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Show From The KirrtaiHi Farmi r Berlin It 'luts. Ol.lo: Kami n.a chinery marnifai.tun.rs report tha'. since farm prires dropped, the sale of farm machinery has slumped, as much as 29 per cent under the same period last year. It is poor economy to operate a farm with broken-down equipment, and more than ever in the face of a falling market when the farm must be operated at peak efficiency to show a profit. Aside from this, the money hoarded further depresses the income of the farm equipment worker who in turn curtails his purchases uf farm products. jfuiik'.it is not "a good five rent 'Cigar." but a good five-cent luilei I. ':iap. The psychological fact ol introducing a quality, nationally known item of merchandise for five cents is all but over-powering. Maybe this soap will help us waa:i away our economic sins, though the people recommend it for skin, not sin. Our new leaders In Washington are convinced the laws of supply and demand were never repealed but merely smothered. They an taking the wraps off. It's hoped that other businesses will accv;t the soap-makers' challenge and that the humble nickel wiii 0i money again. castle. Pa.: It takes guts to write local editorials in a town of less than 10.000. 0 0 0 From the Catsklll Mountain Stir, gaugerties, New York: "Our purpose pur-pose Is to manage the government's govern-ment's finances so as to help and not hinder each family in balancing its own budget." said President Eisenhower in his State of the Union address. And now comes the first significant signifi-cant indications that American business was listening . . . may be taking these Presidential, words as a golden text. The manufacturer we have in mind decided that it's about tim the purchasing power of the five-cent five-cent piece was restored. The com pany takes Issue with the late Tom Marshall, believing apparently, that what the nation needs mostest and 0 From the Hurliuurville Advocate, Barbourvllle, Kentucky: We ad ruire any man who will speak out . . . ami in every case we wholtf heartedly give Way to his opinion as one of his own, not necessarily one that this paper might endorse, but as an individual opinion. These individual opinions can rule this country, just as effectively as any ruling or government body ever assembled. as-sembled. There is no better way in America, under the American way of freedom, for a group of citizens to express themselves than through the columns of the local newspaper. 0 0 0 From the Brownsville Telegraph, Krownsville, Pa.: The Eisenhower administration is removing the burden of wage and price control! from us . . . We will be expected to exert some self-control. |