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American People Face Acid Test in * 1 i Treasury's 2nd War Loan To Raise j 13 Billion Dollars in Three Weeks The Nation Dare Not Fail in This Greatest Finanej ing Task in History?uThey Give Their j ; Lives?You Lend Your Money." i f Washington, 1). C.?Coming as it docs upon the heels of income tcVKjmyments, the people of America will face an acid test j this month when the Treasury's Second War Loan drive opens April 12 with an objective of thirteen billion dollars to be raised through sale of Government securities. ,'i A substantial part of this huge financing, the most stupendous | ever undertaken by any government in the world's history, must j bet loaned by people in ordinary walks of life. _ f _ % _ t >* T ij High uovernmeni gmciais nave^ pointed out that the naffon must not fail in\this duty to our men on the ^battle fronts who arc now carrying : the offensive to the enemy nt every stage. It is obvious to every thinking ? man and woman that as the United t Nations take this offensive against the dictators, the cost of war operu' tions increases in proportion. ' The American people must no t longer think of wur costs in terms of , equipping a soldier, building a tank or plane or a ship. We must now ' think in terms of the cost of battles, invasions and new offensives. Attacking armies cost more money than equipping that army and wo must meet that increased cost by buying more War Bonds and Second War Loan Securities. t They Give Their Lives. p It is not oniy necessary that the American people left here at home .assume this additional participation in the war effort?it is an honor to do so . . . for we here at home can do no less than attempt to approach the sacrifices of our brave men out on the fighting fronts to whom the t last great measure of sacrifice is but a daily offering. They give their lives . . . we are asked only to lend our money. And that is the theme of the Second War Loan, "They Give Their Lives?You Lend Your Money." Financial experts who know monetary conditions in the nation point ! out that at the present time there is in liquid funds, cash and commerj.cial bank deposits over and above j taxes and present investment in 'Government Bonds, and over and ubove what can be bought this year because of restrictions and rationing . . . approximately 40 billions of dollars which should go into Government Bonds. It should bcvthe objective of every American to invest these loose dollars, idle dollars, in Government securities, not only from a patriotic standpoint, but from the standpoint of their own financial security. There is available during the Second War Loan a type of Security to fit every pocketbook. Are Wild Dollars Every dollar of tlrese forty billions of dollars available, which is not invested in Government securities during this War Loan Drive is a "wild" dollar which, together with its mates, will tend to increase inflation. Uncontrolled inflation might* raise the cost of living to a point where the dollar is worthless. It can happen. It happened in Germany. after the last war when the price of a loaf of bread cost more than an annual wage. Invested in Government securities, your dollar will work for you. It will hold down inflation because it is harnessed in war work; it will help buy food, transportation, munitions for our boys on the front lines and it will be earning interest that, together with your original loan, will come back to you later to help you buy the things you cannot buy today ... to insure your peace of the future. Remember those boys out there * . . in Tunisia ... in the South Pacific . . . They give ^heir lives?, You lend your money. PICTURED OWN CRIME IN HIS MURDER NOVEL Strange story of a soldier who ran out on the British Army because ho wanted to bo an author, and was later convicted as the killer described In his own hovel. Head this exciting true story in the April 18th issue of The American Weekly the big magazine distributed with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale At All Newsstands Wants?For Sale FOR RENT?One furnished bedroom, lower floor, one block from business section 1304 Broud street. Bhone 217. 4pd FOR RENT?Furnished room with bath. Apply 710 L#aFayet te Ave. Telephone 216-J 4pd If the neighbors have news of n mutual friend, and don't rush over with it immediately, it is pood. A woman is a person who looks around for a blotter till the ink is half dry and then uses hor finger. J>u??t! JEWELBV to t/u iMMM A sparkling, quality diamond, a nationally known timepiece ? an enduring gift for the home?are what the Easter * bride wants most. Beautiful engagement ring and wedding band combination, at- i tractively priced at J $24.75 up } Complete silver flatware service for eight ^ in a non-tarnish gift > chest. Complete, V. $25.00 up rk HOFFER CO. JEWELERS and OPTOMETRIST BROAD ST. CAMDEN, 8. C. THESE BIRDS JUST LOVE FOREST FIRES. Activities of State Com. of Forestry The Sout'h Carolina State Commit,slon of Forestry is now entering1 upon its sixteenth year of service to the people of the State. It waa established April 26, 1927, and It lupj grown with the years. The first State Forester, Mr. Lewis E. Staley, was appointed June 18, 1928. He was followed in 1931 by Mr. H. A. Smith, who held office until tho appointment in November, 1941, of Mr. W. C. Hammerle, the present State Forester. The Organization functions through a central office at Columbia, and down through five District Offices at Aiken, Camden, Florence, Spartanburg and Walterboro. The following is a summarized report of tihe activities of the Commission for the calendar year 1942: Fire Control: In cooperation with the IT. S. Forest Service, approximately 1,120,846 acres of forest land are under organized protection in twentythree county-wide fire protective associations, four private associations.! six detection units, and the Sand j Hills State Forest. This represents j approximately 60 per cent of the total forest area of the State. This work waa financed -the pa-at fiscal year.. under provisions of the Clarke-McNary Law, by appropriations of which 25 per cent of the total was furnished by the Federal Government, 35 per cent by the State, and 40 per cent by County and private individuals. Nearly 2.500 full and part-time protection employees were used, in addition to which there were nearly 12,000 individuals who volunteered to fight fires. A total of 79 fire towers ore manned and operated, and are connected by 2.100 miles of telephone line. In addition. 1.7S0 miles of fire breaks were constructed and maintained by use of State-owned equipment. During the year 4.620 fires burned 169,851 acres of forest land i under protection. These fires averaged 37 acres in size, but together they only burned 2.4 per cent of the total area under protection Emergency Firo Control: One of the direct outgrowths of the war has been the need for establishing emergency firo control crews for the proLection of military installations in South Carolina. Special funds from the Federal Government have been used to {pan and fully equip fifteen crewsf \vitih trucks, tractors, plows, motor-driven water pumps, and hand i tools. Eight of these crews are operating In the coastal area, six in the central part of the Stale, and one in the Piedmont. Not only is their purpose to protect from forest fires certain military facilities, such as camps and ammunition dumps but to reduce the smoke haze and to eliminate "loom" as well. These last two are particularly critical, because the haze created hv smoke interferes with flight training, bombing and artillery practice, and anti-submarine patrol, whereas the glow from night fires silhouettes ships at sea and exposes them to submarine attack. Forest Management: Increased demands for wood in all forms have placed forest products in the category of one of the most critical of raw materials. As a result, the drain on South Carolina's forests has been greater than ever before, and the requests for assistance have correspondingly increasod. In meeting this demand the technical personnel of the State Forest Service have examined and made recommendations for lv&3 woodlands representing nearly 50,000 norths of forest land. On 100 of these areas for which-aekHttonal assistance was desired. 21,028,351 board feet of timber and 1,413 cords of wood have been marked. Timber that was sold on the basis of this selective marking brought to owners an average of $11.65 per thousand board feet. TWO JOBS FOR MINISTER Pittsfield. April.?A veterans of the Russian army in the first World War. the Rev. Peter Diakonoff, pastor of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox church, is now serving as a guard at the main works of the General Electric Company in this city. By working nights at the plant he manages to combine bis two jobs. Six nights a week be checks ni at 11 p. in. and goes off duty at S o'clock the next morning. Saturday is bis regular night off which is an ideal arrangement, since Sunday niornin*.* is his busiest day for church duties. It s a good thing that war makes men tough. Nobody else could roll up the barbed wire when peace comes. OUR MOTOR TUNE-UP KEEPS 'EM ROLLING With spring" on the wing . . . keep on the road for essential driving by having us check in the efficiency 1 of your car. We'll tune-up your motor, clean your distributor, test brakes and battery and 'any other service necessary to keep your car operating efficiently. D. M. Davis IN REAR REDFEARN MOTOR CO. Town and Farm In These Wartimes Ration Books For Service Men Service men who eat 10 or more meals per week away from the Army poet are entitled to Ration Hook Two. Army Victory Gardens Some army camps have aJreudy their victory Hardens and many more \vlll soon be seen at camps where suitable soil Is handy to living quarters. They'll produce whatever the men prefer, or whatever crop seems best suited to the location. Army Hardens are uothltiK new, but now they are to be <yla larger scale. However. they win not interfere with training. The men who conduct them may do so only as a voluntary off-tlmo( recreational activity. Vood produced will bo for the consumption of military personnel only and not for snJo. Farmers Get Points For Meat When a farmer sells a slaughtered calf direct to a retail meat market. t!\e 'puuket operator must surrender I'hV right number of points to the farmer', says Ol'A. The farmer must then turn the stamps over to the i rut ion board. Return Unused Gas Coupons Unused gasollno ration coupons and books which are no longer valid are the property of the government and must bo turned In within flvo days after the close of the period of validity. Holders of unused first quarter "T" gasoline coupons, which have not expired. aie asked to turn them in I immediately to their local rationing I boards. [ Back To Dairy Farms I ' Local Selective Service hoards have been told to return men with experl| enoe to dairy farms. The program Includes: Persuading 4F men between 18 and 4f> with experience to return to dairy farms if they are not in an essential activity. (Jetting men over 45, not engaged in essential activity, to go back to dairy farming. Giving men 18 to 45 thirty days to get into agriculture or another essential activity, otherwise they will be classified as available for military service. Frozen Vegetables For All There will be plenty of frozen vegetables in 1943 for the armed forces without cutting the supply available for civilian use, the War Department announced. The pack of quick-frozen vegetables this ye-ar will be between 240,000,000 and 260,000.000 pounds, according to present U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates, as compared with a pack of 162,000,000 last year. The supply for civilian consumption will be equal to or more than that available last year. Fewer Points, Less Money Butchers may no longer reduce point values of rationed meats and fats without at the same time lowering money prices, according to OPA. If the retailer lowers the point value, she must lower the price at ieast 25 per cent below ceiling. If he lowers the point value riinro than 25 per cent, | tf^e selling price must be reduced below ceiling in proportion, but in no case more than 50 per cent. Rubber Tires for Tractors A plan to assist farmers in tlieir I vital wartime food production will provide rubber tires and tubes for converting approximately 20,000 tractors and implements, originally equipped with steel wheels, which have been Ixiught since May 1. 1942. Local OPA war price and rationing boards will authorize conversions after certification of farmers' applications by U. S. Department of Agriculture County War Boards. Reasons for certification are: Necessity *?f moving implements over the road from farm to farm. Soil or topography such that tractor is seriously handicapped by not having rubber tires. Seed Potatoes Retailers are now permitted to sell seed potatoes in any quantity for planting purposes only. The former tequirenient that they bo sold only in lots of fifty pounds, or more, has been removed by OPA. Fewer Trucks The number of heavy trucks that may he manufactured for civilian use has. been out from 3,580 to 3,017 by tht*v\Vjir Production Board. Binder Twine Price Up Binder twine prices will be somewhat higher this year, because of tho increased eost of materials. Cordage and twine fibers, from which binder twine has been made in the past are scarce. WPB and the U. S. Departnient of Agriculture have therefore encouraged use of part cotton yarn corhblned with henequin and sisal. These fibers are more expensive than materials formerly used. More Canned Fish This Year The amount of canned fish available to civilians from the 1943 pack should be somewhat larger than from last years pack, according to the U. S. The Fourth Conducted By 9 JNO. M. CANNON JuinuH Madison: "To alone, checkered mm it |8 wltl" t*? the world is Indebted for all u in pa which Uhvo boon KHi * 9 reason and humanity over en 9 oppression." Too little. too late, is as advertising uh It 1h in wuri "J1? Thore will bo no <li? tntorHhi^-1 the United States ho loug newspapers maintain their frU to report, inform, and to crlticfcj? There niUHt bo no blackoukl Freedom of tho Frees. Eternal viKllaneo of a p,e< ? has thus far kept tho people of ill lea free. The business that neglects t0 J its name and product, prestige? future policies before the public, nl tho risk of being forgotten, 9 Freedom of the press 1"' fik? stronghold of Democracy. goes, Doinocrucy goes with it, 9 I IN THE MAILl > ? j Dear John: 1 have been reading your paper much interest. . Not being fanjB with your predecessor onetannotS judgment, but I can say each issuS comes more interesting. 1 ^ fl propose to Ife a critic but in (9 times one does notice things ?J which he feels a national conceiS I have noticed your editoirid? the Red Cross War Fund drive akl failure. I have also noticed theti9 reasons given by your fellow tS men as to the reasons for its lag? John, these people think that right, but, are they any differttffl their conditions any different^? the rest of the] nation? -We hat? felt this condition keenly. Soom^H a smile of forebearance and o|9 with a stern unapproving brow.T? who have sons In this war aad^9 served in the last should rsillii? the Red Cross needs this aid. 9 time of plenty is not now, we A? concentrate on getting thosel? back all in one piece to carry c? the after years when they vffl needed with all their witi^9 strength If we hope to foretll? other ma,rch on Washington bj? who only want what is their j?t? and if wo let them down not? can we look forward to ajiythj||^H unrest nl the post war day*?! I have noticed several coootitffl l short on their war bond quoii? our amusements and pleasure!?1 goVs on. I have heard people? plaining about the new meat refill and their inability to property^! their family on such short redo? wonder how those satme people (J? react if they were so busy fid? to preserve their lives that they^| not find time to eat or if they^J forced to miss a meal becani? kitchen was blown to bits, ? would. I know, forage about uifl proviso something to satisfy? hunger. We all have to do ttiH help them. My whole thoughts? Ply to HOARD BONDS and Sfl? instead of MEATS and CAN? UOO.DS. If every American t? forget his own selfish petty needl? the Idea that because John hoardt^H should also, we would all be off. I wonder if your neighbor v? put his hand lit tfie fire becaul? did. yet ho is doing just that Mi? Ills neighbor Is. John forgive this outburst of hut I had it on my chest, what 11? wanted to say is that you arei? a fine job with the paper and lf<? one tried as hard to put acro?? war bond and Red Cross Jot* i? does in his own private ende^^J we will all have a better wort? Sincerely James T. Coop* Department .of Agriculture. Dj? a smaller carryover of canned W| 1943, however, the per capita ? for this year may be about? fourths of the 1942 civilian Workers in a Michif**? Hfe ery fixed up a very let? GQro door leadlnf to the pej?? yBL On it is inscribed, "in? fm learn to duck lower iff*? Buy a Bond." "Taste by Taste^ Have You Tried Ouf -M "Sizzldngr" Steaks? Our Food Is Delicious! M 1 1 3ur Service Is Exce(j^a *?u Will Want To Get More iriavu*^? Lome In Today! M & K COFFEE SHOP I T?lephoa? 81M I , , ^ -t ^ksyss^^^tyujys^^k