Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1931, Page 7

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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, July 6.—With the great drift from the farm |to the city near its end because the | size of cities is reaching the point where | 1t is no longer eccnomical, States must | take steps toward a factory-farm com- | bination to take care of their popula- | tions, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York told the Institute of Public Affairs here today. Gov. Roosevelt described the efforts of New York State to halt this great influx by surveying its 18,000,000 acres of farm land. This survey probably will show, he said, that at least 4,000~ 000 acres’ now under cultivation should be abandoned because it cannot be farmed profitably. Anticipating _this finding, the proposal for a $20,000,000 bond issue has been placed before the voters with the object of buying this land and either reforesting it or turn- | ing it into recreational areas. “Every State,” he sald, “has the prob- lem of the abandoned farm. There is no doubt but that in many cases the abandonment should be accelerated. Rural Plants Proposed. With the farm land on which it is impossible to make a living out of cul- tivation, he said, much may be done for the farmer by inducing small in- into the farming areas. Thus the farmer will be able to earn wages in addition to the return from his small farm. Gov. Roosevelt spoke on the problem | of regional planning, #y which not only can the drift to the citles be | stopped, but the uneconomical distribu- | tion of markets be done away with. | Thus, he pointed out, throu%‘l lack of | planning, milk for the cities bf Florida now is shipped from Wisconsin, passing through the_ excellent dairy regions of the South. Farmers in Georgia, instead of raising milk for Florida, have gone in for peaches, which now are such a load on the market that they often are produced at a considerable Ioss. New York State, he pointed out, was | obliged to resort to a subterfuge to pre- | serve the new city market for the State | farmers, first requiring inspection of all dairles supplying such milk and then saying it didn’t have enough in- spectors to go far beyond the State | limits. All this, he said, may be elim- inated in the future by intelligent plan- | ning. | Ll Big Saving Predicted. | The purchase by the States of un- economical farm land, he said, is cer- | tain to result in big savings, eliminat- | ing the expense of extending telephone | and electric lines into such areas, doing | away with many of the expensive one- :room school houses, and lightening the | burden of road building, which i5 too | expensive for the counties He expressed the hope that all the States would experiment toward bring- TowN=—"— “Thanks, and then some. But it's nothing to the stroke of good luck I had in discovering the WEST END LAUNDRY., It's the bachelor's friend.” Don't Forget—West End Does Fine Dry Cleaning, Too. PHONE METROPOLITAN 0200 WEST END LAUNDRY 1723 Pennsylvania Avenue N.\V.v 1201 Conn. Ave. 1737 F St. N.W. 1006 15th St. E 1122 14th St. N.W. Combination of Farm and|te THE EVENING ing about “some form of living which will combine industry with agriculture” and thus bring to an end the old con- | an flict between the two in political reac- tions. The American people, he said, are becoming outdoor-minded. ‘The chain store tide in American business has reached its crest. It is now clear, said Dr. Clyde W. Phelps, professor of economics at the University of Chattanooga, that the ad- real. These ps, he sald, simp!; caught the ine eren.lznt merchant uI:l! prepared by applying scientific methods in the fields of buying and selling—but there was no inherent reason why their competitors could not do the same, and they are beginning to do it. One great apparent advantage, hé sald, was that of lower prices, secured by buying in vast quantities. The in- dependent merchants now are offsetting this by organizing large buying groups among themselves and establishing their own wholesale organizations. The second advantage was in the scientific display, selection and advertising of g The independent merchant now has learned these tricks. Besides, Dr. Phelps pointed out, increasing competi- tion among the chain store systems themselves plays into the hands of the independent. Groups Have Advantage, “There are mo inherent advan in the devige of centralized ownerspin and control,” Dr. Phelps said con trasted with independent ownership STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931 CARSON IS RETURNED;$2,500 GOODS STOLEN with co-operative group control. But the -scale organization has had, still does have, some temporary advantages, such as cleanliness and at- tractiveness of plant, sclentific pricin; rapid turnover of stock, low-cost adver- tising and intelligent volume buying. “The comparisons of chain and in- dependent prices on limited samples of grocery items seem to indicate that the average chain store sells cheaper than the independent merchant belonging to » voluntary group. Such compari- sons do not take into consideration the costs to the merchant and the values to the consumer of credit, delivery, per- sonal service and other non-compared items. But even large differences be- tween prices would not necessarily sig- nify anything more than a temporary advantage. A merchant or group of merchants who are first to fully de- velop and then capitalize on a new idea are due to ‘clean up,’ but unless the idea or method is exclusive or not easily copled other merchants seize the advantage and the temporary superi- ority vamishes. Adopted Scientific Methods. “The chains got off to a considerable head start in capitalizing sclentific methods in retailing. The spread of this method among 400,000 grocers and over 1,000,000 other retailers, not to mention thousands of wholesalers, is naturally a slow process. It was an easy thing for a few score chain op- erators to get the idea and almost over- night create scores of thousands of units where it was immediately applied. “Efficlency in retailing depends not upon the large scale corporate device as to other forms of organiza- tion, but upon sclentific method. Suc! methods can be as expertly applied by the larger and more alert independents as by the corporate chain. It can be applied to a large extent even by the smaller retailers. But what of the so- called ‘hole-in-the-wall’ type of op- erators? Even if all the store keepers with less than $10,000 volume of busi- ness went out the decline in independ- ent volume would be only about 15 per cent. But it appears to be an impos- sible task to drive out the little store keeper. Many of them sell at a lower cost than even the largest chain be- cause of using the same place both as a store and a_home.” The big chain systems may grow slightly, but at a much slower rate than in the past, Prof. Phelps predicted. He also predicted that the chain store and the independent will become more alike | He in every respect and that the great vol- untary groups of independents will grow. A probabllity of the near future, he said, will be a growth in the use of private brands of goods by both chain and voluntary groups in order to re- coup extreme price cuts on nationally advertised products. Lightning Kills Three. PARRY SOUND, Ontario, July 6 (#). —Three children of Herb Hodgins, a guide at Moon River, on the north shore of the Georgian Bay, were killed when lightning struck the Hodgins home during a violent storm last night. TO D. C. REFORMATORY Escaped Youth, Out Three Months, Again Serves Time for Hold- ing Nurse Captive. Howard L. Carson, who held police at bay several months 8go while he at- tempted to persuade Miss Annie Jen- nings, a Sibley Hospital nurse, to marry him, was back at the District Reforma- tory today after three months' freedom. The youth was arrested yesterday aft- ernoon near Thirteenth street and Park road by Sergt. J. R. Leach and Detec- tive R. F. McCarthy, tenth precinct. made no resistance and readily identified himself. Carson, who escaped from Lorton Re- formatory in one of the guards’' auto- mobiles, was serving sentence in connec- tion with his escapade with Miss Jen- nings, who was dramatically rescued by Policeman Earl Baker. Baker climbed into an upper story window in Carson's home at First and S streets after mak- ing a perilous crossing on a narro :;'lonln[ board from an adjoining build- 8 In spite of the general downward tendency in imports of the Irish Pree State this year, American food products FROM W. E. CLARK CO. Thieves Leave Valuable Furnish- ings Undisturbed—Gain En- trance by Smashing Door. ‘Theft of upholstery and fabric samples wortn approximately $2,500 from W. E. Ciark & Co., interfor deco- rators at 1212 Eighteenth street, was discovered today. The discovery was made by a colored Janitor, who notified Fred Clark, mana- ger of the concern. Clark, notified police, who began an investigétion. ‘The inquiry revealed that the robbery was effected by smashing a glass panel in a rear door. 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It is no small matter to provide bakery facil- ities of sufficient magnitude to supply even partially the demands of nearly four hundred retail stores located in all sections of our city. ECKINGTON PLACE AND R ST. N.E., WASHINGTON, D. C. While our plant is second largest in the District of Columbia, occupying one hundred and twenty- five thousand square feet of floor space, and em- ploying one hundred and fifty people, there have been times even during this first year when our facilities have been taxed to the limit. We said very little about our bakery when we started, preferring to wait until wepassed the first mile stone, when we could tell you of some of the things we have accomplished, rather than boasting about things we hoped to do—a course which we have always felt was much wiser to pursue. During the first year there have gone out from our ovens MILLIONS of loaves of bread. In addition to HUNDREDS OF TONS of cakes. The baking of bread alone is an interesting subject, involv- ing much greater detail than the average person realizes—for ex- ample, we are today baking thirteen different kinds. The same thing is true of our cakes, which today include a variety of twenty- seven different kinds and flavors. The production of so large a vol- ume requires enormons quantities of ingredients, which are brought direct to our door in carload lots, thereby expediting de- livery and effecting greater economy, which we are enabled to pass on to our patrons. * We are naturally very proud of our bakery (even though it is only one of the departments used for the productions of “Sanico” products), and during this anniversary period we wish it were possible for every person within the District of Columbia to visit our plant, but knowing this is beyond the realm of possi- bilities, we shall bring our bakery to you in a series of advertise- ments in The Evening Star each Monday. In this series we shall show you actual photographs of our bakery and explain how our various products are made and the care exercised to maintain that high standard of quality for which they are known. In conclusion Vpermi'r us to express to you our deep appre- ciation of your patronage, and to extend a most cordial invitation for you to visit our model plant at any hour con- venient to you—Eckington Place at R Street N.E.