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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943
CRACKING DOWN ON PLEASURE
DRIVERS
The track down on pleasure drivers which is being1 en
forced by OP A officials is wholesome and should be effectiv'e
in informing the puDlic- that the rules in this respect are in
tended to be obeyed instead of trifled with or ignored.
Whi'e it is something difficult for honest-minded motorists
to draw the line between driving that falls within the category
of quasi-business and pleasure, the demarcation is not so cloudy
as to permit some of such violations as haVe come to the at
tention of the OPA officials.
The public must be made to .understand that the govern
ment means what it says in this particular and that, if its reg
ulations are flouted, the trespassers must be made to pay a
proper penalty.
In the meantime, the orders affecting pleasure driving,
generally speaking, are being well observed. For the greater
part, motor car owners a'1 paying the game fairly and living
up gracefully to the inst.a.c:ions.—Charlotte Observer.
PERMANENT FREEDOM
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers" brought
forth onto this continent a new nation conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal. We are now engaged in a great civil war testing
whether this nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedi
cated can long endure
Those famous words of Abraham Lincoln’s tit the war
in which we are now engaged even more than they did the
war about which Lincoln spoke. Lincoln was speaking about
a civil war among two gre ups of people, both of whom wanted
our kind of liberty, whereas today we are fighting a world
wide war to determine whether our type of existence can en
dure against a coalition of large nations which oppose our
philosophy of fieedom and liberty.
The Civil war may have helped to cement our nation to
gether but victory in this war should once and forever es
tablish our democratic form of government as a permanent
and uiishitkeable factor ii world affairs
It has taken a lot of battles, a lot of loss of life and many
heartaches to defend our liberty, but each test has made
us stronger and our position in the world more secure. When
victory finally comes in this war. there should be little possi
bility that any nation will again dispute our right to live as
we please.
VICTORY GARDENS
Surveys indicate that half of the non-farm families of
the country are planning to plant Victory Gardens this spring.
Probably, aftei food rationing gets under way, even more
people will recognize the desirability of getting food from
their own backyards.
Since the American farmer is being depended upon to
keep our huge army well fed as well as to supply the food
needs of nations all over the world, anyone who helpe reduce
civilian demands upon the farmer is performing a highly pa
triotic act.
It may well be that the extent of our ability to ship foods
to other countries will be the determining factor in winning
the war. Certainly food will be the most powerful weapon we
can use to re-build the morale of those nations which Hitler
has been starving. It is also a necessity for keeping our Allies
in top lighting condition.
Thus food, this year, will be a weapon of the most potent
variety and the more civilians can take care of their personal
food needs the more of this ammunition can be sent to the
battle-fronts of the world.
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, after returning from hi’
gruelling experience in the South Seas and his inspection of
fighting fronts, is the only man who has said what the Am
erican people needec to hear in connection with production
problems. In the newspapers and in the news reels he said
that if the soldiers could be transferred from the hell holes
they occupy on the battlefronts, to our factories, and if the em
ployees in the factories could be transferred to the battle
fronts, production in this country would double in thirty days.
By the tone of his voice and his expression, you could
see that he was disgusted with the Pollyanna talk about work
ers at home being classed as filling “battle stations.”
Captain Rickenbacker emphasized'that nothing the people
in this country can do will in any measure equal what the boys
on the Ibattle fronts are doing. They don’t get overtime pay
and they work day and night if necessary.
The people agree with Captain Rickenbacker. Just because
some of us wear “tin hats” at home, we don’t want to become
swelled up with the idea that we are filling '‘battle stations”
—we are not. Battle stations are where the bullets fly and
n en are dying; wnere men work as long as there is something
to do; where orders are dbeyed; where overtime pay and promts
are not an issue; and where the peijpetuation of liberty and
freedom for the individual aie the guiding stars.
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ABOVE ^HULLABALOO
Food Shortage and the Farmer
_If we are to believe all we
read anu hear, the country will
(before long be facing a serious
food shortage. The reasons
would appear to be obvirus. First:
we are shipping great quantities
of food to our soldiers, to our
Allies, and to hungry friends
wherever we can reach them
without helping the enemy.
Second: we have been drafting in
to the active services more men
from the farms than now appears
to have been wise. Third: we
have made work in the war plants
so attractive that the farmer who
has to work long hours, natural
ly can’t resist it.
Only a few months ago there
was a battle going on in Wash
ington during which the country
was made to believe that the
“villian of the piece" was the
“selfish farmer’’ and his “bully
ing Farm Bloc.’’ It terminated
with the farmer conceding to the
cause of patriotism, but with the
understanding that labor wages
and prices of commodities were
to be pegged—by law, or other
wise—where they were at that
time, so that his “cost of living"
would remain fixed.
Well—labor wages have “slip
ped’’ in a number of cases; and
it looks, as though they will con
tinue to “slip." There is al
ready talk of raising the ceiling
on a number of commodities. But
there doesn’t seem to be any com
Crete plan for taking care of the
farmer’s predicament, except that
he is going to be allowed to pur
chase more farm machinery and
that the drafting of men sorely
needed on the farms is going to
be slackened.
Now a number of mathmetical
geniuses are doing some figuring
on how to avoid a food shortage
in this country; but their sums j
don’t seem to add up just right.
They seem to have left the human
equation out of their caleula
tions. A farmex is just as hu- '
i man as anyone else. If—after
| stopping around in slush or snow
i for 12 or 14 hours; or breaking
his back on a horse or a tractor
—he reads about “Miss Perkins'
pampered pets" working 40 hours
per week in air-conditioned, mu
sically equipped factories, at
wages which to the farmer seem
unbelievable, how would he natur
ally react? And if he sees the
prices of things he must buy ris
ing, how is he going to feel then?
And if temptation becomes too
strong, oi discouragement too
great, how can we expect him to
reipain on the farm?
No—it just doesn't add up
right: There is a kink somewhere
which must be ironed out.
There is going to be a “goat”
when and if a serious food short
age does occur. Attempts wiii
be made to pin it on the farmer
One can almost hear already cer
I tain radio commentators and
! soap box orators telling the world
| that “the farmers are holding
back on purpose, just to spite the
government. ' That "they won’t
i plant enough” and that “they are
letting the crops rot in the fields
because tfie administration ‘feu
therbeads' the unions”!
‘•Featherbedding” unions won't
stop the farmer for any other
reason than that he would like to
get into the feathers himself. He
will work just as hard while he
remains on the farm, regardless
of any feeling that he is being
neglected.
The farmer, for the most part,
is as “old line American. ' His
ancestors hied and sweated for
this nation and the love of it is
in his blood. He will keep on
plugging to the end, but he rates
treatment equivalent to that of
any other branch of our society,
and commensurate with his just
deserts. Maybe some one of the
many plans now being discussed
in Washington will help to keep
the situation equalized.
Washington. D. C. (NWNS) —
With ration books No. 2, provid
ing for the rationing of canned
goods and meat, about ready for
distribution, the Office of Price
Administration is now working on
still another ration book which
will be used for an additional
group of scarce items. The new
book is being designed so that it
can take care of the rationing of
almost any item. Probably it
will be used for foods not covered
(by ration book 2—such as but
ter and canned milk—and it is
possible it will eventually be used
for rationing clothing, liquor,
cigarettes and other classifications
not now controlled.
In addition to new plans for ra
tioning, the OPA is now giving
serious consideration to a plan for
the sale of post war purchase
certificates by which the public
would begin to pay installments
now on products they will want to
buy after the war is over.
Although this plan is still in
the discussion stage, OPA officials
consider some such project neces
sary to prevent inflation. They
point out that the total income of
the people this year will be about
18 billion dollars in excess if the
value of all goods which will be
available for purchase. This es
timate is made after figuring out
the amount which will be collected
by the government in taxes and
the amount which can be expected
to be invested in war bonds.
It is feared that this large ex
tra income will force price rises
and encourage black markets un
less it can be drained off. The
OPA plan would encourage peo
pie to buy certificates which
would give them a priority on the
first new automobile, refriger
ators, etc., to be made after the
war. The OPA believes this plan
would accomplish three objec
tives: (1) it would absorb the
extra income of the people; (2)
it would give the U. S. treasury
additional funds to use for her
financing the war; (3) it would
prevent a post-war depression by
assuring manufacturers of large
orders for consumer goods as soon
as the war ends.
It is quite possible that drastic
changes will be made in the set
up of the entire war program ad
ministration within a short time
Many senators and congressmen
who think there is too much in
efficiency and bungling in the
present setup, favor the creation
of an Office of War Mobilization,
the director of which would have
more power than any man in
Washington now has with the ex
ception of the President.
The plan, as a bill in congress,
is being opposed by the war and
navy dapartments, because it puts
all power into the hands of civ
ilians. The bill calls for four
offices to be geared together by a
director appointed by the Presi
lent. The four offices would be:
Office of Production and Supply,
to handle all procurment and pro
duction; Office of Manpower, to
see that every person is serving
where he can serve best; Office
of (Scientific and Technical Mob
ilization, to see that America’s
best scientific developments help
win the war; anil an Olfi. e of
Economic Stabilization. All pres
ent duplicating agencies, such as
the War Production board, the
Office of Price Administration,
the War Manpower commission
and Selective Service would be
absorbed into the new setup.
Senator Po| per of Florida, one
of the sponsors of the new bill,
said that there are too many
agencies now which carry their
ultimate problems to the Presi
dent. He believes the new meas
ure would end rivalry and lack of
co-ordination between the war
agencies.
SIX INCH
SERMON
REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
Jetuus Heals a Man Born Blind.
Lesson for February 14: John
9:18 38.
Golden Text: John 9:25.
It was sad that the blind man’s
parents were not permitted to re
joice over him because they fear
ed the Jews and felt it necessary
to refer their questioners to their
The more we read of what took
place between the questioners and
the once blind baggar the more
we should realize that the beg
gar was a remarkable man, cap
able of gratitude, courage, and
spiritual discernment. Perhaps,
like John Milton, he had seen
more heavenly things in the
darkness of blindness than many
others see with normal sight He
was not impressed by the threat
ening questions of the Lord's
adversaries, stoutly denied that
Jesus was a sinner, and ended by
stating a conclusion (verse 113)
that his hearers could not dis
pute. Instead, they denounced
the man as a sinner and cast him
When Jesus heard of the man's
harsh treatment, he sought him
out and revealed himself to him
as the Son of God. Then the
man found a far greater blessing
than the gift of mortal sight, and
he said, “Lord, 1 believe,” and
he worshipped his new found
Lord. „
So we may learn that in a var
ied service the goal of all the fol
lowers of Jesus is to bring men to
know* the Son- of God—that the
purpose of God’s manifestation
to men in Christ was the restora
tion of their spiritual sight anil
the giving of light and life to
their soles;
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Submarine Is Hitler’s Last Ace
As Allies Forge Ahead
In Production And Battle
Somewhere in the Atlantic.—
Inky darkness has settled over the
ocean.
The skipper stands by on the
bridge. Below him he can hear
the mufTled clatter of the engines
The waves chop noisly against the
ship’s sides. In the hold lays
a precious treasure of cargo
bound for the Allied lighting
front.
Maybe the cargo consists ol
fuel, or maybe of munitions, or
then again of guns or tanks. But
regardless of whatever it may
consist, the cargo is essential to
the army in the field awaiting its
We are in a new kind of war.
different front any that hits ever
been fought before, and as a re
suit new problems have arisen n
conducting it. The greatest o:
these problems is the problem of
supply. In fact, the whole suc
cess in modern warfare lies in the
solution of the problem of sirp
ply.
Xo wonder then that the skip
per of that ship plowing bravely
through the dark water of the
ocean stands so vigilantly tit his
post. On the delivery of his cargo
may depend the success of a bat
tle. the triumph of a tactical ma
neuver that may decide an en
tire campaign, and bring victory
Hat Confidence in Ship
But the (kipper's concern i* not
With his ship. Perhaps she has
come from the yards of Henry J.
Kaiser, whose modern construc
tion methods have enab’ed thou
sands of his eager and sweating
workmen to turn out the most
seaworthy ships in the world in a
matter of mere days instead of
months. The skipper is not wor
ried about his crew. They are all
trained and courageous sailors
And the skipper does not fear the
sea. He knows its sounds, its
smells, its moods. He can handle
it like a mother can handle a
night. as every night, the skip
per remains on the alert against
the menace of the submarine, that
silent and steel swordfish that
prowls so stealthily in hidden wa
ters, striking like the head of a
whin and then recoiling hack in
to the sea again. What makes
them so dangerous is that they
can send out their torpedoes at
a distance and then crawl quickly
away. Near shore, their effect
iveness has been greatly reduced
by the patrol bomber; against
heavily escorted convoys, they
must proceed cautiously; but out
in the oceans and in thinly
strung convoys, they are always
dangerous.
In 1917, the submarine nearly
won the war for Germany be
fore Allied naval leaders per
fected a defense against it. To
day, Hitler makes no bones about
the fact that the Axis is de
pending upon the U-boat to crip
ple the Allied supply line and im
mobilize the vast number of
United Nations soldiers poised
on the major battle fronts.
The submarine is Hitler's last
ace. Everywhere the Allies have
seized the initiative. After a pe
riod of preparation, American
production has begun to turn out
great quantities of equipment
for its lighting men and those of
the other United Nations. The
war in Russia has made serious
inroads on German manpower and
placed the Reich numerically at a
disadvantage with the Allies.
Again it is appropriate to re
member that this is a new type
>f WMr we are fighting. Whereas
it was once possible to maintain
armies off of the land they oe
■ ui ied. modern warfare requires
tanks and vehicles from steel and
rubber; tanks and vehicles which
also eat up pultons of pas and
oil. Furthermore, the develop
men! of the ‘■‘■ldiiz” tactics, of
conca nt rat inp vast quantities of
men and material for break thro
uph blows and the subsequent en
circling movements, requires a
steady flow of material.
Soldiers Need Tonnage.
Our experts have figured out
that it takes it toils of ship) ing
to carry one man to lighting front
and :;. t tons of shipping to supply
him for a year. Blip (lett. K. W.
Littlejohn, the quartermariter
general of American forces in
•he British Isles, estimates that
10.5 tons of shipping are needed
to transport a soldier ami 1.5
tons a month to supply hint.
With officials planning for the
organization of an army of 7 1-5’
million men, the mapniunh of
the prol lent of supplying them
on fronts thousands of miles a
way can he Clearly seen Not
only must the F boat menace he
eliminated, hut our ship building
must continue at its present
unprecedented rgeord.
With Henry J. Kaiser p'aying
the dominant role, American
ship builders amazed the world,
and confounded the Axis, by
surpasing President Roosevelt’s
goal of 8 million tons last year.
This ~mr. a mark of 18 million
tons has been set up. The new
method of ship construction—of
bui'ding the hull, deck, etc., in
sections on assembly lines and
then putting them together as a
finished product in the ways—bids
to crown the shipbuilders’ efforts
with success.
Ship production litis reached a
point where ship launchings have
| surpassed sinkings. But Allied na
vul experts also feel that German
submarine construction is keen
ing ahead of sinkings. Informa
I tion has been received that the
I Nazis have halted all ship con
struction and diverted facilities
to submarine manufacture.
Have 200 Subs.
Allied naval experts believe
that the Nazi submarine fleet
approximates 600 craft and that
probably 200 can be found in
operation at one time. U-boat
“mtoher" ships—giant submarin
es that can repair and refuel subs
at sea—are also said to be in
Two new developments in the
submarine have been reported.
L'-boats now are supposed to be
capable of submerging to depths
of (too feet whereas their former
limit was 300 feet. Use of com
pressed oxygen to a degree
times greater than heretofore
reputed to enable new submarin^^
es in construction to operate
their Diesel engines under water
increasing their cruising range
Despite the ominous threat of
the submarine, however. Allied na
val leaders are confident (they
can successfully combat the per
il. Extensive expansion of the
bomber patrols; production of
taster ships and escort*, and en
largements of convoys are expect
ed to greatly reduce sinkings.
Improvements in sound detection
instruments and in the explosive
power of depth charges will im
prove the efficiency of tho sub
fighters.
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