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TIIKKK MILLION PAIRS OF HOOTS and 500.000 blankets are among the items made in Britain and
sent to Russia. Kighty per cent of Britain's war production goes to battlefields abroad. Much of it goes
to Russia?including planes, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, ammunition, and radio equipment?in large convoys
which have battled their way through by Arctic routes despite storms, ice, U-boats and enemy
bombers. Fifty British-made tanks are being sent each week, and 111 airplanes for every hundred that were
promised to Russia. ?
In addition, British railways have sent 142 locomotives and 1,000 freight cars to carry goods to
Russia over the railway across Persia. In Persia, a British-sponsored non-profit organization has built
special assembly plants wnicn, by last January, were assembling trucks at th" rate of 200 per month.
This picture snows one convoy of these trucks winding its way up a Persian river valley on its 8-day .
journey northward to Russia, loaded witn Allied supplies.
The Whole Truth
About Sugar
There ha* been a great deal .said
and a great deal printed about sugar
rat ionlng, and a groat deal of
t ritii l.-tn Imlh constructive and otherwise,
has been offered My purpose
is. to give you tlie facts as they are
and to attempt to so far as I am
aide to interpret these facts tn terms
of the personal problems which we
all must -?11\ in adjusting ourselves
to wartime conditions. Tho t lintgi s,
brought up h> well meaning critics
of the sugar rationing program can
tie sti in in a ri/ed ahotit as follows:
f It e |'e |S tlim e sllfllf ill the World
than there li.u eief hei-it before.
'I'h i- i- probably true, since the world
MIgnr plod'ii'au, ate.is have m the
main, enjoyed a bumper crop in the
past \..n and v i > I! i : t is Icing
made jo stimulate -u.'ir production.
Warehouses are bulging with sugar
and an acute .shoelace problain whleb
has not yet h< < ti -olved fans) tho
sugar producers and growers of domestic
cane and beet sugar. This also
Is quite true
There are plenty of boats which
could be used to brine sugar to our)
shores. This is certainly true that
our merchant marine Is larger than
it has been before and Is growing
j a pldlv.
Boats which could be used to bring
In sugar are In fact bringing less
essent'al goods example bananas.
'I'llis in part is also true. and finally.
Many slnps are returning from
Hawaii loaded with far loss sugar
than they could carry. This likewise
is t rue.
I All of these things arc true but
j there are some truths which havo
j to lie understood in order to placo
I these facts in their propi r pempecI
11 \. The Injlh. in order not to ho
r
I mislead inc must he tho whole truth.
Now let us examine these points
once more.
Yes. the world siiuar crop is large
and probnhlv ade'iuaie for our needs.
This sugar crop, with the exception
of our relatively small domestic production
is lot ated in islands reaching
from a few miles to thousands of
utiles from our shores. These islands
tan he teached only by boat, and
hetwe.il these i.-Iands and our shores
| lie waters <*i!i\e with dancer from
submarines and mines. Kxsniining
[that point, assuming that ships could
he seen red to brine this suuar in these
ships am! their crews must necessarily
he subjected to crave dancer.
If the American public could use less
sugar, then fewer ships and fewer
crews need he in danger. To put it
bluntly; every pound of HUgar which
we consume is not strictly essential
to life and health, represents a brutally
needless risk to tite lives and property
of other p.sjphv A demand for
'"sugar as usual" is a demand for
"blood sugar"- It is a demand for
comfort and luxury, not necessity,
til the expense of somebody else's life.
Warehouses ureTmlging with sugar. |
That is h coinmeu phrase. Hut re- j
nieinh *r tfc if in normal times we
got our sugar as we needed it and j
we are not adequately prepared to j
store the many months supply wo I
should have in warehouses. Along1
with similar problems 1n rubber, petroleum.
tin. etc.. these stock piles
we me trying to create, represent one
of the greatest problems of our na-J
tion. Our problems are increased by
our physical inability to store thu
vast supplies required by our great jfi-i
dust rial machine. Our economy is:
based on tin orderly How of eommodl-l
tics and war disrupts that flow. So.
while our warehouses are bulging j
with simar that sugar must hist a
long time and if we use it all now,
and no miracle ends the war, there1
| may he many months during which wo I
j w ill have very little sugar, indeed.
! We ration sugar while we still have
la stock pile for the same reason
jthat a desert traveler conserves his
I water w hen his canteen is full, for
the desert traveler knows that a little
thirst today is far better than
death from this thirst tomorrow.
There are plenty of ships. Well,
if we are willing to defer the great
task of shipping arms to Russia,
arms to Britain and arms to MacArthur.
and arms to the Flying Tigers
in China Just to satisfy our sweet
tooth, then we certainly can bring
in all the sugar we want. Today, I
would like to meet the man who
would say to me with a straight face,
"I would rather have the sugar, and
b*i MacArthnr wait for tho planes."
L? t's not discuss this point any further
Any one w ho can read and v ho
exercises his ability to read knows
what this shipping bottle neck really j
is Shipping yards are working night j
and day to produce the craft that!
will euro this bottle neck. But until
they do. it is far better thai sugar
pile up on tho wharves of Havana!
than that airplane parts pile ujv on
tho whan es of San Francisco.
It has been said the boats which
could bring sugar are used for less
important purposes. I deny that this
situation exists to the extent that
many people apparently believe. Jlow-l
ever, one fact which escapes some
careless folk is that an essential part
of our war effort is the maintaining
of friendly relations with Republics',
to the south. Some of these Repub- '
lies base their whole economy on j
products shipped largely to this conn- ,
try. The Central American and some
of the Caribbean Republics would collapse
without our banana market.
Others rely upon our makket for coffee.
still others require materials
which only wo can supply and ships'
that bring them these important majterials
must come hack loaded with
the products of the country. So many
seemingly anomalous situations exist.
Sometime* we ship materials which
must he denied to our own people to
our good neighbor Republics who r.eed
these materials desperately. Sometimes
we must permit our good neighbors
to ship to us somo products of
theirs which we mi**fil do without.
We must not be too hasty in criticising
our state department for its decisions.
which are based frequently!
upon facts which cannot be published.
In this matter we must have
faith in the wisdom and integrity]
of our leaders who have done so much :
to justify that faith.
It is hard to understand why ships '
should return from Hawaii with less
than capacity load of sugar but, remember
again that shipping, and I
mean shipping for vital war materials j
is still very far from adequate for j
our many needs. Imagine a ship which :
has just unloaded planes and supplies
in Hawaii and is about to re- j
turn to the mainland. Every day j
counts -every minute counts in get-J
ting this ship back to the mainland j
to bring another load to our island ]
outposts. The captain walks the quar-j
terdeck impatiently while the ship
is loaded with enough sugar to make'
balance. It would take another two'
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Illegal "Split"
Bills Are Passed
Illegal "split" bills are bolug passed
In South Carolina, the Uultod
Slates Secret Office at Columbia announced
lust week.
"Split" bills, the agents explained,
are made by the counterfeiters by
-.nuking a high and low bill, usually
a one and a live and a ten. In water
until both become unite soft and pliabie.
Then with the aid of a razor or
M?me other sharp instrument each bill
is actually separated Into two pieces.
The face of the low bill Is then pasted
to the reverse of the high bill, und
\ Ice versa.
Thus, for example, If a ten and a
one had been used, the counterfeiter
would have two hills, each with one
high" side. When the bill is passed
the "high" side Is of course shown
uiul a hasty clerk may not notice the
(law.
Most recent case to be revealed by
tht* Secret Service occurred at the
Palmetto theatre in Columbia. Here
ill*; counterfeiter passed the face of a
one dollar bill, pasted to the reverse
I the green side) of a twenty.
Since It Is the face of a bill that is
honored by the treasury department
the theatre lost $lb in the transaction.
The other two halves turned up at
the First National bank In Columbia
which accepted the bill through one
ot its depositors.
The bank accepted the bill at its
"face value" und therefore does not
.->(and to lose in the transaction.
The Secret Service pointed out that
merchants should count their money,
is hank tellers are trained to do, by
ihe face value.
lr is the numbered side of a bill,
they added, the side bearing portrait
of one of our presidents, that Is honored
by the C. S. treasury. At the
same time the Secret Service warned
merchants to watch for "raised"
bib,. These are low denomination
bills which have had extra numerals
pasted or drawn on them.
Summarizing the problem, Secret
Service officials lamented the fact
that, in proportion of population,
South Carolina is one of the heaviest
losers each year in the forged gov
rnnient check and counterfeit bill
racket.
Mr. King of King
St. in Kings Mtn.
It might not happen again in ten
thousand instances.
One of the letters received by the
Camden Chamber of Commerce, inquiring
for details regarding the
Mounted Coast patrol program being
sponsored by Cyril Harrison, Camden
polo coach, came from Denver
O. King, of 205 East King street?you
guessed It?Kings Mountain, N.
C.
days to load that ship to capacity,
and another two days In San Francisco
to unload it. So when he has
enough sugar to make his ballast,
the gang plank must come up, the
ship must nose around to the east,
and the order must be "full steam
ahead." War cannot wait and 5 ou
do not want It to wait just so you
can have "sugar as usual".
Any citizen of any belligerent nation
who could listen in on our discussion
of the tragedy of holding
our consumers to 1-2 pound of sugar
per week would probably shake his
head in wonderment and walk sadi
]y away. For a half pound of sugar
is a pretty tine ration in other countries
in peacetime and provides more
than enough sugar for health and
comfort even fur our American standard.
No family need want for health
even with the sugar ration, and the
I many foods which can supplement it.
Fresh oranges available 12 months
in the year, salads from fresh fruits
and vegetables, rich in their own
natural sugar, honey, syrup, condensed
milk, canned fruits in rich
sweet syrup are all available to the ,
ingenious housewife who will make
a little effort to help solve a big prob*'
lem. Hakers, confectioners, soft drink
establishments, canners, and the like."
are asked to confine their use to an
allotment, a fair percentage of their 1
last year's requirements, and many
ingenious industrialists have found it
possible to change their formula*
and hold their volume. Those who
have not been able to do this have U "j
the main sacrificed a part of their ,
prospective profits with the feeling
that we all must share in the bur* j
dens, and war comes first. This war
must be won.
I beg of you do^bot be impatient j
with this problem. Use your allot* (
ment of sugar wisely and well. Ro*
member too, every pound you can
save a sailor's life or perhaps put a J
pound of ammunition Into the hand* ^
of our fighting forces. The OPA U
trying to spread the sacrifice as fair-ly
and equally as possible. We all
must do our share and each share
willingly and fairly, and so dolnj
we will contribute more than we real*
ize to the great task in which we are
engaged.
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Should We Feed Occupied
f,M??Europe? 1
e?n*'?l Ch4Um?n
Economic
Eound??io" Aa debated t?7
l)r. William At ?r
Alary w. Illllyer Mutational Director
Executive Director Freedom II nuic
Pott-War World (.ouncil
MISS nil IYER OPENS: First, we
should feed Europe's hungry peoples
/or righteous humanitarian reasons.
Second, because they are our allies
and friends. How long they will continue
to be our frlenus depends on
our generosity and articulate public
sentiment strong enough, to move
Washington to lift the blockade.
Hitler is still their number one hate.
Britain, according to reports of those
who have been trying to feed the
hungry. Is hate number two. If we
persist in allowing the ravages of
i famine and soon pestilence, to proi
gress, the United Sta.tes will be hate
number three.
Third, from a purely political and
military point of view, we should
feed Europe. It is nonsense and wishful
thinking to assume that undernourished,
starving peoples can revolt.
It is equally foolish to believe
that men, weakened by short rations,
can physically aid the allied armies
should a second front be opened.
Finally, we must feed Europe now
or there will be no Europe to feed.
This point sh mid be pondered by
those who salve their consciences
with the thought that we will launch
ships loaded with foods when peace
comes. Starvation cannot be put on
the shelf for the duration. It marches
grimly on with a rising death toll.
DR. AGAR CHALLENGES: The
statement that Britain is Europe's
hate No. 2 because of the blockade
is Goebbels' No. 1 propaganda item
for American consumption. The rest
of the argument stems from a misunderstanding
of the depth of the
danger our free world faces. To save
a few Europeans in order to hand
Europe and the rest of us to Hitler
is not humanitarian, it is stupid.
I repeat, this is a military problem.
The method which will win the
war most qti;ck!y will save the most
lives over the whole Earth. That is
the job to concentrate on. '
MISS HII.LYER REPLIES: Goebbels"
propaganda has nothing to do
with the sober truths spoken by
reporters of integrity. It is a nonv
sequitur that "the free world is endangered?therefore,
don't feed Europe
and hand it to Hitler!" What
opponents of aid fail to comprehend
is that because of the dire dilemma
confronting the United Nations, we
must send aid now. Otherwise, we
may continue to have the support of
the governments in exile, but certainly
not their starving peoples.
This is a war of ideals as well as
one of machines. No tactic that
ignores this fact will win the war
quickly.
OR. AGAR OPENS: A eonc*tod
attempt to help Hitler bv feeding th# 9
conquered people failed last yetr
But this much could be said for til*
I plan then. America was omcialW I
I neutral. Those who could not or
would not understand Nazism; those I
who persisted In regarding America '
as a world apart were somewhat
justified by their own Ignorance In 9
pleadlrtg that we should succor the
victims of aggression.
Now America Is in a total war
In such a war civilians as well &i
soldiers must suffer. In such a war
food Is a key weapon and Its use and
distribution Is a military problem.
The question Is not one.Jor civilians .1
to discuss decide.
We can store food readfor dell*. 9
ery to all conquered territory the
minute the enemy is dislodged, but fl
not before. The peoples of Europe
showed us last year that they do not
wnnt us to help their conqueror even
If such help momentarily lessens the
bitterness of their lot. They want us
to help them win the war. Let's I
permit our Commander-in-Chief and 9
the leaders of our war effort to determine
where to send and how to
use tanks and planes and food with. 9
out interference by well meaning ;
but ignorant outsiders. |
MISS HILLYER CHALLENGES:
To state that civilians should neither
discuss nor decide such questions -9
! sounds as though we were In a i
totalitarian war controlled by the
military. That is not the way of
I democratic America.
No one wants to help Hitler! None j
of the food already sent to the con- ;
que red countries has reached Hitler, 9
BUT, because our government has ]
moved so slowly, tons of mitk that |
could have been bought in Switzer- I
land for the conquered countries ;
was bought instead by Hitler!
Of courte, the conquered want to '9
help us win the war. But they must j
have bread before they can use guns! I
DR. AGAR REPLIES: Food is a I
weapon. When our leaders can feed 9
Europe without compromising our j
chance for victory they will try to 9
' do so. If the man in the street, de* j
cides such military matters we won't j
be a democracy, for we won't be at I
all. All food taken to Europe has 9
lessened the amount Hitler must sup- - 9
ply and distribute so. he s^ill tries j
to trick us into helping him. '
This is total war. Everyone is in i
danger. Death from hunger Is no
[ worse than from flogging or bomb* :
j ing. What's the use of helping a few j
| only to lose all to Hitler?
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Neighborhood Mothers
Endorse
Eugene S. Blease
We, mothers of sons offerring their lives in our
country's defense, are neighbors of Judge Eugene S.
Blease, always our true neighbor. He has helped our
hoys in peace; he will help them in war. Our boys
have played with his boys, also now in his country's
service.
We wish Eugene S. Blease elected to the United
States Senate, for we know:
He will oppose extravagance, idleness and corruption,
so that the war will be won as early as possible,
so your boys and our boys, who are spared,
may come back to us and to a state of honest peace.
M others, help us to beat the political machines. j
Vote with us for Judge Blease, who will serve his
country at all times.
We are willing to entrust the lives of our sons to
his care. We c an depend on Eugene S. Blease.
MRS. HARRIETTE LEAVELL O'DONNELL
MRS. C. E. HUTCHINSON
MRS. CHARLIE M. BERRY
MRS. J OS IE P. McALHANY
MRS. S. O. NESLEY
MRS. L. G. ESKRIDGE, SR.
MRS. OTTO F. ARMFIELD
MRS EPSIE M. BUZHARDT
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