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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1942 TBfe hkwbbkbt PAGE FIVE The Spectator Since the gasoline restriction in our area was decreed; and again when the price was increased two and a half cents a gallon in this area, I have wonderec a bit about the legali ty of both ths restriction and the price. One of our principles is that we are all citizens of one nation and all stand equa'. before the law. Sec tion 8 of Article I of the Constitu tion of the United States says: “AH duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” How about reviving the small town ? In the god old gasoline and rubber days we could “start-her-up” and run to the city for something or other, perhaps an excuse to run over to the big town. Of course, there wasn”t anything worth buying in the little country town we seemed to think. The stock doesn’t look so fancy and Bill and Ed don’t look as nifty as the city salesmen. But the time has come around again when the restrictions on rubber and gasoline bring old Dobbin back to the pop ularity he enjoyed before the day of the gasoline buggy. The smal town has certain advan tages: You can “shop” all over the business section without long, tire some walking. Again, you probably know the merchant and his clerks. John Doe, the merchant, attends church (or does he?), and Bill and Sam ar e the sons of a neighbor. Ma bel, the cashier, lives around the cor ner and can tell you how Sally’s boy is or Henry’s daughter. Shopping' in a small town is just a neighborly visit. The war may make us neighborly again. We can’t go very far with that “A ’’’card, so lets use good old shoe-leather. I acquired a pair of shoes for $1.50. That was luck, too. Here’s how' it was: A pair of favorite shoes had worn to the ground. For six weeks a certain shoe man had promised to have a pair for me. As I waited, the shoes wore and wore. You know the comfort of old shoes? Well, all the comfort was on top for the soles had about gone to the bow-wows. I bought a pair, but they “didn’t suit”. No, sir, they weren’t my kind. So I was in a pickle. But a bright idea occurred: Why not half-sole the old shoes? Well, why not, as a matter of fact? I sent the shoes to a friend who has the necessary skill. He did so well that I forthwith sal vaged a second pair from my private dump—and now I have two pairs— all stout and serviceablei—at $1.50 each. Bernard Baruch and his associates will command confidence in their re port on the rubber situation. It is unfortunate that we’ve waited so long to do what should have been done months ago Nor would this Commission exisv today if Congress had not passed an Act creating an agency to deal with the rubber prob lem, and requiring the use of farm products in the manufacture of rub ber. The rival contentions as between synthetic, or substitute rubber, made from oil and alcohol are very much before the public. Why not both? Why do we Americans argue interm inably over such problems? We are a big enough consumer to use all the rubberlikely to be made—and we need it now. Besides, this is no new prob lem; Russia has been ihaking rubber from farm products for ten years. As a result of Japanese activity in Asia we may soon make all our rub ber here, thus creating another great American industry. Both the alcohol advocates and the oil people are com ing forward with roseate promises. The President of a great Oil Com pany tells a committee of the senate that by the end of 1943 his company will be making enough rubber to pro vide 8,500,000 tires a year. No nation is defeated; no war is lost, while the armed forces of a country are still intact in the field. We hear many people say that we are losing the war. Certainly that is not true. Aslong as our country" is in our possession we have not lost the war. But more than that; we have hardly entered the war. Britain seemed whipped two years ago, but she Is stronger today than at Dun kirk. She didn’t know she was whip ped; and, of course she wasn’t. We Americans haven’t put our real strength into the war yet. When we have an army of millions in actual engagement, with more millions in camp back home, ready to go, we shall really be trying our strength. We have a long way to go before we shall see the vigorous Americans in battle on a large scale. Enough has been done by our sailors, soldiers and airmen to prove the quality of our men in battle. We have a military tradition of victory and the high spirit of con querors is in the heart of every American. Said a man to me “You talk and write a lot about the war. I thought you were speaking for businessmen.” What do you think of that? Are businessmen different from other men? Is not the war the greatest task of us, all? Who, by the way, are the soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen of this war? Are business men in touch with the fighting ser vices? There is an. impression that whenever a businessman gets into war he sits at a desk in this coun try, far from the heat and sweat; safe fromt he awful roar and blast of artillery, a long way from the crash of bombs and the rain of machine gun bullets. Well, many businessmen of sixty years are at work behind the lines, but in the ranks, in the fight ing tops of ships, in submarines, In the air—and wherever the American flag flies—are the younger business men, facing the enemy. And the old er businessmen: What stake have they in the war? Their sons are In the field or on the sea or in the air, with the other lads of America. The Draft Boards draw men, and they come from every walk and community and condition of life. This is no rich man’s war and poor man’s fight; this is the war ofeachof us and is the fight of all. Some days ago a man of large in terests stopped a soldier with these questions: “Are you in — Division?” Ideal for hot-weather cleansing. OVERSIZE JAR 10 OZ. $|oo tIMITED TIME Tax additional gfi- TUSSY ; * K p INAFOR€^ Cl Eansins c»e* H • Stock up now and save. Only $1 for the big summer-long jar of Tussy Pinafore Cleansing Cream. Fluffy-light—refreshing. Leaves skin feeling cool-dean. Order today. Carpenter’s The soldier said that he was. “_My name is X”, said the man “and my son is in your Division. Can you tell me if the Division is being moved’”? Was that man more interested in the war or in his business? Recently I had an engagement with a man of ' large interests. When I arrived in his town he was away. He had receiv ed a message that his son was being sent away; and to that camp went the anxious father,leaving business and friends and engagements. All of us are alike: the father and mother who stood ready to travel 1,- 200 miles to a camp to see their sick soldier son; and the millionaire and wife whose boy is a marine—they are at the bottom just fathers and moth ers; and their richest treasures are not in banks, but in flesh and blood! Even with the differences of plan and outlook we have a vast stake in America, a stake which is the same to all of us. Some are bargaining for wages. That can’t be done anywhere else today, I think. Our Pee Dee farmers are rejoicing in the goon prices for tobacco. That can’t be found anywhere else, I think. We still travel; we still have an abun dance of everything really necessary to our comfort. In spite of war con trols and rationing, we are not only the favored people of fortune,but our faViers, in their palmiest days, had much less. Businessmen have worked and in vested in this America of ours and they have enjoyed the opportunities of free enterprise and the inviting field forthe full scope of their genius. The workers, likewise, have prospered and lived in comfort and peace and plenty. The rich men and the busi ness leaders began at the bottom. As Napoleon said, to inspire his army, every soldier carries a Marshall’s ba ton in his knapsack. Just as every soldier may cherish the ambition to rise in the service, like some of out' generals who began in the ranks, so may every American worker hope to rise in the ranks of industry as' so many have done. We have some superficial differ ences of the moment, but to us, all, business leaders and men in the busi ness ranks, there is the one great in terest in common, to keep America free, to maintain it as the land of op portunity, becokoning to each man to rise to the full sweep of his powers and to climb as high as he can. GRAPES $6 AND SALMON *3 POUND IN LONDON TOWN Exhorbitant prices are being charged for what before the war were considered only moderate luxuries. Today grapes are selling for $6 a pound, while fresh salmon sold for $3 to $4.20 a pound. Home grown pears were selling 72 to 80 cents a pound; mushrooms about $1.60. Most prices are about 1,000 per cent above the prewar fig ures. The “grapevine” ’in Europe is bear ing bitter fruit fp- Hitler. To The Voters of The Third Congressional District: I regret the legislative pro gram in Congress has made it im possible for me to attend all the campaign meetings or visit every locality in my district this sum mer, but since I know the people usually inquire into the record of a candidate for office I am avail ing myself of this method of call ing attention to some of my ef forts and accomplishments since coming to Congress. Author of Produce Agency act which has saved and is now sav ing farmers millions of dollars in marketing perishable farm crops. Author of first Philippine In dependence Act providing with drawal of American troops from Philippine Islands July 4, 1941. This was later changed to July 4, 1945. If Comgress had let the law stand as I made it and left it in 1933, there would have been no American boys in Bataan or Cor- regidor in 1942. Your present congressman had ,uo part in changing the law. Conceived the idea and intro duced bill three years ago to use 2,000,000 to 4,000,00o bales of cot ton by converting same into mu nitions of war, the necessity and wisdom of which is now recog nized. Author of motion approved in committee to increase appropria tions by $7,000,000 in the early part of 1941 for use in training air pilots. Advocated and urged increase in pay and retirement privileges to soldiers in the army when the Selective Service Act of 1940 was amended. The pay increase was approved a few weeks ago. Outlined plan and have urged for more than two years the con struction of a military highway from Charleston, South Carolina, to Cincinnati, Ohio. If we had it now there would be no gasoline shortage in South Carolina. Author of pending bill provid ing for rural free delivery ser vice by substitute carriers on all holidays except Sunday. Protested against policy of call ing white and colored men L.to service at ratio of 10 to 1, sum moned representatives from Se lective Service System before Committee and succeeded in hav ing policy changed, according to their written statement, so that the ratio after July 1st would be in proportion the population of each bears to the total population of the state. Succeeded after two years ef fort in having Department of La bor begin investigations for the purpose of determining cost and feasibility of installing air con ditioning systems in textile plants. Author of first bill (H.R.5125) to insure bank deposits, which be came the basis of the law enact ed in the 73rd Congress. Author of pending bill (H.R. 7298) providing that all grants in aid to states by the Federal government should be on basis of per capita income instead of matching dollar for dollar, includ ing grants for old age pensions. Should this bill become a law it will mean a saving to our state of approximately $2,000,000 an nually. Chairman of sub-committee that prepared, reported and pass ed bill reducing appropriations this year over $200,000,000 for non-defense activities in Federal Security Agency and Department of Labor. Chairman Insular Affairs Com mittee for two years. What to do with our insular possessions and how we shall adjust our for eign trade relations will be para mount issues when the war is over. Now member Appropriations Committee—the largest commit tee in Congress—and Chairman sub-committee on appropriations for Department of Labor & Fed eral Security Agency. I have diligently and actively discharged every duty to the best of my ability and if you find I have merited the confidence re posed in me two years ago, I shall appreciate your support. BUTLER B. HARE From The Lancaster News. Eugene S. Blease of Newberry, candidate for the United States sen ate, said that this was the first time he had ever been a candidate for a state office. Some people won dered why he entered the race. Since he had resigned as chief justice he had spent a lot of time fishing on Lake Murray and reading. While, he fished he thought. Sitting down there reading and studying what was going on in this state and Washington he decided that some body had a duty to perform. South Carolina had been good to him and he had determined that he would try to repay it. He is in this figrht because he wants his grandson, whom he had raised, to come back alive fom this war if it is possible. He wanted him to come back to a state free of idleness, free of extravagance and free of political corruption. He is standing for principles he be lieves must be established before America can win this war. No man’s heart beats stronger and purer for President P.^-asevelt than does his. He wants co help save President Roosevelt and to save this country from extravagance. He said that an American soldier had said to him that America can’t lick Japan and Germany until we lick ourselves first. We’ve got to lick idleness, ex travagance and political corruption. He said the President must have help and his first help must come from the United States Senate. One of the first things he would propose when he went to Washington was that the Senate — a group of poli ticians — quit picking out the war leaders. Politicians have never won a war and never will. He said that senators are always saying that they can’t get away from the arduous duties of the United States Senate to come home to meet the people. He said if you would look in on a session of the Senate you’d prob ably see fouror five sitting around while one man was talking. He said that under certain circumstances he would also have hesitated to face the people. He said if he had prom ised 1,000 people jobs as state con stables and only appointed a hun dred and if he had promised 5,000 people jobs on the Senate canal and appointed only 1,000, he too would not have wanted to go out and face the people. He said they got busy in Washington after the opening of this campaign and now claim to have cut a billion dollars qff of approp riations. He held up a check which he said had been paid to a negro woman, who draws $5 a day, for teaching negro women how to straighten the kinks out of their hair. This, he said, was paid under the guise cf national defense. He said that he was accused of trying to inject the race question. If elected he would plead with Wash ington to let us aloonoe — that the two races had been living in peace since 1876 and that Washington was going to stir up trouble if it kppt dabbling in it. He said that a soc ialite was paid $400,000 in Washing ton for getting contracts and that all that he ever did was to entertain at champagne parties. Washington, although only about one-fourth as large as New York, drinks mpre champagne. We can’t win a war that way. As Mayor of Newberry he had tried to enforce prohibition law. Maybank as Mayor of Char leston had said that Charleston would drink beer and pay a tax bn it if the state would let them, other wise it would drink it and not pay it because the police of that city had no intention of trying to prevent it. Referred to the voting machine in Charleston and of efforts made by good people of that city to get'a ballot machine which automatically registers votes installed. Expressed confidence in his election. SELECTIVE SERVICE PLAN FOR FUELWOOD “The proper selection of fuelwood,” says P. B. Ezell, county agent,“can do much towards improving the re maining stand of timber. Although the use of fuelwood has decreased steadily in the United States for mpre than 50 years because of the increas ed use of coal and fuel oil, the quan tity that is cut each year is still near ly half as great as it was at the peak - “The use of fuelwood also is sec- ; ond only to lumber in the amount of jyood that is used each year. Proper selection of fuelwood, therefore, of fers a very important means by which farm wodlands can be improved. “If fuelwood is cut according to plan,” Mr. Ezell continues, “many of the mistakes of the past can be cor rected. Firewood should be obtained from crooked, dead or diseased, sup pressed, or large, limby, “wolf’ trees. The removal of such trees as these will do much toward improving any woodland. It removes the cull trees and leaves the good, desirable, and well shaped ones to continue growth. “Trees that are suitable for lum ber, veneer logs, box bolts, or other special products should not be taken for fuel. Large quantities of straight- grained hickory are needed by the airplane industry for laminated pr<r pellor blades, good oak is needed for ships, hickory and ash are needed for handles, and lumber is needed for oth er war industries. These products can be obtained only from well-shaped trees. The cutting of these trees for fuel, therefore, is a waste of valua ble resources.” Men are dying for the Four S|i Freedoms. The least we can (Hr* do here at home is to buy mk. War Bonds —10% for War Lm Bonds, every pay day. JoRtlirva CPl666 *^^uQMatMttTxaiu.vs.ao» seora Home Demonstration News * By ETHEL L. COUNTS There is plenty of cheese—good cheese—in every part of the United States right now. There’s enough at this time to supply our own fight ing men—to ship to our allies—io serve often here at heme. From August 17 through August 29, food stores the country over are featuring cheese as a Victory Food special. ' This is good news to homemakers —especially those in parts of the country feeling a temporary shortage of certain types of meat. For cheese contains the same high-type protein that is in meat. Many cheese dishes, like meat dishes, are the substantial kind around which you build a meal. It’s easy to see why there’s so much ado nationally and internation ally about cheese as soon as yoou see what it has to offer in the way offood value. Take American cheddar cheese —which makes up about four-fifths of our total production here—and is the kind we send under Lend-Lease! This cheese contains the efficient kind of protein that provides the building stuff of the body—repairs worn out tissues. By far the greatest share of American cheddar is made from whole milk, and therefore has enough fat in it to make it a good fuel food and one that “stays by’” the eater—keeps him from feeling hun gry right away after a meal. Cheese rates high also as an excel lent source of calcium—the mineral that gives shape and permanence to body framework. If it is made from whole milk, cheese supplies vitamin A. Also it has in it considerable rib oflavin—another vitamin needed for health and normal growth. In fact, heese made from whole milk contains almost all the food val ue of the milk itself—done up in a compact package with the liquid squeezed out. Although a bit of the milk”s ’’food value goes of in the whey, for all practical purposes if you wish you can count 1-3 of a pound of cheese equal to 1 quart of fluid milk when you figure your family’s daily milk quota. Every bit of cheese—down to the rind—is good food. If the cheese get too hard to cut easily, grate it and use it that way. Keep cheese well wraped in a cool place. Cheese Cooking Briefs ■ Build cheese right into your meals It is a concentrated food that contrib utes a lot of food values. Cheese and eggs make up many substantial main dishes—souffles, fondues, rabbits, baked eggs and cheese. As far as temperatures are concerned the same coking rules hold for both of these good protein foods. Both become hard and tough if cook ed at too high temperatures. Keep heat low in cooking cheese dishes atop the stove, by setting them in a pan of hot water. Most cheese dishes cooked in the oven need tem peratures from slow to moderate. Get cheese into small pieces before you combine it with other ingredients in most coked dishes. Grate the cheese, slice it, cube it, or run it through a sieve. That way the cheese cooks more quickly, can be dis tributed evenly throughout. Cheese heated in one big chunk stays in that chunk after the fat melts out. Then it is impossible to divide this mass into smaller pieces and mix the even ly throughout the dish. A good way to combine cheese with potatoes and leftovers vegetables ... with cereals such as spaghetti and marcaroni.. .is to make a cheese MORE COTS NEEDED FOR SOLDIERS’ CENTER Any person having a cot to lend can be of real service if he or she will call 132, Mrs. Herman Wright’s residence. Cots have been donated by Mrs. L. W. Jones, Mrs. Burl Da vis, Mrs. Joe Feagle, Mrs. R. D. Wright, and Miss Mazie Dominick. These, the 6 given by Dr. Weeks, and those bought by the committee, there are in at, twenty-two. At least that many more are needed. Of the more than fifty soldiers here last weeekend, many had uncomfortable sleeping." sauce to pour over the other cooked ingredients. Make a white sauce of flour, fat milk, and salt Take this sauce from the stove. Add the finely broken cheese, and stir the sauce until the cheese melts. Add food value and variety to biscuits and muffins by putting grat ed cheese in with the dry ingredients first, then add the cheese. In a muffin recipe that uses 2 to 4 tablespoons melted fat, one-half cup of cheese may replace the fat. In a biscuit recipe calling for about 1 and one-half cups sifted flour, one-half cup grated cheese may be added the other ingredients. If you have difficulty making a Welsh rabbit that is smoth and un curdled try this. Make the cheese in to a white sauce mixture before you combine it with the egg. Keep tem- perature low throughout. Safe & Sane Wyndham Manning For Governor Advocates Safe and Sane Govern ment . . . Unity Instead of Disunity \ . . . Order Instead of Disorder . - as a Guarantee of Maximum State Co operation for Victory . . and to as sure a Strong Economic Foundation Against Difficult Times Which Will Follow the War. Neighborhood Mothers Endorse Eugene S. Blease We, mothers of sons offering their lives in our country’s defense, are neighbors of Judge Eugene S. Blease, always our true neighbor. He has helped our boys in peace; he will help them in war. Our boys have played with his boy, also now in his country’s service. We wish Eugene S. Blease elected to the United States Senate, for we know: / He will oppose extravagance, idleness and cor ruption, so that the war will be won as early a t pos sible, so your boys and our boys, who are spared, may come back to us and to a state of honest peace. Mothers, help us beat the political machines. Vote with us for Judge Blease, who will serve his country at all times. We are willing to entrust the lives of our sons to his care. We can depend on Eugene S. Blease. MRS. HARRIETTE LEAVELL O’DONNELL MRS. C. E. HUTCHINSON MRS. CHARLIE M. BERRY MRS. JOSIE P. McALHANY MRS. S. O. NESLEY MRS. L. G. ESKRIDGE, SR. MRS. OTTO F. ARMFIELD MRS. EPSIE M. BUZHARDT MRS. G. V. CLAMP MRS. FRANK DEVORE Paid For By Newberry Friendi of judge Blease