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MtfCOttMIC'K VH \*.M virMlKMM K ih <;ANOtJOiA Thursday, March 11, 1943 Rationing For South Carolinians Bicytles Bosons -gainfully employed or doing volunteer war work can cualify for certificates <to buy Hcydes. “Bicycles also are :avail able .to*pupils who need them -to get vto-and from schodl. Certifi- cates should' be Obtained ’ from lo- «.al raUoniag • boards. Oiffee Stamp-No. 25 -in War Ration Bdok^One ^odd *tor one pwtxrtd Of coffee until midnight Matth'21. Fuel-OU XJoupons marked ^PeticW " 5” be came valid March 7 and will be good for 10 gallons until Septem ber 30. Coupons‘marked “Period 4”, valid Since January 30, will be good for nine .gallons until ‘April A. Gasoline Coupon Ko. A in ^A“ gasoline books good for three gallons until March 22. Value of “B” and “C'’ coupons still three gallons. “T-l” “I ALWAYS GET PROMPT AND DEPENDABLE SERVICE FROM F0RTS0N . . a: 99 One friend tells another . . . FORTSON’S first when it comes fo replacement parts . . . for maintenance equipment on all types of farm equipment. Call Fortson for: Bolts and nuts and screws . . . belting and belt dressing . . . steel bars . .. pipe . . . pipe fittings valves . . . wrenches and miscellaneous tools. HERE’S real SERVICE! HERE’S QUALITY merchandise. Write or Wire today. We sell — Meyers Pumps . . Rams.. Water Systems . . Windmills . . Tanks . . Towers . . Cord- wood Saws . . Hack Saws . . Files . . Cross-cut Saws. WRITE OR WIRE YOUR ORDERS 9th at Reynolds Sts. Last Poultry Truck Of Season At McCormick Friday, March 12th PLACE: McCormick Depot Platform. TIME: Friday, Mar. 12th, 10:00 A. M. ito 12:00 Noon. PRICES: )' Colored hens ' ‘ OOjt Per Pound COU Leghorn hens Per Pound fcUw Roosters i^Afb Per Pound IIIU Ducks and Geese 1 Per Pound Ida Turkeys Per Pound d#U INSTRUCTIONS: Please do not feed or water poultry on day of sale. Cull your flock and sell non-layers. Greenville Poultry Company Cooperating with G. W. Bonnette, County Agent. Buy Your Furniture From J. S. STROM Easy Payment Plan. No Carrying Charge. McCormick, S. C. and “T-2’’ coupons good fvr flvH ;!lons. License number of au- rmcbU" Pt time of gasoline pur-! 'rase must be written in ink! ^.long with name of state ini which automobile is registered, on back of each “A”, “B” and “C” coupon. Name and address of owner must be written in ink on! back ■ of each ““T” 'coupon. "Meat * Maximum -rttiiil etfttng pttces on pork, effective April 1, have been announced by the' OPA. ' No restrictions’have‘been placed on safesAf live "meat, or ton 'the Slaughter of live meat for home sonsumption. "Shoes ' Stamp No. 17 hi War Ration |Book One can be used to pur chase a pair df shoes through June 15. The stamp must be torn out of book at the time of (purchase in the presence of the rson selling or deliverihg the |shoes. If you buy shoes by mail, the stamp may be detached and (sent with the mail order. Stamp No. 17 is transferable - among members of a family living in (the same household and related [by blood, marriage or adoption. For example, parents may use their stamps to provide extra shoes for their children. If a person needs to buy shoes and has no Stamp No. 17 in his im mediate family which he can use, he may apply to his War Price and Rationing Board for a shoe purchase certificate. Certificates for the purchase of men’s rubber boots and rubber work shoes must be obtained from rationing boards. Certain types of play shoes have been exempted from rationing. Stoves New coal and oil-fired heaters are being rationed. “Persons who will use new coal stoves to re place oil burners may apply to their local War Price and Ration ing Boards for purchase certifi cates. Oil-fired heaters can be purchased only under very unusu al circumstances because of the fuel oil shortage. Sugar Stamp No. 11 in War Ration Book One, good for three pounds, will be valid until March 15. Stamp No. 12 will be good for five pounds from March 1G through May 31. Tires Owners of passenger cars and commercial vehicles using tires smaller than 7.50 by 20 may get their casings recapped with re claimed rubber camelback with out applying to their local War Price and Rationing Boards for certificates. Rationing restrictions have not been removed from re capping of commercial vehicles With truck-type camelback, which contains a large proportion of crude rubber. Motorists who ap ply to their local rationing boards for tires or recaps, or for new or renewal gasoline rations, must have had their tires examined at an offiqial OPA inspection station and must take with them to their local boards their offical tire in spection records. Present dead line for tire inspection for “A” book holders is March 31. There after, “A” book holders must have a tire inspection every six months. “B” book holders must have a .ire inspection every four months; “C” book holders, every three months. Tires on trucks, taxi cabs and other commercial motor vehicles must be inspected every ■>0 days or every 5,GOO miles, whichever comes first. Final date for initial inspection of tires on omiuercial motor vehicles wab ’ebruary 28. Typewriters Rentals of nonportables manu factured after 1934 are banned •Tonportables made between 1927 and 1934 may be rented to per- ;ons who obtain certificates from their local rationing boards. Rentals of portables made be tween 1927 and 1935 may still be made on a 6-month basis. I'ast portables made since 1935 r ’so may be rented on the same bc.-ls. X J * * war,'-dreads the f day'when .Junioi will shout, “Hey, dad, can I havt the plane tonight—I’ve got a dat( ith a girl in Chicago.’’ It was bad enough with -au tomobiles, parents protest. They will never forget some of those sleepless nights when they spent hours pacing the 'floor listening for‘the car to drive Into the garage and fought Off 'horrifying mental pictures - of smash-^-pps ? and of their children lying uncon- scious aJong the roadside. But i planes — youngsters ; going for j oyi-rMes 1 through' the skies— that’s most too frightening for them -to contemplate. 'Yet there 4s every reason to : beMeve -.that private planes will, within ,a ffew years after the war, be whizzing around the air!by the '.thousands —and our children will take fly- :na as much for granted as we oldsters have taken motoring. SAFETY ..... fears When we actually learn the facts about what those planes for pri vate use are going to be like, some of our fears may vanish. At present we are apt to picture .he rickety planes which used to jeare the daylights out of us when some local show-off would take one up and see how close he could come to his girl’s house without taking the chimney with him. But after the war the private planes we picture now will be as old-fashioned as a Model-T Ford. For the people who plan to make the private planes of the future know just how fidgety we feel a- bout private flying and they know that they won’t get any where with the idea unless they can turn out planes which will make it just about as safe to be in the air as to be sitting in the front parlor. FLYING . . . automatic We got a hint of what is to come a couple of w r eeks ago when the army announced that one of its huge four-motor Liberators had actually flown itself for 2,000 miles without any pilot a- board. The plane seemed to be in trouble off the Florida coast. The crew bailed out and set an automatic control to steer the plane out to sea. The next day the plane, with no human hand guiding it for 12 hours finally collided with a mountain peak in Mexico. The important revelation in this announcement was the fact that a plane could fly automatic ally, which is one of the great steps forward in taking the dan ger out of flying. Until the war is over, most manufacturers will talk about safety discoveries in generalties, but a clear indication 'of the trend was pointed out recently by a man who makes many of the safety appliances which are counted upon for safe flying. This man, Ernest R. Breech, president of the Bendix Aviation corporation, told his stockholders: “It is our conviction that the average person wants to fly his own small plane if he can fly safely and automatically. Devel- ophients to date make it possible safely to say that we can see the time of automatic flying com ing within the next few years.” HIGHWAYS . . . airways I don’t know what the plane of the future will be like, but if it is to be safe enough for popular appeal it will have to dod^e noantains automatically, keep it self out of collisions with other planes, find its way through fog, land still in the air, land safe ly when the gas runs out and cope with all the other unpredict able emergencies which have caused crashes in the past. How all this will be taken care of is a job for the smartest en gineers to work out, but the fact that such a plane will be devel oped is no longer to be doubted The whole aviation industry is depending on it—and nothing can stop it. By 1950 and probably before, even the most skeptical of us are apt to consider the airways as safe, if not safer than the high ways. X March Farm Calendar ABOVE ^HUttmtOO By LYTEE HULL OF THE PEOPLE' FOR THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE That is the most important phrase in the English language— or in any other language. It de scribes a form of government de vised by our clever, farsighted forefathers 150 years ago; pat terned somewhat after the ancient Greek and Roman democracies prior to their decay and their us urpation by minorities. Many of us have known Com munists, Nazis, Fascists and Mon archists. Each -will tell you that the people are happier under his form of government than under any other. What people? The members of his party—or the great mass who are not members? There is no question but that members of the Communist party are happier now than they were under the Tzarist regime. Why shouldn’t they be? They now rule 170 million people with a rod of iron—which is much more pleas ant than being sent to the mines in Siberia for plotting revolutions. But the Communist party is made up of a tiny minority of Russia’s vast millions. The Nazi party al- co comprise small minorities of the population. These parties are a- bout as exclusive as a Fifth Ave nue club. But are Germany’s millions happier being bossed around by a himself Demo- ‘ freedom and can enjoy (almost) as mtlch as the crat. Tt isn't what you name your form of government that counts : it is how that ^government realty functions. And any nation which is run according to the .. judgment df one man, or one group of men, cannot afford the same opportun ities for advancement and happi ness as can a nation which is op erated by the people for the peo ple. The great fallacy of individual, or group, management of a nation lies in the principle that the citi zen must follow an allotted, rou tine plan of living which sub merges and destroys his own ini tiative. The result, in the long run, is a foregone conclusion. The citizen loses all ambition and be comes a fixed cog in a wheel: the managers develop into what is known as a “ruling class” — and we are right back where we came from. Communism in Russia; Naziism in Germany; Fascism in Italy—if they should_ continue for 50 more years, will develop into the same old type of autocracy and feudal ism * which dictatorships i.^/e turned into from time immemo rial. It could not be otherwise. Human nature does not change over night, nor over a century, nor over ten centuries; and all the high-fallutin dreams of the lot of former tramps than they starry-eyed theorists about “all were being bossed around by a lot of kings and emperors? Is the Italian more contented being- looked at through the nose by Muss and his son-in-law Ciano, or by members of the royal house of Savoy? Is the Russian moujik any happier? We are told so by members of the Communist party; but pre-war American travelers certainly did not confirm this. In our country the Democratic party is at present in power. But the Republican has the same men being equal” if they will only “join up” with the Communists or the Fascists or the Nazis or some other like left wing philos ophy—simply grow out of igno rance of what has happened so often in the past. If we in our country ever allow an overdose of bureaucracy to ob tain such a strangle-hold that ours develops into a one-party government, we too will become a two-class nation—the masters and the servants. soil. 3. Plan to manufacture ni trogen on the farm; that is, grow more legumes. 4. Purchase e- nough improved seed to grow your next year’s supply of seed, to maintain quality production. 5. If not already sown, sow lespe- deza early in March. Horticulture 1. Set out fruit trees"for home orchards if not already set. 2. Plant raspberries and blackber ries any time this month. 3. Prune and spray fruit trees. 4. Apply spring fertilizer to orchards. 5. Plant hardy vegetables now, such as cabbage, turnip, mustard, spinach, kale, lettuce. 6. Begin now making plans to produce an abundant supply of vegetables for home use throughout the year. 7. Get gardening publications from extension agents. Insects and Diseases Early Spring Guide On Care Of Livestock Providing for ample feeds and proper feeding are the -most im portant matters in attention to- livestock in early spring, says County Agent G. W. Bpnnette, in making spring livestock sugges tions. Animal Husbandry 1. Give brood sows special at tention at farrowing time. Large litters mean greater profits. 2. Place sows and young pigs on ter ritory uninfested with parasites- 3. Cull out the unproductive sows. 4. Plan to plant some Biloxi soy beans for hog grazing. 5. Use barley, rye, and oats for grazing with beef cattle and hogs. 6. Give the ewes special care at lambing time. “Lambing time is the 1. Treat peanut seed and cotton shepherd’s harvest.” 7. Prefer oats: seed to prevent damping-off and | to corn when mules start heavy to obtain better stand. 2. Ma- j work, chine-delinting of cotton seed j Dairying should be done before and not j t Rcmove milking cows from after treating with mercury dust. 1 lightly onion-infested pastures 3. Grow corn as far as possible , five llours before milking. ,Keep from last year to control billbugs cows off of heavily infested onicn and borers. 4. Do not plant corn p as t ures 2. Thoroughly clean 'up adjacent to small grain in chinch an ^ bau i 0 ff utters and ma- bug area. 5. Plant velvet beans nure to destroy breeding places or crotalaria on small grain or for fli?s and make up for fertili- “resting” land in wireworm area. zer shortages. 3. Use some acreage 6. Control cutworms with poison- cut from cotton for m0 re feed ed bran mash. 7. Plant wilt-re- crops 4 silage and legume hay sistant tomatoes and cotton. 8. make ideal roughage feed for nekt winter. 5. Plant one-half acre per and TOMORROW By DON ROBINSON PARENTS .... planes Many a parent who keeps hear ing that airplanes will be as pop ular as automobiles after the Better care of bees will help out in sugar shortage. cow in pearl millet for summer Agricultural Engineering grazing. 6. Clear brush and apply 1. Check over farm machinery 200 Pounds of superphosphate and for needed repairs, and order one fo* 1 ground limestone per parts now. 2. Plow terraces before planting to give them extra width Sow lespedeza on permanent p and height. 3. Repair screens on t ure s °d if none is present, doors and windows before the fly Poultry season opens. 4. If you have a i. Raise baby chicks on new nmall stream or other source of ground. 2. Provide feed for chicks water supply on your farm, inv ;- j n c ican troughs or hoppers. 3. To get ready for a better year in farming, County Agent G. W. tonnetto, makes these better farming suggestion for March: Agronomy 1. Make, save, and use farm manures and compost in pro ducing crops. 2. Before buying fertilizer, study carefully the ierds of your soil for plant food to feed the plants grown on that tigate the possibilities of ng the Victory Garden. irric.v:- (O' TO SELL ’EM, TELL ’EM- ISfSL Wilh An Ad Get chicks into sunshine early. '4. Clean brooder houses regularly. 5. Plant green feed for summer. G. Arrange to procure stock for flock improvement next season.