Show 44 I t H I I I itI I I I I I I I I I I 4 I I 1 I II t. t l i The me 1 11 Column l Boys toys rb r. r J i RETURN PERHAPS WHEN afternoon Is gold and blue blueIn blueIn blueIn In some far off September I shall find i This Tills quiet place again and walking through 1 I The me browning grass where little foot- foot Sr r fr paths wind windI t Shall come to the ti quiet arbor where we stand Today It may ma be marigolds will flower As sweetly then and I shall brush my I I hand band Along the fence remembering re m ering this hour But It if the asters and and the goldenrod That you and I have deeply loved are gone i I Oh will I press my face against the sod 1 Lying in silence on the lawn j jOr I I Or only pause In IIi ii passing by and say I I I The maple leaves are falling fast last to to- tot I t day Grace V. V Watkins a O O O I FORGOTTEN WAR I IHAS HAS KOREA become the forgotten war Will Vill it go on Indefinitely with its heavy casualties and with little or no chance for us to win a decisive victory Those somber questions are raised In Inan in inan Inan an article In a a. late late- Issue of U. U U S. S News and World Report The magazine said Korea half forgotten Is receding In Inthe tho the minds of many to the status of an experimental war one being fought back and sud forth for the purpose of testing men weapons materials and methods on a No effort Is being made or planned to win a clear military victory New U. U S. S ground forces which could help drive the enemy out of Korea are being sent to Europe U. U S. S bombers which could seriously weaken the enemy by bombing his bases outside of or Korea are still kept below the Yalu U U. S. S faced with a third-rate third enemy has fought for 15 months with no pros pros- prospect prospect of a a. military victory In sight The Korean casualties have been enormous During those first 15 months we suffered more than killed about wounded and nearly missing Our allies took heavy losses too What has to the civilian population pop of or South South Korea Is beyond description The fighting lighting the cold hunger and disease have hae taken an in- in incredible IncredIble incredible I credible toll The cities and the villages have been razed and burned I On the credit side as credits go in I Iwar war Korea has enabled us to build up upa a magnificent army and to school It in new and often revolutionary tactics Everyone who has seen this army has had only the highest praise for it from General Ridgway's high command down downto to the last private in a frozen fox fox- hole Morale is magnificent and the troops' troops fighting qualities both as in individuals in- in individuals individuals and In units are superb And Korea has led to the development of vastly improved traditional weapons It Itis Itis is all very different from the dreadful early days when a handful of ill equip pad ped trained inadequately-trained troops at attempted at- at attempted attempted tempted the impossible and were all but wiped out Korea has also taught the military some vital facts of modern war var As an example U. U S. S News observes Air power of the latest type typo is turning out to be beof beor beof of or limited effectiveness against a deter deter- determined determined determined mined enemy A large U. U S. S force with with- without without without out real opposition has been unable to o block enemy supply lines Railroads alter after more than a year of bombing are still running in North Korea Recent air battles indicate too that Jet planes are very difficult to shoot down down down-an an import import- important ant lesson for U. U S. S air defense The situation has been further com oem complicated complicated in the grimmest possible way by the announcement that the Russians exploded another atomic bomb probably In the Siberian fastness This has ha once again raised the question of whether the final destiny of unhappy Korea is that she will be a testing ground for atomic weapons High Ameri Amen American American can authorities have been talking in very general terms of new weapons apparently suitable for use by and against ground troops which may be Just In the offing No one on has said whether these weapons use atomic en en- energy energy energy ergy or whether they are of a different character So far however none seem to have made their appearance on the battlefield The men In Korea are fighting with the conventional arms which have decided every war since gun gun- gunpowder gunpowder gunpowder powder was Invented One word of optimism came from General Bradley when he returned from Korea early In October He aid without elaborating that there was a chance for a U. U U N. N military r ry victory In the mean mean- meantime meantime time to quote U. U S. S News again Men ien are dying at an increasing rate in the war almost forgotten at home with no end in sight O O O OBAD CAD BAD TO WORSE AS RECENT news stories from various parts of the country have shown the beef situation is rapidly going from bad to worse worse due due to the incredibly con con- confused confused confused fused problem created by present price I ceilings and price control policies For a considerable period of time the number of beef animals which the es es- established established I law-abiding law packers have been 1 able to buy has been far fax below normal and far below the needs of consumers as well Moreover livestock prices price which are arc governed by rules so complex as to confound even the experts have experts have reached a point where in many cases tho the packers who abide by the law must operate at a loss if 11 they operate at all Something of a a. new high In the con con- confusion confusion confusion fusion was reached in the latter part of oJ September when the Army found bund it couldn't obtain pounds of dressed beef It needs in the domestic market A number of ot major malor packers In in- in formed the Army that they they- would be unable to put In bids One reason for this the packers pointed out was WIla that they couldn't get enough beef to handle the orders of their regular customers Another was that filling hung the Army's big order under present regulations would tall entail prohibitive losses Army officials announced that they would buy beef bee abroad broad if 1 they couldn't buy it at home All in all the beef problem has pre pre- tented seated the nation with a practically Perfect example of how price and other othe otherL otherL controls always gum up the works hur hurt the consumer and the reputable busl- busl I busl-I L' L L Continued on Page Five The Boys Column I I Continued from Pale Page One Onel ness alike and create problems problems' problems far worse and far tar more complex than the h problems they are supposed to solve Apparently the government nt Just j st hasn't learned the economic facts of life Ufe A PENNY A POUND PROFIT x THE TIlE RECENT death of John Hartford president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company brought to to a adose carcer dose cloie- ir career which did much Jo to tore tore- re fC- fC the philosophy of retailing in this country For Por Mr Hartford along with a few other pioneers devised the system of of- low-cost low mass distribution which has brought foods and goods of or orall all kinds in an unprecedented stream into the homes of America John Hartford's basic idea was once I expressed in these words We Ve would rather sell pounds of butter at a aI I penny a pound profit than pounds I at two cents a pound profit The great I chain system he headed followed that principle to the letter Last year A Ss P stores of which there are about did a gross business of The net profit on that huge volume was only per cent Other chains have been responsible for similar achievements In both food and general merchandising operations I Economies in purchasing and in op operating op- op opI operating overhead are passed on to the I consumer The profit on each Individual j sale is always very small But due to ro I bIg volume a k fair total profit is earned I I And so all concerned from owners owner to customers are benefited i iI i At one time there was a genuine fear I that the remarkable growth of the j I chains might mean the death of rode inde- I i pendent merchandising that there I would no longer be room for the little I store Time has shown that fear to be I I groundless the groundless the Independents to ro their j i credit met the chain competition held I their trade and kept right on growing gro I I II Stores of eve ev ry size and type have their I established place in the community and the tho economy econ my And that's the way it I should be I ITilE TilE THE LOW DOWN FROM FRO HICKORY GROVE TODAY I am giving the ladles ladle bless blessem blessem blessem em a chance to brag about what they have done since Ince they got the ballot back yonder 30 or so years ago They can tell tellus tellus tellus us how bow sweet and pretty everything Is Isnow s I now now or or maybe they can alibi the whole thing and tell us how come how how- ome saloons are arc re reI I even more plentiful pl How-come How a 1000 dollar car now costs 2000 and not 1000 as It was when w en the old pelicans were I I running the shebang alone We now have power shortages in J I dominates dominated domina te 1 regions regions we we can cnn be locked In Inthe inthe the tho cooler if it caught with gold dinero on our person person we we have rationing rationIng we we have confusing ceilings and floors shifted shift shift- shifted shifted ed on us over night we night we have an Income tax man fingering our paycheck paycheck we we have a 24 cent loaf loat of bread bread we we have havea a 10 cent short beer beer we we have hare 5 buck firewater firewater we we have Just about every every- everything everything everything thing per cent that we dont don't like Now gals what I want to know Is what is the fly Iy In the ointment why is everything not sweet and lovely Why is isa Isa isa a good girdle hard to find why find why do you have no more food in the ice box than 25 years ears ago maybe ago maybe less right Come Come right out with It it did the guy you voted for have a tie that tha yo you liked also did he have wavy hair hair and and also I maybe did it turn out that he was not too hefty hetty In the bean bean or or what You were going to clean up up-be up be honest now now you you will feel better tell better tell us Yours with the low down JO SERRA |