War As It Relates
To Home Front Is
Reviewed for Week
(Continued from page one)
There is another important form
of saving both in cost and materials
toward which we have made a start
and which will be widespread neat
year. This is saving by reducing
sizes, types, and styles of various ar
ticles?making fewer kinds and man
ufacturing them in fewer plants.
Need All We Can Salvage
We made advances in materials
saving but many necessary war ma
terials, especially metals, certain
chemicals, fibers, and the like, are
still dangerously scarce. Civilian use
of almost all metals either is close
ly restricted or entirely forbidden.
Especially, we'll need all the steel
and copper we can produce, salvage,
save or reclaim for the duration of
the war. Even the use of metal, plas
tics or cork for repairing the private
fisherman's tackle has been forbid
den.
Food thorughout the first year of
war has been ample, despite heavy
shipments to our Lend-Lease Allies,
and the tremendous requirements of
the armed forces. Up to November
29, sugar was the only food product
actually rationed, although we had
begun the voluntary share-the-meat
program as a first step toward ra
tioning of "red meats" early next
year. Meat is such a vital part of mil
itary diet that severe penalties will
be invoked against violators of the
October 1st order limiting delivery
for civilian use of meat from cattle,
calves, sheep, lambs, and hogs?the
so-called "controlled meats."* The
order applies to all slaughterers, in
cluding small country saughterers
and butchers, and farmers who kill
animals except for the use of them
selves and their families. In the last
quarter of 1942 smaller slaughterers
may deliver no more of these meats
to customers than they did in the last
quarter of 1941.
Face Cuts in Many Foods
In 1943 we'll have reductions in
some kinds of foods, fruits, and veg-1
etables, especially in certain canned
goods. Distributors already have
been given monthly quotas on the
delivery of canned foods, local milk
shortages have developed, and 50 per
cent of all butter stocks in 35 major
dairy markets have been reserved
for military and Lend-Lease needs.
Many imported spices and condi
ments are scarce, and imported fruits
such as bananas, are almost unob
tainable
Most of the new clothing has been
simplified ,to save cloth, and the
wool content of woolen clothing is
sharply restricted. Fabrics for wo
men's work garments have been
placed under strict control to assure
an adequate supply for women war
workers, and next year manufactur
ers may make only four models of
each of the permitted types of this
clothing.
Many More Women Needed
There will be need of many more
women workers in our war plants
next year?the manpower shortage
will be even greater than it is today.
Already the intercity bus industry
is critically short of good mechanics
and service men, and so is the truck
for-hire industry. Track workers are
needed on Western railroads, and
there are 60,000 job vacancies among
the public cariers. Radio, telegraph,
telephone and street railway com
panies have been warned that they
are war industries and should not
refuse to hire workers because of
prejudice involving race, creed, col
or or national origin.
Under the retailers' Economy
Drive-For-Victory plan, a program
has been worked out for curtailing
many peacetime retail services with
out reductions in ceiling prices. The
plan also includes wider use of self
service, reduced inventories and
fewer returned goods, simplified
lines of merchandise, pooled deliver
ies, group buying, staggered payrolls
and work hours, shorter store hours,
quantity buying for economical de
livery, and encouragement of cost
saving ideas from employees.
?
"Wooden Nickels99
May Be Style In 943
"Don't take any wooden nickels,"
may not be just a quip next year. A
bill has been introduced in Congress
which would permit the U. S. Treas
ury to change the specification and
content of any coin under a dime.
Acute shortages in critical materials,
especially copper, has forced the U.
S. mint to experiment with other
metals, wood, plastics and glass. So
far the only trouble has been to find
the equipment to make the substi
tute coins. Already all the nickel?
another vital metal?has been re
moved from the "jitney" and its cop
per content reduced, and the produc
tion of pennies has been halved. And
a fractional cent piece would hit re
tailers' profits and benefit John Q.
Citizen.
?
Fresh grapefruit and tangerines,
produced this year in record quan
tities, have been designated as the
Victory Food Special for the per
iod December 3 through December
12th.
This World
Of Ours..
By DALLAS MALLISON
(Editor's Note: "ttiis is the sixth of
a series of articles on the present
world conflagration, Its causes, con
ditions determining its outcome, the
course it is taking and the effects it
will have on our generation and
those to come after us.)
SOCIAL EFFECTS
OF THE WAS
Speaking in the broadest terms all
effects of the war upon man are so
cial since anything is social which
results from the contact of two or
more persons; however, here we are
primarily concerned with those more
institutionalized forms of human re
lationships such as the family and
marriage, the community, the
church, the school and the more im
portant problems arising out of these
relationships, particularly crime and
juvenile delinquency, divorce and
mental abnormalities.
This article will begin a discus
sion of these social effects as here
defined of the present war, the next
story will deal with the family and
the home and the articles following
immediately thereafter will be con
cerned with the church and morals,
the school and education and the
mental or psychological effects of
the war.
The New World a Closely
Integrated Whole
Just as in the past the typical
sphere of social contact was that of
the family, then the village commun
ity, then the larger community, then
the state and the nation, today this
realm of social consciousness and
social intercourse is spreading to in
clude all the world. By virtue of
modern invention and international
trade this process has long been in
motion but the present war as a re
sult of the need of utilizing all the
resources of global communication
has speeded up this process a thous
and-fold.
During the lives of moot of us we
have heard of all the large cities and
all the various parts of the United
States from those who have been to
those places and many of us have
been to many of these localities our
selves. Now we are hearing every
day of all the far-off corners of the
world-r-of Australia, North Africa,
South Russia, Iceland, Madagascar
and the republics of South America
are seeing all these places through
out the'world. Following in the foot
steps of the British, having once been
provincial-minded or cosmopolitan
in our thoughts and experiences.
The mechanisms and processes of
communication and transportation
are rapidly being extended and ex
panded to encompass the entire
globe and after the war this system
of inter-communications and trans
portation will be utilized extensive
ly by ourselves and other allied na
tions to control the world and to
engage in world trade and world
travel. The United States will be
come the nation of the world, lead
ing in international trade and com
merce and in world travel.
Air Routes the Travel
Lanes of the Future
Most of the hundreds of thousands
of planes now being built will be
used to traverse the air lanes of the
world in the period following this
war, traversing routes that are short
er by air than by sea or land and
saving invaluable time and cost. In
the American hemisphere the hem
ispheric highway now being com
pleted, as a result of the needs of
this war, will beocme an integral
link in trade and travel between us
and our neighbors.
Thus, Americans will become cit
izens of the world of the highest or
der, having holdings and doing bus
iness throughout the whole globe
and travelling all over the world as
a matter of daily course.
A Much Higher World
Living Scale
All the peoples, races and nations
of the world will experience a rising
standard of living in the era follow
ing this war and this will be brought
about mostly as a direct result of the
economic unification and stabiliza
tion of the world and the elimination
of trade barriers and the free access
to all the world's raw materials and
markets to everyone. This does not
preclude a further rise In our own
level of living for we, too, will ex
perience a level of comforts and lux
uries we have never enjoyed. The
enjoyment by our population today
of greatly increased incomes and the
vocational education of many thous
ands of persons who would not oth
erwise have ever received a skilled
education, thus preparing them to
demand greater incomes, are psycho
logical and material factors making
for this higher level of living.
Weekly War Review
For North Carolina
Salvage in Tarheelia ? Enough
[scrap iron and steel to make seven
battle cruisers was shipped from
North Carolina junkyards during
October, declared Governor J. M.
Boots to Keep R^d Soldiers Warm
Thousands of Russian women have been mobilized behind the lines to
make equipment to keep the Red troops prepared to fight General Winter
as well as the Axis forces. This picture taken in a Russian felt foot
wear factory shows women making felt boots for the Red Army fighters.
(Central Frees)
Broughton as the War Production
Board presented a scrap dealers'
award to T. L. Silvers, head of the
American Junk and Wreckage Com
pany of Raleigh. Eleven of the State's
92 scrap dealers have received the
award, which is given for 100 per
cent cooperation in the WPB salvage
program.
Sees Shortage ? Drastic curtail
ments in the quantities of civilian
goods to be available during 1943
were predicted by Oscar Strauss, Jr.,
of Atlanta, regional administrator of
the Office of Price Administration,
during a conference in Raleigh with
State OPA officials. More price con
trol and rationing will bo necessary
to distribute available goods equita
bly, he said.
Tire Meetings?A series of meet
ings for all branches of the tire bus
iness will be held in various sec
tions of the State, the first to be held
in Raleigh, December 1. The meet
ings will be of an educational nature
to keep the tire man posted on new
regulations and trends.
Mark Gas Coupons?If you use, A,
B, C, D, or S-l gasoine rationing cou
pons, you must write your State li
cense number on the back of each
coupon used to purchase gasoline,
under a new requirement which be
came effective November 21.
War Necesaity Certificates?North
Carolina truck operators will be
without gasoline after December 1st
unless they have a certificate of war
necessity. Certificates will also be
needed to purchase tires and parts.
Applications may be obtained from
ODT offices in Wilmington. Raleigh,
Asheville, Charlotte and Winston
Salem.
Fuel Oil?Carl Lunsford, OPA fuel
oil ration officer, reminded North
Carolinians this week that they can
no longer buy fuel oil? including
kerosene ? without fuel oil ration
coupons. The deadline for sales with
out coupons was November 23.
Spring-like Fashions?North Car
olina shop windows resemble spring
because lighter colors?in women's
wear?are due to the war and not to
the unpredictable whims of Dame
Fashion, Mrs. Ruth Vick Everett,
consumer-relations representative of
OPA, explained this week.
Tire Turn-in?North Carolina auto
owners were slow in turning in their
"idle tires"? according to E. H.
Schellenberg, mileage ration special
ist of OPA. Tires should have been
reported by November 22. If you
have not turned in your tires, do so
at once.
Holidays?In all parts of North
Carolina, large employers are coop
erating with the ODT program of
travel conservation and refusing to
allow Christmas holiday leave for
employees if it involves travel. State
OPA employees will not be granted
leave if such leave would involve
travel by common carrier, T. S.
Johnson, state director, said. 1
89*575?l~
6S!o that 10'4,
r?s%s!
? War Ronds help huy the
fans and (antes and planet
he's X"t to have (o do (he
job ar.d proteet your borne,
your family, your future.
Think of his protection,
too and (five him a bred, I
Put at least n dime cat of
every dollar ill War Roods
?join the millions who are
investing lfKi or more of
earnings in War Roods
through tho Payroll Sav?
ings Plan!
Bvy WAR BONDS
Things To Watch
For In The Future
Enameled curtain rods of wood
and fiber and medicine cabinets of
, wood ... A synthetic chewing gum
I of no chicle?made with coagulated
latex . . . Quick-flaring kindling
sticks?five for a coal fire, three for
a wood-burning fireplace. They're
called "Kin-Del-Kwik" ... A red
tipped plastic "Victory Thimble"
which has a deep opening to fit ov
er long fingernails, introduced by
Pacific Mills . . . Plastic hammers
that are rustproof, acid-proof and
are said to be durable ... Paint
brushes of Nylon instead of the nat
ural bristles from China's razorback
hogs.
Lease-Lend
More than 552.000,000 pounds of
foodstuffs and other farm commodi
| ties were delivered for shipment to
| the allied nations during September,
? 40 per cent larger than the previous
month.
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Creomulslon relieves promptly be
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you arc
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis
THE MOST IMPORTANT
ANNOUNCEMENT
'
EVER MADE BY THE U.S.TREASURY DEPARTMENT
The 9 Billion Dollar Victory Loan
Drive Is On!
This week the United States Government
begins the task of borrowing nine billion
dollars from accumulated savings and idle
funds in the next several weeks as an essen
tial part of winning the war more quickly
and more completely.
During these critical weeks you probably
will be visited by a representative of one of
the securities firms or banks which arc con
tributing their time and effort ? without
compensation of any kind?to the Victory
Fund Committee. He will explain to you,
for instance, the benefits that you can obtain
from the new Victory 2K's?available for
the first time. Welcome him as a war
worker when he calls. If you miss him, ask
jour banker or securities dealer for full
particulars. There is no limit to the amount
that you can purchase.
Today many American families arc torn
apart. Millions have left their homes or their
jobs; thousands have given their lives and
many more are prepared to do so.
But the government, your government,
is not asking you to givt anything to this
Nine Billion Dollar Drive. It is asking you
to lend it all of the money you can possibly
invest in what is the safest investment in
the world?at a good rate of interest.
When the Victory Fund representative
calls, please remember this; it is in your
own interest, as well as that of your country,
to listen to him?and to invest.
BUY THESE VICTORY 2V4'?
NOW
Twenty-six year l/i per cent bonds due
December 15, 1968, callable December 15,
1963 Issued in cou|K>n or rcgistcied form
at the option of the buyer. Commercial
banks will not be permitted to hold these
bonds until ten years after the date of issue.
There is no limit on the amount any eligible
investor may purchase. Interest is paid semi
annually, June 15 and Dec. 15. The bonds
will be sold in denominations from $500 to
$100,000. In the event of the death of a
holder, the bonds may be redeemed at 100'/(
and accrued interest for the purpose of sat
isfying federal estate taxes.
Two scries of shorter term obligations
(a) iy4 per cent bonds due June 15, 1948,
and (b) % per cent certificates of indebted
ncss due one year after issuance. These
securities are open for subscription by
banks, and also by all other classes of in
vestors, whether private, corporate or insti
tutionai.
Other Treasury Securities offered to investors through the Victory Fund Committee art
Treasury Tax Savings Notts A and C, and U. S. Savings Bonds. Series P and G.
Guaranty Bank & Trust Company
Branch Banking & Trust Company
Martin County Building & Loan Association
Beginning Tuesday, December 1st, We Will Discontinue
Delivery of All Bottle Drinks?Moore Grocery Company