Capital journal., November 21, 1946, Image 4

4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1946
Capitals-Journal
SALEM,
ESTABLISHED 1888
GEORGE PUTNAM,
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Strange Kind of Monopoly
Declaring it is "still trying to make some sense" out of a
recent decision by an Illinois federal district judge classify
ing the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea company as a monopoly
within the meaning of the Sherman anti-trust act, the edi
tors of Collier's magazine assert they are unable by any
process of reasoning to reconcile the price slashing policy of
that chain store system with the monopolistic, price boosting
practices at which the act is aimed.
Declaring that the anti-trust law, passed in 1890, was
intended to restrain individuals or corporations from en
gaging in conspiracy to corner supplies of some one com
modity or other, with the idea of maintaining prices at un
reasonably high levels, the editors point significantly to the
fact that it is a basic practice of the A & P stores to keep
prices at the lowest possible level. That, they allege, has
been the root of all complaints by independent merchants
competing with the chain. It is further contended that the
company has even "conspired consistently to keep prices of
its wares down" by improving the efficiency of its mer
chandizing methods. Says Collier's:
"It has competed some small town grocers out of business, but
Jt has forced more of them to smarten up, keep their prices neatly
manicured, and treat the customers politely." For all its great
size, the big chain which has spread Itself over most of the country,
transacts only about seven per cent of the retail food business of
the country, and competes with several other far-flung chain
organizations.
It is recalled that back in 1904 when the law was used to
break up the conspiracy to gain control of meats the old
beef trust that the government's chief contention was that
the trust had lined up around 60 per cent of the nation's
meat dealers in a compact to throttle competitive buying of
beef from farmers. In view of the conflicting definitions of
what constitutes a violation of the Sherman act, we echo the
demand for a clarification "we would like to know not what
is a monopoly under the Sherman act, but what isn't a
monopoly. If this decision stands, what business can't be
penalized for using efficient methods" to bring prices down
and make everyday commodities more easily available to
everyone.
Pound Sterling and Dollar
The pound weight of silver, a common money standard
among the Romans, was introduced by them into the coun
tries they conquered, and the term "pound" became the
designation of a certain amount of coined money. Originally,
in England, it denoted a pound (troy) of silver coined into
20 shillings. Says the historian Hume-
"It has been an established opinion that aold coin was not struck
(in England) till the reign of Edward III (1327-1377); but there
has lately (1776) been found proof that it is as ancient as Henry
HI (1216-1272).
"From the most early times till the reign of Edward III, the
denomination of money had never altered: a pound sterling was
still a pound troy. That conqueror was the first that innovated
In this important article. In the twentieth year of his reign (1347),
he coined 22 shillings from a pound troy and, in his twenty-seventh
year (1354), 25 shillings. But Henry V (1413-1422) raised still
farther the denomination, and coined 30 shillings from a pound
fioy."
The modern English shilling 20 to the pound was estab
lished by Henry VII, in 1504 The term "sterling" derived
from "eastcrling," a silver coin introduced by the Eastphal
ian merchants of Lubeck, in the middle ages. The superiority
of English silver, its fineness being maintained by law, be
came generally acknowledged in Europe; hence the term
"sterling" came to mean "pure" or "genuine."
The word "dollar," our unit of value, derives from the
Low German "daler." Spanish dollars were in general cir
culation throughout the American colonies and our silver
dollar, as authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792, corresponded
roughly to their weight 416 grains, and having a fineness
of. 8924, By the Act of 1837, this weight was changed to
412i2 grains 910 fine.
Gold dollars, weighing 25.8 grains 910 fine were au
thorized by the Act of 1849, but their coinage was discon
tinued in 1905. In 1900 the gold dollar, weight and fineness
as above, was declared to be the standard of value in the
United States.
Through presidential proclamation, under the Act of May
12, 1933 and the gold reserve act of January, 1934, Franklin
D. Roosevelt fixed the weight of our gold dollar at 15 521
grains 910 fine; gold to be bought and sold by the U. S.
treasury, through the N. Y. Federal Reserve bank, at $35.00
fine troy ounce plus Vi per cent handling charges.
Cause for Concern
Contemplation of the fatalities resulting from motor ve
hicle accidents in Oregon during the first eight months of
this year reveal real cause for concern over the mounting
death toll on the highways and city streets. Official figures
compiled by the secretary of state up to September 1 dis
close that 304 persons lost their lives in the 38,128 accidents
reported up to that date. Four thousand, eight hundred and
thirty-seven accidents alone account for 47 lives lost in
August, as compared to 28 fatalities for the same month
of 1915.
Breaking the figures down into more detail, it is disclosed
that the eight-month listing of fatal clashes this year not
only exceeded the toll taken in each of the three first years
of the war, but also established an all-time mark for deaths
recorded during any eight-month period of the past.
At the rate with which deaths are resulting from traffic
accidents this year an average of 46 per month the total
for 1946 will far exceed that of any year for which statistics
are available. They will aggregate close to 450 lives, as
against 399 during 1941, the blackest year on record.
Whatever the cost, be it speed, carelessness, obsolescence
of cars and highways or a combination cf reasons, the figures
themselves point out a situation too appalling to be ignored
by the coming legislature.
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Landlocked
New York UP) Tony Fer
ente, 40-year-old bricklayer, is
a man of determination.
At 3 a.m. yesterday, police
said, lie tried to stow away
on the liner Vulcania. He fail
ed but tried again six hours
later, and when rebuffed, went
back at 1 p.m.
Tired of escorting him off the
pier, police held him until 4
p.m., when the ship sailed for
the Mediterranean with 925
passengers none of them Tony.
OREGON
Editor and Publisher
Parents' Paradise
Corvallis, Ore. VP) This col
lege town is a parents' paradise.
Co-eds serve as baby sitters free.
The baby sitters are provided
by Oregon State college Red
Cross chapter, and the only reg
ulation is that limiting the serv
ice to 10 p.m. on school nights
and 12:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Each family is allowed one
call a week.
Unfavorable weather condi
tions forced racing king Ab Jen
kins to abandon plans for pro
posed speed runs on Bonneville
salt flats in his new. light,
streamlined "Mobil Special."
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By Don
Maybe the idea is now to have
President Truman resign and
John L.. Lewis be named secre
tary of state to take over. Or,
perhaps, the formality isn't nec
essary. We've Just learned in a round
about way that Guy Hickok,
the genial bank manager, has a
Oregon Sheep
Win ai 'Frisco
San Francisco, Nov. 21 (IP)
With completion of livestock
judging yesterday, sales of prize
and breeding stock, plus com
petition in the rodeo and horse
show events, will mark the re
maining four days of the Grand
National Livestock exposition,
billed as the westls largest.
Another stock show planned
for the "Cow Palace" huge
South San Francisco home of
the exposition will be the
Grand National Junior Live
stock exposition, to be held for
the first time next March 20
April 3.
Meantime the grand champion
pen of feeder steers, exhibited
by Andrew A. Anderson's A Bar
A ranch at Encampment, Wyo.,
sold yesterday for 43 cents a
pound to Wilson Brothers Pack
ing company of Los Palos, Calif.
The pen returned Anderson
$930.95 to top the sale of 530
feeder cattle, largest sale of its
type ever held on the Pacific
coast.
Prices ranged from 17 cents
up to the top of 43, with the sec
ond highest price of 40 cents
paid by Ray Arano of Carmel,.
Calif., to Walter Markham of'
Salinas, Calif., for a pen of five
heifers.
In the day's Judging of sheep,
winners included:
Dorsets: Gath Brothers, Tur
ner, Ore., champion ram; Ken
neth McCrea, Monmouth, Ore.,
champion ewe.
Hampshircs: Godfrey Priddy,
Dixon, champion ram; Gath
Brothers, champion ewe.
Romneys: Ahrens Brothers,
Turner, Ore., both champions.
Shropshires: Gath Brothers,
both champions.
Southdowns: Claud Steusloff,
Salem, Cre., champion ram.
Suffolks: Vaughan and Wood
en, champion ram; Ahrens
Brothers, champion ewe.
Arizona's Hopi Indians are
the only tribe in North America
in which weaving is a man's
art. Best known of the various
cotton garments now made by
the Hopi are the white wedding
robes woven by every groom
for his bride, and the woman's
ceremonial robes and the danc
ing kilt and sash.
A. J. Muste, International trav
eler and lecturer, who will ap
pear on a forum at the YMCA
Friday night, November 22, on
the subject, "Must We Prepare
for Atomic War?" Mr. Muste
appears with Dr. Ivan Lovell,
professor of history at Willam
ette university, and State Senator-elect
Allan Carson, with an
opportunity extended for ques
tions and discussion following
the "three-way conversation."
Mr. Muste is co-secretary of the
Fellowship of Reconciliation,
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distant relationship to old Wild
Bill Hickok, the intrepid town
marshal of Deadwood, Abilene,
et al. in the days when town
marshals had to be tough. May
be after this if we are tempted
to cross a downtown street
against a red light or engage in
some other wild infractions of
the law we'll take a peek around
first to see if Guy is looking.
Ernest Denny, the deputy
county assessor and sage of Sub
limity, reports to us that as sus
pected Table Rock, House Moun
tain Rock and all intervening
rocks are engulfed in snow and
all of them expect to enjoy a
white Christmas from present
looks of things.
A business man was complain
ing to us that all of North Com
mercial street now . has been
converted into a through street
with the exception of the Che
meketa slrcet intersection where
stop signs are missing and thinks
this should be taken care of in
the interest of safety, uniformity
and other reasons we've forgot
ten. We haven't learned why
this street was left out with
folks generally educated now
into the idea that North Com
mercial is a through street and
we notice they drive their cars
by Chemeketa street with that
idea In mind. A few smashups
there may juggle forth another
set of stop signs.
Shortening seems to be run
ning true to its name' in local
stores. At least, there is noth
ing shorter in the way of a
shortage
Pleasant Pursuit
The Pilvies club of Burns,
Ore., today filed articles of in
corporation with the state cor
porations commission. Purpose
of the organization is to "seek,
pursue and acquire the cariacus
macrotes. that ccrvoid ruminant
with periodically deciduous
frontal appendages, otherwise
known as the mule deer . , ."
If anybody happens to see a
cariacu.i macrotes around loose
from now on they'll know what
to do with it.
Americans seem to have an in
satiable desire to organize
something and whenever two or
more of them with some sort of
common interest get together it
is sure to result in a society,
club or corporation sooner or
later. The idea may be all right
but it's also certain to sooner
or later result in one guy doing
all the work and the rest sitting
on the sidelines.
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By J. M. Roberts, Jr.
WPl Foreign Affair! Analyst)
The big four foreign ministers
remain bogged down in the
work they began at Paris and
the tentative date when they
were to have taken up the Ger
man question has come and
gone.
The ministers, unable to rec
oncile their views on Trieste,
are now reported ready to let
Italy and Yugoslavia try to
work it out between them. But
for Germany they propose to
follow the same old course an
effort to arrive at a tentative
agreement among themselves,
then an "advisory" conference
of all directly interested nations,
after which, presumably, they
will again try to compose their
own remaining differences plus
those injected by the conference.
What this system of negotia
tion will produce on the intri
cate problems of Germany re
mains to be seen. In the light
of experience, it could just be
possible that a general confer
ence first might make for better
progress
Czechoslovakia and Poland
already ore demanding that they
be permitted to participate in
the drafting of the German
treaty.
Russia of course, already has
done pretty well by Poland in
securing eastern Germany for
her in return for the part of Po
land which Russia took. But the
Poles express continuing inter
est in demilitarization of Ger
many and the corollary econom
ic questions.
Holland is demanding rectifi
cation of her German border,
though largely on a strategic
basis rather than with the idea
of repayment for the war dam
age done her.
Luxembourg also has some
border claims.
As a matter of fact, every
European country has a direct
interest.
Meanwhile, Germany becomes
more and more of an abscess in
the heart of Europe's economy.
Brig. Gen. William H. Draper,
Jr., chief of the economic divi
sion of the American military
government, says that such
economy as has been revived in
Germany faces collapse.
"Until boundary questions
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one economic unit," he said,
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become slf-supporting . . . The
fear in Germany today goes
deeper than hunger and cold.
It is the fear of continued eco
nomic paralysis the fear of
continuea separation of Ger
many into four parts."
General Draper doesn't say
so, but the fear goes even deep
er than that. What the world
chancellories fear is that Ger
many will be divided into three
parts that which is in and may
remain in the Russian sphere;
that which may go to France
and other border countries, and
that which stands the only good
chance o; becoming future Ger
many, the present British and
American zones.
West Point, N. Y., Nov. 21
0J.R) u, S. Military academy of
ficials Slid they might have an
announcement today on Army's
position on bowl football games,
with possible confirmation or
denial of a reported invitation
of Army to the Sugar Bowl
The United Press at Atlanta
was tolJ last night by a reliable
authority that Army's great
team, unbeaten in three years,
already has been officially ask
ed to play in the New Orleans
New Year's day game.
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Are Banquet Guests
Hubbard A banquet honor
ing members of the high school
football squad was given by
the Girls League last Friday
evening. Doris Shrock presid
ed as toastmistress and Mrs. J.
H. Beaver, former principal was
guest speaker. Short talks were
made by Principal J. O. Russell,
Coach Claire Keltnor and sev
eral team members. The squad
includes Bill Rose, Donald Bow
er, Donald Davis. Donald Brae
kett, Steve Tretsch, Calvin Aho.
Robert Dahl, John Strawn, Dick
Edwards, Harley Piper, Paul
Schafer, Johnnie Myers, Edward
Kelly, Keith Hyerly, Melvin
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