PAGE POURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

Tuesday, May 12, 1959

Tuesday, May 12, 1959

With All Those In His Comer-

We Vote Right But Not Enough

Most counties in Eastern North Carolina lake a great deal of pride in the fact they are almost solidly Democratic when it comes to partisan elections, i'ur-thermore time and again leaders speak with pride about the number of votes his particular county cast in a particular election.

When a particular county or community votes a large percentage of its registered voters in an election it is indeed something to be proud of because it reflects the interest of the people in government.

When it comes to getting out a heavy vote in a general election, however, the counties of the Ea.-;l have to take a back seat generally to counties in the Piedmont and Western sections of the state.

In the presidential election of 195G, for examplo, total of 14,388 vcrtes were cast in Pitt, a county \\hich had 63,789 people according to the 1930 census. In that same presidential eb'ction iubarrus (ounty, which had six less people than Pitt according to the last census, cast a total of 21.633 votes, Davidson (ounty, which had 1,300 people less than ibtt when the census was taken cast a total of 26,163 votes in the 1936 presidential election.

While those counties may have more regirtired voters for their population than Pitt has, it is also evident that they get more people to the polls on elec

tion day than we do. The same picture, generally, is true for moat counties in North Carolina of comparable size. Usually the county in the Piedmont or Western section of the state gets out more votes than a county of comparable population in the Eastern section.

To some extent thi.s may be due to the fact that more of a two-party system exi.sts elsewhere in North (arolina than is the case in the Ea.st. It may al.so be that residents of those counties take their voting in general election.s more seriously than is the case down here where the big battle is in the primary and the general election is sort of taken for granted.

Whatever the reason, the difference in the number of vote.s cast in comparable counties should make the people of the Eastern counties sit up and take .stock of the situation.

The founties of the East generally still have a long way to go in getting their voters to the polls on election day before they catch up with counties of their own size in other parts of North (Carolina. We think we do a pretty good job, but we might take some lessons from counties in other area.s which the statistics show are doing a better job.

Shouldnt Hesitate On American Bank

Should General '-und Pay Costs?

(ongre'-s i.hould not shy away from President Ki enhowers proposal that the United States participate in esiabii.shnient of an inter-American development bank.

The United Stairs has pumi)ed l)illions upon billions of dollars into the economie.s of other countries ffiroughout the world in recent yars. Certainly it should not ajipear reluctant to be of economic aid to Its closest neighbors.

By LYNN NISHF.T

PATROL PAY The hiKhway patrol us jHupporteri out of the hlahway fund. It Is conlended that this is not actually a (llveraion of funds, since the patrol is prc sumed U> he on tlie iiKihwavs protecting lives and property For several weeks now there liave been from fk) to more than KHI patroliTien riotng police duty at the strike hound Henderson mills. Questions are being a.ske<! whe ther or not the general fund should reimburse the highway fund for the maintenance of tliese patrolmen while assigned to non highway duly.

OVERLAPPING One of

the reasons given by Rep. Kemp Doughton for killing the .Jnnes' bill providing for 14 highway commissioner instead of seven, was that as amended all the terms would run until July 1, pHil. thus forelng the new (iov-ernnr to accept for six niontlis some eommlssloners fie rnlgtit iul want Fact Is. that amend ment offered by Hep. Carroll Holmes was Intended to give the next Oovernor a free hand In naming the hlghwiiv eommis-sloner.s. The present net provkh'.' for four year staggered terms, (invernor Hodges has appointed three member,s, whose terms W'lll expiro July 1 this year, to he replaced by nppoliilments Minnlng until July 1, lUtCI more than two years Into llie next administration. Four other terms will run until July I, IPfil

Tenns expiring this year are those of Robert Huiuielle of Aslirvllle. James Mason of I.nu linhurg and Lee White of (on cord. Continuing for two years more are Melville Hroughton of Halelgh (whose term as ehiili man expires this year, hut not as a member), Fletcher (Iregoiy of Weldon. Ralph Howland of El kin and Elvey While of Wllmtng ton.

fitaggered tenure Is favored l)V most students of govenmnuit because It tends to eontliiulty. There have been times when the plan tended to hamstring a new exe-rutlve by carry-over afipolntee

It Is not unusual for a new liov-enior to get rid of earry overs by the simple device of i-hnng Ing the organic,atlonal sli'urture of cornml.s.slons.

TRADrnoN Tradltionally such orgnnl/.allonal changes are made at heglnnlng of an ad ministration upon retpie.sl of the tiovernor. For that rea.son Irgt.s lalors. Including lho.se who do

not like some of llie pie,sent dr partnientnl settip.*!, hav e been i e-luctsril to change them in mid term That was the principal reason for defeat of the .tones highway bill in the Hon.sr. and

of the Auditors power hill In a

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committee While reluctant to np-.set the Hodges organization, legislators are not enthusiastic about making further drastic changes Witness the AB hoartl and UU lilies Commission proposals,

Precedent Is al#no.st as dear to the hearts of legislators as to Judges, and they are slow to veer from old practiee.s, Fre.sh men memtiers have had unsuaal Influence this session, tail the older fellow.s would not tolerate a proposal of Hep Kllilati Bar-wick of Pasnuolank that hills to exempt certain counties from a statewide Idll should be tabled, Ttie jiolle.y of legislative courte sy. permilllng the representatives of any countyt o get through almost any kind of legislation for ills own bailiwick. Is deeply Imbedded in custom,

CommltU'cs usually cheek such hills to make suie ttiev do not affect other eounlles. Proposals to change dales or add new court terms, for example, are carefully compared with the whole division calendar to avoid conflict.

Colleagues had a good lime rihhliig Barwick when he said what Is good for 7.'ilk) c(jiintle,s (Might to he good for I he whole slate He W'HS asked if he had forgotten lh(* Pns(piolnk Mill of l!)3ri that broke the prohltil-ll(Mi front 111 North Carolina, and 11 he would he willing to abandon liquor store.s lu Ins county hecau.se more than half the e.ouiitl(*s did not w ant I hem. He sul down quickly.

VISITING There wins n lot of visiting h(lwern the Hini.se and Henate last week, Hepnsen tallves crowihd into the Senate ctiamher for the final action on minimum wage.s Senator.', le turned the visit lor llu Housede hale on the highway commi.vnon bill

Prof)OM( (1 by repr^'seiifative.'i of the 21 American n piiblicH. the billion dollar bank would be financed with $150 million trom the I'nited Stales and the remainder from Eatln-Annn'ican countrie.s. It would provide a H'ady source from which I.atin-American na-tion.s could borrow in order to cope with some of th.dr most pressiuK siiciaj and economic problems.

By JIMMY ELLIS

MisreDresentation Here

There can be no doubt that U, S. participation in the venture would bolster the relations between Ihi.H country in its lailin Ame^rican nations. Neither can there be any doubt that if the United States does not fiartii ipat< other major nations of th(* world will (luickly offer to Join the ventur and thus get their foot in the door of Ian American affairs.

Alvin Taylor he of the red hair In The Reflector. leglons -was rambling pleasantly the other day about the season.

jured up an Image of my own.

For years it has been eviiboit that the United Stales needed to take a more positive attitude toward Ilf Ipingr its neiKbbor.s in the Western Hemisphere. Only recently, however, has the United Slates showed the (b'jsG'ee of aKtfrcHsiveness in cultivating Uatin-Ameri-can rfdation.s that we would like to see. Establishment of th( proi)o.sed inter-American devodopment hank is a po-^jitive step in the rijiht direction.

The time of year is nice, he allowed, and a person can find one of the little pleasure of life in going home in the cool of the evening, slipping Into a pair of Bermuda shorts and letting the rest of the world go by. His muslngs were akin to something idyllic.

What could be finer, I asked, than changing into Bermuda shorts, sprawling across a lawn chair and dispatching a bowl of home-made ice cream for which someone else had turned the freezer crank

He had all of us dreaming with him, and one of the group claimed first-hand knowledge of the wild Joy that comes in taking leLsure In a lawn chair. I murmured a second to the expression of delight, and con-

The verbal dreaming wound on and on in the waning hours of the afternoon. The expressions w'ould have warmed the heart of a Byron or a Keats, those for whom the fineness of living had found a literary outlet.

All of it was, as you might well suppose, too good to be true

Alvin, a veritable lelge lord in The Reflector newsroom but a

UofiiircM.k ,<h()ul(l K'ivc ((uick .approval to U. S. participation in th venture.

Not Much Cheer

Other Editors Saying ... ohnson As A Candidate

Amona Bia Four

PORTHAITM Fiesenttttlon to the Slate of North Carolina of a portrait of Itie lali Goveruor and Senaior W Kerr Scott leaves only two ptetuK's mlKslug ainnng the chief exeeutlve wtio Imve served In this eentuiy. Therel s no portrait of Governors J.C B Khrlnghaus and R. Gregit Cherry In the eivpllul or the nian.sloti.

Mr.s Cherry ha.s an excellent portrait of her lale Imshand which .she ha.s Indicated will eonie to Ihe Stale, hut she does not want to he .separated fioiu II now So far a.v can he leaiii-ed there b not nnywtieie aii oil painting of l';iuMngliau.s iPtvei-iior Hodg(S lues accepted In t>e half the .Stale portjal.ls of Govrrnoi.s Max Gardnn. Clyde Hoev , Willlnni Umelcad, Mevtlle Broiichlon and Kerr Scnll He ha.s expi ('-s.srd llie Itope tliat kJiilnglian.s can he added to tlie Itsi dnrlng lil.s term

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Kv JA.MKS MAKLOW WASHINGTON tAPi Ihe meeting of Ihi* Big I^'onr foreign mliil.slers In Geneva can hardly l(e (leNcrltM'd u.s cheerful No wonder Before he left for Hw'llzerland S(*creUiry of State Christian A. Herter said he wa.s n'l vMy optimistic,

British Foreign Secretary Sel-wyn Lloyd cautioned again.st too much optiml.'sm right after hi,*C nival

At a We.slern luncheon Sunday. reports said, Herter looked llred French Foreign Minister Coiivp de Mui'vUle looked .ser-loii.s, and only Lloyd seemed hap-

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One of tlie greute.st deadpan.s In the tm,siii('.s.s, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, said wtien h(' got there he expeeted .seiiou.s work,

Ibd his boss. Premier Nlklla Khi n.stuiiev, ha.s already said tie looks on ttu' meetings n.s a nul.x-atu e and a delay In gelting to the Mimmtl wltli Ire.sideiii Elsenhower Miiv wrt.x the mood iM'foie any one renlly .said an.ithing I'hen it got worse fast The We.si Grrmap foreign mm-Islet. Hehrncti von Hrenlano. and hl.s oppo.silr nnmlH-r. For eiun Mliu.slt'1 l.otlrar Bolz, of Conmnnilsl Ka.sl Geiinaii>, are also ni Geneva i'he We.st wa.s willing for tln'in to Ire at the coiifn r'ltce. but onlv for coiunillnlion, if needed, not as |artlii|nint.s lire Wt'.sf dor'Mit want sitliiig In dlitcUy becan.se might lie Interpreted a.s ing tlie Wi'.sl n'cognl/i'.s

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Germaii.i, wtilcti It doe.snt.

Gromvko began to get In some lick.s betoie he even nu't lire Westerner.s,

Lets meet at a round table, Gromyko told the We.sleiner.H through hLs atde.s The We.stern-er.s said. Leis have s .square table

So ha.s.sle No I got .started At a round table the Soviets, who want recugmtlon for the Ea.st German., could argue that seating Bolz would jiust be a matter of shirting a couple of chairs around to make room for him.

At ft square table with the tlnited States, Britain, France and the U S S.R each occupying one side the Wt'st could argue all lire plrtce.s were taktui up and thert* WH.s no room for Bolz, This is symolic r':i.sonlng on hofli sides hut the Soviet and We.strin aides had to agree on some kind of table before the rmnlstei.s could even pull up Chali.s.

This wa.s had enough for a stall iin'ii Gromyko let it he known he wanted Ea.st German Bolz .sitting in a.s a full participa nl rigid from the start i'he fli.sl n'actiou among Ihe Weslrilieis tu (ieiieva uulf s. tli Soviet.s hack down, lirre goes Itie meeting out the wiiidovv Hut iiu'e tluug'-. .sometime. get tailei . and troulile.s .som*-time.s f.ule awiiv. mavl)e ihis Soviet. dt-mami will, too Mavhe the Ift'.st Hiaf can tie expected Is that th foreign min-i.stei.s will .somehow .stumlile through .1 ltd of v.ord.s, ami .stMue da\s without ai.ret'lng 011 much or anything, but sfUl not .so unplea.-anllv a.s to make a later summit mei'tlng Imptwvslble.

(R(Kky Mount Telegram)

Tlie fact that Sen. Lyndon Johnsons name Is now being linked frequently with tho.se aspiring to the Democratic presidential nomination .should cause a quickening of Interest among the armchair speculators. Johnson, long a leader In the Senate, has more or le.s.s .shied away from any talk of his entering the presidential race in recent years, mainly because he, like Elsenhower. .suffered a heart attack.

But Elsenhower has shown that It Is possible to campaign for President and carry out the duties of that demanding office. Actually. Johnsons position as Senate Democratic leader is only slightly le.s. trenuous than that of the President. John.son is a hard worker and a conscientious man. therefore U he were to become Piesldent, the grinding .schedule certainly would be no stranger to him.

Democratic party members are now talking in terms of four candidate., and Johnson is one of the four. The others are Sen-John Kennedy, Sen. Stuart Symington and Adlal Stevenson, a two-tlnie lo.ser. Former President Harry Truman can be expected to back Symington at fir.st, since Symington would be In a favortte son role In Missouri. But Truman.s po.sition is not definite; he has indicated he might .switch .sides, depending upon the situation,

Johnson has been reported mak

ing niove.s which might be interpreted a.s placing himself in a position as candidate. And he la certain to command such consideration, He Is regarded as a middle-of-the-road Democrat who would have an appeal for all party factionsespecially If he succeeds in getting the Senate to pass a moderate civil rights bill.

Johnson has spelled out this middle-line creed: Democrats must be candid and courageous. As we must have the courage to be liberal when public well-being requires it, so we must have the candor and integrity to be conservative when responsibility demands it." That is the type of viewpoint that Southerners understand. If Johnson seeks and gaitus the Democratic nomination he can expect full support from the South. This is something Kennedy cannot be quite sure about, and it U something Stevenson has already discovered to his chagrin.

Johnson would make a good candidate for the Democrats. He would make a formidable opponent for Richard Nixon. He Ls well versed in the w'a.vs of politics and in the operation of the federal government. He is old enough to possess great experience in public office and he I youug enough so that he could carry on the burdens of the presidency. The Democrats could do much worse than to nominate Johnson.

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"See where tlie Air FVjrce it concerned about its efforts to recover that high speed rocket nose cone after it drops back into the atmo.sphere. Dont know about the problems of speed involved. but if any Ohio drivers are In the vicinity, they will foot their horns and pass it. Lexington Leader.

Wants To Be

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By HAL BOYLE

slave to the outside world, like the rest of us, detached himself from the group and started out.

Wither goest thou someone asked, swept up completely in the lyrical atmosphere.

My chariot uh, my car, that is has an ailment and I have to ta?le it to the garage, he replied in a completely earthly tone.

We let him go. reluctant but helpless victim to the demands of every-day life.

A second member of the group raised himself from his chair, where he had been lounging in a complete surrender to the mesmerizing conversation,

A moment, sir, if you please, he called to Alvin, Ill go with you. I have things to do, also.

Pressed for an explanation, the second man said, The grass grows green and tall on my suburban estate (he has about 5.000 square feet of yard). The hand mower is waiting my pleasure.

For reasons various and sundry, but all similar in their bases of non-idyllic urgency, members of the group left until there were but two of us remaining. We sat silently.

Finally, he stirred.

Well, my law'n chair, my Bermudas and my Ice cream ear waiting, he said. Ill see you on the morrow'.

I watched him walk jauntily away, w^histling at the world and bouncing with the energy of his departed youth.

On my way home I parsed his hoiuse. He was in his yard.

On the morrow, thought, after seeing him. Ill have a word with him about the fine points of building sand boxes for restless offspring, if I can get my own childrens sand box finished before the sun goes down.

NEW YORK (AP) - Rod Steiger has joined the public chorus of those praising the benefits of psychoanalysis.

The actor has spent between $5,W)0 and $7,(KX) over the last five years on visits to the understanding coachand feels it is the best investment of his life, he says.

I took my college education lying down," joked Steiger, who left high school at 16 to join the Navy.

"Some people seem to feel that undergoing analysis will hurt their creativity. But I feel it en-chanced my creativity a hundred-folds.

"It also gave me the freedom to look out at other people instead of being involved only with myself."

Rod has reached a new peak in a career of self-expression that began when, as a lonely boy of 11, he tried to write poetry.

He Is starring on Broadway. His latest film is breaking boxofflce records. Since he owns 10 per cent of the picture, he may wind up comfortably well off.

Freedom is a key word In Steigers life.

I want to be free to do nothing if I want toand everything if I choose. he said. "I want the freedom to make my own mistakes, to be hurt and to hurtfreedom to apologize, freedom to love.

Rod has been pretty much on his own since the age of 12. He worked as a leathercutter, an ice truck driver, a pin boy In a bowling alley, and a New Jersey boardwalk barker before joining the Navy.

I had to lie about my age to get in. he recalled. "I went Into the Navy because I was looking for some place to be,

After the war, while working with the Veterans Administration in Newark, he joined a theater group,

"At that time I had no real thought of becoming an actor. he said. "It was just a good way to meet girls.

"One of the worst- mistakes an actor can make is to stay completely within a theatrical environment. An actor who lives more completely in his roles on stage than in the role nature meant him to play Is a frightened and unhappy person, he said.

"You cant make your job your whole life. It has to be only a part of it. This holds true for a man In Wall Street as well as for an actor.

He is a complicated man of considerable reserve who still tends to resent the brash fa-miliarites of wbat he calls "the four-minute friends .who try to move in on your life and rob you of your time, the one thing you cant get back.

His philosophy today?

"Happiness has to be helped, he said slowly, "But if a man creates more beauty than he destroys, you must classify Him as good.

"If he destroys more beauty than he creates, he Is evil.

"What I want most is a happy home of my ownand the maturity to sustain it. I think Im getting closer.

Opinions In Brief

At ib9 aide of the road a woman looked helplessly at a flat ttrt. A passerby stopped to help her. After the lire was changed, the woman said, Let the Jack down easy. My husband Is ssleep in the back seat. Memi^is Preas-Sclmitar.

"Judging from the speed with which the Senate approved in extra 148 million to speed manned flight above the stratosphere. it looks Uke we re not foing to have any vacuum in our space program.New Orleans Btatee and Item.

Attack Much Of FTC Philosophy'

Strength For Today

llv I'VHL I . DOl i;i ASS IIOFS I HIS Al'IM.V TO \ 01

riK'K* lUC .<<(1111^ people who WO (lirousti hlo iiyiiiw to diive ('Vf'iybodv .Sdiite ot them liave ttie good grace, ami Ihe boihI manners, to tM'gln by trying to drive Uiem.solve.s. fhese ate not as harmful and disgusting a.x those who sprolallze in drlv-iirg others B\it the driver type ol per,son under any eircum.Htance l.s noi plea.^iuit to enduie. Genendly lie is a mn.ance brequentlv lie i.s a menaee ind slie 't|uallv .sii

But tlit'ie are other types of people wtio app.iK'lltlv Wtttiout liylng Hi all .st'em to draw |ieople to ItU'lll \\'il( 11 H proldem Hti.ses, everyone turius to thi'in for advice. lii sutiuw the aillicted tuttt

to itiem for riuntort Svirially IlieU otiite! in life gei'in,'. to t>e not It* make anytiotlv to any Ilium but ju,\t to live along and like evi'i y tmdv, In ttieni u dr-jinm.vtraietl tiu' oit irpeated .\iate-iiK'iil that mol.v.>.sf's draws more fliei. than Mneg-ar You know the diiver type, do you not You have .seen htm or her in the liono' Ihe driver lyis' in busine.s. m a per.son to .stct'i' clear ol Vliere ar' foremen who tlrive and political leader. wtio try to do tlie .same \Vh(*rrver you gi* you fuul ihe (h iver and tlie p'i--uatlliig type oT prison standniR out in .stark eontJa.st the (*ne wti the olht'i We all kinivv wiiudi : \ pe we Uke tie.st We Iviivr the .'-ru'akiia feel tug th.ii Gi*d pK'fets that (>pe also.

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A Wa.shlnstolu D C., furniture .store, in defending itself agaiust a Federal Trade Commission eomplaint. ha.s challenged al-rno.tt the enure philosophy of tliat body,

t'urlls Bro. , Inc , was accused of implying faLsely In ad-verttsenienU earlier thl.s year that cnstoiner.s will ".save Ivsi fioin regular prices by buying eeriain pieces ol furniture at the store

Well, said the company in Its an.NWer. the word regular" as u.srd in ttie fiude doe.s not mean the pnc(' u.sually charged It mean.'i ttie price tlie furmlure (HHild tuivf born .sold for If the rckular markup tiad been ap plied and. It add.', any shopper niqiunng would have been so told

Because all competitor. make similar elaim.'^. CurtL said, the I. analogous to tytng a boxn s liand.o; iH'hind hi. hack and pushing him into a ring

It smells as If the chee.se has rotted In Copenhagen It looks like aomething Congre.ss ought to Investigate.

Instead. Curtis pursues Its theme that the PTC has given no .signiflrunce to existing meaning of Winds and practices in competitive biusine..,

It continu. Both bu.ine.s and the public have over the years taken into coivsideration the fact that adverttslng elaims are advertising claims and not scripture, and purchasers investigate and shop sulisequetit to ex-poMire to such claims and when an individual buys he knows whftt he buy. and what he pay. and the purchasing public is not the dumb sntmal characterized bv the policy of the FTC in its complaints, regulatlorvs and Guides Against Deceptive Pnc-ing I Whew I F'or an organization setting itself up *.s an expert on semantics, Curtu surely runs to long sentences!

that without the assLsUnct of the FTC they will be unable to make the usual purchases of furniture and other equipment without suffering injury or prejudice

"The overprotective. over regulatory. arbitrary and capri-cioius approach made by the FTC In the field of adverttslng by highly competitive retail business will ultimately re.ult in producing a race of idiot con-siiniers or purchasers who will be at the mercy of merchants

DEEP !Min T\T!0\S

That all conn>etilor. make .''inuliir claim.s is an amazing < timue wliti'h Curiu did not clase-Iv follow up, nor did the FTC au'-wi'i U !lie FlC 1. picking on Curtis and no other company.

A RACK OF IDIOT CONS I .M FKS

The fact that .such members of the public ax the FTC .'ceks to protect can read the adver ii.sing of re.spondent and others demon.irafes that they are nt so Ignuiani of the fact of Ufe

It would be much better to edcale the coiv<umer than to destroy the established practices that have developed ihroiiRh the years in ttie various trade. and bitinesse. especially since the public. bu.slnessmen and everyone concerned knows the practices and accepts the same as part of the American way of life

This L of roincidental inter-e.i becau.se this column has frequently sugge.sted that the cure for susreptitjility to fast-buck promoiiorus lies in teaching children. instead of rchinc on the FTC and Better Bits.ncss Bui eaiLs It ha.s recommended that every grsmnisr school child be giveu a couTM on bow to break

even toi the market place.

If there were such a coui sc in the capital, people would know that when one or all of the furniture stores advertised that a buyer can aave $80 from the regular price. the stores mean that it's $80 leas than the price It might have charged If they thought the idiot consumers would have paid it.

"MAID SERVICE" CITS FAH.MERS SHARK OF FOOD $1

Parniera received 39 cents of every $1 consumers spent for farm foods In the first quarter of thi. year, or 2 cents less than in the corresponding 19.58 quarter

On the surface, this would look as if farmers were getting lesa and tome mystertoua njiddle-men getting more And that, to a large extent. Is true That's because American housewives are insisting that middlemen - m this case food proces.soi's -- do more perling. chopping, cooking, .sauce adding, spicing, portioning and packaging to their food than ever before Hou.sewive.s simply hay more maid .service with each food I'i in The cost of this service generally cottic.>. out of the family budget, not the farmers .share. It does not mean that farmera arc getuni leas.

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