have by using the

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price system that we grew up with, or by using an artificial method of distribution controlled by somebody in Washington. If the Office of Price Stabilization were allowed to roll-back beef prices as they contemplated earlier this year, the inevitable result would be to drive beef under the retail counter instead of I on top of the counter. We ex-! perienced that in 19'45-’46, and! didn’t like it. We wouldn’t like! it again either. However, the' memory of most of us is so short that we will espouse any political panacea that seems to promise “more meat and cheaper meat.” It won’t work now any better it did in 1’945 and 1946. BRIDGE PARTY Mrs. Walter Kagg was hostess to the members of her bridge club at a Christmas party at her home Tuesday afternoon. One o’clock luncheon was served to eight guests at a large table covered with red and green cloth and napkins, and decorated with red and green candles in a candelabra. Places were marked by Christmas corsages with name cards. Each guest received a present in the gift exchange. Following the luncheon two tables of bridge were arranged with prizes going to Mrs. Ralph Thornburg Sr., and Mrs. M. M. Smith. Two guests, Dorothy Harris and Miss Irene Abts, enjoyed the afternoon’s festivities. 7- Fix Tax It has been found in circuit court that a state inheriatnce tax of $111.59 is due in the estate of Angeline Edmonds, who died Sept. 26. A brother-in-law. Arthur J. Thibodeaux, is the heir to personal property.

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Se fierce (The home-newspaper is sent free to all men and women in U. S. Armed Services through cooperation of Wawasee Post No. 223 and The Journal) t Stanley Kistler, stationed at Key West, Florida, is enjoying a 15-day leave here in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Kistler. Pfc. Robert ,L. Dust left San Francisco, Nov. 16 and arrived at Yokohoma, Japan, bn Nov. 30th. He is how at Etl Jima. Japan where he is taking a four weeks’ special training course. < To Sell Property Noble C. Blocker, administrator for the estate of Arthur E. Snavely* has filed an inventory valuing personal property at $lO,904.39 and real estate estimated at SISOO. Blocker was granted permission to sell at public auction furniture, personal property and assets of a shoe repair shop. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION , No. 6740. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Kosciusko Circuit Court, in the State of Indiana, Administrator of the estate of WILLIAM F. WOGOMA*N, late of Kosciusko County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. NELSON L. AUER, Administrator. December 15, 1951. (3t—l'O 1 ) R. Leon Connolly. Attorney.