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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH MAJOR ECONOMIC EVENT Installment Buying Was Started 40 Years Ago in Auto Industry the market. This made possible mass production and sharp reduc-tions In cost, which in turn broufjht cars within reach of more people. This stimulated employment and our whole economy. People could buy more and more goods, and with the Installment system spreading to other lines of merchandise, mod-ern, efficient goods went into mil-lions of modest homes. Putting the nation on wheels has changed our cities from dark and dirty areas around our factories to industrial centers surrounded by clean, light residential suburbs. Factories are now being built in outlying areas, where space Is not prohibitively costly, and are spread out and pleasant. Recreation has been revolutionized people go far away on vacations, take week-end- s in the country, play golf, make the whole area for miles around a play-ground. Farmer and city dweller enjoy the same recreation, cul-tural facilities and shopping cen-ters. THE INFLUENCE on the whole economy of bringing the car within reach of nearly everyone is shown by these figures: the nearly 6,000,-00- 0 cars produced in 1950 used up the agricultural products of nearly 3,000,000 acres. This includes about 410,000,000 pounds of cotton, 3,000,-00- 0 bushels of corn, 14,250,000 gal-lons of molasses, 190,000,000 pounds of wool, 12,000,000 pounds of turpen-tine and large quantities of other farm products. About 80 per cent of U. S. rubber consumption goes into automotive uses, as well as Although there has been no fan-fare to mark it, 1951 Is the fortieth anniversary of a major economic event one that has been of espe-cial importance to people who live In small towns. For it was In 1911 that the first automobiles were sold on installments and the greatest period of industrial and social de-velopment in history began. The time payment system we take for granted has brought an "orderly revolution" in our whole way of life. Because it has been a major factor in the development of American industrial capacity, it has had a great influence on world events. It would be a much differ-ent and probably much worse world to live in if American mer-chandising genius had not invented the system of letting people buy cars out of income. In the 15 years between 1895, when car production really started, and the end of 1910, a total of only 521,000 cars were made. The aver-age model cost three years' pay of the average skilled worker. Nfany people said the Industry had about reachpd Its peak. There weren't many more families who could aiTord a car! Since then, there have been about 83,000,000 cars produced in this country. There are nearly 40,000,-00- 0 In use today by the nation's family units. What happened is pointed out by the American Finance Conference, the association of independent sales credit companies, in a report on the effects of 40 years of installment selling. Enabling people to buy cars out of Income, like homes or insurance, Immediately broadened 75 per cent of all plate glass, 68 per cent of all leather upholstery, 55 per cent of alloy steel and 51 per cent of malleable iron. Much of the technological and chemical progress of the past 40 years has been stimulated by the urge of the auto makers to find bet-ter ways of making cars, so the public would buy more of them- - on Installments. One of every seven employed persons In the United States owes his job to the automo-bile. The industrial plant that won World War II and is now our great-est check on Russian aggression was developed to meet the public's demand for goods it bought on time payments. These are some of the reasons Dr. A. Anton Friedrich, noted economist of New York University, has called the mass installment credit system along with the mass production methods it stimulated "the two pillars of American pros-perity." And they are the reasons Isaac F. Marcosson, former presi-dent of Studebaker Corporation, said: "Installment buying now emerges as the builder of America's stand-ard of living. It Is a revolution which has lifted the average man to the level of living once reserved for the few. It is one of the great-est economic forward steps that has been devised in modern times." In only 40 years, the installment system has become the mainspring of the American economy. Any-thing that tampers with it threatens to bring the wheels of American economy and society to a halt. Meeting the public's needs as they see fit, it promises to help make the next 40 years even more pro-gressive than the years have been since that first car was sold on installments. ARMY STAR NOW PRO . . . Full-back Al Pollard, the first ousted athlete in the West Point cribbing scandal to sign up for pro foot-ball, has joined the New York Yankees In Chicago, lie was In time to play In exhibition match against Cards. ; . III M... ; ..AV.jMfcWn iw lift )1M.. .M.v:v.atoJmMI K.fc.w.JI..a&Aftm;lWVriir.VqaM Bte...v- v.. ii in in NOT AS BAD AS IT LOOKS ... No, this frightening spectacle is not a creature from Mars. And it Is not a monstrous beetle having its teeth massaged. Nor Is it one of those strange creations met by Alice in Wonderland. It happens to be, In fact, the rear end of a convair engine. The engine is undergoing its periodic cleanup by an airline mechanic, Al Stern, to whom the only thing grisly about the whole deal is the oil and grime that must be removed. Scene Is a Chicago airport. 1 CHDSSWOHB PUZZLE I rgMjftLARfapl"pTS 1E T JUMN 0 A ACROSS 3. Employ 23. Drop BaT STElfE n"v 0 Y l.Tautog 4. Ruler of 24. Humor i 5. Head cook Tunis 25. Crushing e3c In crH H 9. River (Fr.) 5. 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John Clunies Ross, "king" of the Co-c- Islands, tropical paradise in Indian ocean, leaves London church with his bride, former Miss Daphne Parkinson, after their wedding. His family has ruled Cocos since 1827. J!? A BETTER MOUSETRAP CORNER By John Bulling WAS ABOUT to doze off into an I after dinner coma, when the ad f .first caught my eye. There was no 3MI...1. (ancy d,piay about it. In fact. I I it was In the want ad columns and I only noticed It because It had been set in heavy type. It went somehow like this: HERE IT IS AT LAST1 I I BEAT A PATH TO OUR DOOR, FOLKS! 'KILLIT IS GUARANTEED TO KILL RATS AN MICE. DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK IF YOU FAIL TO KILL RODENTS AFTER FOLLOWING THE SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS! There followed a name and ad-dress, and a request to send one dol-lar for a genuine 'Killit'. The thing was guaranteed. What could I lose? 1 took the paper to the kitchen and showed the ad to Mary. She in-sisted that we didn't have any mice or rats, but I said maybe not, but it would be nice to have a guaran-teed mousetrap anyhow. I wadded I showed the ad to Mary, but she Insisted that we didn't have any mice or rats. rettes. Just the thing for him: He'd ordered the thing, and when it came in the mail he had found out why it had been guaranteed it had to be filled with water. How we'd all laughed at Bill for being caught by slick advertising. how could a mousetrap be guaranteed to kill if it didn't do just that? No, I was safe enough from the hilarity of our crowd. If I bought a lemon and the story hap-pened to leak out, I should never hear the end of lt, particularly from Bill. I remember how mad he'd been when I laughed at him. But a mousetrap guaranteed to kill there was no way of getting around it. I tried to figure out what the thing would be like. Basically a mousetrap doesn't appear capable of much change. I mean to say, the thing we all know as a mousetrap is sound, and seems about the only way to go about catching mice short up a dollar bill and stuck it in an envelope and addressed it to the Killit people and made a special trip to the post office to mail it. Later 1 got to thinking about It. I hoped that KiiUt would not be a cat we already had one cat, and there just Isn't room for another one In our two by four apartment. Bnt then, they couldn't send you a cat by mail, could they? I thought of a buddy of mine, Bill Stout. He was a chronic smoker you know the type. The world is his ashtray. He had already started several expensive .fires by laying down cigarettes and forgetting where he'd put them. He had seen an ad in the paper for an ashtray guaranteed to snuff forgotten ciga- - of running after them. That same Sunday night I had dreams about mousetraps. I'm one of those guys who can al-ways remember his dreams with crystal clarity. The mouse-traps I had entertained In my subconscious during the night, while they had seemed pretty good at the time, were complete washouts In the harsh light of day. Most of them were Rube Goldberg affairs, and none of them would have worked. I began to forget the beastly mousetrap though Mary didn't. Ap-parently a workable idea had come to her while she was down at the market, and she had held up the line at the cashier's counter by de-manding a piece of paper and a pencil neither of which she ever has with her and sketching out a fairly detailed plan of the thing, deaf to the selfish barracking of the pushing assortment of waiting housewives. She brought it home, indignant at the attitude of the shopping public, and showed it to me. I said it would have been the best mousetrap to hit civilization yet, and where are you going to get the cyclatron to work it? We weren't kept in suspense too much longer. A package came in on the mail on the Wednesday or Thursday of the same week. It was very heavy, and had cost twenty-fou- r cents to mail. We ripped It open and out came a flat slab of wood about six Inches square and a piece of lead pipe a foot long. And a sheet of printed Instructions which started out: Place the mouse or rat to be killed on the wooden block and strike it smartly behind the ears with the pipe. . . . rfwvJw -t n....iu. www .1..- - , wV t "x " Irf , ' . " , - ' ' ' " ' L & ...... . ........ 'A .v ..Viwlf, JMd, Wii. V.Vi,, JnM: A ..At.JM,. JL .Ir VW..f A. J.. OBJECTION OVERRULED . . . Andy Seminick, Philadelphia Phils' catcher, goes into a huddle with Umpire Pinelli over Seminick's catch of a pop ball in a recent Giants-Phil- s match In New York. Pinelli ruled that the ball hit the foul screen and was not an "out" although It was caught. Seminick disagreed, causing this minor rhubarb, which looks ' like a slice of a peace conference or an armistice talk. By INEZ GERHARD THOMAS GARRISON MOR FIT, In Baltimore, certainly believes in his public. He changed his name to Gary Moore as the re-sult of a listener contest, in 1939. He was a continuity writer at a Baltimore radio station when one day the .star of the comedy show he was writing failed to appear; Gary was rushed in as a last min-ute substitute. The radio audience liked him so much that he never went back to writing. Even his GARY MOORE erew haircut is due to public opin-ion; when he decided to let it grow, CBS was practically swamped with protests, so Perry Como appeared on Garry's television how and supervised a haircut that should be permanent. AILING PREMIER ... Dr. Mo-hammed Mossadegh, premier of Iran, ill in bed, tells Iran's senate that bis government will cancel the residence permits of the British o 1 1 technicians if the British do not agree to reopen negotiations within two weeks. FAMOUS DAUGHTERS AT FILM PREMIERE . . . Miss Sarah Churchill (left), daughter of the former British prime minister, Win-Eto- n Churchill, and Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of the President of the United States, pose for the camera In the lobby of a New York theater where they went to see the first showing of the moving picture, "The Medium." j X i f $ FASHION FLASH . . . "Wake up and dream" Is what this sky-to- p calot In the newest fall shade, fluorescent white, is called. It's just the thing to add a lilting note to milady's town coats and furs. Star-lin- e veil adds to its mood of flirtation. GRASSROOTS This Iowa Farmer Practiced Frugality, Thrift By Wright A. Potterson THROUGHOUT all of our history and still Is a land of opportunity for those who have initiative, energy and who apply the principles of frugality and thrift when needed. Those who are willing to work for success rather than expect others to provide for them get along. As I thought of those who have exemplified that recipe for success, I recalled an Iowa farmer who provides an excellent illustra-tion. He bad nothing with which to start. His father had been a town carpenter, whose efforts had provided the essentials for his family, until his death, when the son was in his late teens. He left nothing of world-ly goods. To the son fell the task of provid-ing for his widowed mother and himself. To do that, he must have job, and the first one that was offered was that of a farm hand. The pay was $25 a month, during the planting, cultivating and har-vesting seasons of each year. For what would be approximately three other months of each year, the pay would be $20 for each month. Instead of the room and board that was usually a part of a farm hand's compensation, the boy was offered a small house, five rooms, that had at one time been the farm family home, and with it approxi-mately an acre of ground he could cultivate as a garden, on which he could have room for chickens, two or three hogs, and a cow. The garden, the chickens, the hogs and the cow would provide most of their fond, the house a home for the widowed mother. Excess production from the chickens, the garden, the hogs and the cow were exchanged for such things as must be pur-chased at the local store. Each month the earnings of the son went to the fund that was to provide a farm for him. At the end of 10 years, he had saved through the exercise of fru-gality and thrift the amount needed to make the down payment on 160 acres of the best of Iowa cornland. As an Iowa farmer he continued to practice his system of frugality and thrift, 'though he was not nig-gardly. He provided his mother during the years of her lifetime with as well an equipped farm home as could be found in all Iowa, but he did not waste. His farm machinery was never left to rust in the fields where they had been last used. When I last saw that farmer he owned, all paid for, 460 acres of that Iowa farmland. He had acquired It all through his own effort, through the practice of frugality and thrift, through Im-proving the opportunity with which this land of ours had provided him. There are millions of such suc-cess stories for which America is responsible. They are not confined to farms only, but include merchants, small factories, and every line of en deavor. In this land of ours, op-portunity knocks at the door of most of us. But there are many who refuse to answer the knock, who prefer to wait for some one to do for them rather than apply the energy, the frugality, the thrift for themselves. They have been promised something for nothing, and prefer to wait for that promise to be fulfilled, but success will not be achieved in that way. Ours is a land of opportunity for those who will work, for those who will practice frugality and thrift. Automobiles, not war, are the great American killer. In all our American history deaths in battle or from wounds, from the Revolu-tion down to the latest available reports from Korea, were respon-sible for the death of 439,151 of our fighting forces. As against that the number of those killed, or fa-tally injured by automobiles during only the past 14 years, down to laje November, 1950. totaled 442,970. The non-fat- casualty lists for all wars, to late November, 1950, totaled 1,195,885. The non-fat-auto accident injuries since Jan. 1, 1937, totaled 15,503.950. We dread war, but we take for granted the automobile killings. Something for nothing, welfare state, socialism, totalitarianism. Communism. Each one leads to the next. The petty trials of life ar but the thorns on the roses. i - If ff ' - - it ' ' ' .0,;:: " HONORED BY ELGIN ... In-augurating one of the first Red Feather drives or 1951, Stanley Al-ly- n, Dayton, Ohio, national presi-dent Community Chests, receives 50 millionth watch manufactured at Elgin, in., from Joyce Brocknfr. y.y.vv.:.. .iii.ii.iW,i..i.in !, i. I,.,, nig , ,.i,ni.i,nn lining mug "nii imH j rpirw ' , --:" - j THREE ALARM FIRE SWEEPS PIER . . . This Is the general scene of confusion and din as fire fighters from Edgewater, N.J., ro about trying to extinguish a three-alar- m blaze on a pier extending into the Hudson river. The pier is next to the giant Ford Motor Company's as-sembly plant in Edgewater. Scene of the fire Is pier A. The pier ! owned by the Susquehanna railroad. At the time this picture was made, officials had reported no casualties from the conflagration. Deep Lakes Lake Tanganyika,. East Central Africa, is said to reach a depth of 1700 ft. |