Every-Day Life In
England Described
By Native Recently
Two Dresses Allowed During
Year To Each Woman,
Rich Or Poor
?
Visiting in this country not so long
ago, Mrs. L. K. Elmhirst, of Totnes,
England, vividly described the prob
lems of every-day life back home.
The first in the descriptive ser
ies follows:
Food
You have heard of the shortage
of food in England. It is an old story.
When the Government realized that
we were faced with a serious food
shortage they did not resort to half
measures but put through at once
very drastic regulations. They ra
tioned all the essential foods. This
accomplished two purposes: It kept
down the price of the rationed foods
and distributed these foods equally
throughout the population. No one
having an income higher than his
neighbor could buy the least bit
more of any of these foods than the
poorest woman in the most wretch
ed slum. This action established a
just and fair distribution of the es
sential foods
You know what these foods are.
We are very low on fats. We have
only two ounces of butter a week per
person and six ounces of margerine,
some of which is used in cooking. So
that on the table you will never see
much butter or margerine at any
meal.
We are low in sugar, too. You rare
ly see sugar in any public place. You
carry it with you if you need it. If
offered tea by a friend, you will hes
itate to take a lump of sugar from
her. If you travel through the coun
tryside, you will quite often take
your rations with you. And if you
spend a night or a week-end with a
friend, you will be loath to draw ont
his food supply, so again, you oarry
your own with you.
Cheese is scarce. This is perhaps
the greatest deprivation of all for
the working population of England
who depend so largely on cheese for
their milday meal. The miner takes
it down into the mine for his lunch,
the farm laborer into the fields and
the industrial worker into the fac
tory. Hie cut in the cheese ration,
therefore, has meant real hardship
for these men particularly as there
are no substitutes. Eggs are almost
non-existent. We are rationed for
one egg a fortnight. Meat also is
difficult to procure. We are allowed
22c worth of meat a week, and 1-4
of a pound of either ham or bacon.
Then we are low in fruits as well.
For eight months, from the autumn
of 1940 till the late spring of '41, we
hardly saw fruit at all. There were
a few apples on hand but no oranges
or lemons or bananas and a short
age of all fruit juices, jams, jellies
and marmalades.
We are low, of course, in anything
dependent upon sugar such as choc
olate and candy. Sometimes a ru
mor goes around a village that there
is chocolate again in the shops and
we go down and get our rations. But
then ugain there will be periods
when chocolate and candy are al
most impossible to procure.
We are also low on tea. This is a
real hardship in England. People
miss their tea as much as you, in
this country, would miss you coffee
?in fact more, because tea-drinking
in an English family is a kind of rit
ual that goes on all day long. We
drink tea in the early morning be
fore breakfast. We drink it again in
the middle of the morning, in the
afternoon, and finally at night be
fore going to bed. It is a curious
looking drink?very black and ra
ther thick. But as English people
say, "that is the whole point of tea.
It has so much body to it."
Despite these restrictions the
health of the population shows no
sign of deterioration up to the pres
ent. This may be due to the fact that
we have eaten so many more vegc
ables than hitherto. Every little plot
THANKS
To the voters of Martin County, I wish
to express my thanks ami gratitude for
the support and cooperation given me
in the Democratic Primary last Saturday.
J. C. SMITH
SWIM SUITS
FOR EVERY
Member of the Family
Men'i Stcim
SUITS
$1.00-$1.48
$1.98
$2.98
Children'* Swim
SUITS
69c - $1.00
$1.48
$1.98
Ladie?' Swim
SUITS
$1.98-$2.98
$3.98 - $4.98
$5.98
Ladies Swim Caps ;... 48c
COSMETIC HOSE
COLOR ? INDIAN SUMMER AND
DAWN . . . SPECIAL FOR
Belk-Tyler Company
JDEWVRT/AE/1T STORES J
RCA Employees Pledge Savings
The photo shows part of the vast mass meeting of R. C. A. Victor em
ployees held December 8. the day after Pearl Harbor, in a pledge of
allegiance to the Flag and to the Payroll Savings plan. The Company
has set an annual goal of $2,400.000 in Defense Bonds.
of ground is today growing vege
tables. Even in the back yards of
city houses potatoes or cabbage have
been planted. People are making
decorative gardens out of vegetable
plants. Another factor that has per
haps helped to maintain health is
the excellent wholewheat bread the
Government has put on the market.
It is. to my mind, better than any
bread in this country. Until recently
we have had enough milk but the
new factor in the situation today
which is alarming is the drop in the
milk supply. I notice that in this
country a pint of milk a day is rec
ommended for adults. In England to
day an adult can have only two
pints a week. The dried milk that
has been coming in from the. United
States has been a life-saver. But then
all the Lend-Lease foods have help
ed in greater measure than you will
ever know?not only in physical
but in moral terms as well.
While, as I said before, there has
been no obvious deterioration in
health .there are indications of a
drop in the efficiency of factory
workers due in some measure to a
deficient diet. It has been claimed
that could these workers be given
a better diet their efficiency could
be raised 25 per cent.
The social effects of food restric
tions are interesting to observe. In
the countryside there is compara
tively little social life today. We
hesitate to invite a friend to a meal
because our food allowance is only
just enough ?y?T th? r>f
our own family. And what with the
discomfort of getting about in the
blackout and the difficulties of food
ing guests, you tend to find the fam
ily more immobilized in the home
than in pre-war days. But in the city
the contrary tendency is evident.
Here, the well-to-do leave their
houses and congregate in hotels be
cause of the safety provided by the
larger and more modern buildings.
A large number of community feed
ing centers have been opened. The
new so-called "British restaurants"
have been increasing at a surprising
iate. You will find canteens and cen
tral eating places where good food
can' be concentrated and where peo
le can get a cheap meal with the
Gets Institute Medal
The National Institute of Social
Sciences awarded a gold medal to
Dr. Rufus B. von Kleinsmid, presi
dent of the University of Southern
California, for his leadership in the
development of cultural relations
between the U. S. and South Amer
ica. The presentation was made in
New York City. This portrait was
painted by Dr. Rudolf Kiss, famous
Hungarian artist.
greatest economy of time and mon
ey. In cities, therefore, there is far
less home cooking than ever before,
and far more community feeding.
There is also an increase in nursery
centers and community cooking for
children.
Clothing and Other Necessities
We are rationed in the same way
for clothes Kach of us has 66 cou
pons a year. With the allowance a
woman can probably buy two dresses
a woolen dress for the winter and
a cotton d rr.ss for tho summer. In ad
dition, she can got a sweater, a pair
of shoos, a few pairs of stockings
and a raincoat. In the country you
can get along with a raincoat all the
year round, by putting a lining into
it in the winter and tnking the lin
ing out in the summer. Hut in the
city you would have to have a cloth
or I weed coat and do without a rain
coat. With the rest of your coupons
you will have to buy all the other
things you need. You can't get any
thing without cutting your precious
coupons It is impossible even to
buy knitting yam and other mater
ials to make sweaters or dresses.
There is no way in which you can
gel around these regulations. And
actually, you don't want to get
amund them because you are all in
the same box and you want to iiear
your share of the difficulties with
everyone, else
Not many shops are open these
days. When you come into a shop
you will see placards on the wall
telling you how many coupons must
be cut for each article you buy. The
purpose of tin- Government is to cut
down more, and more the consump
tion needs of the civiliun population
and to aiiow only those things to be
produced which are considered in
dispensable. All luxury products
have been eliminated. No non-es
senl.M industry is operating any
down or taken over by the essential
industries and even an article such
as a fountain pen is hard to find to
day. Matches are almost unobtain
able. Paper is desperately short.
Newspapers are cut to only two
sheets, magazines are closing down
and even schools cannot get the pa
per they need for the education of
children When you get a letter to
day in England and look at the en
velope you will often see that it has
already been to three or four peo
ple before reaching you.. You, In
turn, paste a strip of paper over the
address, glue down the back, and
send it on to the next person. And
should you get a letter with a mar
gin of spare left at the bottom of a
sheet, you will cut that strip off and
keep it. We are living in an econo
my of scarcity, so we save every
little thing we can save because we
know we may not be able to buy
these things the next day. If anything
goes wrong in the mechanics of your
house it is difficult to make repairs.
You cannot easily get the parts and
there may be long delays in procur
ing technical help and supplies. No
new cars are available. If anything
happens to your own car you know
that you cannot buy a new one.
Gasoline
Gasoline is rationed in the same
way as food and clothing. Each ci
vilian is allowed two gallons a
month. And as you know, all too
well, you cannot go very far on two
gallons. Of course certain exceptions
are made for professional people such
as doctors and Government officials
and other members of the commun
ity who are engaged on work that
the Government considers essential.
But the ordinary civilian can only get
his two gallons. We only use a car
Silas Green Will Be
Here Next Tuesday
Chas Collier will present "Silas
Green from New Orleans" here next
Tuesday night, June 9th, on the
show grounds on Church Street
n?. isL ,he "fty-fiftt. annual tour
7 high class musieal show and
it promises to be bigger and better
than ever, despite the rationing and
priorities now in effect
This year Silas Green will present
a number of new features including
two bands, one made up of girls, and
the Other a military band. His show
a ways well received by local peo
ple. is considered the largest, best
equipped and most favorably known
show of its kind on earth.
nfS|!iaS ?reen now holds the honor
tent^th8 . ?"Iy f,UOrescent lighted
tint theatre entour today, and the
improved lighting effect is a great
aid to the large numbers who en
r the palace of fun and laughter
Sif::^lne kn?ws 'he reputation of
Silas Green and a "full house" is ex
form Wo'tneSS one 'tight per
Sore's
First Aid And Plane
A it! Injured Farmer
r,nnrS,er',Ida'"V K K Boyd. Whose
'arm is located near Berger is
f.rn, believer in the valueVf Red
<ss hirst Aid and the airplane.
farm wh Was lnjuri'd his
farm when his team of horses ran
wasyhr Lm'W" 10 tho tround, his leg
Was broken in four places, one just
below the hip joint
;i' help was
S55rS?sS5
still an excellent bus service all
chs'are in4" t'ountr>'sid"' and bicy
. art in use everywhere. In fact
j""don >??? will see business men
11 servants, and othem, bicycHns
out car,*'" aea"y c"" *et along with
the challenge To r"J"y' h'tentimes.
?3,
known before Cl.? 'have never
l*l'feuking down ther* *)l'lrr"'rfl "ru
?^Jcoumry nbt^s",iVyt,al1 I
'h- Government [< !act
spread the burdem ,tf ,h" 8 '?
popul'dii'm t' ltear, jiyir0''k''(^,'r """ |
emerge from the war a"ni! PTObablJ'
?ry but a far hannie. poorer ctl""
ever before. country thai
He Centum,.at
tot likely to come soon. There were
to other workers nearby and the
tearest farm house was several
niles away.
Suddenly a plane swooped to a
anding in the next field and out
itepped Maynard Craig, commander
if the Twin Falls squadron of the
-ivil Air Patrol, and Mrs. Ruth Det
veiler, patrol observer. They had
witnessed the accident during a rou
ine obseravtion flight.
A Red Cross First Aid instructor.
Mrs Detweiler applied proper Bftt
aid treatment while Craig flew back
to the airport to summon a phyician.
At the hospital where Boyd was
treated physicians reported that,
thanks to proper first aid treatment
and the application of a traction
splint by first-aider Detweiler, the
bones were in correct alignment for
putting on a cast, that possible per
manent crippling of the victim had
been averted by correct application
of first aid techniques.
Williamston TUES.
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Shoir (?roimtln
< III KCH STREET
June
( II VS. CUI.I.IEK
lYcscnts .Villi Annual Tour
7'/i?* lliflh ( liiss. (.Iran Mimical Shoir
SILAS GREEN
Irmii
New Orleans
l argest. Host l.?111i|>|><mI ami !\lnst
lavnraldv Kiumn Show of
Its Kind On Karlli
All Ncic Features This Year
SII.VS GREEN ? Two Rami* ? All <;irl Itaiul
On Sla^o ? Alililar\ Rami <>it I'arailc
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CHILDREN 25c
MUTTS _ .->(??
Include* ill Tuxr*
WE IDA AND <;KAI>E
Irish Potatoes
U. S. COBBLERS
New Grading Machinery
To the potato farmers of Martin ami adjoin
ing counties, we extend a most cordial wel
come to sell their I(II2 potatoes with ns. Onr
grading machinery is tin* hcst made and we
always have the top market price for onr cus
tomers. ??
LARGE STOCK BAGS
We have all ihr fine quality liafii* necessary to take rare of the farm
ers of this section. For prompt und efficient service,
Sell your potato crop with us.
R. L. Smith and Sons
ROBFRSONVILLF, NORTH CAROLINA