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V I ' McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 11, 1942 ■ i [ i il: ^ &V-- £ 'V ; it McCORMICK MESSENGER r rablished Every Thursday ^ Bstabllshed Jans 5, IMS ^ RDMOND J. McCRACKEN, Editsr and Owner Catered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C. f as mail matter of the second class. ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i One Year $1.00 Six Months .75 Three Months — .50 LABOR RESERVE „ Anjr shgrtage of labor in this country is mostly temporary, an analysis of our potential working forces indicates. \ Even if we took as many as 10,000,000 men to build our army and navy, there is every reason to assume that our goals for the building of war materials as well as civilian needs could still be attained. At the outbreak of the war, there were 53 million people in our country’s labor forces. In addition, there were three million unemployed,, the majority of whom could work, as well as a million and a half young men between 17 and 19 who are not working, two million young wom en of that age who are in school or at home, two million childless women from 20 to 40 now en gaged in home duties and an even larger number of women between 40 and 45 who are either childless or whose children are grown up. Thus, among those not now em ployed, we have a potential work ing force of approximately 4,500,- 000 men and over 6,000,000 women who could be enlisted in war work if necessary. Actually, however, it is unlikely that the nation will need to call on more than a fraction of these millions, for the greatest number and most experienced war work ers will be enlisted from industry itself. With automobile workers no longer able to make automo biles and with the building con struction industry practically eliminating its civilian enterprises, millions of men are available for war work from those two groups alone. Then there are the gaso line service men, the garage mechanics and countless other groups who are being practically forced out of business by war curbs but who can be valuable in war work. The greatest contribution to war work will come from this type of diversion from civilian jobs to war jobs, and it is likely that we can outbuild the enemy and outfarm the enemy with the present labor force. But where scarcities of help develop, it is encouraging to know that we have almost 10,000,000 available workers in reserve who can be enlisted into the production army if it becomes necessary. Victory Begins At Home SUGAR FOR WARTIME CANNING Your Home Fruit Canning This Year Must: Help Save the Nation’s Fruit Crop. No fruit must go to waste this year. Food is a weapon of war. Help Feed Our Nation and Our Allies. Every jar of home-canned fruit leaves a can of commercially packed fruit for our armed forces and for our Allies. Every jar of fruit put up at home leaves a little more freight space to carry war materials. Conserve the Nation’s Sugar Supply. Our sugar supplies must be used carefully. Submarine warfare and the need for ships to carry war materials mean that imports of sugar will be far below nor mal. Every boatload of sugar that is shipped in endangers the lives of American seamen. Ask only for as much as you really need. How Much Sugar Will You Get For Canning? You will get 1 pound of sugar for every 4 quarts of finished fruit you are putting up. You may can as much fruit as your family needs. And you may have an addition al pound of sugar for each person in your family to make a small supply of jams and jellies and fruit butters. How do you get sugar for can ning? You apply to your rationing board for a certificate for sugar for home canning. With this certificate you can buy sugar at any store. Under exceptional circumstances, and at the dis-. cretion of the local rationing boards, application for sugar can ning may be handled by mail. Be prepared to answer these three questions when you go to your rationing board: 1. How many quarts of fruit did you can last year? 2. How many quarts of fruit do you plan to can this year? 3. How many quarts of last year’s fruit do you still have on your pantry shelf? Keep a record of the fruit you can with your rationed sugar. • Your rationing board will ask for it when you apply for more sugar. How To Plan Your Canning. These figures will help you plan your sugar needs for canning this year: Fruit— When you buy fruit in bulk, you should know that: 1 bushel of apples weighs 50 pounds, 1 bushel of peaches weighs 50 pounds, 1 bushel of pears weighs 58 pounds, 1 peck of plums weighs 14 pounds, 1 quart of berries measures 4 cups, 1 quart of cherries measures 5 cups. When you measure your fruit, you should know that these amounts will can one quart: 7- 8 apples (21-2 pounds), 8- 10 peaches (2-2 1-2 pounds), 5-6 pears (2-2 1-2 pounds), 24 - 32 plums (11-2-2 pounds), 5 cups berries (1 1-4 - 11-2 pounds), 6 cups cherries (1 1-4 - 11-2 pounds). ' Equipment— Supplies of glass jars, tin cans, jar rubbers, and closures are ex pected to be adequate for this year. Make the best possible use of yours. Be sure that they are really well filled with fruit, Here Are A Few Ways To “Stretch” Sugar For Canning— Add a small amount of sugar to the fruit’s own juices, instead of making the usual sugar sirup. Fruits naturally contain a great deal of water, and you can make the best use of your sugar by sweetening this rather than by adding more water in the form of O' Here^s Great News! — i*-* .r . / ' K « Now Ifs EASIER to Get a NEW CHEVROLET WARTIME C H A UREY SCHEDULES America's war program has the right of way! The great majority of the people Greyhound is carrying today and intends Ifo carry efficiently are selectees travel ing to examination centers, fighting men on leave or furlough, war workers moving to their jobs, businessmen trav eling on essential work. The trips they take are necessary to keep tbs war pro gram rolling. With increased service demowwed for war ^ production areas—and little increase in buses available—it is necessary to divert ^equipment to routes where it is most needed. Many peacetime features are discon tinued. Operating speeds are somewhat reduced. Express and Limited Sched- v ules are eliminated entirely. Second sections of regular schedules are being v eliminated unless the buses carry a sufficient number of passengers. Grey hound, schedules will be combined with those of other bus companies, when necessary. EFFECTIVE MONDAY JUNE 15TH . . - u Greyhound buses will operate on new wartime schedules. This change in service is being made in order to cooperate to the fullest extent with the V ^wartime plans of the Office of Defense Transportation. The purpose is to make every bus work full time — keeping vital traffic on the move. Conservation of rubber is all-important— % and Greyhound is taking every possible step to increase the big savings already v effected. Today buses use only a frac tion as much rubber as private cars per, passenger, per mile—and they average more than 40,000 miles per tire. We hope that these wartime changes will not cause you inconvenience, crowding or delay. But if you don’t find travel as comfortable and easy as in normal . times, please make allowances! The war effort comes first with Greyhound as it \ does with you! You Can Help by getting information about the new schedules before you travel—taking as little baggage as possible — traveling before or after the midsummer rush period — taking your ^~ip on mid-week days, leaving seats on week-ends for soldiers and war workers. - STROMS CUT-RATE DRUG STORE, Phone 95, McCormick, S. C. GREYHOUND LfM£S ■»: * :*•> y/ •< <v: pill i um a Iv. xtSSfev N & :* • , < ‘ xv ..••v.-.v .••• . .%• v. .y'.. «. . ss.- - • • \ ' ’ L, .. & >vc..... ii. i. f Jt *wK% saT mi qfiwftgte. s.&svk'fr.y.-.. wmm : V{¥.v •stf't 1 ■ lv > • • / mmmm ;> ; i C ■s' . . . MY- ~ SM.'y * * T'* > ’ f ..<• - .. • ..., f . A. > .>■' . ■ x .• • - ,?> -i.4 • ; *: :* >;• r-v < *' :v • •>* <i >■. ■ . ^ , - ■ ■ '-V NEW AND MORE LIBERAL CAR RATIONING RULES recently announced by O.P.A. now make it much easier for eligible buyers to get delivery of new Chevrolet* You need the good, dependable, long-term transportation a new Chevrolet will give you. ... A fine new car with new tires—new battery—new parts—and with Chev rolet’s outstanding economy of operation and upkeep. • • . Rationing regulations have been relaxed and liberal ized— it’s much easier to get delivery now than it has been for months. • • . Better see us—today! FOR THESE^MEA -Bbr^A NEW CHEVROLET Cut Maintenance Costs •'GaSr6nf Olf Costs • « • Buy on Convenient Terms McGRATH MOTOR CO.. INC. McCORMICK, S. C a sirup. Heat the slightly sweetened fruit carefully in a saucepan. This draws out the juices, shrinks the fruit, and drives out the air, making it possible to pack gen erous amounts of fruits in each jar. There should be enough juice to cover the fruit complete ly. Honey mav be used to replace up to one-half the sugar called for in canning, and corn sirup up to one-third. Fruit juices are not provided for in sugar-rationing allowances, but they may be bottled or put in jars with little or no sugar. When sweet and tart juices are mixed together, no sugar is needed. Fruit for juice is processed at simering rather than at boiling tempera tures to keep the natural fruit flavors. If you need help in your can ning, consult your county home demonstration agent. Matilda Bell, Co. Home Dem. Agent. Ail Registrants Don’t Need Social Security Account Numbers Registrants for Selective Serv ice should not apply for a Social Security account number card merely to show an account number on their occupational question naire, Miss Martha Pressly, Man ager of the Greenwood, S. C., of fice of the Social Security Board, said. Miss Pressly emphasized that Social Security account numbers should be obtained only when a man is going to work or already has a job in employment covered by the Social Security Act. Farm ers, Federal, State and local gov ernment employees and other workers in jobs not covered by the act who are required by the Selective Service system to com plete an occupational question naire do not need Social Security cards, it was pointed out. “We have been receiving nume rous applications for Social Secur ity cards from men who have reg istered for selective service and who have received an occupation al questionnaire from their iocal Selective Service Board,” Miss Pressly continued. “There is a place on the questionnaire for the Social Security number. Howev er, that space is intended only for those who are now working, or have worked since January 1937 in shops, mills, mines, stores, ga- ! rages, offices or in other employ ment covered by the Social Secur- : ity Act. If the man filling in his questionnaire does not have a So- 1 cial Security account number, he should simply write ‘none’ in the space provided for his Social Se curity account number.” ^ Men who have had Social Se curity account number cards anc have lost them may obtain a du plicate card without cost at the Greenwood office of the Social Se- | curity Board located at Room 18, Post Office Building, or at any of the more than 400 Field Offices of the Social Security Board lo cated in strategic cities through out the country. tftal SMSES Pains Of MEHMATISM? Most common forms of Rheumatic Pains are . due to muscular congestion which hinders free circulation of blood and causes pressure on nerves That is why to check these pains so many famous physicians favor the use of an Internal medicine such as RUX COMPOUND. RUX ingredients work from the inside (whore the pains actually are) and so are avail* able to act quickly on congestion and pain. RUX also contains valuable diuretics and sys- teA ic alkalizers to aid the outgo of uric acid thru the kidneys. % | RESOLVE to see how mu<M RUX COM- f POUND may mean to you in added comfort, sleep, ease, and enjoyment of work and pleasure.. This day get the genuine RUX Compound (liquid). 3 economical sizes special at ||| < PEOPLES DRUG STORE —Adv. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In* eluding Life Insurance. —p—— * “""an HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C