Show WHICH IS BEST the soviet government has given the ruble an official exchange rate of 25 cents but according to an article by harry schwartz in the new york times in terms of purchasing power of staple foods the ruble is actually worth less than seven cents mr schwartz then makes a comparison between food prices in moscow and new york and on evaluating them it must be remembered that the average soviet worker earns 70 rubles a month steak that can be bought for 69 cents in new york sells for in Alo moscow scow eggs run 57 cents a dozen and respectively ively coffee is 99 cents a pound as against milk is about 21 cents a quart as compared with 73 cents the result mr schwartz says is that the average soviet worker eats mainly grain and and cereal products and little meat butter sugar and eggs other surveys dealing with clothing furniture appliances and so on have shown similar wide discrepancies between prices in our privately owned and operated competitive retail stores as against the government owned and operated communist stores you might keep this in mind next time you go shopping which kind of system does the most for the most people and when you buy anything remember shopping here in morgan county helps everyone in this area ONLY CURE we could both cure the budget deficit and many of the pains of taxes without lessening our effectiveness in defense or in the needed functions of government if we could now have a period off of self denial and patience that observation has come from a real authority herbert hoover in a talk made before the american society of newspaper editors the american people never were given sounder or more timely advice if we are to lay the ghost of inflation and honestly eliminate the danger of eventual national bankruptcy we must welcome and encourage every effort to cu cut government costs including those which hit us directly in our own pocketbooks |