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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCQRMTCK, SOOTH CAROLINA Thursday, January 11, 1945
fcCORMlCK HffiSSENGER
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| Established June f, IMS
i bdmond j. McCracken,
Editor and Owner
Entered at the Post Office at Me-
Cermlck, S. C., as mall matter of
Mm second class.
EVJBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Tear — $1.00
Six Months .78 '
Three Months.50
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•die CUVUI
transport
Johnson,
of Defens
FREIGHT • . . passengers
The employee of Bamum and
Bailey circus, who figured out how
to squeeze 17 midgets into one baby
Austin automobile, is the kind of
man we need to work out America’s
transportation problem for 1945.
For the problem will be some
thing like this: How are we going
to haul over 800,000,000,000 ton-miles
<at freight with equipment which
has a maximum capacity of per
haps 600,000,0p0,000 ton-miles?,
That's only one phase of the
domestic transportation problem,
but it serves as an example of the
kind of thing which must be worked
out if war supplies and civilian sup
plies are going to be delivered
where they are needed when they
are needed.
Predicting that 1945 will be >
the most difficult 12 months in
hie entire history of American .
portation, CoL J. Monroe •
director of the Office \
Defense Transportation, said ;
that, with less equipment than ;
before the war, railroads and '
trucks must haul more weight
ever a greater distance than •
ever before.
In 1944 the ton-miles of freight
hauled was 47.7 per cent higher
than before the war and inter-city
passenger miles increased 196 pei;
cent. That was a record which nd
one thought could possibly be
reached. But now, in spite of de*
preciation of equipment and in
creased manpower shortages, a
new record for 1945 must be
achieved both for freight and pas
sengers.
The only possible solution is a
drastic curb 6n all unnecessary
transportation.
1945 . . . . increase
According to the original plans,
the war in Europe was scheduled
to end in 1944, and transportation in
1945 was to be concentrated on the v
shipment of equipment to the west
•coast.
That equipment must still be
shipped even though it will now
also be necessary to increase
rather than decrease the movement
■ 7f supplies to the east coast. And in
] addition to freight—it is expected
i •'hat troop movements by railroad,
} us well as transportation of casual
ties, will be higher than at any
! ime to date.
* Part of the freight load will be
bandied by trucks, as it has been
since the war started. But the truck
Operators are faced with serious
problems too—the outstanding one
*■ which Is to get heavy duty tires
<fcr which there Is a great military
demand. Indications at present are
that only about 00 per cent of the
3*res needed by trucks will be' sup
plied during the first three months
Pi the year. A serious disruption
of flm shipment of food M well as
freight threatens unless some solu
tion can be worked out.
All otner means of transportation
— airplanes, boats, pipelines and
buses — are also being taxed to
. capacity. And the private auto-
- mobile, which is a vital factor in
transportation of war workers, can
not be expected to do as efficient
a job in 1945 as it has done so far.
The number of automobiles being
scrapped is increasing rapidly, no
new cars are being produced
and the average car still in opera
tion is eight years old compared
with a peacetime average of four
and a half years.
CURBS . . , . priorities
' The ODT has not announced
many new regulations for 1945, with
the exception of the ban on horse
racing and other sporting events to
which gas-rationed motorists con
tinue to drive by the thousands.
But it is quite possible that a flock
of new orders, which will put dras
tic curbs on automobile usage, as
well as on train travel and ship
ment of unnecessary freight, will
be Issued within 'a short time.
If you are planning a nice sum
mer jaunt, or figuring on going to
'visit a relative in some distant cor
ner of the United States this year, it
would be safer not to count on your
plan working out. For if the trans
portation problem is as dangerous
as the figures indicate it is, it is
probable that, in the near future,
neither man nor freight will be per
mitted to travel any distance with
out a priority.
As has been the case with
most of our war problems, vol
untary cooperation will prob-
j ably be sought before orders
< are given. But so far the
} ’ •'please don’t travel" request
seems to have done about as
rood as a "please keep 1
off t’ e glass’" sign in a school
n rig!:!;orhood.
Civilians can’t do much to aid
H- problem of finding the shipping
'pace to send war supplies over-;
«as in the vast quantities in
ehich they are needed. But we can,
J] help have war equipment readyj
md waiting at the docks when tho|
ihips come in by keeping trains,!
ilanes, and trucks free to confinSj
heir space to carrying essen-
ial goods.
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ft REV. ROBERT R
HARPER t j
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Jems Begins His Ministry.
Lesson for January 14: Matthew 3:13
—4:11. !
Memory Verse: Matthew 4:10.
Like John the Baptist, we doubt-
less wonder why Jesus went for ;
baptism. It was probably in the
desire of Jesus, though Himself sin
less, to identify Himself in baptism
with men who had abunda,t need
to repent. Also He must have want
ed to put His approval upon the min
istry of John the Baptist.
It is not sinful to be tempted pro
vided one resists. As the old Ag^e
has it—a man cannot prevent the
birds flying over him but he can
prevent their building a nest on
head. Hungry, Jesus was tempted .
to turn stones into bread; to win th
people He was urged to cast Himseu
from a pinnacle of the temple, ev®**
as the rabbis had said the Messiah
would do, and last. He was tempted
to compromise with evil.
Beware of the temptation to com
promise. Many who are on guard
against temptations to overt sinr
are ofttimes ensnared by the devil
in some kind of compromise—un
mindful that they are really form
ing an alliance with the tempter.
Moral compromise is impossible.
Black is black and white is white.
\Good and evil cannot be mixed.
Only two rdads, according to'Jesus,
lead from time to eternity. There
is no middle road.
The temptations of Jesus should
, of value to us in the thought
•that as He, in perfect union with
the Father, overcame the tempter
iin his every assault, we also can
• overcome when our will is con
formed to God’s. And we may so
worship God and serve Him that
angels will succor us. even as they
, i ministered to Jesus in the wilder-
] ness.
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toon frock for the matron. Its flat-',
ering yoke and graceful slimming
irt are designed to give you A:
larming, self assured feeling. f
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jnd 52. Size 38, three-quarter,
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nch material; short sleeves, 4%
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Ration Calendar For I
Week Of Jan. 8,1945
PROCESSED FOODS: Blue X-5,
Y-5, Z-5, A-2, B-2, C-2, D-2, E-2,
F-2 and G-2 (Book 4) now valid
at 10 points each.
MEATS AND FATS: Red Q-5,
R-5, S-5, T-5, U-5, V-5, W-5 and
X-5 (Book 4) now valid at 10
points each for use with tokens.
SUGAR: Sugar stamps No. 34
valid now for five pounds.
SHOES: Airplane stamps, No. 1.
k No. 2 and No. 3 now valid.
FUEL OIL: Period 4 and 5 cou
pons from last season and Period
1, 2 and 3 coupons for current
season now valid at 10 gallons
each in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Geogria and Florida.
GASOLINE: A-14 coupons valid
through March 21. Rationing
rules now require that each car
owner write his license number
and state on each coupon in his
possession as soon as it is issued
him by his local rationing board.
Ceiling price posters have been
sent to all retail dry cleaners or
pressers and must be posted not
later than January 15, E. H. Tal
bert, district OPA director, said
today.
“Dry cleaning services,” Talbert
pointed out, “represent an impor
tant part of each family’s bud
get, and it is necessary that post
ers be conveniently placed so that
customers may know their ceil
ing prices.”
If operators of dry cleaning es
tablishments have not filed their
ceiling prices with their local war
price and rationing board or dis
trict office, OPA may establish
ceilings for their services at com
parable prices in the same area.
The January quota of new pas
senger cars available for rationing
will be unchanged from that of
December, E. H. Talbert, district
director for the Office of Price Ad
ministration, announced.^
'“The stockpile of new cars a-
vailable for rationing is now be
low the 15,000 level,” Talbert said.
“In 1941, the last peacetime year,
new passenger cars were sold at
an average fate of 10,000 per day.
The present inventory is only one
and a half times a former day’s
supply.”.
Most fountain pens and me
chanical pencils sold at retail now
must be tagged or imprinted with
the proper dollar-and-cents retail
ceiling price, brand name and
model number, the Office of Price
Administration said today.
Tills tagging requirement does
not apply to fountain pens and
mechanical pencils with barrel or
cap of solid precious metal, to
used or imported articles, or to
those imprinted for use by adver
tisers. These are priced under the
General Maxir um F-iee Regula
tion, whiclr s' J ■ "rices at the indi
vidual seller’s March, 1942, level,
OPA explained.
More than 1,000 fountain pens
and mechanical pencils have al
ready been given specific prices by
OPA.
Retailers of processed foods and
meats and fats, and wholesalers of
meats, have until January 21 to
take inventories to make them
eligible for petitions of adjustment
of their liable inventories, E. H.
Talbert, OPA district director, an
nounced today.
Such petitions must be field with
local war price and rationing
boards prior to February 10.
Another good reason for “dig
ging in” in 1945 is that Victory
garden.
The retail mark-up of 2 1-2
cents a pound for field grown cu
cumbers will be restored on Jan
uary 11, 1945, the Office of Price
Administration said today. Its res
toration follows resumption of
price control at country shipper
and wholesale levels.
Shipper-wholesale ceiling prices
for field grown cucumbers were
suspended on October 30 for the
period ending December 31, 1944,
because extensive storm damage
to the crop so reduced the cucum
ber crop that ceilings were im
practicable, OPA explained.
Is the flame to
v\
• : •
“Cold homes later on this win
ter, with no extra rations availa
ble will be the inevitable result
of over-consumption of oil now.”
E. H. Talbert, district OPA di
rector, warned users of fuel oil to
day.
Widespread indications are that
many householders have dipped
too heavily into their fuel oil ra
tions. Civilian -stocks are ade
quate for rationed uses OPA said,
but will not cover emergencies re
sulting from wasteful burning of
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HARD WORK SECRET OF
CHAMP’S SKCESS'
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Youth Says Science Helps
In Development of Farming
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By AL JEDLICKA
To his mother, father and agricultural teacher in high
school, the 4-H club’s national achievement winner for 1944,
Donald F. Mowery, 18, gives credit for his accomplishments.
For without their interesting him in farm work and helping
him in his efforts, this ruddy-facad youngster from Terre
Haute, Ind., might not have set into developing his abilities
as far as he has. <?> -
But with all of their encourage*
ment, young Mowery, interviewed
at the recent 4-H congress in Chi
cago, hardly could have made the
grade without hard work. For in
stance. last summer, when bad
weather set back his schedule one
week, he toiled 130 hours the next
making it up; on an average, he
will put in 10 to 12 hours daily.
Don has happily combined the old
formula of hard work with new
processes in his steady rise in
farming. With his trartor and at
tachable com planter, cultivator
and disc, he has been able to farm
122 acres of his own, beside do
ing custom work. By switching on
his tractor lights, he has been able
to operate far into the night. With
his sprayer, he covers 38 acres of
orchard.
Machinery Angle.
At 16, young Mowery had the
machinery angle all figured out.
Back in 1941, when his Dad died
and the family’s hired hand left
the family, Mowery concluded that
the only way he could keep the
farm going was by purchasing la
bor-saving devices. Encouraged by
his mother, who teaches in Terre
Haute, Don secured the machinery
and went to work, operating not
only the family’s 54 acres, but an
additional 106 acres rented or
shared.
Perhaps it is because his
acreage is scattered around
outside of Terre Haute, or most
probably it is because of his
aggressive modern farmer’s
mind, but Mowery schedules all
of his work on an orderly basis.
He not only plans for the day
but also for weeks in advance,
and he facilitates his work by
sticking to cropping and not
occupying valuable time in the
morning or evening to dairying
or other lines.
Although a firm believer in sci
entific farming, Don thinks that
practical experience is essential for
successful agriculture. Nor does
he assume that you have to spend
time in a class-room to acquire
scientific technique. Mowery him
self supplemented his high school
instruction with knowledge gleaned
at 4-H meetings and other farm
events, and last summer when
drouth was drying up his com and
cabbage he dug up a book and
made a study of irrigation, a ven
ture which would remove much of )
the risk from agriculture. /
As a matter of fact, one of the >
things Don likes about 4-H con-* )
gresses are the opportunity thev }
afford for discussion with youth f
from other parts of the country }
about methods, they use for the )
greatest utilization of the soil. To )
Mowery. such an exchange of ma- [
terial offers an attentive listener *
a refreshing outlook on his own '
work. )
Talks Business )
A down-to-earth farmer, Don k
likes nothing better than to talk J
over business. He’ll tell you that .
diversified farming lends it* elf to ■
the crop rotation that rebuilds the >
soil, or that soybeans go easier on \
the soil and provide good rastur- >
age. He believes in preserving the ,
health of his apple and cherry trees v
through controlling pestfe, and he’s v
all for fertilizers. )
Mechanically inclined, Mowery v
takes care of all of his equipment. >
He got the general drift of repair- }
ing by working alongside of a ga-
rageman one day while he was fix
ing the folks’ car and truck. As-
the mechanic went along, he ex- .
plained the different processes to »
Don, who filled in the other de- r
tails by tinkering around.
Having accumulated nearly
$14,000 in nine years of work,
Mowery thinks that farming of
fers an exceptional occupation
al opportunity, although the
business will have to be put on
more and more of a scientific
basis to prove profitable.
The only cloud on the horizon is ’
that spread by the so-called experts |
themselves, Don believes. *
"It’s all very confusing,’’ he said. \
"One tells you that after the war, j
there’ll be a severe depression for {
agriculture. Another tells you that
there will be a continued high de
mand for crops. That talk kind
of unsettles the whole picture.’*
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oil.
OPA investigators in the Colum
bia district are in the process of
analyzing samples of gasoline ob- !
tained from various dealers after
many complaints that gasoline be
ing sold at premium prices is in
fact regular gasoline, E. H. Tal
bert, district OPA director, said
today.
Some laboratory tests have
shown that foreign substances
such as mineral spirits, kerosene
and chemical dyes were used to
dilute regular gasoline,,
“This creates another source of
black market gasoline,” Talbert
said, “and enforcement agents are
going to stop this defrauding of
consumers at is inception.”
filed with the local board before
February 18.
Net point inventories of sugar as
of December 31 are to be filed with
ooards by all wholesalers and
chains of four units or more.
X
PREVENT FIRES
REMEMBER THESE RULES:
Crush out your
smoko
All wholesalers, retailers and
chains of four cr more units who
took sugar inventories as of De
cember 31, must turn in to their
local war price and rationing
boards their second 50 per cent
loan by January 26, E. H. Talbert,
district OPA director, has an
nounced.
If adjustments of allowable in
ventories are needed after the
loan is repaid, application must bo
Drown your
compf.'re —
then bury It
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Break your
burned match
I? YOU BURN SLASH
First —got a permit
L^st — kill every spark
mtmmm
ijKSidccrs* weapon
HEALTH
WITH A SMILE
Spending Your Dollar
On Food
Bv Dr. J. B. Warren
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For the housewife and mother
t’ie money put aside for food
ikliould be divided into fifths.
1— One-fifth for vegetables antk
fvuits.
2— One-fifth milk and cheese.
3— One-fifth for meat, fish and’
4— One-fifth for bread ancP
r*»reals.
5— One-fifth for fats, sugar, and*
other groceries.
For the breadwinners a little*
•nore should be spent on meal**
and eggs, as they requirer
rr*jr» proteins to replace worn*
dm mmi.