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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICE, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, May 20, 1943 IcCORMICK MESSENGER Pablished Every Thursday I Established Jane S, EDMOND J. MeCRACKEN, Editor and Owner titered at the Post Office at Mc Cormick, S. C., as mail matter of th' rrond class. — - I ^ HiPTION RATl.8: One /ear $1.U0 Six Months .75 Three Months .50 Six Inch Sermon BY REV. ROBERT H. HARPER De- Bible Teaching on Wine’s cietfulness. Lesson for May 23: Proverbs 20:1; 23-35; Matthew 24:45-51. Golden Text: Proverbs 23:32. It has been terribly unfair, to say the least, that, while needful / things have been rationed, n<5 limitation has been set upon the sale of wine and other intoxi cants. The turning of plants to making alcohol for industrial and war purposes doubtless did not alarm sellers and drinkers of beverage alcohol because billions of gallons, enough for four or five years, were on hand. The wide use of intoxicants may re mind us of the statement in Proverbs that “Wine is a mocker. It would be tragedy indeed if it should finally mock the American nation. All the evils of drink are de scribed in Proverbs, not the least being the depraved appetite de veloped. And “at the last it biteth like a serpent.” If such evils came from drinking the wines of / antiquity, what should we expect from the distilled liquors of much higher alcoholic content today? The lesson closes with a passage from Matthew concerning wise and foolish servants. In a large city a woman has brought suit against an undertaker because tbfe' driver of the hearse, upon approaching the cemetery, sud denly put on a burst of speed, and left the procession waiting 45 minutes while he took a wild ride through city streets, stopped in a ''barroom for liquor, and finally returned with the deceas ed to the place of interment. What can be expected when a man in a position of responsibili ty sets appetite above duty? Not eternity, but the near future may bring the awful reckoning of drinking and drunkenness in this country. Move On Broad Front To ‘Roll Back’ Prices OPA SEEKING TO REDUCE RE CENT RISE IN COSTS Order for 10% Subsidy Meets Criticism OPA policy committee said. “Labor will do all in Its power through its local, state and na tional organizations, to help ef fect the new OPA program,” the AFL delegation said. “Labor was ready to share in the enforce ment of effective cost-of-living stabilization a year ago; it is ready to join any bona fide ef fort to achieve such stabilization now.” v Goss Assails Program ... Long opposed to payments to producers for financing price control, Goss assailed the OPA subsidy program as being basical ly unreal. “I know it doesn’t help the man who hasn’t had a salary raise to know that we are spending the The Road MUST Be Kept Open E; r< as rep . - *atr es of la bor, agriculture and the retailer sharply criticized the terms of the OPA’s order cutting meat, coffee and butter prices 10 per cent starting June 1, the price administration agency moved on a broad front to roll back the cost of living. ^ r . As broadsides were delivered a- lo wes t per cent of our income for gainst the order which would food i 11 history,’ Goss said, subsidize either producers or pro- “ but y ou can t ignore production cessors to the limit of 10 per costs and prices to fit that man s cent by which retail food prices income . . .’ would be slashed, " the OPA! Curtailment of production and launched its program of listing expansion of the black market definite cents-per-item ceilings on can wel1 be expected* from the 100 foods in 150 large metropoli-. new OPA program, Goss said, tan centers. At the same time, I Craig echoed Goss’ warning of it moved to cut prices of other i ncreasec * black market op?ia- vegetables, poultry and fish. j tions. He said the retailer can- To prevent overcharges, the not support any rollback in OPA has established specific Prices on inventories purchased prices for various commodities. | at higher leveis without facing Prominently displayed in the rum. stores, these prices will be a guide To Meet Shortage Protein For Hogs Florence, May 15.—Wring the present period of protein feed shortage, green forage will enable hog producers to get along with about half the usual quantity of protein and still keep the pigs doing well, says A. L. DuRant, livestock specialist of the Clemson Extension Service. Mr. DuRant’s suggestions, made for the recent conference of the State Feed Conservation Commit tee, include these further points on increasing the feed supply and following other practices in swine management: Keep all hogs on a green for age crop. If you do not have fence for your hogs and they are being kept in dry lots or pens, plant some soybeans nearby so they can be cut and fed to the hogs even while in pens or dry lots. Increase the yield of corn and other grains in every possible way. Grain sorghums such as hegari make good hog feed, do not need to be threshed or ground, and can be planted after oats. Plant soybeans for green graz ing. You cannot have too many. If they mature seed after being grazed all summer, so much the better. Supplement the grain ration with a protein feed. It saves feed and gives faster gains. Feed the young pigs while suckling and full-feed the brood sows while they are nursing the litters. Rapid gains are cheap gains. Surplus milk will take the place of animal protein when fed to pigs. Keep up the milk sup ply of the family cow so that there will be some surplus for the pigs as well as all the milk the family needs. Take no chances with hog cholera which may wipe out a whole season’s effort. Vaccinate I fer the program its full the pigs at 6 to 8 weeks of age. | the AFL representative on the to choppers. The OPA’s new price list applies only to stores with sales under $50,000 annually. Since stores with sales above $50,000 ordinarily charge less for merchandise, they have been ordered to maintain their lowe^ prices. Cut Other Food Prices. Meanwhile, the OPA slashed re tailers’ margins on cabbage, onions and some poultry, and re duced prices of salt codfish. The action chopped retailers’ margins—the amount the retail er adds to the price of a com modity over the wholesaler’s charge—by 65 to 40 per cent for small stores and 54 to 40 per cent for chains and other large stores. Through the order, the house- w’ife should save from 7 to 15 per cent on cabbage; 7 per c£tit on onions, and 3 to 4 per cent on frozen poultry. Salt fodfish were red’—d 7 cents per pound at the processor level. The OPA’s action grew out of John L. Lewis’ contention that the cost of living had skyrocketed so high in the mining communi ties that a $2 a day pay in crease was necessary to keep up with it. President Roosevelt then promised that action would be taken against unjustifiable in creases, and OPA Administrator Brown followed with the declara tion that prices would be “rolled back." ■But the government’s action ap parently failed to quiet all of organized labor’s clamor against the cost of living. No sooner had Brown’s announcenlent of the 10 per cent subsidy plan for meat, coffee and butter been made than George Meany, secretary-treasur er of the American Federation of Labor, delivered a blistering at tack against the government’s whole anti-inflation program. The AFL’s membership on the labor policy committee of the OPA, however, supported Brown’s measure. Joining Meany in his attack were A. S. Goss, master of the National Grange and D. R. Craig, president of the American Retail federation. Wants May, 1942, Level In asserting that food prices have gone up on an average of 60 1-2 per cent in Milwaukee to 108 per cent in Cumberland, Md., Meany demanded that these prices be rolled back to levels existing in May, 1942. He said: “When basic foods have gone up 20, 25 and 30 cents per pound, it is not enough to snip off a penny here and there. A reduc tion of 10 per cent in seven items, when an increase of 100 per cent and more has taken place on dozens of items, is not enough.” If restoring the May, 1912, price level necessitates a reduction of 25 per cent in the cost of some items, for instance, then that re duction should be made, Meany said. With the government spending 96 billion dollars a year on armaments, an appropriation of 300 million dollars to finance cuts in retail food prices was “peanuts,” he maintained. Insofar as the new price pro gram represents a genuine roll back in the cost of living, or ganized labor stands ready to of- support, After investigating charges of excessive food Lewis’ prices within the mining communities, the CPA declared that miners generally are not paying more for commcdities than others. However, OPA said there were some violations of ceilings. OPA ceilings on pork generally were being followed, the investi gators said, but there were nu merous infractions against regu lations covering canned goods, potatoes, onions, beans, dried fruits, butter and eggs. Most of the violations were reported in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, where the miners have their largest membership. In order to effect compliance with price ceilings, OPA recom mended a three-point program, including: issuance of dollars and cents ceilings, which already has been done; increase in the enforcement staff, and enlistment of the support of the consumers. X Town And Farm In Wartime What Is “Home-Canned”? Foods are “home-canned”, says the South Carolina OPA, if: 1. They have been canned in a kitchen primarily used for the preparation of meals, or to dem onstrate the preparation of meals. 2. They have been canned in a separate building or shed, which a farm home has equipped for canning purposes, provided that the owner has first obtained permission from his local ration board to use such facilities. Farm Meat Regulations New meat-rationing regulations provide that a farmer and his family may consume meat raised on any farm he owns or operates, and may transfer meat from one of his farms to another to pro vide food lor members of the household, without giving up ra tion points, even if the meat is not slaughtered on his farm. However, if the farm ownCr does not live on a farm, he must give up ratiop points for any meat he consumes elsewhere. Under the original regulations, a farmer who brought his own cattle to a cus tom slaughtering plant had to surrender red point stamps for the meat, while if he killed and dressed the animal himself the meat was “ration-free^” A farm or ranch employer who feeds his employees in a bunkhouse or dining hall may now use meat and other rationed food* raised on his farm on the same basis as if the employees were fed in the household. Sugar Allowed For Canning Sugar for home canning will be limited to one pound for each four quarts (or eight pounds) cf the finished product and may b3 secured on written application to the housewife’s local board. Each person is allowed not more than 25 pounds. Any family can apply for sugar to put up jams, jellies, and preserves at the rate of five pounds per person. Last year, sugar for preserves was limited to one ponud per person. Ceilings Set On Market Basket Foods Maximum prices now being es tablished by OPA for the Colum bia, S. C., area as well as for a- bout 130 other American cities are expected to cover 80 per cent of the foods in the family market ^U+IM-Ttr WIFE'S BEi l“£//7At; rn'millers..J \<h£ fouhd out weir secret V* ALWAYS RAISINS W BEST VEGETABLES^ ' OR, BOY! PIP! 6ET SOME GARDEN INFORMATION FROM TEE MIUB& N0 M0J ?£ mL 1 mv£ T0 J'iP - -NO MORE SHALL HE HA YB TH' ¥' j i BIGGEST PARSNIPS, TH'PEST RUTABAGAS- OR TH'PRIZE ^SoT f o& l .0! OH, I PONT RJIOU/ ANYTHING ABOUT ALL THAT, BUT I DID GET THE PATTERN FOP^ THAT HftPUNG GAPPEN OUTFIT MRS- MILLER ACWA YS U/EARS- basket by June 1. These maxi- mums will be top prices in each principal city and its “market area,” which the district offices of the OPA have defined. By June, the OPA ekpects to com plete prices for Columbia and then undertake the same job for other South Carolina localities. Community-wide top prices are intended to simplify regulations for the store-keeper and the housewife and to make the con sumer a partner in the enforce ment of wartime price ceilings. Less Points For Butter Some grades of South Caroline “farm butter” may be reduced in point value to prevent waste or spoilage, as a result of an amend ment to the meats-fats rationing regulations cf OPA. “Farm but ter” or “country butter” usually is produced in small quantities by farmers and sold locally. Since it is not of uniform quality, it is considerably more perishable than commercially produced butter. The amendment empowers OPA re gional directors, when authorized by the Washington office, to deal with local emergency cases. Overseas Parcel Post Packages may now be mailed to a soldier overseas if a request is received from the soldier and the envelope bearing the APO can cellation mark is presented at the time of mailing. Formerly, the approval of the commandin: officer was required. Current re strictions as to weight and size of packages remain in effect. Farm Machinery Rationing At their discretion, state war boards can now cancel county quotas on any or all types of farm machinery according to u revised farm machinery rationing order issued by the War Food Ad ministration. If a state board ex ercises this authority, farmers will be required to locate the machin ery they want to buy before they are given a purchase certificate. Furthermore, county farm ration- ng committees may set the ex piration date of purchase certifi cates any time between 10 and 60 days after issuance, or may cancel the certificate after the holder has had a reasonable time to buy the specified machinery. Twine And Rope For 43 Harvest South Carolina farmers can ex pect reasonable supplies cf hay rope, binder twine, and other cordage for harvesting their 1943 crops, the War Food Administra tion has announced. However, farmers are warned to buy only what t.hev actually need and to conserve supplies now on hand, j Many substitute materials are j being used and supplies will re- i quire more careful handling than in the past. / Gas For Furloughs Members of the armed forces on leave or furlough for three days or more may get a special gasoline ration (up to five gal lons) for personal errands when other means of transportation are not available. The ration is ob tained by presenting pass, leave or furlough papers to a rationing board. INSURANCE Fire Insurance And All Other Kinds of Insurance In cluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK. S. C. Notice TO SELL ’EM, TELL ’EM- With An Ad In the future I will handle th coal business formerly conducte by my father. Your patronage will be appreci ated. H. G. SANDERS. WANT ADV. FOR SALE—Used Osborne Bind er, cheap; little repair needet L. C. Talbert, R. 1, Trey. S. C FOR SALE — Good yellow see corn at $3.00 per bushel. H. I Christian, R. 2, McCormick, S. C, ■" 1 — ^ ■ FOR SALE—Ten weeks old Pc land China Pigs at reasonabl price. W. C. Strom, McCormicl S. C. WANTED — Pine Pulp W $8.93 per unit loaded on C, C., Georgia and Fla., and ern Rail Roads. Extra p£ wood loaded from the f Liberal advance when load' M. Winn, Plum Branch, S.