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FOUR MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, July 6. 1945 Cheers For the OP A (Editorial In Qulncy Patriot Ledger) We don't suppose that you could find a governmental agen cy more generally cursed and at tacked than the OPA. It is the target of all kinds of abuse and it is blamed for most of our home front troubles. Imagine our surprise, then, to hear a grocer say a good word for the OPA. Said he: "Listen, the OPA has driven me nuts with regulations, book keeping and all that sort of busi ness. The OPA has kept the peo ple in the food business with their noses to the grindstone, but on the other hand the OPA has done a good job for the con sumer. "If you don't believe it, just take a look at the way prices have been kept down in this war compared to 1919. My fig ures show the difference. Let me talk to you about carload lots, wholesale, at point of ori gin. "I go out to buy food for peo ple in ordinary circumstances. Dry beans for instance, are pop ular with folks having a mod erate income. In 1919, I had to pay $9.30 a 100 pounds whole sale for dry beans but today I pay $6.29. "Or take a lot of other stuff. I used to pay $3.45 for a dozen large cans of peaches and I can buy the same produce today, the same size can, same grade and same manufacturer for $2.22. "And look at evaporated milk. I used to pay $6.65 in 1919 for 48 cans of evaporated milk. To day's price is $4.10. ' Lard is an interesting item. It had gotten up to $35.80 for 100 pounds in 1919 but today I can buy It for $13.80 a hundred. Haisins were 19 cents a pound in 1919 and we pay seven and seven-eighths cents a pound to day: rice was 147s cents a pound and it Is six and a half today and sugar was $16 a hundred in 1919 and today it's $5.60. "Remember, of course, this Is for carload lots at point of ori gin. But remember, too, that anyone Is a sucker to pay black market prices for food when the OPA is doing such a good job In keeping prices at a fair level. "If the public would cooper ate with the OPA and refuse to pay black market prices, the task of the OPA and the mer chants who refuse to violate OPA regulations would be much simpler, "Now you may wonder why I am so enthused about the OPA when it has caused me so many headaches. Well, I'll tell you. I am a food buyer, I have been all my life in the last war period. I had an inventory of $500,000 worth of merchandise on hand and when the price structure collapsed, my inventory had dropped in value to $250,000. Today I am still a food buyer and once again I have a $500, 000 inventory. But I can go to sleep nights now and not worry that tomorrow the props will be knocked out from under me. I may be selfish about this thing, but it seems like good business sense. The American people get a break from the OPA with the regulation of prices; I get a break because I know that the market has been stabilized. You may not like the OPA and all its red tape but; you sun have to give u credit for accomplishing these two great services for the American purchaser and the American businessman. EDITORIAL FROM THE S T. LOUIS POST DISPATCH "Cigarettes cost 38 cents each in Germany, razor blades are $1.60 In Chungking. A pair of shorts $12 in Calcutta. In Java a sarong can't be purchased at any price unless a hundred' weight of cotton is also tendered. A cheap suit of clothes costs $158 in Italy. "In the U, S. A., we have the OPA, which, so far as we can make out from the printed mat ter, is dictatorial, stupid, diabol ical, inconvenient, meretricious, long-winded, improper, unfair, unprofitable, irrelevant, legalis tic, lopsided, ridiculous, bureau era t i c, unconstitutional and bursting out at the seams. Be that as it may, you can get a cigarette for a penny, a razor blade for a nickel, a pair of shorts for six bits, a suit of clothes. for $30, and a sarong for Lamour, toujours Lamour." The oldest breed of the pre sent day horse known to man is the Arabian. NVENTION PAYS James A. Stubblefield, former resident of Medford and son of Mrs. Maude E. Stubblefield, Rt. 2, Box 412 F, recently was awarded $10 for an "Idea for Victory" that is speeding the war effort at Sacramento Air Technical Service Command, Callfifornla, where he is em ployed as an aircraft mechanic. Stubblefield's invention was a small punch which can be used while working in confined places on airplane wings and metal surfaces. Stubblefield has been em ployed at SATSC for three years. His twin brother, Sgt. John A. Stubblefield, is in the 34th Infantry division. ARNOLD QUITS POST IN U.S. COURT OF APPEALS Washington, July 6 U.P) President Truman today "regret fully accepted" the resignation of Thurman Arnold as associate justice on the U. S. Court of Ap peals for the District of Colum bia Arnold, former "trust-busting" assistant attorney general, told the president in a letter aaiea July 3 that he desired to return to private practice. Puruckers Receive Praise For Store Numerous letters of commen dation from piano manufactur ers and music trade journals have been received by Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Purucker since recent opening of their new Medford concern, the Purucker Piano House on North Central avenue. Particularly praised is the dis play and demonstration arrange ment and the floor setting. Let ters from the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, the Everett Piano Company, National Association of Music Merchants, Piano Trade Magazine, and The Music Trades comment on the building. Illustrated stories of the de velopment of the store and its present modern floor plan ap pear In current issues of several music trade magazines. PITTSBURGH PROTESTS MOVING IN OF NISEI Pittsburgh, July 6 (U.PJ The 26th Ward Citizens Committee filed a suit in common pleas court today seeking to prevent more than 100 Japanese-Americans from being quartered in a vacant orphanage in their neigh borhood. The bill charged the presence of the Nisei would be "detrimen tal" to the neighborhood and would "depreciate" property values. The ROLLING PIN 509 So. Riverside REOPENED FOR BUSINESS Has been closed a week on account of sickness. STEAKS, CHOPS and DINNERS DALE & DORN Proprietors WASHING MACHINES REPAIRED Parts ft SerTice on All Makes B. & B. WASHER SHOP 406 C. Main Phone 5302 HYPERACID ST MA 1X1 DISTRESS "foil must get rai, fcrrttiiVe kcuci- with lebsin from miserable discomfort, or your money back. At HEATH'S DRUG STORE 29 N. Central phone 3551 .Mow long will It take to beat 1 .' One Year? Three Years? Five Years? Look at these Facts. . . From the Army and Navy. Then Figure it Out for Yourself ! In spite of Midway, Bougainville, Tarawa, Saipan, Leytc, Manila, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and all the other American victories, Japan now controls an area and population far larger than the United States, and with many natural resources greater than ours. Her home islands are industrialized and organized to the last rivet, the last kilowatt of power, the last pair of human hands. Japan can put in the field over 4,000,000 well-trained, battle-hardened troops, many with ten years of war behind them. This force is twice as large as all the German armies which defended France, the low countries and the Western front of the Reich against the combined armies of the United States, Britain, Canada and the Tree French. Back of these soldiers are more than 70 million civilians on the Jap home front, firmly indoctrinated in emperor wor shipevery man, woman and child ready and eager to die for the man they believe is a god. Published In Cooperation with the Jeckton County War Financing Committee by the Bakers of Japan is fighting on "interior" lines. It's true that its fleet is now much smaller than ours. But never forget that the U. S. Navy has a much bigger job to do. The Japs have stated, and no thinking man or woman doubts it, that they are prepared to sacrifice 10,000,000 men to hold their empire. To the Japanese, life is cheep? The emperor and the state mean everything the individ ual, nothing. , If the war were to end tomorrow, Japan would have put the seal on a conquest greater than Napoleon's. "But," you say, "the war with Japan won't end tomorrow." Well, what about it? Will it end "tomorrow," or next month or next year, for you? Are you planning to quit your war job, stop your blood donations, slacken your bond buying, use black market gas, have more fun, ease up generally? Before you do, remember that many a gallant American boy, now vibrant with the breath of life, will die at the hands . of the Japs. How many? Thousands? Certainly. Hundreds of thousands? Probably Well, how many? That's up to you. Jackson County Is 35 Short of Its Quota in "E" War Bonds! TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY! "Let's Go "Over the Top!" - WE HAVE NEVER FAILED BEFORE WE MUST NOT FAIL THIS TIME BREAD and CAKES
