The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-08-12

NADIA as cheap as in Greenwood or numerous other nearby
places. Second, Is there any difference in the quality of gaso-
two questions remain Unanswered. Were we to say that gaso-
line is being sold in Grenada by the wholesale at 1917 cents,
to retailer at 1912 cents, and he sells Ito the trade at "a cents
his profit is slightly above 2s%; and it seems to us that it is fair
at least eight times per year, which, II correct, would give him
e yssa'y 5S SsS"' We sometimes buy gasoline at wholesale oa II
Our friend might occupy his talent as to figuring on gasoline
prices a little nearer home than at Greenwood and tell the pub
lie why why it is is that hat Elliott IsGo Ge eight miles des, south mo OF 1 G6ena "a Ia t is sei cnf'
feeville, 16 miles north of Grenada, is selling gasoline at 20,
As to the seat covers, had we meant that the two covers were
the same, we would not have>used the word practically" Ac-
he then made a profit of 2s%. ii 5 a stock easily handled and
does not require much Gn ths storage ot r ROOM and an tr we think nasi it !, fair ad to as as
times per year, which, if correct, would give a profit of l4s%
covers, at the end of twelve months, it v would still have the one
thousand dollars and $1480.O0 besides. Our friend did not say
how long he had had the seat covers, whether ne bought them
Our friend states that we have "only recently increased
in using the word recently after his extended embrace by
Morpheus Mo MI Mr.; M Me- ii mai makes this s error by comparing ON a recent cent
his information we might state the overhead expense of get
and that today there has been only a very slight recession in the
price of skilled labor. We are persuaded, too, that MI. McCas-
lin does not know that the government raised the price OF news
We have the honor and the privilege of counting all the
automobile dealers in Grenada as our friends. Our editorial
was not prompted by any desire to do them any injustice.
selves. Furthermore, there are 1000 people who deal With the
gasoline dealers in Grenada to where there is one gasoline
1000? Again, we have always resented the idea that Gre
nadas business men did not have ability equal to that Of
men in like avocations in other communities, and we refuse to
believe that our citizenship has not the brains to buy as cheap
and the business acumen to handle the goods as cheaply as that
of similar firms in other like communities. If gasoline dealers
in Grenada are being Disseminated against in freight rates it
is time they were taking the public into their confidence by tell
ing it 50 that, if possible, the public may aid them in getting re-
Our editorial was in the interest of Grenada; of Grenada
facts, then nobody can be hurt. If what we suggested is correct,
then we would have been n some measure recreanf TO dutV had
we not called attention to it. A truth grows by discussion. Dis
cussion dissipates error. /
The flush times are past. The day of balloonins prices is
over. The great body of the people are up against it," and
the sooner it is universally recognized that only moderate profits
and old time fair dealing is proper, the better for all concerned. !;
protest against anything but a trend to prewar prices and
profits, is a public benefactor.
We heartily subscribe to what our friend says in the last
paragraph of his communication except that we would elmi T.
nate the words that make the statement somewhat doubtful, Il
take it, and say unqualifedly that "Grenada can stand COM
parison of the proper sort with any community" Our aim is,
insofar as wescan, to see that comparisons are kept proper"
Now that some of the bathers of the milder sex are reported
to be going in bathing at Atlantic City even without wearing
fg leaves, w shall not be surprised to hear of Fred Sullens and
Charley Harris hiking for that locality. In
1t would be little less than a crime for Fred Sullens and Tom {
Hederman to spoil a good merchant and successful business man
by creating in his mind the impression that there is the least
that he will be called" to run for Governor.
The man who was led to believe that the State Tax Commits
sion was going to solve his tax problems and make it possible a
lied" <
COUNTIES CUTTING ASSESSMENTS. IS
The Dixie Herald is authority for the statement that the X
BOARD OF supervisors of Calhoun County has reduced the assess n
nent of that County a million, five hundred thousand dollars be- IS
ow last year: The Sumner Sentinel states that the board of '
OF Tallahatchie County reduced the assessment of o
hat County Is per cent below what it was last year. A twenty r
i've per cent reduction in Tallahatchie County means a reduc- t
ion of about So, 600, as we recollect the tax records of that 1
county. A great many boards of supervisors cut the assess d
in the face of the threat of the Tax Commission. T.
COMPLAINS OF WHAT HE STARTED. t