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' McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, June 11, 1942
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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
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WARTIME
C H A
UREY
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America's war program has the right of
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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 . .
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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— %
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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
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days, leaving seats on week-ends for
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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.
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nerves That is why to check these pains so
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HUGH C. BROWN,
McCORMICK, S. C