The Yellow Springs American, Volume 1, Numbers 1-22

'•• '*so n » • n c r a u r , , » i , • K S S JS E ’u .'SB "1 THE GREENE COUNTY PRINTING CO, Jamestown Journal — 4-9031 Cedarville Herald — 6-1711 Yellow Springe American — 7-7740 GERALD H. COY , , , . .............. .............. . PublUher. ,Subscription riitcs S2JM) per year in Greene, Clark, Montgomery, Fayette amt Clinton Counties; elsewhehe S3J10 per year, Advertis­ ing rates upon request. The Case Against Socialized Power The Freeman Magazine recently carried an ex­ tremely compelling article by 0, Glenn Saxon, en­ titled “Denationalize Electric Power." He went into considerable detail concerning the tremendous ex­ penditure of our tax money that has been made to advance socialism in the power field. At the end he gave these five basic reasons why the government should get out of the power business: '*1. To reduce its debt; "2. To reduce its expenditures, including pay­ roll ; ”3, To provide a new source of tax revenues to aid in balancing federal, state, and local budgets and reducing tax rates; "4. To give consumers the benefit of the more efficient and lower cost service which the record here and abroad clearly shows private management in­ variably provides; ”5. To reverse the trend toward socialism and big government in business which if continued on the scale contemplated, will lead to socialization of other fields and, finally, to national bankruptcy and the Welfare State." All of these reasons are important. The fifth and last is infinitely the most important. It dwarfs a 11 other considerations. Socialized power is simply one phase of an all-inclusive socialistic goal which, if ever realized, would destroy freedom in this country as surely and ruthlessly as it has destroyed it in Eastern Europe, Dividing Up Your Retail Dollar A large food i*etailing organization in Florida re­ cently described what happened to each dollar i t s customers spent w ith it in a late year. And this actual story Is a significant one for budget conscious con­ sumers, Here is how1 that dollar was divided up; 85,11 cents went to buy merchandise; 8.4 cent was used to meet the payroll and to support various employe bene­ fits; taxes tookl.38 cents; miscellaneous overhead ex­ penses total 1,32 cents; rent and utility services cost 1,20 cents; depreciation claimed ,85 cents; ad­ vertising accounted for ,72 cents. After ail these costs were paid, 1,02 cents Was left, And that was the retailing organisation's profit In every branch of retailing, the profit item is far smaller than most o f us realize, In fields where problems of style and seasonal changes are involved the profit naturally must be higher than in the case of staple merchandise. Even so, the net profit o f re­ presentative stores rarely runs above four or five cents and often is much less, No other people gets so much for their retail dol­ lar as We do, We Must Produce More Food Hie population of the United States is soaring, At present the increase runs to 7,000 persons a dny.Govcrnment experts predict a 20 per cent popula­ tion junip in the 1950-00 period alone. These people must he fed—and fed, for the most part, on what can be produced on our c r o p l a n d s Which the 1950 census put at 336,349,000 acres, The experts also say that if our present living standards are to he maintained through 1975, it will be necessary to bring 100,000,000 more fertile acres into production. Yet even optomistic forecasts hold that only 50,000,000 currently unproductive acres can bo cleared,drained, irrigated and improved by 1975. We are presently bringing in only 2,000,000 acres a year and more than half of this is offset by the ex­ pansion of cities, towns and industrial areas. The meaning of these forecasts and figures is clear. Unless we are to suffer a decline in living stand­ ards, we must get more and more food and fiber* from bur productive land. And that menas the intensified application of scientific production practices and bet­ ter land utilization, Fortunately, that is not a visionary goal. Farmers and land owners are precticing conservation farming on an ever-increasing scale ad in a manner that would have been impossible a few years ago. The best con­ servation and land use practices require machinery that was non-existent fifty years ago. but which is now standard farming equipment. The agricultural future of the United States, and of the World for that matter, lies In maximum use of power-driven implements by farmers and ranchers who realise, that.the machine-rtather than a futile. I**rctvfJtj»w land—mroyldea the solution tojeeding , « •xpaadtag l*pu fom n *4- BEST RESULTS ", # V" OUR CLASSIFIED ADS! THEY THE BEST “LITTLE [” YOU CAN HIRE THE MONEY! OUT the COUPON and MAIL to US Please rim this Classified for #» number of times □ OAiflt □ CHARGE 10^ per line first time each con­ secutive time for half price count 6 words to line, ,................................................. ...... , .................. „ ... .... 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