McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, March 25, 1943, Image 4
McCORMICR MESSENGER, McCOKMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, jiarch 25, 1943
Meats And
Rationing Program
asuiaH
“Simplicity is the keynote of
the new meats and f fats rationing
program fust announced by ibie
Office of Price Administration,’*
H. N. Colanan, chairman of the
Ratiohlzil Board, said today.
ise^ftYes will lutve ho diffi
culty at adl shopping drith their
red stamps in War Ration Book
Two Wien this new program goes
into effect* next' Mbiiday, He
pointed' cmfc.
the ration list in-
a wide yariety 6f r foods—
ats and many cheeses, as
well as shorten ings and salad oil,}
butter and margarine, canned fish
smd many other items—from the
point of view of the housewife who
does the shopping, it really will He
a simple matter. ^
All these foods will be rationed
with a single set of stamps, Mr.
Coleman pointed out.
And the busy housewife will
have to consult only one table
cf values to find out how many
ration points any of these foods
will cost. t
The latest program requires no
registration of any kind, added
Mr. Coleman. / r
•'War Ration Books Two are al
ready distributed-rand when the
urogram goes into effect on
March 29, housewives already will
1 ave had a month’s experience in
the use of the point ration books
in buying processed fobds.” Mr.
Coleman said. Neither will con
sumers be asked to report any
r'ocks of foods they may have on
: and.
One of the few differences be
tween the use of the blue and tlr
-‘d stamps in War Ration Book
Cwo, is in the order in which
i rmps will be declared valid.
' When rationing begins the firs'
set of stamps, marked “A”,—
worth 16 points—will be valid. Be-
r inning April 4, an additional set
of stamps will be validated. All
these stamps, from “A” through
“ 1 3 M inclusive will remain in use
11 month—making a total of 80
■points per person for April.
Another difference in the use
< f the red stamps permits re
tailers to make "change” in ration
i tamps when a customer finds it
impossible to give the exact a-
inount of valid red stamps when
making a purchase. Only one-
point red stamps of any series
currently valid may be used for
ihls purpose.
During the week of April 4 to
10, for example, storekeepers may
rive their customers red one-
point stamps marked “A” or “B”
in change. Customers are re
minded in this connection' that
they must use stamps they re
ceive in change by the end of the
month in which they are issued
and before they expire—just as
they must use the stamps in their
<.7m books.
♦ As red stamps are declared
valid, they may be used with
complete freedom of choice by
she housewife to buy any! one, or
n~y combination, of the foods for
which they must be surrendered.
There is no distinction at all made
in the use of the red stamps as
between meat and cheese or any of
The other foods for which these
stamps may be spent.
“For example,” explained Mr.
Coleman, "a housewife who comes
into the store with 40 points to
spend from the ration book of her
family, may spend all of them for
meat, or all of them for butter or
iheese, or she may, if she wishes,
divide up her points, and buy but
ter and cheese—or margarine and
meat, or any other combination
she chooses.”
Point values for the entire list
of foods rationed in McCormick
Will be the same in every retail
ftore in the country—just as they
ere for canned goods. Point prices
f various cuts of meat will be
different—just as the point value
cf apricots and peas, for example,
Is different. However, there will
be no difference in point price be-
i ween different grades of the same
cut of meat—nor between differ
ent grades of hard cheese, nor the
came quantity of any kind of but-
;cr.
Many farmers—even those who
rnerate on a very small scale —
produce some of the foods includ
ed in the new ration program for
the use of their families, Mr. Cole
man vjinted out. Although the
new plan places no official restric-
t ions on the use of. any of these
foods at the _ farmer’s, own . table,
<he government is requesting that
farm famihefe retain red stamps
.in their family ration books in an
ambtuit equal to the value 6f the
foods produced and eaten at, home.
A farmer who slaughters a .pig
he raised for the use of his fam
ily, for example, is asked to set
aside red statnps eqdal in, poirit
value to the number of points he
would have to suirerider if he
bbught the equivalent amount of
pbric and* pork products at the
store. 9imllaV 1 .v, if* hd makes btit-
iti fbV use of his family, He IS re
quested' to kbep in his book—
not otherwise use—tHte nuittbei* df
r^d stamps he would need to Huy
tHd same amount of butter.
Wheii a' farmer sells • ariy df
these home-produced foods; he
must collect ration Stamps from
his customers—even if they are
relatives cr neighbors—on the bas
is of official point prices : anti turn
these stamps in to the Office of
Price Administration.
"Farmers in McCormick,” raid
Mr. Coleman, "will be instructed
later on just when and how to
turn in these stamps.”
Meat And Fat Rationing Dates
Week of March 22—Point values
for meats and fats announced.
March 29—First day of point
shopping for meats and fats. Red
coupons "A” become valid.
April 4—Red coupons "B”
be-
be-
come valid.
April 11—Red coupons "C”
come valid.
April 18—Red coupons "D” be
come valid.
April 25—Red coupons "E” be
come valid.
April 30— Red coupons
“B”, "C” and “D” expire.
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FOR
TODAY
BY v
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Meet# fie
pEIH ■
(Each week In this space will be presented a picture
and word portrait oi someone whose name is news.)
• Although he is consistently guided by the
principle that ‘‘a free people has a right to
know” the truth, OWI Director Elmer DaVis
is equally consistently hampered by the fact
that he can’t tell the American people any*
thing he doesn’t want our enemies to know.
• Elmer Davis is the Indiana-born ex-news*
paper man whose voice made tilings sound so
sihiple to about 12,500,000 radio listeners eveiy
time he broadcast his quietly factual five-
minute news summaries. He was busy writ?
ing : a mystery story when, in the summer of
1939, he was asked to pinch hit for H. V. Kal-
tenborn. He remained, with his own program,
until he was chosen to Head the many de
partments combined under the Office of War
Information.
• As a .boy,: Elmer Davis was studious, and
neighbors believed Mfc would some day be a
great orator. Instead he became a newspaper
man. After 10 years on the New York Times
he resigned in 1924 to devote all of his time
to free lance writing.
Elmer Davis
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French Learn All About American Gun
mm.
French army officers and men in North Africa are shown being in
structed in the operation of weapons by U. S. army men.y An American
soldier watches with professional air as a French officer strips a
Garand rifle on a range near Algiers, North Africa. This is part of
the instruction given to the French officers and men before American
equipment is turned over to them.—Soundphoto.
Dodgers Unpack
Princesses
Dodgers* Billy Herman, second
baseman, left, and Angle Galan,
outfielder, as they unpacked their
bake at thh Bear Mountain Inn,
Bear Mountain, N. Y„ which is
training headquarters for the stal
warts from Broqklvn.
Optimistic Wren
Visiting the Girl Ghlde headquar
ters on the occasion of “Thinkinr;
Day,” which marks the birthday ol
the late Lord Baden-Powcll, found
er of th'e Eoy Scouts, Princess Elis
abeth (left), heiress to the British
throne, and her..sister f Princess
Margaret, prepare a carrier pig
eon to carry a message of greet
ing to Lady Baden-Powcll.
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Housewife s Friend
Showing a bland indifference io
locality, an intrepid wren is start
ing her new family in the mouth of
a Civil war cannon that serves r 3
a historic marker on Chickamar *
battlefield, near Chattanooga. !
perstitious colored folk in the no
borhood insist it is a sign of pc
as well as of spring.
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SMART MONEY
MOWS
WHERE TO
GO AFTER [
READING
THE ADS ^
IN THIS '• //uv
) NEWSPAPER,
Mrs. Philip L. Crowlie of Huron,
S. D., looks over charts at the Office
of Price Administration, In Wash
ington. She has been chosen to rep
resent American housewives at pol
icy hearings of the OPA, and to ex
plain new orders to the nation’s
women. Mrs. Crowlie has three
children.
The Poor Cave Man
Had No Newspaper
To Advertise In.
Rut Vou Have!! <$>
By LYTLE HULL
TALK CAN LOSE A WAR
It may prove a costly mistake
if we get into the habit of bfc-
Mcvin^ that this war will be over
at any specified time?, or in any
pecifi,ed year. If the enemy
doesn’t know when it willend^—we
don’t either. Too many people in
important places are getting into
the habit of sayfng—“naturally
we will win the war, but it is dif
ficult to say whether in the au
tumn of 1943 or in the early
spring of 1944.” ' >
Now it just so happens that no
one ever knows when a war will
end or who will win it, until It is
over. Victory is a reward, which
has the tantalizing tendency to
"hang in the balance.” The for
tunes of war swing first' toward
one side and then toward the
other. How many times has this
already occurred in Russia and
in North Africa? It will doubtless
happen more than once again be
fore we are through.
We are not sure to win this
war, and we should be told so—
instead of always being tolti how
we are blasting the Hell out * of
the enemy and how he is losing
thousands of men per minute in
the snows of Russia and on the
hot sands of Tunisia. We can win
and we should win. v We have the
advantage of manufacturing pow
er on our side and % we probably
win have the advantage of man
power. We are just as brave and
just as determined as the ene
my. But we,- or our Allies, or
both—by the use of bad judgment
or bad management—can lose the
war.
Undersecretary of War Patter
son reminded us that the enemy
still has 569 divisions under arms.
This means 8 1-2 to 9 million
men: more than the Allies, in
cluding Russia, have under arms.
How large and how long a task
will it be for us to move just 200
divisions and their vast equip
ment, through the submarine
ildekade, to the battle fronts?
fhat means 3 million* men.
We must consider these figure*
.vhen we lean back in the old
irmchair and start giiessing how
joon the food and gas rationing
vilj be over. And before we de
cide to slow down on our Wax
Bend buying^—becaiisb Admiral
Gump or commentator Copperbot-
tom believes the war will be
"in the bag” by tHe last week of
April, 1944—we should also re
member that the ^
have been made to believe By
Herr Spider Goeb^els that, if they
get licked, Russia and all t&g
other despoiled nations are going
to tear them limb from limb. ‘ if
the German people wanted to quit
right now, they wouldn’t dare do
it. They have got to be beatfeii
—not "wished” into surrendering’
There are two "home front”
points the enemy would like tb
make. First: to lull us into a
sense of complete security through
the belief that the war is a cinch
and that we have practically won
it already. Second: to foment
trouble and friction between the
Allies. So far we have unwitting
ly played their game. We over
here have assured ourselves that
we can’t lose; and the Allies
jointly are working up a perfect
jtmgle of misunderstandings. It
doesn’t make any difference
whose fault it is, the fact re
mains that senseless and useless
friction does exist; and unless
some big man with brains thinks
up a way to smooth it out it
could grow to such proportioiis
that it could lose the war for
us.
The American citizen—the Little
Fellow—is trying to do his share.
He will go barefooted and starve,
to feed the men at the front and
to win the war. But why don’t
some of the Big Fellows stop
making speeches and giving in
terviews without knowing what
the government wants them NOT
to say.
Eden Holds Press Conference in U. S.
Anthony Eaen, British foreign secretary, holds a press conference
in the British embassy in Washington. At this conference he said: '
••Co-operation between the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Rus
sia and China is pretty \vc;l indisper'-able if the world is to have lasting
peace after the >var.” Shown, left to right, are Lord Halifax and
Anthony Eden.
Connoisseurs at a Tea Party
Government exports exar - samples of tea from the first sltin-
r-.ent to arrive in New York • er a wartime agreement with Great
Britain which stipulates that t 1 U. S. is to receive 05,030,003 pounds
curing 1943. The examiners r. • (left to right), E. P. Ccnnelte, con-
mstfity special-1 the Commodity Credit cetporation’; Charles F.
Baielnnso.i, ing t T . S. tea examiner, aii5 E. Ycre Powers, chlpf
of the tea section, feed distribution administration.