| Show r w wC I II C ideas from I From The Star Chickasha Chickasha Chick Chick- asha Oklahoma Did you know that your telephone is a luxury Item It doesn't matter if It you depend on it for tor fire Ore and police poUce protection for shopping for medical aid to maintain a social life We in fact for forthe forthe forthe the very operation of the business you depend upon to make a living Uncle Sam for tor purposes of a big tax bite classifies It as a. a luxury item This nonsensical definition has taken on fresh interest because of testimony before the House Ways Way and Means Committee which Isnow is isnow now studying ini tax revision 4 From the Page News Newe and Courier Cour Conr- ler ier Luray Lura Virginia Did you ever wonder how the famous old law of supply and demand works You saw a good example of the opera opera- Hon tIon of that lately this past sum mer Just as you do every summer In the trend of ot pork prices More than half balf of 01 all pigs are born in the spring and It takes six months for tor them to reach marketable mar size Thus less pork is available during the summer months And as a. the supply goes down while demand remains more or less constant the price rises reaching an annual high along about the latter part of August Come taD fan the trend i la is reversed Pigs are marketed in greater quan Utica Utie Supply it Is plentiful and the Inevitable result Is Li tha that thai prices start to drop The annual low is 11 usually touched early in December In other words natural law decrees de crees creel that when a commodity is 11 in abundance the price declines declines and and when it is ts comparatively scarce the price goes up That has been true since men began bartering goods It will remain true as al long loni longas longas' longas as as' as the free tree market exists From The Iron Ore And Reflector tor Ishpeming Michigan For their own good and the good of ot the nation nation na tion Uon the teen-agers teen who worked during the summer should think twice before deciding to quit school Last year one one- one fifth of the IS 10 and year 17 failed to return to school after taking summer jobs As a general thing the failure to get more education dims their future fu fu- ture tune because statistics s show bow that thata a boy who finishes high school will earn during the next 40 years 14 14 more than his fellow student who quits after arter Junior year For girls girl the differential Is la nearly But Dut more important the important the nation needs educated men and women to operate our complex economic ma chine We cant can't match the Communist Com hordes bordes in manpower Only through brain power can we keep keel ahead of them We must look to the tho schooL It |
