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PAGE TWOTHE DAILYMadrid Streetsixes ton . Missouri1HESTON PUBLISHING COMPANYPublisherSTANDARDI oISSUED DAILY, MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AT 8 IKES TON, MISSOURI Enttred at the Postoftice at Sike*ton, Scett County, Missouri, as Second Cl as* Mail Mattet, ot Confess March 3 February 4th, 19S0.accordinq to Act 18?9, Saturday,C. L. Blanton,Kelsey Short .. Marins Scott A L. Arnold Carl King—_ G W. Gardm Bases:Managing Editoi ___ Citr Editormilk production has pone up 23 apercent.Milk and ice cream companies, j si The Standard believes, arc conducting the same sort of unfair fight against filled milk products 0( as the dairy industrv waged a- hlt; gainst margerine. This attack on st j filled milk products is simply an at attempt to tell the consumer he et may not have access to the pro-Iduct even if the consumer really I prefers it.tiSome people prefer filled milk products because they cost lessDispl./ Advertising, per inchReading notices, per line .____Classified, per word _________Advertising Manags* than whole milk and ice cream; it --------- Mech. Supt. sorne because they consider it less mfattening; some because they pre- m-•Sfjfcr the taste; but whatever the pi I k reason. The Standard takes the tudcmonth, position the customer has the9V mail in Scott and Adjoining Counties: I';ght to buy flllcd-milk products....... S5.50; ‘fcllgfl!-' 5d5£5f- JUS ’wTS ?«* companies marketing them haactcarrierElsewhere in the United States by mail:__________in the United States by3 months, $2.25; 6 months. $3.50; 1 110.00, payable in advance.Single Copy------------T^rMEMBERNATIONAL EDITORIALThe Island Daily Press Association The Missouri Press Association Audit Bureau of Circulation* Associated Press The National Editor AssociationThe Associatedhave every right to manufacture ylt;them.'* ' jApparently the dairy interests ar Se are unable to devise a method of “ | marketing whole milk minus thebutterfat at a price that will com- thpete with filled-milk and are taworking along the theory that if atthey can't match competition sue- micessfully with pricc then they wlshould invetg'e gullable legislators m;to Vaislate that competition out abtjti at £of business. , *' j Both whole and filled milk products are wholesome products, go Both whole and filled milk are bil fully controlled by law in their fu:ly to ths use lsr repuhlication dj all ! production. Both products must pice^T1J^'aTEIw. ^s^ch.T,pai“ I be fully and completely labelled oforPOLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTSas to their contents.The Standard is firmly of the ga opinion that since this is a free crWe are authojized tc announce as a country in which every and an tiowill at the voters tVpe of producer is entitled totes ay pn. . make his livlihood that filled milk jiocandidate subjectin the citv electionFor Alderman, Ward 4:W. H. SIMMONSSomehow ills andproducers should not be ham- js strung by jealous competitors who jia cannot bear to see that tiny sixityxuie tears 01 tne Growers of soybeans and cotton afj dairy combine fail to rouse any haye the rjght tQ sell their CJ.ops ^tempest of resentment within us ^Qr conVersion into vegetable oils against the use of filled milk pro- _md the banning of flned milk {ioducts by consumers who prefer it procjucts would eliminate onesource of their income.whole milk.From our viewpointit is clear-1 The idenced that the current up- tors o created and fanned by the suadecunwaaninterestsmeThe choice between whole andmilk products, as The Standard sees it, is one to be made by the individual consumer.* * *•la\us due solely to the mamfestedly unjust and so clearly fact they would eliminate compe- designed for the aggrandizement pr tition and any grade school pupil j nf one group at the expense of an- rtu knows what the elimination of competition means—a wide open field for any interest to skyrocket filled prices on the basis of take it at Stanc our terms or do withotit.Just why are the dairy interests so concerned? Here we have awhanAnyonepicture of an organization attcmp- produced prosperity is the real ting to jam through legislation to thing should read a recent com-force the consumer to buy whole ment by Edgar Ansel Mowrer, the milk products regardless of well-known columnist on worldhoiswhether the consumer wants it or not.To The Standard it looks like aaffairs. He said that in the last two wars “the United States government went deeply into debtbrazen attempt to interfere with to the people. Borrowing and private enterprise and to throttle spending so much money is boundUiboticbea•ic-or the illusion of prosperity.one industry so another may grow tlt;richer v and bigger. * j-What is filled milk that causes' “The trouble is, such debts cith-the dairy interests to froth at the cr have to be paid or canceled bymilkwith the natural butterfat ex-inflation“Conclusion: the American peo-tracted and vegetable oils and vi- pie were not more truly prosper-tamins added. It is marketed in ous during two world wars TheyasdehadessertsIn marketable form filled milk products are made of about 94 percent rrulk products and six per- wading for.were merely on a spree.”e * eBathing beauty—A girl worth!oifo;docacent vegetable fats% DoesnMan in Painesville, O . was shotterests are in a tenable position '• by his lawn-mower. Seems he when 94 percent of their product1 was rutting the lawn and theblades of the mower clipped and exploded a .22 cartridge. Bulletis used in a commodity and onl six percent of another productnuSt!agco1::;aCould it be they see a handwriting hit him in the for.t. on the wall and know the day may i * *be coming when they will have to! Stulfed dates are blondes whopay the producer more for milk? | order everything on the menu.Does the fact the filled milked ’seemanufacturers pay the farmer A man thinks a pretty girl is more than they do have any bear- like a melody when he marries ing on the present furor and agita- her and later wonders what was , tion for a law to put the filled wrong with his musical apprecia-milk products manufacturers out • tion.w cArth'onof business?Take the case of Milnot. Publicily it has asserted “we consistently man pay the dairy farmer more for his milk than do our competitors— an average of 21 cents per hundred more for whole milk thancompetite e eLook at me. I amThat j*; the trouble with thischidlt;Carnation, Pet andAmerican democracy succeeds or fails within a five-mile radiusMFA Pro* of the town pump. America’s basiducers Creamery Co. Milnot wlsjo laboratory of Jiving is one’s owneclares that ace It lt;n buviiy; community There, oi nowhere.•■.hole milk in soutfnvc * Missouri comes the demonstration lt;t thlt;
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Sikeston Daily Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Thu, Mar 10, 1955
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