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_ DAILY MEDITATIONS
The merciful man doeth
O SIS good to his own soul, but
. he that is cruel troubleth
i his own flesh.
FThe wicked worketh a
. deceitful work, but to him thai soweih right
eousness shall be a sure reward.—Proverbs
11:17-18.
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Smart Merchants Are Already
. Anticipating Buyers i
. Anficipating Buyers” Market
' BY S, BURTON HEATH
The TLong Island Railroad is falling all over
itself to make friends with the-scores of thousands
who ride it daily between home and work. A new
operator has been sent by the parent Pennsylva
nia Railroad. Not only is he wooing the customers
with words. He has gone to the extreme length of
irying to improve a service thi® long has been a
national jest.
Having a small but troublesome hardware pur
chase to make, the other day we ventured, one
after another, into four stores that have bees
giving us the horse laugh for years when we askuh
for anything. )
This time everything was different, All” were
pleasant. Instead of walking off in distaste, they
paused to tell what they did have, and since that
wasn't acceptable they even suggested that some
body else might have what we wanted.
Department stores and even haberdasheries are
ad\'ex'tisixmg bargains, and clearance sales. Tele
vision dealers in some places have slashed the
heart out of list prices. Scotch is on open shelves
at prices no higher than increased taxes would
justify. Airlines are offering reduced rate vaca
tion trips. Railroads are f(looding printers with
brilliantly-colored travel literature designea 1o
get us onto trains.
All these, and more like them, are straws in the
wind. During six war and postwar years those
who sell goods and services had been getting in
creasingly irritated with us who had the imper
tinence to want to buy. Now—and doesn’t it seem
nice?—they’re accepting our patronage, even pres
iending to welcome it.
It would be unwise to exaggerate the import
ance of such straws. Most items still are in short
supply, led by homes and automobiles, not 10
mention gasoline and heating oil,
Prices, after resting a bit, have got a sixth or
seventh wind and started climbing again, Prelim
inary figures from the National Industrial’ Con
ference Board show that consumer prices in May
passed their previous all-time high, reached in
January. The cost of food is up twice as much &s
the overall consumer price index.
Obviously the improved attitude on the part of
gellers does not reflect a glut of goods on their
shelves. ;
Clerks take their tone from bosses. If one were
guessing why bosses and their clerks are getting
friendlier to us customers, maybe it is because
they have begun looking into a figure that is get
ting closer.
It’s still mostly a seller’s market. But buyers
aren’t quite so desperate for goods.
%re smart merchant—of goods or services—
never did deliberately insult his customers, though
many did get careless. Some, less alert, let them
selves get very independent and nasty.
Those whose eyes are open now are trying to
rebuild good will against the day, sure to come if
slow, - when the custcmer again will be king, If
you want to know which businessmen will be
haunting unemployment offices eventually, seek
ing jobs, keep a list of those who still act as
though they wish you wouldn’t bother them by
asking for something to buy.
. Mosses may look like tiny evergreen trees,
toses, ostrich plumes or any of hundreds of
bizarre shapes.
. The 15,000,000 patients admitted to U. S. hos
pitals in 1946 represented more than double the
number admitted in 1936.
' The Nazis destroyed 70 perceni of Netherlands
bridges in their retreat from that country before
the Allied advance.
The shortest subway in the world operates in
the 700 foot tunnel between the Capitol and the
Senate Office Building in Washington, D. C.
More than sl2 worth of fuel is wasted annually
by the average farm tractor owner im the United
States, according to surveys.
R iiornce
° Ceramic tiles, used as floor and wall coverings
on many modern church buildings, were found on
ihe wails and floors of the excavated paiace of
‘Amenhotep IV which served as a shrine to the
k(}od 2,400 years ago in Egypt.
Is The Coalition Of Russian
Puppets About To Crack Up?
It has been given out that Marshai Tito.
of Yugoslavia, and the government he
represents have been kicked out of the
Russian coalition behind the iron curtain
on account of charges that Tito has for
saken the Marxist-Stalin combination and
has been leaning too much towards the
Western Allies.
It may be that the Soviets have a stran
gle hold on Yugoslavia that can remove
Tito from the powerful position he has
held with the Yugoslavians up to this
time, but Tito is a fighter and will not
give up easily. It may be that the Soviets
are facing a situation in the Balkans that
will spread to the other puppet states be
hind the iron curtain and that Joe Stalin
is facing much trouble in his movement to
dominate all Europe.
This movement away from strict Stalin
ism may grow when tne Marshall Plan
gets into full swing in Europe, in which
event the Soviets will be brought to a real
ization that they have some hot political
potatoes in their hands.
Judged by the events of many previous
decades the Balkans can be depended
upon to keep the pot of political agitation
boiling ‘even to the extent of bringing on
armed conflict. Just now the Balkan
states are under Russiin domination, but
there is no foretelling what the people of
those nations will finally do. They are
used to stirring up international trouble
and Russia may in the end have her hands
full in keeping them quiet.
The Soviets will not be able to easily
brush Tgto out of the way. He does not
give up easily. He does not hesitate to
fight and he may resent his ouster by the
Russians to an extent that will bring Sta
lin face to face with trouble of the most
serious nature.
Republicans And The Farm Vofe
The Republican party has always been
strong with the farm vote of the Mid-
West. It is probable tMat this vote will re
main with the party in the presidential
campagn this year. And yet that vote
presents an inviting field for Democratic
campaigning,
The Republicans will have to stand on
their Congressicnal record. In naming
their ticket they have by-passed the Mid-
West, though there were a number of
aspirants from that section of the country
in the fight for a place on the national
Republican ticket.
A review of the Congressional record
of the Republicans, who controlled the
last Congress, shows but little aid to the
farmers of the entire country. There were
a number of ways in which they might
have taken care of the interests of the
farmers, but they were not pursued. The
Democrats should point up to Mid-West
farmers some of the shortcomings of their
hitherto favorite party. It may not be ef
fective, but a bid and a strong one for
Mid-West support by the Democrats
might prove to be very advantageous.
Copying May Be Preferable
Boeing engineers have studied photo
graphs of the Soviet’'s Ilyushin four-jet
bomoer. They deny that it has any basic
resemblance to our XB-47 Stratojet. The
man in charge of designing Boeing’s six
jet high-speed bomber gives evidence
convincing to the layman that the Rus
sians have not pirated it.
To those who fear Moscow's designs,
this brings little consolation. While the
Boeing experts think their plane can. out
speed the liyushin, they see evidence that
the Russians have ‘some wide-awake
aero-dynamicists.” If we are in the arma
ment race with the Bolsheviki, it is more
dangerous for them to prove capable of
devising their own good weapons than it
would be for them to rely on copying ours,
which would leave them always lagging a
bit behind.
s The Ohio Penitentiary softball team is
igoing on a road tour, to play a home-and
/' home series with the London, Ohio, prison
farm nine. It is the idea of Warden Ralph
lAlvis. As an old-time athlete he has picked
his team with care. He is looking for home
runs. But as warden he will keep a close
eve to make sure that they are the right
kind of home runs.
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Spaghetti - 10¢
13-Oz. Pkg. Kellogg's
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24-Oz. Bottles (Plus Bottle Deposit)
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