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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ JUNE 26, 1942 mf wmj wtvim vaiud r«*B»** m^mieSHwS^SSm Eleanor Roosevelt I>R1CE CONTROL WASHINGTON.—I have been get ting some inquiries which lead me to believe that some people are still a little puzzled about the price con trol regulations. These regulations are an effort to keep down the cost of living, and to prevent people bid ding against each other when they have the money and goods are scarce, which sends the price up. Since May 18, stores cannot charge more for the articles which come under OPA regulations than they charged in their particular store at the highest peak in March. This price is called a ceiling price and obviously it may vary in dif ferent stores. Stores may sell below this price, so the public may find sales going on of certain arti cles, but no store can sell above its own ceiling price. You should find posted in the store, or on the price tags “of cost of living commodities,’’ notices giving these prices, which cover the ar ticles considered most important in our daily living. There are no ceiling prices set on fresh fruits and vegetables, and there are a few other food prod ucts exempted from the regulations until they attain the price level pre scribed by congress. Bread, milk, beef and pork and all clothing and household furnishings are covered, however, by ceiling prices. On July 1, ceiling prices on some services will become effective. For instance, laundries and dry cleaning will come under this regulation, but profession al services, motion pictures and oth er entertainments will not be cov ered. The income of the people of the country as a whole has gone up. Therefore, there is more money to spend. But the amount of what we can produce for ci vilian use will be far below what we have to spend and if we do not put a definite top price on goods, which price cannot be changed, we will see prices go up. This is only one step in the pro gram to prevent inflation. Next, debts must be reduced. We must have wider rationing in order that people may share equally in what is produced for civilian use. Wages must be stabilized when once we really succeed in keeping down the cost of living. This last step can not be taken, however, until we have machinery whereby we can prevent wages from being depressed by various methods which may come into use if proper supervision is not exercised. • * • AIM OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON.—There was an ar ticle in one of the recent Sunday papers, written by Dr. William Al len Neilson, which I hope a great many people read. One paragraph seemed particularly thought-provok ing to me: “What is important and essential is that our teachers should keep viv idly aware of the ends for which they work and resist the perennial temptation to content themselves with operating little devices inside a sequestered field. Their duty is to society and their icern is with lives. If these are attended to, their students will not fail to value the in stitutions and privileges of the tra dition they inherit.” So many students come out oi school and college, and their first ex perience with life makes them ques tion how honest their teachers were with them. Young people can value only the institutions, privileges and traditions which they inherit if their teachers have made them face the whole picture. * * * EMPLOYING OLDER PEOPLE One thing that has been brought to my attention has deeply troubled me. We are told that there is no real reason why anybody should be unemployed today, but I receive let ter after letter from older unem ployed people. Some of them can not adapt themselves to new jobs and their old jobs are wiped out under our war economy. Employers would rather employ young people, who learn more quick ly and easily. Some of these young people even think if they accept lower wages they are fulfilling a pa triotic duty. I am told that, in De troit, some older women who have been employed in the automobile in dustry are still out of work. In some of the converted plants, young college people have been taken on and are paid less than the union member women made and, natural ly, want to earn again. These are puzzling and distressing situations. The public should know about them. • • • POPULAR GALLERY HOURS . One afternoon I had the pleasure of attending a tea given for Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde by Mrs. Robert Armstrong Junior. I was very hap py to see Mrs. Rohde again and much interested in the war produc tion which she and her Danish-Amer- ican husband are accomplishing on their West Virginia farm. I suppose all Danish people know how to farm successfully, but just at present I wish that we all had the same amount of background and could make our land as useful. By KATHLEEN NORRIS Y HUSBAND is jeal ous,” writes an Arkan sas wife “I knew it, or suspected it, before I was married, but I didn’t know how serious it was, or that it would affect every phase of my life with him. Now I find myself made completely v/retched by his watching me and suspecting me and questioning me, and I don’t seem able to cope with the matter at all. “To begin with,” her letter goes on, “I was married three years ago, at 18, to a man more than twice my age. Lewis was 44 then, my mother’s friend. My fa ther died when I was a baby; my mother remarried immediately; her second husband being Lewis’ older brother. “Lewis spoiled me when I was a small girl, sent me beautiful pres ents to school, came to my gradua tion, and it seemed to me wonder ful and romantic to be married that very day. But now I think it was silly to crowd graduation and mar riage into one day; I was so much of a kid that I regretted missing the big dance that evening. “Even in my childhood he was jealous, teasing me about liking this boy or that better than I did him. But in those days Lewis seemed to me a sort of god, playing tennis and golf, wearing evening clothes to marvelous parties into which I couldn’t even peep, and adored by all his patients. He is an eye doc tor. It never occurred to me that he could be serious when he said he was jealous. Inquisitive Husband. “However, as soon as we were married I found out how much in earnest he was. From the begin ning he wanted to know everything I was doing, or even thinking. I had to read my letters aloud to him before I sent them, and show him the answers. We had a housekeeper, now my son’s nurse, who was asked to accompany me practically every where, and was questioned when we got back. She is my good friend, by the way, and takes my side in everything. “When Junior was born Lewis showed a new side of his jealousy. He didn’t like me to gush over the baby, sent him away whenever pos sible. If Junior shows eagerness to reach me, holds out his arms—he is 18 months old now—Lewis says ‘here now, we’re not going to havfc this mother’s-boy stuff,’ and often gets the little fellow screaming. “All his interest in society is dead; he says I killed it by making such a fuss about other men, a thing I never have done and never will do. He wants to be at home every evening, sometimes having older men in for bridge, which I don’t play. One of his first requests was that neither my mother nor my sister should ever come to the house without being invited; I could ask them as often as I liked but they must never come otherwise. “This has made for great formal ity and stiffness where there ought to be so much pleasure and easi ness; in fact, my mother has lost all patience with Lewis, and even her husband, who is Lewis’ brother, rarely makes any effort to see us. Always Asking Questions. “I can charge anything I like any where, and we live luxuriously, but my actual money allowance is only $10 a month; and do what I will I can’t seem to make any extensive plans on that. I mean I can’t go TIME TO REGRET He spoiled her when she was a child, brought her expensive presents, and when she gradu ated he was there. She thought it would be wonderful and ro mantic to be married on her graduation day . . . Now, three years later, Catherine misses the youth she gave up to marry a man more than twice her age. She is unhappy, and he is jeal ous. Not a pleasant situation, but Kathleen Norris tells Cath erine that she will have to bear it. Why? Be sure to read this story of a girl whose hasty mar riage has given her a lifetime of leisure in which to regret it. in for charities or club work very well. I am studying French with an old refugee woman, but on two occasions her young son came in during the lessons, and after that Lewis insisted that they be given here in our house, which is very dull. "Am I making myself out a mar tyr? You don’t know what an effort I make to keep cheerful and busy, filling vases, ordering meals, play ing with my baby, going every day to pick Lewis up in the car. But his continual questioning and suspi cions make me nervous, and of late I have been crying a good deal, which does not improve my appear ance and annoys him. “What prompts me to write you,” Catherine concludes her letter, “is that last night, when Lewis was in a particularly inquisitive mood, I suddenly emptied a vase I was fill ing with primroses right over his head. He was wonderful about it, but it really frightened me, and I thought that if there is any way to cure him, or cure me if I am to blame, I had better find out what it is.” And there, you luckier women, who are married to men without this particular form of vanity, pettiness and cruelty, is a perfect example of the elderly jealous mate. Waking Is No Fun. It seems great fun to the little beauty of 18 to announce to her awed and envious schoolmates that she is going to be married on gradu ation day to a successful doctor who is able to give her every luxury and who has adored her since baby hood. It is a school girl’s dream. But the waking up isn’t much fun. Catherine has cheated herself out of her happiest young years, years of dancing and house par ties, picnics and camping and ski ing, trips and theatricals and beaus. Every girl has a right to these, and every girl, rich or poor, manages to have a good share of them. It wasn’t Catherine’s fault that this path was made so easy for her. If her mother hadn’t sense enough to suspect what a prison Lewis was preparing for her, Lewis’ brother might have given her a hint. Cath erine, at 18, wasn’t supposed to know that the flattery and the presents, the plain-gold ring and the new es tate were just so many chains about her. Will Have to Bear It. In Catherine’s case she simply will have to put up with it. Soci ety would stand aghast at the spec tacle of that dear little pampered wife, with her beautiful Home and two good servants, her adoring hus band and lovely child, running away from it all. And she couldn’t run to her mother, because her stepfather is Lewis’ brother, which would make things very awkward. - r ■-iS: Released by Western Newspaper Union. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Kathleen Norris Says: Girl-Wife Plagued by Mate’s Jealousy Bell Syndicate—WNU Features. From the beginning my husband wanted to know everything I was doing. / even had to read my letters aloud to him before l sent them, and had to show him the Saviors of the Flag W HEN a press dispatch carried the news recently that an army captain and three enlisted men had braved heavy Japanese fire to re store the American flag atop a 100- foot pole on siege-bound Corregidoi, it sent the editorial writers scurry ing to their history books to look up the name of a soldier who per formed a similar heroic deed dur ing the Revolution. So the story of the defense of Fort Sullivan, during the month of June, 1776, was .old again and once more Americans were reminded of one of their almost-legendary heroes. He was Sgt. William Jasper and beside his name in the annals of America are now written, as ‘ sa- .viors of the flag,” the names of Capt. Arthur E. Huff of St. Louis, Mo., Corp. Louis A. Roark of Gyp sum, Kan., and Privates Roy O. Bailey of Kansas City, Mo., and Har ley H. Leaird of Durant, Okla. For their feat at Corregidor they were awarded the silver star decoration. What their fate has been is unknown at the time this article is written, for Corregidor no longer flies the flag which they rescued. They may be prisoners of the Japanese, or they may have died gloriously in that last battle, just as did Sergeant Jasper in his last battle. Jasper was born in South Carolina about 1750 and soon after the out break of the Rev olution enlisted as a sergeant in the Second South Car olina regiment, commanded by Col. William Moultrie. Early in June, 1776, when a British land and naval force under Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Sir Peter Parker appeared off the Carolina coast to invest Charleston, Moultrie was trying to complete a fortress on Sullivan’s is land at the mouth of the harbor. On the morning of June 28 five ships of the British armada sailed in close to the unfinished fort and opened a furious fire. Moultrie had only a limited supply of ammu nition, so his return fire was very light compared with that of the enemy. In the midst of the bom bardment a shot struck the staff from which flew the South Carolina banner—a blue flag, with a crescent moon in the up per corner — and it fell to the bot tom of the ditch outside the en trenchments. A great cheer went up from the Brit ish men - of - war when they saw the patriots’ flag Yilliam Moultrie The Flag go down. But the next moment Sergeant Jasper had sprung from an embra sure, seized the flag, tore it from its shattered staff and tied it on to the staff of a sponge which he had been wielding as he helped serve one of the guns of the fort. Then he sprang back to the parapet and, amid a hail of enemy fire, supported it there un til another flagstaff had been secured to take its place. And above the roar of the cannonade could be heard the cheers of the Americans acclaiming the sergeant’s deed! All day the battle raged fiercely with the Americans conserving their ammunition and making every shot tell upon the hulls or the rigging of the British ships. Only one of the guns of the fort having been dis mounted, the enemy’s fire began to slacken and that night the attack was abandoned. In recognition of his brave act. Sergeant Jasper was presented by Governor Rutledge of South Caro lina with his own sword. The gov ernor also offered him a lieutenant’s commission but Jasper declined the honor because he could neither read nor write. However, Moultrie was so impressed with his daring that he gave the sergeant a roving com mission and allowed him ,to select six kindred spirits to carry out raids against the British. Jasper proved to be a successful partisan leader. His daring career came to an end on October 9, 1779. During the assault on the Spring Hill redoubt in the attack on Savannah by the American and French forces, led by General Lin coln and Admiral D’Estaing, Jasper was mortally wounded while at tempting to fasten the regimental colors to the parapet. A square in the city of Savannah and a county in Georgia perpetuate his name. William Moultrie, his command ing officer, was destined to have a longer and more distinguished ca reer. In commemoration of his bravery in defending Fort Sullivan, the fort was later named Fort Moul trie. Soon afterwards he was com missioned a brigadier general in the Continental army and placed in charge of military affairs in Georgia and South Carolina where he repeat edly distinguished himself in battle against the British and Tories. In April, 1779, he again saved Charles ton from being captured by a British force under General Prevost. Lesson for June 28 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. ALCOHOL FACTS VERSUS DRINKING PROPAGANDA LESSON TEXT—Proverbs 21:17; 23:32; Isaiah 5:20-23; Hosea 4:11; Joel 3:2, 3; Ephesians 5:18. GOLDEN TEXT—If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.—Proverbs 1:10. The facts are on the side of the one who opposes the liquor traffic, and they are so plentiful and so devastating that the industry does not care to face them. Their “best bet” is to use propaganda so skill fully prepared as to disarm the reader. If the propaganda is truth ful, it is only because it has to be, and only in that measure. Our lesson suggests several points in the liquor propaganda, each of which we can prove to be untrue. I. They Say, “Enjoy Life, That’s What We Are Here For” (Prov. 21: 17). Consider the ads of the liquor trade. They carry the beautiful lady, the brilliant young man, the socially correct surroundings, riches, ease, etc. They suggest that even the grandmother in the home ap proves the use of intoxicants to bring comfort and pleasure to the breadwinner in the home. What is the truth? Man is not here for pleasure; he is here to serve God. History demonstrates that the nation that lives for pleas ure, especially in connection with the use of intoxicants, is doomed to extinction. II. They Say, “Liquor Is Not Dangerous” (Prov. 23:32). It is presented as a pleasant and harmless stimulant, when in fact it is known to science, to police and social welfare workers as a narcotic which not only upsets digestion and deranges .physical processes but, most vicious of all, “affects person ality by its action upon the certain specific brain area. It disturbs, confuses, slows down, and removes the restraints, the checks and bal ances which make a well-rounded personality. It is the highest func tional level of the brain, the per sonality level, which is first put into eclipse by the action of alco hol” (Carson Taylor). III. They Say, “Those Who Op pose Liquor Are Fanatics” (Isa. 5: 20, 21, 23). The prophet answers that claim by pointing out that those who favor the use of alcohol are the ones who call evil good and good evil, etc. A little study of liquor propaganda as it appears in the advertising of the industry soon demonstrates that fact. Of late they have been trying to convince us that beer is just a soft drink for the hon e. Any police man who has seen a man drunk on beer, and any social or religious worker who has seen the destruc tion it has wrought in the home and in society, knows that is not jtrue. IV. They Say, “Strong Men and Leaders Are Drinkers” (Isa. 5:22). Sadly enough, many of our lead ing men do indulge in liquor, but if the truth were out, it would be known that they are less capable as leaders and weaker men for their use of it. And who has not seen a leader become a poor dere lict by the alcohol route, or a strong man become a jittery mental, mor al, and physical wreck in the same way. The work of a nation in both war and peace is done by sober, steady, trustworthy men who have a “clear head,” not because they use a cer tain whisky but because they do not use it. V. They Say, “The Pleasure Is Worth Price” (Hosea 4:11; Joel 3:2, 3). The wicked ones who captured Israel felt they made a good trade when they gave a boy for a harlot, or exchanged a girl for wine. The modem system of making merchan dise of boys and girls is not as open ly crass as that, but when you figure the cost of alcohol to our land, be sure to add in the girls who have gone into iniquity by the way of tavern hostesses and the boys who have lost everything sacred be cause of “booze.” Remember too that the beer mak ers are deliberately using this war to cultivate a taste for beer in millions of young men—their fu ture customers—and we are letting them get away with it, right in the army camps. VI. They Say, “Drinking and Re ligion Go Well Together” (Eph. 5:18). The contrast of Paul gives that claim the direct brand of falsehood. Being drunk with wine is the exact opposite of spirituality. Liquor interests know that if church members can be led to be lieve that wine at dinner, beer as a soft drink—and an occasional social cocktail—is not incompatible with religious life, they will have effectu ally shut the mouth of the opposition they fear the most—the church. Let pastors and church boards deal plainly and drastically with drinking church members, and the church will profit spiritually, and and again become an effective means of stemming the tide of social iniquity which is engulfing our nation. V FOR VICTORY! Crochet these Vs in red, white and blue gimp to sew on blouse, lapel, sleeve or hat. Add a necklace of stars or tiny military drums in our colors. Fortunately Hole in Barrel Was Discovered in Time The particular unit in question had taken on a large number of new recruits and some of them were a little raw. During the first rifle inspection, the officer ap proached one of the men, had a look at his rifle, and then called to the N.C.O. in charge. “Look at this man’s rifle!” he announced. The sergeant looked down the barrel, swung the rifle around to the recruit, and barked: “Take a look at that rifle, you!” The recruit peered carefully down the barrel, then muttered in a surprised tone: “Well, what do you know. Got a hole clean through it!” If you know a Navy man, don’t ever call him a “gob”—sailors consider the name an insult. You can get on the right side of him though if you offer him a Camel— or better yet, send him a carton. Camels are the favorite cigarette with men in the Navy (Army, Ma rines, Coast Guard, too, for that matter) based on actual sales rec ords from the service men’s stores. Local dealers are featur ing cartons of Camels to send to any member of our armed forces anywhere. Send him that Camel carton today.—Adv. Pattern 256 contains directions for mak ing two necklaces, a bracelet and an orna ment; illustrations of them and stitches; materials required. Send your order to: Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. n Eighth Ave. New York Enclose 15 cents (plus one cent to cover cost of mailing) for Pattern No Name Address Big Wind From Motor The army air force’s new $2,500,000 wind tunnel at Wright Field near Dayton is equipped with a 40,000 horsepower, alternat ing-current induction motor that develops a 400-mile-an-hour wind, says Collier’s. Largest of its kind ever constructed, this motor cannot be turned on until notice has been given to the electric company, so it may be prepared for this load, which is equal to the capacity of one of its largest generators. J. Fuller Pep By JERRY LINK // I been readln’ about some of these divorces and It seems to me hus bands are like automobiles. If you take good care of them, you don’t have to keep getting new ones all the time. 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