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TO PATSY
yydrs lipstick thin«
er social standing is In danger
/ithout the latest record changer.
f\th shoes now larger than her moth.
. appetite surpasses brother's,
j sound of dishes being laundered
iReininds her that her time is squan.
dered
tway from practibe at piano, ao.
to Bach and Duvemoy she’ll go
p soul their own—
til she hears the telephone I
lie fights
.0 stay up UU ait.ttlslita;
knd sometimes while she sleeps,
the weeps
Striving to reach eixteen’s estate
fair
ss Silken Hair!
iio herds her days Hke flocks
service men Is absurd, wtwn one com-
parsa the effort of signing one’s name
on three separata pieces of paper for
state ballots^ and being forced to ro-
call and-urrite in names of candidates.
• • • •
RADIO SMUT
I heard a new song over the radio
the other night called “Yon Can’t Say
•No’ To a Soldier.** It implies that 4
girl has to give in if she expects the
soldier to win the war. Every day we
hear of the efforts being made by the
anthorities to combat juvenile delin.
quency. Isn’t it about time we sUrt
censoring the radio to stop the vile
songs and jokes that are becoming
more and more common?
• • • •
Considering the high price of pae-
tries. It might be said that while a
roiling stone gathers no moss, a roll
ing pin picks up dough.
Seriously Folks
Maybe you think it corny, as some
of the literate might, but I’ll wager
you’d have had a tear in your eye had
yon been in that Los Angeles, CaL,
court room during the closing hours
of the CbapUn triaL
Chaplin was cleared of the Mann
act charge filed against him by the
I State, but in all the events leading
I up to the verdict of a jury, made up
largely of women, Chaplin’s attorney
put a young girl on the sacrificial
naughty sheep, urging them to race •to®® ®ud smeared her with all the
filth and dirt that the. mind of a
criminal lawyer could conceive.
• • •
FAQI THRU
Wendell Wtllkis left his shoes im In
diana but Wisconsin removed his
pants. . —
• e «
Ah Hal Spring has arrived. When
asked the little rosebud hew he got
here he smiled and lisped: “The sulk
brought me.*
• « • «
The little girl next door says that
all the men are overseas or under
size. Poor kid.
• • •
The latest atrocity story out of Ger*
nteny is that vietima must attend af
ternoon bridge parties and let the gale
Ulk them to death.
f • • • •
ssys the sweet little Wave
last &thrday night, “do they rope off
the aisle In church during a wedding?”
“Well,” sex we, “It’s done just to
prevent the bridegroom from escap
ing.” ’
• • • •
Notice by the papers that Eleanor
Roosevelt is visiting . In the United
SUtee again.
• • • •
Say, come to think of it. Did any
one ever hear of a blind person joining
one of those nudist cults?
Down Broad Street
upon
rhe eweet green lawn
time. Unheeding how a gate un
locks
All oue can think of, as he reads
y unseen hands—letting each lamb the vituperative words of Chaplin’s
and ewe
oundlessly filter through
tnd out of view.
counsel as he crucified a young wo
man, is a poem which goes somethltxg
like thU:
“She was woman, worn and thin.
Our favorite high cost of living condemned for a
torr this week comes from a reader!^ single sin,
ho tells of a customer walking
store and asking the price of straw-'
ries. “Sixty-three cents,” said the
Storekeeper. The customer handed
klm a dollar bill. “And keep the
Change.” he sighed. “I stepped on a
trspe as I came in.”
way
The extra burden of air mall to
irmit soldiers overseas to vote sUU
illots ie estimated at 250 tone. This
And passed her by, as they went to
pray—
They icomed the woman, but forgave
the man;
It wad ever thus, since the world be-
• • • • gan.
• • • eX^
The man and the girl, the one re
garded by a jury as “nobles” and the
„nsportatlon Is far mers eeeentlal other “outcast.” iarrive at the
in that exunded to menrberg of the of judgment tofether. Listen:
hite House palace guard. j“0 Ye, who judge twlxt virtue and
We have forgotten the Persnnlel’ vice, „ ,
trotter, our First Lady, with her Whom, think ye. won Paradise?
gage weighing one-eighth of a ton, hlot he, whom the world thought .
Ilead weight. Multiply this by the would win—
mber of her many aKCureiona and Y^or the woman alone—was ushered
rou
probably will get the equivalent
what it would take to permit every
rvice man to east a legal vota In-
:ead of a miserable eu^ltute known
the bogus bobtail talloL ~
Federal opposition to the state bal-
Insults the IntsIHgonee of eol-
In.”
Read and C huckle
By The Skipper
Eleanor t^vele beceuee, ee she
"The market reports," Archie Reevee
of the Camden Food Shop, commented
in passing, to Officer Brevard Han.
cock, “tay that hog priest are steady."
“I'm glad," replied the officer eom.
berly, “that they can at least keep the
grunts on an even squeal."
• • •
Paging Cooley OUlis: “Say Cooley,
if all women, on a given day, would
turn in their love letters, buried In
trunks and closets, the paper shortage
would be at an end In lees time than
It would take them to say ‘breach of
promise’."
• • • •
Bays Bill Major, “What a difference
there Is between a person who doesn’t
know and knows that he doesn’t know
and one who doesn’t know and doesn’t
know that he doesn't know."
• * •
Says Betty, “I went to see a Pran.
kie Sinatra picture the other night
and flu so out of place." I forgot to
wear my bobby socks!”
•
Gwen says she would like to know
one person whose true sentiment is
greater then hie own personal desires.
• • • •
Jerry reports the selling of Roose
velt fountain pens—guaranteed for
life. Could it be they are guaranteed
against running?
Weddy Roundup of
OPAPriraand
Rationing News
RATION CALENDAR
Prooeeeed Foods: Blue AS through KS
valid IndeftAH^ at 10 points
each, for use with tokens.
Meats and Fata: Red AS through JS
(Rook 4) at 10 points each, for
use with tokens.
KS, L8. MS became valid April 9.
Sugar: Stamp No. SO and SI go^ for
five pounds indefinitely.
Canning Sugar: Sugar Stamp No. 40
good for five pounds of canning
sugar, until February 28, 1946. ‘Ap
ply to local boards for supplemen
tal rations.
Shoes: Stamp No. 18 (Book One) ex
pires April SO. Airplane Stamp
No. 1 (Book Three) valid indefin
itely. Another Shoe Stamp, yet
to be designated, will become
valid May 1.
Tire Inspection Detee: “A” coupon
holde^rs, deadline Sept. SO. “B"
coupon hoWers, deadline June SO.
“C” coupon holders, deadline May
SI.
Gasoline: A-9^ coupons now valid in
Georgia. Florida, and the Caro-
linas, and Virginia. Expire May 8.
Rationing mice now require that
every car owner write his license
number and -State in advance on
all gasoline coupons in his posses
sion.
Art Slsdt. the tver^iling and
The contention that state bat- says, “the people want her to/^
U involve too muoh work fqr tho poopleT
liers,
What
Expiration Oatoe Removed On Ration
Stamps.
Housewives of the nation who have
found difficulty in keeping track of
expiration dates of food ration stamps
Med no longer worry about keeping
np with them. B. H. Talbert, District
Director of the Office of ITlce Ad-
minlatratioa at Columbia, pointed out
. Now red and blue food stamps for
processed foods and meats, fats and
oil will be good Indefinitely. This
follows similar action taken about a
month ago in the sugar rationing pro
gram.
. Removal of expiration dates will
bot affect the way stamps become
good, Mr. Talbert jointed out Houso-
wives will continue to have five new
b^e stamps worth ten points each
become good on the first of every
month* and three new red stamps
worth a total of SO points vsl^ every
other Simday.
Mr. Talbert reminded food shoppers
that ration tokens should be spent
before removing new s|^ps from the
family ration books. He pointed out
L.* J J /x • that the danger of losing ration cur-
4JrffnifltR flUlf I IfllOlMl rsney woald be greatly reduced by
spending the small one point discs
first and leaving stamps safely attach-
ed to-vatkm books uatU they are act-
^Comfortable? Sure — Fm wearing
• a Wing$ Sport Shirt**
IndisB Fskir's idea of comfort mijr be a bit extreme ..
bat joa caa aube the mou extreoM deoumda on Wing*
SpotWoetr. In acrion or telaxalkm, lbs piodM lines emribna
to bodj pn^NHiioas to give yon teal tomfoit and tmarl
appearance. Come in for smart Wings Sport Shirts to<|ay.
SNtTSWEAK
pon rnnaacT pin
WINGS ipoa SHUTS Mid up
genTal host at the Court Inn. told m#
ths other day that hs couldn’t under
stand why psopis give thowsrt btfors
a baby is born. Said it ssems to him
that there are plenty of those after
ths llttls rascal makes his appoaranca.
So I found out Arthur.
• • • •
By the way Archie, judging from ths
contrast I s^uld have given the shoe
store the 12 red points Tor those shoes
and gave you the No. 18 stamp for
that steak you sold me.
• • • •
Donald was tolling n»e about a grey
hound race ho attended down In
Florida. “Dega are the tame the world
salth Don. “Just after 1 had
.taken my seat In the grandatand It
waa announced ever the loud speaker,
'Dogs will go to the poet at 1:80’."
• • • *
Girls, cheer up. You’re going to be
young for many, many years—at leaat
if a sign I noted in a Columbia store
windpw can be regarded with any de
gree of wisdom,^ The sign read:
WANTED—Young woman, between If
and 60.
• • • •
Big Mae, tho golf whix waa tolling
me the other day about a littia baby
girl being born In a berth on the
Miami to Now York Seaboard train.
Said ho thought it waa very clever
that they called the baby “Bertha."
* * *
“What is an American Clipper?'
Inquired the girl in the drug store
across the street “The American
Clipper” salth I, “is a night club after
tAprti 1.^— X.
• • e
Goth, If people actually HAD to
practice what they preach, intagino
the stupendous silence ^ that would
settle upon this earth.
Do you remember back when Aunt
TilUe said she wanted to diet. Of
course we know she meant her old
dresa.
0 • • •
Yes indsed, the censor’s a very smart
. peraen
He snoepe into other feUw null
But Ye Gods, if I should de H
I’d lead in Big Mac’s ndw Jail.
oally needed.
Farm Tiro Quotas Incrcaeed. .
An Increase In the number of tires
m be rationed to small trucks and
tSrm tractors and Implements in April
as compared with March, waa an
nounced by E. H. Talbert, District Dl-'
rector of OPA at Columbia.
This year’s April quota, however, is
substantially below that of last year.
“T" Operators Must Apply In Person.
Operators of commercial motor ve
hicles, including trucks, buses, taxi
cabs and rental cabs, must apply in
person to their local war price and
rationing boards for second quarter
T" motor fuel rations under a new'
procedure announced jointly by the
Office of Price Admlnistrntkm and
the Office of Defense Transpoftntlon.
The new procedure, which went into
effect March 21, is designed to pro
vide n cloeer check on the issuance
of "T” ratlona.
Heretofore, many local boards have
mailed "T” coupons to non-fleet op
erators, while fleet operators had to
apply In person. Now all must apply
in person.
Second quarter “T” rations will be
Issued in accordance with latest ODT
certifications.
RFD Canning Sugar.
Familiea which need cknning sugar
In addition to the five pounds per per
son obtainable with Sugar Stamp No.
4(1 in War Ration Book Four, may ob
tain additional allotments by mail
from their- local war price and ration-
log boards, Mr. Talbert announced.
The maximum additional sugar al
lowed Is 20 pounds per person.
Housewives may write to their
boards for an application for extra
cMming. wigBr (Fnm R.itg). ft wtti
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Perfect Now
'Hini Summer!
His favorite **pin-up'* girl in flower-fresh cotton! See
the prettiest of them all 4iere. UtHe-girl chambrays
in dewey pastels, enchanting ruffle trims—enow-drop
piques with starry evelet Mms, peppermint striped
charmers—^these and hosts of others. All catch hearts
for now through Summer.
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