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THE ITHACA JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1938 THREE fond. Granted Chief Patriarch Myron T. English, and staff of Tompkins district will install the officers. Chairman of the dinner committee Is Myron Glanister. Bishop Confirms Class of 304, Largest in Parish History his secretary, Katherine A.

Roberts, 22. No criminal charges are to be brought against the secretary, the police sergeant said. Four to Help Plan Celebration Cornell Man Shot Fatally In Gun Mishap ffoMark archery championship in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, and 1937. He is a member of the National Archery Association which, after its development of the past few years, boasts a membership of more than 50 clubs and a total of individuals. Hoogerhyde has been active in archery for more than 10 years of his 32.

Armistice Day IOOF to Confer Degree Friday The initiatory degree will be conferred on a class of candidates at the meeting of Ithaca Lodge 71, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Archery Champion Demonstrates Art Russell Hoogerhyde, five times national archery champion; after a background talk on the history and importance of archery, proceeded to give a demonstration of archery techniques this morning in the Senior High School. Mr. Hoogerhyde shot his bow and arrow from all points in the large assembly of the high school, including the balcony. He gave an exhibit of several trick shots, among them one with bow held behind him, one from a backward bend, and a William Tell feat of shooting a balloon from, the hand of a student.

Hoogerhyde won the national Odd Fellows Plan Installation NEW EXCLUSIVE Sport Ensembles In Checks Stripes Plaids' With Contrasting Plain Tones and Matelasse and Lame Trimmed Afternoon and Dinner Gowns For Women Annette Dress Shop Opp. City Hall Cor. N. Tioga and Seneca Phone 7568 Four additional members have been added to the Tompkins County Veterans' Committee which will meet Friday night at the VFW Post rooms on E. Seneca St.

to discuss further plans for observance of Armistice Day in Ithaca. They are Walter Knettles and Earl Boyd of Groton, Walter Hunt of Dryden and Glen O'Connor of Freeville. MaJ. Herbert D. Gibson of the Department of Military Science and Tactics at Cornell has been chosen as marshal.

at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the IOOF A former Cornellian died at Glens Falls today from a bullet wound said to have been inflicted accidentally by his secretary, according to the Associated Press. The victim was Dr. Philemon Murray, 26, a veterinarian at Glens Falls. He graduated from the Veterinary College at Cornell in 1934.

State Police Sergeant Greyford R. Smith said that Dr. Murray was shot Monday in the abdomen by Temple. John Grooms will be degree master. The food committee chairman will be Ortha Strone.

as sisted by Harold Clough, William Installation of officers at 7:30 p. m. preceded by a turkey dinner at 6:30 p.m., Monday, Oct 10, will feature the session of Iroquois Encampment 16, Independent Order of Odd District Deputy Council sped ClnM7 meeting at cy tt-tday in 30 minutes, pi fffSS accepted a brief re-Sfsfi6 Commissioner J7 Lunn and appropriated th. Armistice Day celebra-location being premised t. Sn by the Board of Nothing was said establishment of a side-dJtor the pending budget "fSre rentals, or of other tS? require aidermanic 'Warks Time nuTthe council Is marking 5ttwwd is heard from the ms Administration which Lked to make 45 per Ss for the $500,000 Water expansion and the Sewage disposal plant mod-Tretolte word regarding fleets is expected within tt mnnieinal official Knott and Roland Kellogg.

The silver anniversary first degree team, in preparation for Oct. 15, will rehearse promptly at 1:30 p.m. Sunay, Oct. 9, at the Temple. Lawrence Dick, degree master of Lock Haven, invites all members of the lodge to attend the Beatfcs anb funerals Stanley II.

Johnson A Statement of Public Policy by The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company Stanley H. Johnson, 54, died at I tS ter the meeting. Were VKbeaPProve the councils his home, 109 DeWitt Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 4 p. after a long illness.

stents IOr WW probably be greatly relief wowui nittin? alloca- He is survived by his widow, Mrs, fcce4 tnereuj Lou C. Johnson. Funeral services will be held at 4j3BS.for Charles 2 p. m. Saturday from the Van Order Funeral Home, 511 W.

Sen JSSresentatives of the Torap-ctr Veterans Committee, SLST the $250 ftr "a patriotic with the eca where friends may call, Burial will be in Tyrone Union Midst blazing lights and rituals centuries old, 304 persons from Ithaca and Tompkins County were confirmed In the Catholic faith Wednesday evening in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. A class of 252 children and 52 adults, the largest In the history of the parish, was anointed with oil by the Most Rev. Edward J. Kearney, Bishop of Rochester, and "made strong" in the faith which they had entered at baptism. The ceremony was performed In an hour and a half.

At its beginning, the 304 initiates and their "sponsors" completely filled the two center sections of the church. Every other available space was taken by parents and friends, many of whom stood throughout the rites. The children were picturesque the boys in dark suits, white shirts and red neckties; red, the color of the holy ghost, and the girls in white dresses and head veils of knee length. Approach in Groups Sitting quietly under supervision of the Sisters of St Joseph they approached the sanctuary in groups of 30 the boys first. Ranged along the sanctuary steps, each child was attended by his or her sponsor the older, already confirmed members of the church standing directly behind their own particular initiates with right hands placed on childish shoulders.

Bishop Kearney, attired in gold and white vestments and towering mitre, carrying a crosier, passed along the rows of tiny suppliants time after time. New children from the church's main body stepped into the places of those confirmed. The bishop, accompanied by three priests and two altar boys, stopped in front of each childish figure. Upon each forehead he made the sign of the cross with holy oil. Through the organ music came his voice: "I sign thee with the sign of the cross and I confirm thee with the chrism of salvation.

Blesses Each One Giving each initiate a slight blow on the cheek, the richly-robed pontificate said, "Peace be with thee. The bishop and assisting priests performed the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and the newly-confirmed children and adults chanted the "Apostles Creed," the "Lord's Prayer," and the "Hail Mary: Preceded by a group of candle-bearing altar boys. Bishop Kearney left the church, blessing the congregation as he went. Participants and spectators in the ceremony, all followed in his wake. The confirmation, first to be held in Ithaca since Oct 11, 1936, was directed by the Rev.

Lawrence Casey, vicechancellor of the diocese. The Rev. John B. Crowley of Auburn and the Rev. Theodore Winterroth of King Ferry assisted Bishop Kearney during the Atice Day Cemetery, Tyrone, N.

Y. Jesse DePutron council responded promptly. original motion was amend- Jesse DePutron, 50, died at 3:10 was m. today, Oct 6, 1938, at Memor pro- to stipulate tnai me tiEe the money available er'- for a ial Hospital where he had been a sim- patient since Sept. 26.

ail a ftfionnt is made by the super- Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the home in the US03. jan, Opposes Proposal tin fmm Buildme Com Town of Danby, the Rev. Savercool of Dryden officiating oner Lunn that the annua! Interment will be in Quick's Cem etery in Brooktondale.

Kcense for eiecincat tuuuai. fmm SI to $10 and that annuauv met Mr. DePutron leaves besides his widow, Mrs. Pearl DePutron, two sons, Lloyd and Harry; one daugh UBSiaeis tj i a sharp rebuke from Alder- ter, Bertha home, and two sis Jin AffiOS a. uaruB.

i to start taxing people for being ters, Mrs. Edith Sloughter of Can dor and Mrs. Viola Monroe of Slaterville Springs. business," ne saw, we ucu ax 'em al I think that's discrim-fcitory." This matter was referred to the charter and ordinance com- Warren Wortman Funeral services for Warren Wortman, 54, of Waterburg, Town Xdennan John A. Leachtneauer of Ulysses, will be held at the Stewart Funeral Home in Trumans- cpd action on tne proposal to t.Mirfc truck "traffic" IBuiS uiivwfo Xeadow St to the south but was burg at 2 p.

m. Friday. The Rev. E. R.

Scholz, pastor of the Jack sonville Methodist Church, will of idvised by city Auorney iruman Powers that the matter rests with the State Highway Depart- flciate. Interment will be in Grove Cemetery. Truman sburg. Mr. WTortman died on his way to to prohibit such traffic on South i Memorial Hospital Tuesday, Oct 4, El in tne iuiure.

Because or me toger" to other motorists. His survivors include his mother, Mrs. Mary Wortman; one sister, Mrs. Enos Hardenbrook, both of jedestrians and property. Ithaca Graduate's Book Published Ithaca, and two grandchildren.

Airs. Julia M. Norton Funeral services for Mrs. Julia M. Norton of 403 N.

Tioga who died Monday morning, Oct 3, 1938, "Peregrine and the Yak," writ-is for young people by Esther were held at the home at 9:15 a. tesj of warrenton, Va, and Wednesday. There was a Requiem Chester, a graduate of the De- snent of Physical Education at High Mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 10 a.m.. City Federation Plans Tea iaa College with the -Class of sung by the Rev. Paul Cuddy.

Interment was at Lake View Ceme- has just been published. Is Bums, who spends her sum- tery where the Rev. Robert Kress ess with her sister, Mrs. Eloise officiated. Wan, in Rochester, is a teacher the Warrenton Country Day Honorary bearers were Mrs.

Frank Burns, Mrs. Emma Hutchin scaooL She conceived the idea of her first book from telling son, Mrs. Leo Sullivan, Mrs. John Irish, Mrs. Richard Couch and Mrs.

Frank Mone. Bearers were Neil lanes to children. Mrs. Wilkin has the illustrations. Bank nn'dvAM to.

Kennelly of Ithaca, Dr. Edward Kennelly of White Plains, John City Federation of Women's Organizations will give a tea at the Women's Community Building Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. All women of the community are invited. Leaders of the various activities carried on at the community house will be present and opportunity will be given those who wish to sign up for activities to do so. Among this fall's offerings will be hobby and study groups in current events and international relations, gardening, playreading, music appreciation and pottery I ICs Barns' literary work, May Murphy of Elmira, all nephews of uaoerton Becker of the New lott Herald-Tribune savine Mrs.

Norton, Edward Kane, George 4. The Interests of the Farmer flight million farm families are engaged in producing the food consumed by the American people. All of the farm homes in America, therefore, comprising one-fourth of all of the population of the United States, have a direct interest in the methods of distribution by which the products of their labor and of the soil are marketed. Approximately 30 of their production is marketed through the chain food stores; about 70 through individual grocers. Their fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs are sold through the chain storesat prices averaging 8 to 1 0 cheaper than the prices at which they are sold by many grocers.

If the farmer sells a given product to both at the same price, the individual grocer must charge the public more to take care of his higher costs. Thus 30 of the farmer's products reach the public at low prices and 70 of his products reach the public at higher prices. If the public cannot consume a given crop of apples, potatoes, berries or any other product, at the prices at which they are offered, these goods do not move from the grocer's shelves; a surplus accumulates and the farmer finds that he either cannot sell the balance of his crop or must sell it at a substantial loss. Only too often a situation arises when it is literally cheaper for the farmer to let his apples or his peaches rot on the ground than to expend the labor costs necessary to pack and ship them. Every farm economist knows that a 1 0 surplus does not mean 1 0 less return to the farmer but often more than 20 less return.

In other words, the farmer's problem is to sell his products at the cost of production plus a fair profit and to get them to the public with as few intermediate costs and profits as possible. It is therefore obviously unfair to the farmer to propose legislation which would, at a single blow, wipe out 30 of his distributing machinery and that 30 "the part which maintains the price to the farmer yet reaches the public at low cost because of economical distribution. It would be just as unfair to the farmer to propose putting out of business all of the individual grocers of the country who distribute 70 of his produce. Both chain food stores and individual grocers perform a distributive function yital to the interests of the farmer. If either failed to function the farmer would be faced with tremendous surpluses and heartbreaking losses.

For years the A 6c has dealt with the farmers both as producers and consumers. We feel that we have a definite obligation and duty to oppose any legislative attack upon their best interests. 5. The Interests of Labor Every business in this country has a vital interest ih the purchasing power of labor. When labor has high wages and great purchasing power, everyone is prosperous.

When labor's purchasing power is curtailed, all business surfers and the American standard of living is impaired. For many years it has been the wise policy of the national government to protect real wages and the purchasing power of the worker's dollar. Combinations or agreements to raise prices, thus reducing real wages, have been declared illegal. It certainly seems strange that it should now be proposed to destroy a group of businesses for the frankly admitted reason that they furnish the necessities of life to the wage earner and his family at low prices. There are approximately 900,000 workers directly employed in the chain store industry.

What course is open to us but to oppose the action of a man who, at a time when more than 1 1,000,000 wage earners are already out of work and 3,000,000 families on relief, proposes a bill that would add almost another million to the roll of unemployed, wipe out 30 of the distributing machinery of all of the farmers of the United States, and raise the cost of living of the wage earners of the United States. We believe that our organization has rendered a great service to the American people and that it is as a result of that service that we have prospered. If we consulted our own interest it would be very easy to stop and enjoy whatever leisure we have earned. No one is dependent upon us except our fellow workers. However, after the fullest consideration of all interests, we have arrived at the decision that we would be doing less than our full duty if we failed to oppose, by every fair means, legislation pro-- posed by the Honorable Wright Patman.

As we have said, Mr. Patman is an able politician, an able lobbyist and an able propagandist. In that field he is an expert. We are experts only in the grocery business. We believe the chain stores have a right to present their case to the American people.

We will not go into politics, nor will we establish a lobby in Washington for the purpose of attempting to influence the vote of any member of the Congress. We expect only a full and fair opportunity to present the case for the chain stores as a great service organization for the American people. Since the task we have set before us is one involving the widest dissemination of complete information to all of the American people, and since this is a profession in which we are not expert, we have engaged Carl Byoir Associates, public relations counsel, to do this work. We realize that our views are seldom news. We know, therefore, that we must be prepared to spend a substantial sum of money in telling our story to all of the American people.

We declare now that this money will be spent in the dissemination of information through paid advertising and every medium available to us, and in cooperating in the work or formation of study groups among consumers, farmers and workers, which provide open forums for a discussion of all measures affecting the cost of living. We believe that when the American people have all of the facts they, will make their decision known to their representatives in Congress. As Americans we will be Hassan and Harold Carlyon. This book was good for at least i half dozen hearty chuckles and The Catholic Daughters of Amer ica, Court Santa Marie 240, of which Mrs. Norton was a charter spontaneous laughs, which is Bmusually high average for me.

-ere is a homely charm about it The Honorable Wright Patman, representative In Congress of the first district of Texas, has announced that he will introduce in the next Congress a punitive and discriminatory tax bill frankly designed to put chain stores out of business. In the past, Mr. Patman has been very successful in securing enactment of legislation which he has sponsored. He has demonstrated that he is a very able lobbyist and propagandist for his own bills. The management of The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company is therefore faced with the necessity of deciding upon a course of action in relation to this proposed legislation whether to do nothing and risk the possibility of the passage of the bill and the resulting forced dissolution of this business, or to engage in an active campaign in opposition to the bill.

In arriving at a decision, the interests of several groups of people deserve consideration the management, the 85,600 employees of the company, the consuming public, the millions of farmers producing the country's food, and labor. 1. The Interests of the Management The interests of the management can be dismissed as of very little importance. The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company is managed by George L. Hartford and John A.

Hartford under an arrangement made by their father, George Huntington Hartford, the founder of the business. George L. Hartford has been actively engaged in the grocery business for 58 years, working generally six days a week, 52 weeks a year during that entire period. John A. Hartford has been actively engaged in the grocery business for 50 years, working generally six days a week, 52 weeks a year during that period.

Both of these men could, of course, retire without personal or financial inconvenience and live very comfortably if chain stores were put out of business. The record of the last calendar year shows that out of any money earned annually from the business, in the case of George L. Hartford, 82 percent is paid to government in taxes; in the case of John A. Hartford, 83 percent is paid to government in taxes. As neither of the brothers has any children, any monies left out of their earnings would accrue to their estates, and in the event of their death, inheritance taxes would pTobably amount to two-thirds of such accrued earnings, leaving approximately 6 cents on the dollar as a motive for continued personal service.

It is therefore apparent that the interests of management need hardly be taken into consideration in arriving at a decision. 2. The Interests of the Employees The interests of the employees of the company are, however, a matter of very grave concern. It is simply a statement of fact to say that the employees of The Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company generally throughout the United States receive the highest wages and have the shortest working hours of any workers in the grocery business, whether chain store or individual grocer. Many of them have devoted all of their working lives to the interests of the company.

The management, therefore, has a definite obligation and 'duty to defend the interests of these 85,600 employees against legislation intended to throw all of them out of work. 3. The Interests of the Consumer Since this business has been built by the voluntary patronage of millions of American families, we believe that we must give consideration to their interests in this matter. Millions of women know how acute is the present problem of providing food, clothing and shelter for themselves, their husbands and their children out of their present income. When food prices go up it is not a question of paying more for the same food.

They, do not have the additional money with which to pay. Therefore, they must buy less and eat less. A 6c Food Stores last year distributed at retail $881,700,000 worth of food at a net profit of 1 This food was sold to the public at prices averaging from eight to ten percent lower than the prices of the average individual grocer. Literally, millions of sales were made at prices twenty-five percent lower than those of the average individual grocer. This saving of eight to twenty-five cents on each dollar is of vital importance to these millions of families.

If they were denied the opportunity to buy at these lower prices it would simply mean that in millions of homes they would have to leave meat off the table another day a week, eat less fresh fruits and vegetables, give the growing child one bottle of milk less every week or stint on butter, cheese, poultry, eggs and many other of the most nourishing foods. In the last 1 0 years during the greatest period of chain store growth, the number of individual dealers has increased rather than decreased. We maintain that there is nothing wrong when these dealers charge more than we charge. They must charge these prices in order to make a fair profit. The average grocer will, upon request, deliver the groceries to the customer's door and in many cases extends credit to some of his customers.

Delivery service costs money. The grocer must put this added cost in the prices to his customers. In the same way the extension of credit involves the expense of bookkeeping, the tying up of capital, and credit losses. There is nothing wrong in the higher mark up of the individual grocer, because he is rendering a service that justifies his prices. If some customers can afford and voluntarily elect to pay a higher price for groceries and meats because they want credit or because they want delivery to their homes it is quite proper that they should pay an additional price for such service.

However, the millions of families in this country whose income is limited and who can have more and better food because they are willing to pay cash and carry home their own purchases, should not be denied this opportunity. Millions of families of limited incomes can only enjoy their present standard of living through these economies and savings. These millions of American families have helped us build a great business because they believe we have rendered them a great service. The company therefore, has an obligation and a duty to protect the interests of these customers. member, attended in a body.

tnould be really popular." Sew Forest Home Pastor Arrives ReV. "William PnKr new acting pastor at Forest r-j wapei, with his wife and 3ghter. Judith inn wst Home to make their Key have been living at Norman VLi where th m. graduate work at the lasl year Eaa. at Zemtn CaitM was Pastor of the Presbyterian Church.

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Mammoth borders on ii wide graceful skirts. Rich fur-encrusted sleeves. En- veloping warm luxury on nubbly American-made woolens. I $5950 I HOLLEY'S 1 16 E. State St.

jj content with that decision. 7 1 to-0Perate Machines ptone 2589 Information E- BISHOP I SOROS HARTFORD JOHN A. HARTFORD 352 West SUte St..