Show I I Opinions I Comment of the American Press Ret Retailers Should Speak k for forTh Th Themselves e lYos Formation of the American Retail Retail Re Re- tail federation which will u ultimately ulti u- u embrace retailers doing o of business busine annually will help in shaping sound policy No group o of business men is more morein morein in fri the line of ot fire of ot such developments devel as sales taxes production restriction spending programs price controls than the retailers The Record would suggest therefore therefore therefore there there- fore to the new federation that it cast off oft the unsound thinking that has been too often otten sold to retail businessmen by other elements in inthe inthe inthe the business structure and strIkeout strike strikeout strikeout out on a line best for itself A program sound for the retailer and the consumer no matter how bankers might regard it il would Include Include In In- clude dude 1 Opposition tion to sales sale taxes nuisance nuisance nui nui- sance taxes and other levies on the masses of ot consumers that cut purchasing purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing power In the pious name of broadening the tax base 2 Support In spite of financial opinion for a spending program for tor recovery Retailers know what C CW CW CW W A did for tor them what relief relict funds and works pay checks means in the store Recovery will stem from retailers' retailers orders increased re- re tall demand depends on government government govern govern- ment spending to break the jam 3 Opposition to price fixing by bylaw bylaw bylaw law in N R A or outside and maintenance maintenance main main- o of free competition The American Retail federation will be a 3 valuable ally aUy to the consumer consumer con con- sumer If the retailers recognize and work for their own best interests Those Interests interest are not the same as the Interests represented by the usual pull back chamber of ot commerce com corn merce mcree crying cring out for taxes on the consumer and against any program to increase purchasing ing power Philadelphia R Record cord Headlining Convictions Criminal Jud Judge e Chester K Hart thus outlined his ide ideas for tor prevention and abatement of oC crime While the papers are prone to devote a lot of prominent front front- page space to tho criminal acts themselves I have noticed in the past that not much comment is made on the conviction and sentencing sen sea of oJ the guilty offenders Unbiased accounts of the trial of ot important criminals and prominent prominent prom prom- stories of ot their conviction I think would do a lot toward curbing crime If It the papers would feel It their responsibility to point out to the tha youth of ot the tho community that the law violator is usually caught and severely punished for his acts nets they would bo be doing an invaluable service I have always maintained that the certainty rather than the se severity severity se se- verity o of punishment Is the great crime deterrent If It the criminally crim Inclined can be brought to to realize that he will be made to suffer sutter for his acts ho he will hesitate best hesi tate before committing them If Ie we can deal out speedy justice In our courts and thus build up the attitude of ot respect for the forces of ot justice in the criminal element we will vill have gone a long way to toward toward to to- ward controlling crime Nash Nashville yule ville Tenn Evening Newspaper per Cove Coveting Covering ng Many papers brag of their coverage cov coy We cover this part of the country like a blanket with the lews News and that's thal's not all The News also covers numerous pantry shelves hither and thither and yon It covers pans of ot bread dough and milk It covers cracks in the window panes and the brooder house floor It covers the bed d springs to keep the cold from creeping through the thin mattress It covers the henhouse henhouse henhouse hen hen- house walls and broken places in inthe inthe inthe the plaster And sometimes it covers covers cowers cov cow ers a multitude o of sins by not mentioning mentioning men men- them Boy what we mean is that we have coverage Ed Ed in Comstock Corn Corn- stock News New To Refresh Mr Edges Edge's Memory deal observes observes ob ob- Two years ears of ot the new serves Walter Waller E. E Edge former ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- to France have resulted in placing sixth one-sixth of ot the country's country's country's coun coun- try's population on relief relic No doubt Mr Edge just Ujust forgot forgot forgot for for- got to mention that twelve years of ot the old deal with which h he was associated resulted In putting nearly nearly nearly near near- ly quarter one of at the working population population population pop pop- out of jobs without any re re- re- re lief New New York Post |