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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ JUNE 26, 1942
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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.
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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.
And one way of takln' good care
of him Is to see he gets all his
vitamins. And that’s where
KELLOGG’S PEP comes In. 'Course
it hasn’t got 'em all, but It’s extra-
rich In the two most likely to be
short In ordinary meals—vitamins
B, and D. What’s more, PEP’S
one grand-tastin’ cereal, too!
A delicious cereal that supplies per serring
(1 oz.): the full minimum daily need of
vitamin D;l/4 the daily need of vitassun Bu
FEET HURT?
Stop Buffering! For fast relief from
your foot troubles, go to your
dealer THIS WKEBL He has the
Dr. Scholl Remedy or Arch Sup-
poct you need. The cost is smalL
Df Scholls FOOT COMFORT WEEK
Sign of Wisdom
The most manifest sign of wis
dom is a continual cheerfulness.
HEY! DON’T SCRATCH
soothe the itch of mosquito and similar
bites with Mexican Heat Powder. Large
sise most economical—sold everywhere.
CAMEL