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THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 1960
WASHINGTON AND
SMALL BUSINESS
By C. WILSON HARDER
In some recent hearings, the
Federal Trade Commission has
been getting the answer that is
somewhat akin to the old gag
‘There ain’t nobody here but
us chickens, boss.”
* * *
In the Macy case in which
the New York department store
is charged
with seeking
and collect
ing over a
half million
dollars
suppliers
partication in
an anniTer-]
sary event
1958, th
Macy ex
tives all C. W. Harder
swear solemnly that uo supplier
was actually threatened.
* * *
In the pending matter against
Food Giant, a big supermarket
chain, charged with a similar
practice, the executives deny
there was any pressure,
ass
However, in the case of
Grand Union, one of the na
tion’s biggest food chains, the
FTC has taken a major step in
holding the chain in violation of
the Robinson-Patman act in so
liciting nearly 30 suppliers from
1952 to 1958 to pay to the chain
$1000 per month each for a mov
ing panel on an outdoor spec
tacular at Times Square on
Broadway. This decision will
quite possibly face a court test,
s s s
In making this decision, the
FTC took the position that while
it had not specific authority in
the matter, Grand Union was
in violation of the spirit of the
Robinson-Patman act.
* * *
It will be interesting to see
if and how the FTC position
will be backed up ... by court
decision, or by Congress pass
ing the required technical
© Natl ipal Federation of Independent BiuIdmi
amendments to the anti trust
laws.
» * *
It is a certainty that vet
erans of the Senate and House
Small Business Committees
such as Rep. Wright Patihan,
Sen. John Sparkman, Sen. Hu
bert Humphrey, and others,
would place little credence in
the defense of these huge retail
operations that there is not an
implied threat of reprisal when
suppliers are solicited to ‘ kick
in” with some cumshaw.
* .♦ *
The Macy executives have
argued that their buyers were
} Instructed not to press any sup
plier for a donation if any re
luctance was shown.
* * *
It is hard to imagine, for
example, a buyer for Macy, or
any other big operation report
ing back to the top echelon that
none of the suppliers that buyer
interviews agreed to make a
contribution. Such a buyer
would probably have some
doubts about his job tenure.
♦ * *
The vast majority of sup
pliers need the stores more
than the stores need them. In
those cases it does not take too
many “friendly” talks with a
buyer for the supplier to figure
out why he should contribute.
* * *
It is possible that out of these
episodes will come a strength
ening of the anti trust laws.
It is obvious it is not in the
public interest to permit such
practices to continue.
♦ * *
In fact, there are some ex
perts in the merchandising field
who claim privately that if big
chain operations were not able
to get special concessions no
one else gets, their operating
costs are so high that they
could not compete with well
managed independent opera
tions.
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for new furnishing’s. Just ’phone;
then trip in for your money.
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FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Ciemaon Extension Information Specialist
Lookout House Flies
You know science seems to have
finally eradicated the screwworm
from the whole southeast.
Now they are trying to work
out an eradication process for
the house fly. By spraying our lit
tle town of Clemson against mos
quitos several times the past
summer, it seems to have gotten
the flies too, for we saw hardly
any all summer. But spraying
can’t be done everywhere. What
science is looking for is a way
to make them became infertile,
as they did with the screwworm.
And that gets rid of them for
good and you don’t have to be
fighting them each season.
I note where the laboratory at
Orlando, Florida, has found a sub
stance which when fed to flies in
very minute amounts makes the
females infertile. It was the male
that was made infertile in the
screwworm case. But it should
work just as effective to turn
the thing around this way. v This
is still in the experimental stage,
but surely is good news to every
one. Just think, what it would
mean to comfort and health of
i.ian and beast to be rid of the
pesky housefly!
new bean for release in 1962. They
are now doing extensive work on
this crop.
But this survey showed harves
ting losses to run a little over 9
percent. Engineers Park and Webb
at Clemson are working on means
for lowering this harvest loss.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
Best Apples
After an exhaustive study of
apples, USD A feels that Johna
thans and Stay mans make the
best applesauce, Johnathans and
Rome Beauties are tops for bak
ing, and the Delicious stores best.
They didn’t say which are pre
ferred by most folks for eating
fresh. New varieties are coming
along that might displace some
of these. A lot of them are being
planted in that apple develop
ment up at Long Creek in Ocon
ee county, County Agent Morgan
tells me. Clemson is planning
some experimental work along
this line up there too.
Read and Go By the Labels
We have all manner of effective
sprays and dusts for insect and
disease control. Some are very
powerful and can only be safely
used in certain ways. So I6t*s
read and go by the labels. Then
no one will be hurt. Remember the
cranberry disaster! '/
Soybean Triumph
Once we couldn’t do much grow
ing soybeans for crushing here,
as we did not have a suitable
non-shattering sort. We could
grow ’em. But they’d just all
shatter out before we could har
vest them.
Now we grow a lot of ’em for
crushing. A survey on 62 farms
across the state showed that less
than 1 percent of the beans shat
tered out before harvest. So the
breeders have about whipped that.
County Agent Cain has kept me
in touch with the great work
John Wannamaker of St. Mat
thews has done in this. Beans of
his breeding predominate in our
plantings now. His and those
from USD A and other breeders
now ripen and await the com
bines. Coker has a most promising
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
The gentle patter of rain on the
roof in the fall had its meanings
too, just as that of summer did.
We talked of that last week here.
To us kids it meant the cotton
would be too wet to pick the next
day. And that was just fine. And
the hay would be too wet ,to haul
too, and the corn to break. So the
patter of rain on the roof was
just to our liking then. School
hadn’t opened yet. So the show
er was all that stood between us
and work, a thing we hated.
Talking about work, I wonder
if all kids were as lazy as I was?
I’d think it was t^e chills and
fever (malaria) we always had
that caused it but for one fact.
When it came , to building a dam
down on the creek, chopping a
large tree to get a little ’possum,
building our railroad and trestle
with old slabs from a sawmill,
and so on, I never got tired. So
I must have just been allergic to
work that was not of my bwn
choosing for I hated it in the/
field.
The shower made the leaves of
autumn heavy, and they fell fast
to the ground. Soon limbs were
bare. We could see the walnuts,
sc&lybarks, and hickory nuts, and
muscadines stood out on the vines.
The black haws too were just
right then, and the sandberries
sparkled temptingly from the
bared branches.
As with the summer patter of
rain on the roof, the fall show
ers had a different meaning to
our parents too. They meant the
grain could be sown with the
assurance- it would come up. And
they meant the fall garden
collards, turnips, and greens
would grow fast, lush, and ten
der. They meant soil moisture
and ground water, depleted v by
summer’s droughts, would be re
stored. And they meant the air
was cleansed of dust or pollen
that brought hay-fever to some.
The fall showers meant damp
ness on the roof and woodland too.
And that was security against
fires. And the first one gave us
a chance to burn out the chim
neys so the dry soot from the win
ter before might not catch at
some unsuspecting moment and
set the roof » bn fire. _
Showers, showers! They meant
a lot to us in the Stone Hills -at
all seasons.
Rev. Robert H. Harper
DRAGON’S TEETH
T HERE is a story of a man
who sowed dragon’s teeth and
reaped a harvest of armed men
who worked cruel havoc around
them. The conditions in the world
at the present indicate that some
one has sowed the dragon’s teeth
of unrest and dissension far and
wide.
Reports in recent months from
Korea, Japan, Tibet, Turkey, South
Africa, Cuba and elsewhere have
told of unrest, violence end death.
JUST A THOUGHT:
Peace on earth is not a com
plete impossibility, bnt we may
rest assured that we shall
never see a world without con
flict, aggression, prejudice and
hatred until every individual
in the world learns to respect
the freedom and the individual
rights of his fellow men every
where.
Men are stirring up hatred and
strife in the name of freedom,
while here in the United States
there has been difficulty enough.
And it seems that fatal accidents
on the land and in the air have
never been so prevalent as in re
cent months and the bitter weath
er and ravaging floods that have
beset our country.
It was in the month of June,
1815, that the Old Guard of Napo
leon perished almost to a man at
Waterloo and the long sway of the
great Corsican came to an end.
Let us hope that this June of 1960
may mark the time when new
nope of peace springs in the hearts
of men.
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She Dedicates Herself to Helping Blind
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At one despairing point
during Mary Jo Phillips*
seven-year confinement in
a hospital near Boston, and
while she was an iron-lung
prisoner of polio, a nurs
ing,nun read aloud to the
frightened little girl these
words of the tormented
Job:
“I was eyes to 4 the blind.**
Mary Jo, herself tormented
after seven operations and three
months in an iron lung, never
forgot Job’s words. At Ken
nedy Memorial Hospital, Bright
on, a nun and physical thera
pist suggested that since the
plight of the blind touched
Mary Jo deeply, she might
want to try her hand at tran
scribing. Braille.
Nothing interested her more.
Mary Jo’s fascination with
learning to Writ* for the sight
less was healthy m two ways.
manual effort
Braille ayrl to
berboar* strengthened her
thin ajwu' ind fingers once
paralyzed by polio. And spiri-
tually, this labor of love for
those even more terribly af
flicted than she, expressed her
gratitude to God at surviving
her own ordeal.
The first words Mary Jo
wrote in Braille, for the blind
to read through their finger
tips, were those of the unhap
py Job. (The Old Testament
patriarch was reminding the
Lord of his own succor to those
whose eyes had failed.)
Mary <Jo, who is 14 and has
spent half of those years in
hospitals, now is home With
her overjoyed parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Phillips of Whit
man, Mass. In her wheel chair,
the child continues her plucky
fight today agaihst the ravages
of bulbar polio.
With $32,000 in March of
Dimes contributions, The Na
tional Foundation has brought
Mary Jo along to t}ie point
where she can type slowly,
write, paint water colors, dress
herself “with just a little help,”
and even walk a few steps sup
ported by her crutches. >
But above'all, the little-girl
i$ devoted to her labors with
Braille. When she completes
the “bible* that is never far
^orr her, “Standard English
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Mary Jo's first line of Braille; written for the blind during
her seven-year hospital stay, fighting polio.
Braille in 20 Lessons” (she
sleeps with it under her pil
low), Mary Jo is planning to
transcribe fairy tales and
Mother Goose rhymes into the
pointed-dot vocabulary of those
who live in darkness.
When four, years hence her
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home histriictor gives Mary Jo
her high school diploma, she
plans thereafter to study the
teaching of braille to blind
children. That will be Mary
Jo’s inspiring career, a lifetime
of serving selflessly as “eyes
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