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Wednesday, July 1, 1942
With a strip-tease performer and the
aviator, much depends on the take off.
A man may be a perfect lemon, but he
still loves the lime-light.
Before they're hitched, they bill a coo.
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Afterward, ttiey re just umeu.
New Gas Program
There is one thing about the new gasoline
program for which you may as well
prepare now: The rules and restrictions
are going to be about twice as tight as
they were in the first period.
Everybody stalls out on this program
even, with a basic allotment, and it will
be necessary for anyone who receives one
of the supplemental cards to show that
it will be used for essential driving. This
time, 'essential' applies to the public welfare
or to the war effort and has next to
nothing to do with the personal conveniences
of the person who just doesn't like
the inconvenience of not having enough
gasoline to do all the driving he wants to
do.
Nothing is planned that will in any
manner hamper the necessary travel of
defense workers; but there will be a careful
check to see that these persons do
not take advantage of the nature of their
employment in order to leave a car with
good tires and a tank full of gasoline at
home from three to five days in the week
for a lot of frivilous driving by non-working
members of the family.
The sum total of the program promises
to be this: A good many people will like
the new plan better than they did the
first because many apparent inequalities
have been eliminated; but there will be a
group of persons upon whom the emergency
plan imposed practically no hardships
who will howl their heads off about
the new rationing regulations.
One thing that all motorists should be
willing to do, however, is to cooperate
wholeheartedly with the persons who are
charged with the administration of the
registration. Every single person engaged
in this tedious and exacting task will be
an unpaid, volunteer worker who is serving
in order that you, the motorist, may
register with a minimum of inconvenience.
The least you can do is to help
make his job as easy as possible.
Adjustments?
We are at last beginning to feel the
colossal changes war has forced on the
economic and social life of the nation.
And, in the next six months or so, changes
in a far greater degree than anything
we have yet experienced will inevitably
take place.
It should be clear to everyone by now
that the American standard of living,
which has been infinitely luxurious by
comparison with that of most of the rest
of the world, will be largely abandoned
for the duration. This year, our national
income will be the largest in our history.
But the amount of money which the people
will have to spend for goods and
services will be down to the lowest depresion
levels and perhaps lower. There
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and most important, is the tax burden,
which will be felt in the lowest income
groups, and will reach staggering proportions
in the middle and high income
groups. Second, War Bond purchases,
whether voluntary or enforced, will take
a substantial part of everyone's remaining
income. Third, the price level is far above
that of 1932 and 1933.
For the most part, we have not yet felt
any particular lack of "luxury goods."
While manufacture of such goods was
stopped some time ago in most lines,
stocks on hand have kept store inventories
adequate. Soon it will be impossible tc
buy a refrigerator, an automatic heating
plant, a radio, an office machine, and ten
thousand and one other items, unless you
have a first-class priority rating, and the
item is needed for a purpose directly connected
with the war. Rationing of public
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transportation services may make pleasure
travel impossible. And it is generally
expected that a card-rationing system,
similar to that now in effect for sugar,
will be extended to other foods, to clothes
, and to many additional necessities.
Whole professions are being virtually
wiped out. For example, there is the
plight of the salesman. There is no need
i for his services if his industry is engaged
1 in war work. If his industry is not in war
' work, its production is swiftly declining
and he has less and less to sell. These
people are being absorbed by war industry,
for the mosit part. After the war they
will face another difficult problem of readjustment.
Whole industries are in the same position.
The mortality, for instance, in the
businesses which have been built up about
the automobile?service stations, repair
shops, roadside restaurants, resorts, etc.
?is great, and before long it will be tremendous.
All their proprietors and employes
can do is to close shop and get a
war job. There is no place for their businesses
in the war picture.
The face of American communities of
all sizes is changing swiftly. Gigantic war
plants are being developed in sections
| where there was little industry before. In
many defense areas, population growth
?unprecedented in its rapidity?has
created an exceedingly severe housing
and transportation problem. These problems
have not yet been adequately solved,
and they will grow worse. They con
stitute a major headache to governmental
authorities.
The population trend from country to
city is intense. Agricultural workers, attracted
by the big wages paid by war industry,
are literally leaving the farms in
droves. The farm operator can't get enough
labor, and, even when he can, he
must offer wages that in many cases are
beyond his ability to pay. This has offset
a good part of the benefits of increased
farm income.
The foregoing simply illustrates a few of
the almost revolutionary changes that are
occuring in this counthy. And they illustrate,
by inference, what our post-war
problems will be. Authorities in botli business
and government seem convinced that
none of the problems are insoluble. They
know that there will be many mistakes,
many errors in judgment. But they believe
that, after the war, this nation's
incredible industrial plant will be able to
provide jobs for all employables, and will
in time bring the general standard of living
to a level well beyond anything we
have known. It is a healthy sign that,
even as we grapple with the immense
problems of war, we are also thinking
ahead to the peace to come.
j| Shears And Paste
A LESSON IN ASTRONOMY
(Wall Street Journal.)
One day Sir Robert Ball, the famous astronomer,
honored a company of friends with a
generous repast in old Stratford. When the bill
was presented, he said to the landlady: "Madam,
I am going to give you-a lesson in astron
omy. In 25,000,000 years all things must return
to their original condition. We shall be
here again, eating a dinner precisely identical.
Will you give us credit until we come
bac?"
, "Well," replied the landlady, who had met a
few like Sir Robert before, "you were here
25,000,000 years ago and left without paying
your bill then. Settle that account, and I will
trust you for what you had today."
THF AFFINITY OF POTATO . TOMATO
, We are indebted to the Agricultural News
Service of the College of Agriculture, University
of Florida, for clarification of the family
"affinity" of potatoes and tomatoes. In a recent
news release it noted that reports and inquiries
concerning tomatoes produced on the
vines of white potatoes, often reach Dr. F. S.
Jamison, truck horticulturist with the Experiment
Station. These "tomatoes" he explains
are simply potato fruits. Potatoes and tomatoes
being closely related, the fruits are
confused. Dr. Jamison, is quoted as saying
that "varieties of potatoes formerly grown
here never set fruit, but new varieties, such
as Katahdin, set fruit quite readily. The potato
which grows under ground, is a tuber and not
a fruit."?Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union.
WHEN THE LICHTS mMF nisi I
In Charleston and other coast cities baseball
lights must be 'extinguished by 9:15
1 o'clock. This is done in order "-hat the illumination
may not aid enemy submarines. But just
wait until our inning comes?then the lights
will go on again. And all over the world.?
Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post.
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THE STATE PORT 1
THE HOME
FRONT
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The price ceiling covers all of
j Main Street now. It stands above
| the cash register in the shoe]
shine shop as well as at the
butcher's; it has been extended
| until it shields the man who
I wants a clock repaired or his hat
I blocked quite as much as it does
i the customer at the corner groi
eery or drug store. Under this
i ceiling are the highest prices
j which may be set by laundries
land furniture repairmen, the most
I that may be charged by auto
| parking lots and dry cleaners,
j locksmiths and gunsmiths and
morticians.
| All these additions to the price
! control structure ? the whole
! great list would fill innumerable
I pages?fall into the category of
I what are called "consumer servj
ices." They are controlled as of
; July 1 by a new Office of Price
| Administration Regulation which
j transfers all such sendees coni
nected with commodities from
the General Maximum Price
Regulations and sets them up
under a special system in recognition
of the fact that they con-1
stitute special problems.
Roof Extended Widely
I The extension to the roof
' which shelters us from the high
| cost of living is a sizeable one.
j The number of establishments of |
j one sort or another which are af- j
I fected has been estimated at
J pretty close to 1,000,000, while tbej
, total amount spent by the buying
public for the wide range of
services covered amounts to more
than $5,000,000,000 a year.
For the most part the services!
j controlled are services sold at re-1
I i-nii ?nri henre the order is one i
which will be reflected?and happily?in
almost every family budget.
It will, for instance, be reflected
in what the average family
! pays for repairs to all sorts of
things. And repair services, with
new goods becoming scarcer every
day, are going to be increasingly
important.
Price Ceiling Completed
The new regulations complete
the complete system of price
ceilings which was begun April 28
with the announcement of OPA's
General Maximum Price Regulations.
May 11 brought the ceiling
which covered sales and services
and commodities at the manufacturing
and wholesale level, one
week later a ceiling was erected
over all sales of commodities at |
retail. So, in the space of two1
months, we have set our economic
house in order for war, we have
built solid barriors against those
rising living costs which could
only mean, in the end, disaster
to the Home Front ? disaster
comparable to defeat on the field
of battle.
Be sure you remember that the
new regulations apply only to
consumer services rendered "in
connection with commodities."
They've nothing to do with the
fees charged by your lawyer or
your architect, your barber shop
or your beauty parlor.
Temporary Idle Cause Problem
One of the knottiest problems
confronting us as we move to
mobilize our manpower for the
war production line is the temporary
unemployment of skilled
and semi-skilled workers caused
by the shutting down of non-es- j
sential civilian industries. New j
..1_ /-is*... eMi- i fii. i?
iuik v-ny, iuieu wun many small i
plants which cannot be easily con- j
verted to war work, is a prime j
example. There nearly 400,000!
men, many of whom are highly
skilled, are jobless, at a time
when war production plants in
other sections of the country are |
crying for labor. A great deal of
factory capacity, some of which
can be changed over to war work,
also is idle. Last week New York
City's Mayor La Guardia, New
York State's Governor Lehman,
War Manpower Commission
Chairman, Paul V. McNutt and
War Production Board Chairman,
Donald M. Nelson discussed this
problem.
Protect Skilled Workers
Mr. McNutt and Mr. Nelson
took a step last week which
should speed skilled workers to
war jobs and keep them there.
In the past, if an unemployed man
in the automobile industry was
summoned back to his old job he
was forced to report within a
week or forfeit his seniority
rights. Now if the worker has
been trained for a new job lie
may choose to stay with his new
employer and still retrain seniority
rights in the old plant.
The vital stake of America's I
13,000,000 Negroes in the fight
for freedom has been emphasized
by creation of a Negro Manpower
Service within the War Manpower
Commission. Under the direction
of Dr. Robert C. Weaver,
an expert on Negro employment,
the service will carry out a pro
gram of training and placement
of colored workers. The unhappy
race discriminations of peacetime
are fast disappearing.
O. D. T. Opens New Front
Transportation must not be a
bottleneck if lhen and materials
are to move to far-flung fronts
in sufficient quantities to defeat
the Axis. Highly-trained soldiers
waiting in cantonments, finished
weapons piling up on steamship
docks, are of no value
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[on the battlefield. The OfI
fice of Defense Transportation has I
[opened a new offensive on the
' transportation front with the for [
mation of a "U. S. Truck Con- I
servation Corps." This corps will
I enlist the owners and drivers of
our 5,000,000 motor trucks and
] thousands of others who service j
j and supply them in a nation-wide
campaign to save their machines
and their tires. The President
'opened the offensive, saying that
j "it has become the patriotic duty j
j of every truck operator in Ameriica
to help in every possible way I
I to make his truck and tires last j
longer." Our trucks, like our;
passenger cars, and our trains, I
must last for the duration.
Graveyards' Help Cause
Automobile graveyards yielded.
j more than 383,253 tons of scrap j
j metal in May, 10 percent more
; than in April and 100 percent
| more than the monthly rate in
1941 . . . Last summer's alumi|
num collection drive resulted in
the recovery of 6,398,051 pounds,
only 42'i percent of the amount
expected . . . Several million additional
pounds of honey have
been made available as a substitute
for sugar in bakery goods,
ice cream, candy and soft drinks!
... And beekeepers have been!
encouraged to produce more hon- j
ey by a WPB order increasing the; [
output of wooden beehives . . . '
Your landlord has not been)'
prohibited from re - painting '
or redecorating your part- '
ment if it constitutes norm- i
al "maintenance or repair." . . . j
Enemy-owned patents seized by ,
the U. S. Alien Property Custo- j
dian cover a wide variety of machines
and processes?Among one
group of more than 750 seized last 1
week were patents for coal mine !
conveyors, automatic drills for use i
in airplane construction, oil re- )
fining processes, and chemical ji
compounds . . . The patents were'i
owned by German, Italian, Japa- ,
nese and Hungarian corporations ,
and individuals . . . Movie Producers
have advised WPB that
they are taking steps to reduce
the amount of film used in Hollywood
and the quantity of materials
used in sets . . . WPB has
amended its regulations to expedite
the piping of gas, water
and electricity to thousands of
war housing units . . . Some 8001
new natural gas wells will be
drilled in Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma to avert a threatened
shortage of fuel in war production
and essential civilian activities.
WASHINGTON
LETTER
Washington, July 1.?Military
reverses of united nations' forces
have a sobering effect on Congressional
thinking which, for a
time at least, places controversial
domestic issues in a secondary
position. Experts advise that deliveries
of munitions must be
speeded along with extensive
training of larger armies. Despite
political effects of heavier taxation,
the gravity of the overseas
war together with sample attacks
on the West Coast had a distinct
tendency to make the legislator
buckle down to hard and fast
problems. Though the lawmakers
have voted enormous appropriations
for war purposes, it was
another matter to have them fix
tax rates to pay part of the expense.
The forthcoming: debate on
the new internal revenue bill will
be replete with explanations as
to the need of tapping taxpayers'
pocketbooks.
Back of the tremendous upsurge
in the war materials production
rate is the government's
program of having workers acquire
quickly the high skill necessary
in these days of speed in
factories. It is entirely different
from the apprentice training
which requires more time. Specialists
drafted for war work go
into plants and explain to managements,
superintendents, and
foremen the method of getting
people into production quickly,
the methods of training on the
job, and methods of up grading.
The term "up grading" means to
get each man in the skill which
he is best qualified to do, so that
every man will be working at his
top skill. The second phase is to
train new people into specialized
operations, so that one man will
be doing just one thing. War contractors
have instructors working
in over 3,000 plants. To take care
of the 10,000,000 men and women
who will be added to industry
means that about 800,000 men in
this country will have the job of
breaking in the new workers.
They do not know how to do it
quickly. So far they have reached
80,000 of the 800,000 who
should be reached by the end of
the year.
As a probable prelude to more
restrictions on private spending:,
it is known that the government
is about to launch several new
studies. It is proposed to make a
survey of the pattern of income,
savings, and expenditures in the
second quarter of 1942, the third
quarter of 1942, the year 1942,
as a whole, and for the first
quarter of 1943. The Treasury, in
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~ NO1
That picnic they're planning
ternoon ought to be a whale of
it isn't the sort of thing that
cf unnecessary driving . . . Thej
Shallotte that Mrs. R. D. Whi
Stone fishing in her well. Is thi
that whopper perch, Professor?
"Smilin' Through" is a movi
done over a lot of times and in
the latest and best version is tl
ette McDonald and her husband
It's playing tonight and tomorrc
.... Incidentally, folks here did
to what extent they depend upc
amusement until there was no si
day or Friday night of last we<
Recruiter Jesse Helms, here I
the purpose of talking to prosp(
the Navy, is a veteran newspape
He held top jobs on both The N
and The Raleigh Times, and now
job of contacting intelligent, am
for Uncle Sam's team . . . . Ai
particular, is seeking data on th
shifts in consumer income am
sonsumer expenditure which ar
laking place with extraordinar;
apidity. A two-pronged inquir;
.vill include the testing of spend
ng in cities and towns and ii
rural areas. For instance, thi
federal statisticians want ti
<now what the urban communit;
vorker is spending his money fo
ind how much he is putting is
savings and how much in wa
aonds, and so forth. The same in
'ormation will be sought in coun
:ry districts. The admission tha
he Office of Price Administra
ion wants fatts of this sort in
licates additional controls on in
'lation are under consideration
iVhile these inquiries are actuall;
sampling and not completely cov
:red, the results have been sur
jrisingly accurate.
It is not generally known, bu
,t is true, that war has hastene<
die streamlining of school sys
lems, A House committee was
idvised a few days ago that Fed
:ral educational officials had In
luced colleges to speed up thei:
jutput of graduates. Under aus
jices of the government thesi
schools of higher learning set u]
iccelerated programs so that in
stead of operating only 36 weeks
n the calendar year they woul(
jperate at least 48 weeks. This
neans three semesters, thus
naking it possible for technica
students to complete a 4-yeai
:ollege course in from 2 2-3 to
:alendar years. The drawback o:
.his intensified training is tha
joor students have no chance t(
:arn money to defray part oi
.heir college expense.
U. S. Commissioner of Educa
ion is seeking a $10,000,000 ap
Dropriation to overcome the fi
lancial handicap of these stu
lents. It is proposed to maki
government loans to these ambi
ious youngsters at a rate of $50(
i year to enable them to pursui
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for Saturday af- i for the biggest
a lot of fun, and department shot
(trill require a lot the interior decc
r're telling around at the local P. <
ite caught Henry people in town
at where you got paint' signs wer
Almost before
e that has been started in the n
: many ways, but has had several
le one with Jean Smokey is
I, Gene Raymond. Billie Sanders bt
>w at the Amuzu who bears this
n't have any idea has a coon hoe
in the movies for misnomen; and t
how either Thurs- J it is that the ho
;k. I town also is call
ast Thursday for Breman Furpl
:cts about joining up pretty badly
rman of 22-years. Wilmington to {
ews and Observer the cat had bra
' he's doing a top jaw, so for the
bitious youngsters only muffled 'n
a award of merit yard.
e courses beyond the second colle-1
J giate year who have attained and !
e continue to maintain satisfactory j
y standards of scholarship. They
y must prove their need of assist*
- j ance, and agree in writing to
11 participate in accelerated prog
| grams of study in any of the
a j fields authorized. Uncle Sam is
4.1
y not taking chances on tuesc uo?r
r ed men seeking private jobs. The
1 loan agreement will provide a
r first call to tlie armed forces or
_ war production agencies. There is
an impending greater shortage
t of technicians in essential indus.
j tries. Actually, if the student
. j agrees to make his sen-ices avail.!
able to his country at any time
J during the course of or after
f! the completion of this training,
-'and if he carries out that agree
ment, he does not have to repay
the loan. It is an investment the
t government will make as a form
1 of insurance to obtain trained ex
perts.
s The fiscal year, which starts
| July 1, means more to govern-jment
officials and minor employees
than the average citizen re-'
alizes. It is the signal for starting
-; new projects, for promotions and
31 transfers to other jobs, for it is
- actually the beginning of the
3 government year. Tremendous
1 sums of money appropriated by j
3 Congress in recent weeks are now j
3 available. Already budgeting offi-'
1' cials are shaping their estimates
f|for next year's requests to Con1'
gress.
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Exum News
f EXUM, July 1.?Rev. M. L.
Mintz filled his regular appoint
ment at New Life Baptist church
- here Saturday night and Sunday.
. | Friends will be glad to know
. that Mrs. Rosa E. Vereen is reI
covering from a severe illness.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Edwards, of
" i Bolivia, spent Sunday here with !
I relatives. Their son. Max remain- I
51 ed here for a v.'nit with his grand- j
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improvement in the most
lid go to Postmasv:
.rating done during the past
0. Incidentally, there are a )rj( rl I
who know now that those .
e more than ju-' H
he has had a chance to r.. H
lilk goat business. Di. r: I
chances to sell some of his sw.
a popular pet name H
ought back a pretty little Sta-, I
appropriate name: Slim Os'^l
ind that also is no victim <* I
here's little reason to wonder -.1
rse that W. B. Kez H
led Smokey.
ess found his pet tabby tray;,.
the other day and carried hitc ;iH
i veteinarian. When he got
ces on three places on its i0li.H
time being, at least, there ;: . M
ieowing' from the Furplesi t. H
parents, Mr. and ,\lis. t j>H
Phelps.
Kenward, the small son of o. H
and Mrs. J. M. Bennett haste-^B
ill for a few days. H
Mrs. Gussie EdwatvU *...1 .
?ug q| h
dren, Miram and H. J? jr ,
Bladenboro, spent Sunday h?t, fl
W. A. Phelps and Newly q. I
wards made a business trip
Southport Monday. fl
Mrs. C. C. Puss, of Eolim I
spent Sunday here with relatives I
Mrs. W. E. Jacobs, of F*irewar I
spent a few days "here with bt I
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T p I
Phelps recently. fl
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Minister: Walter Pavy, Zint H
Parsonage, Town Creek Sunday, fl
July 5, 1942. fl
/ION fl
10 a. m. Church school ami fl
Church United service. Classeifl
for all ages. Sermon: "Our M-fl
tion's Birthday." 8:00 p. m. Tfcfl
Youth Fellowship. fl
PINKY GROVE fl
Church school 4:00 p. m. P:.:- fl
lie worship at 4:30 p. m. fl
SHILOIl fl
Church school at 4:00 pel
Youth Fellowship Friday at Tllfl
p. m. M
BOLIVIA fl
Church school at 10:30 i. a, fl
Superintendent Kenneth MfKeithan,
Youth Fellowship a: SM
p. m.; public worship at S:30 p.
m. fl
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SAVE TRAVEL .. fl
. . . SAVE MONEY I
Roland Simmons I
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