The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 12, 1943, Page 4

TAGE FOUR TENDERLOINS OR TOKYO By JACK STINNETT (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.— We’veogot to make up our minds whether we want butter or Ber- lin, tenderloins or Tokyo.” . In that pithy qu Dr. Thomas! Parran, Surgeon General of the; U. S. Health Service, sums up the | food situation of the future. And in it, too, is the answer to: the question being asked in the kitchens and grocery stores of the land: “Where is this rationing going to end?” If any one qu n, he answer that be a wizard and you could wager your last kopek that OPA Administratar Prentiss M. Brown; Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, and Man- power Commissioner Paul V. Mc- Nutt would do battle royal for his ervi This much is known, however: It's going to get much worse be- fore it gets better. Some observers s tioning is un- way on canned goods, it will ded to meats and butter, cheese could would after that to e and “ish. The really easons for shortages are not so complex. One fourth of our food supply is going to our military for nd*- lend-leas People with more eating mone: their pockets than they have had alone iner in the six months tember, 1942. *This condition creating 22 per cent previous to Sep- is, dislocations. Farmers, short of manpower, machinery and adequi transportation equipment, wonder ring how they can n last year’s lev- els, muc production to the heights called for by Secre- } 1i Wickard m for rationing is sim- a fair distribution of Under it the poor r; the rich, much more monotonous are accustomed to. simpler and fare than they Could the situation become.criti- cal? It could. A. bad growing season would.cause havoc with the chs i cate balance né win. praspeet} be tween a satisfactory diet ‘and: tha| system could | nd for such. distribution bog down, too, and it is Meester! that in scattered commiinities i will. Farmers who have pcataa on trucks for long hauls will find them wearing out. In such cases their only out will be short hauls | to already overburdened railroads. The third danger is manpower. It’s not difficult toshut °Orrtl daft on farm workers. Enlistments will be closed to them soon (as to all other men), but it'll take much more dr action to keep them from migrating to the higher wages in indus Freezing in| farm jobs is a possibility. Just how serious this might be- | come is seen in the estimate that ! 1,300,000,000 workers will leave the farms this year and that the farmers will need 200,000 more than they had in 1942.! ,500,000 is going to have to be drummed up from somewhere if We're going to get the job done. as though Doctor Par- ight Signs Of The Times | 3 w shopkeeper has the folowing advertisement in his wihdow: $I don't Profiteer. You profit Her warns Chile of of Axis break. Fap quenc Chest Colds. To Relieve ot VICKS te on Tested JAPORUB | “conse- DR. AARON H. H. SHIFRIN » GENERAL PRACTICE Qsteopathic Medicine and Surgery ong Whitehead—Opp. Lighthouse PHONE 612-W UU AUUEN UU ETERREEELERETEEU UALR, | TASTY MEALS ALA CARTE SERVICE Hork Chen Oysters, aks, Barbecue Beef ALSO— PLATE LUNCHES 45c to 55¢ Other Prices Reasonable Open 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. CAROLINE BARBECUE 901 Caroline Street STEVE FROW, Proprietor Se ULL LL LL eal | with adults everywhere has made THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOLVING WOES OF A WARTIME - GENERATION a i | articles appearing in The Citizen to explain the how's and | why’s of point rationing so our readers will understand Uncle Sam's new rationing plan, By ADELAIDE KERR AP Feature Writer Dorothy Richardson’s son’s job! is finding solutions for the war. time teen-age delinquency prob-/| lem. ,; doing other chores. The boys can i gather scrap. “Second, provide something! hey like for their recreation | hours, when all they want to do is| enh off steam in a perefetly nor-! jma way. They want to dance in; Wane of debiauency: au {a place where there are soft lights! as carefully as you would money. mahieyamongithe teen aes airs) th tables around the floor. They | Actually, ration coupons are more! [hes madeiithe 12° to 18-yekr-olde think it is sophisticated because | valuable than money because no one of the country’s major war- | the grown-ups HUE "So fit Gp a) atte pow Bre mig dine Woche Place with soft lights and’ tables | ready to spend, you can’t buy ra- Miss Richardsori, who ‘is’eon-| Where they Will have’d place to| tioned foods without roint sts sultant st the adaleser nt HEI oe) ee ge yo eee | ero rare come the UBO, divin of the WWOA |ly_ content with ‘soft drinks and man of the Monroe County War |Price and Rationing Bc ? Ik. concedes that the tee! Woe problem. But Ee eaatiseet ter Ea Give them a place where they| Since the first books s i frightened by it. She says there ig | C2n stage amateur theatricals and|come off the s back in No- a cure. jextemporaneous programs. Or a| vember, production has been con- “The war has given the teen-| Foom where they can play good j tinuous, and a constant stream of ; agers a lot of adult experi jences| music and prop up their heels and } jeune ee n 4 Rationing “The youngsters want a chance | Boards “Many homes have been dis-/ to plan and run their own parties, | Before th rupted because both parents a They don’t like chaperones, who! can go working. Lots of youngsters can’t| sit around the walls and watch, ust hav go home for any fun after school, but they will stand for ‘hostesses’| one for because somebody is always asleep | who mingle in the fun. Schools, | jurisdiction. at home these days. The girls | cenrenest and private agencies! The new ration book will look other families have no place to| should get behind this kind of help , familiar to you. It about the receive their beaux because some-| for teen-agers. Let them sit on the} same size and shape as th body sleeps in the living room. | committees and do some of the! coffee book, but it has been “Lots of teen-age boys and girls; work. We create places for the| proved by the have after school jobs. So they | soldiers. So why not for the kids? | manilla cover t have more money to spend than! For the youngsters — and _ the; stamps. ever before. But they have no, adults they become — will be with; On the front of the book will be place to go for recreation. The | us for a'long, long time.” written the :name.and addr of corner drug store and hamburger ! | the holder d other identifying ouffail the presence of the grocer | joint, where they used to congre- MEATLESS DAY information./At:the time of regis: an@ uSed’ along with the correct gate, are crowded with men in uni- | fanion a'soviai number ds: wt n gon of money-to pay for the form and other adults. So the kids | OLD: STUFF TO NAVY | jn. :and the book will bo officially. ong r. Stamps mayzbe taken from hang around on street corners, } stamped. Instruetions for-using the mre than one of-rthe family’s loaf in musie stores and p! e (By ipetene a Press) | coupons appeaton the back c books, if necessary. records’ or jam the movies and! WASHINGTON, Feb. 12,--When | dance halls. This constant meeting ; the American Navy was a eee H ling ten years before its success: war on the pirates of eae the first Navy Ration Law of 1794 provided for meatless Wed- | nesdays. rized ration was % MEN WAR WORKER SPRUCE UP FOR GALS pound of rice, 4 ounces of cheese, Miss Richardson, a soft voiced |4 ounces of molasses or 2 ounces! 5 (By Associated Press) McKEESPORT, Pa., Feb. Virginian who is stationed in New ; of butter, one pound of seabiscuit | workers, who e When you get War Ration Books Inside are four pages of red! i !'Two for your family, guard them stamps and four pages of blue| } stamps, twenty-four to the page,! making a total of ninety-six; stamps of each color. Blue stamps will be used in the immediate ra- tioning of foods. The red stamps} will be used later for meat. A numeral on the face of each} tamp indicates its point value. On cach stamp also appears a letter; iof the alphabet to designate the/ ‘ration period in which the stamp} may be used. | You can use all the blue stamps marked A, B, and C during the first tion period, but these tamps cannot be used after the} end of the first period. Since each letter appears on mps totaling sixteen points—| eight-point s i | $i point stamp, one two- jand one one-point person will » forty-eight points jot sp and problems which they are not equipped to handle,” she says. tioning to effect, your bo nough books to i pes sry person under is sugar- j im- r you go to the store rationed foods, you must | E ‘our coupon book. Any- | bne in the household may do the | shopping if he takes along the ra- tions books. Stamps must be torn | ect the point | TOMORROW: What is the best way to shop under point rationing— the best way to spend point ration coupons? See them want to ‘act grown-up’ be- tomorrow's column for the answers. fore their time. But in most cases! nothing has been planned for! them. So they do the best they | not fair to call them ‘de- | fect of wartime employment in mill town homes says the men are dressing more neatly. »s tell visiting nurses their ae are taking more time to clean their grime-stained hands, and that takes more soap. Instead n. shir week, now » or four. They don’t like to wear torn or patched | clothing on the job, either. And so the wives have to spend more money on the husband up- keep division of the budget. York, bases her observations on a} or hardtack and a pint of rum or recent trip she made to the west! one quart of beer per man. { and south to investigate the war-| On other days sailors also en-| | The urge of time teen-age problem. {i salt meat, without the; now find themselves pinecone aS says, ; “lies in| benetit of re! drleeration ene nee by side with women ivin, e youngsters a teen-age| beans or peas or atoes and; es re of ‘he pine -up things| turnips if they were available. | plants, to spruce up is having a they want to do. First, they want! soe | complicating*effect on the family to dojqwar work. So give them.a| War needs have greatly accel-| budget. ¢hance. The girls can work jf the | erated the use of coal as a chem-! The Public Health Nursing As- yso pasting” up seropbdoks and | ical raw material. | sociation, in reporting on the ef- war working side _ of two cleai many in they want thr Lik “des ails YOUR DATES WITH UNCLE M FOR RATIONED ITEMS: se On Blin BacniBady Can Bs, To Win se War! center. Training is given without charge and SUGAR: Stamp No. 10 expired Jan. 31. Stamp No.} there is no time for delay. Go at once! 11, good for 3 pounds, remains valid until March | 15th. COFFEE: Coupon No. 28, good for one pound, ex- pired on Feb. 8. Coupon No. 25 became valid Feb. | 8, is good for the purchase of one pound of cof-, fee through midnight March 21. Instead of one} pound per person every five weeks, the ration is, now one pound per person every six weeks. | | i ‘WHY POINT RATIONING? We have adopted point! rationing, for one reason, because it is the most flexible kind of rationing; it discourages the pur-| chase of the scarcer items in a group of rationed foods. Another reason is that it is the kind of) rationing which gives everyone the greatest pos-| sible freedom of choice; we may use our points | for any one of a number of foods within a ration- ed_group. } And it is the most democratic kind of | BES bpives the greatest assurance! CH" lk Pa ervey st start, and equal opportunity GASOLINE: March 21—No, 4 coupons in “A” books expire. Feb. 28—the last date for “B” and “C”) motorists to have tires inspected at filling sta-| tions, garages and tire shops. March 31—dead-! line for “A” book holders’ tire inspection. FUEL OIL: Period No. 8 coupons expire Feb. 19.; On Jan. 30, Period 4 coupoms=became valid, re-} main valid until April 6. of fair play, an G5 eugryonc: > , WALK AND CARRY—Here are the plain and a ple reasons why Walking and Carrying must be-| come an American habit: 1. The Japs control our sources of rubber. There | is no new rubber yet. What we have must do the! enormous war job of transportation. Jeeps. Tanks, Planes, all require rubber. The tires of | POINT RATIONING: Program will go into effect | March 1. Beginning February 21, sale of all age ration hist will be frozen for an | our own trucks must also be saved for esserfiial will sell all other foods except those on the new, ~ deliver ae | ration list. | 2. Public transportation systems must be saved! erates : for necessary travel: for workers on their way eee: Le Raa Rot ame an oa to and from their jobs—for people directly in-| be a Micon to pom ola W. Butler, States volved in thé war effort where time is an import-| OF A: Divestor He d Colin English: states aera “‘ant'elemeht for those who have to travel too far) tendent. of public instruction, Florida S¢hool' fot walking... teachers will assist in the registration program.| : < . Point rationing coupons innate Sm ee ee fare ONG Se ees Soy cece munities to care for our fighters—will give their} ’ services abroad and in the training camps ‘of our own country. It is quite” possible that in| 1943 half of our doctors will be caring for the age can work at certain “non-essential” occupa-| armed forces! This means less and less medical tions after April 1. eare for civilians—more and more necessity for) ? | the prevention of needless illness. Civilians must} Men over the draft age, handicapped persons, | know how to care for minor injury and sickness| married women, retired workers, and all other in their own homes. Any citizen who takes a) persons who can learn to do war work are urged! course in Home Nursing and First Aid will help} to contact their nearest U. S. Employment Serv-! to win the first phase of the health battle on) ice for information as to the nearest training| the Home Front. MANPOWER: The Manpower Commission has is: sued a directive that no able-bodied men of draft FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943 War Ration Book No. 2 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION WAR RATION BOOK TWO IDENTIFICATION By Secrarurs (Tobe sigond br the pameen to whom thie book ts ererd. Eo (Signatare of couing officer) ‘aay gn in Be baba — i ‘WARNING book is the property of the United States Government. It is eplewta! te ool or ne meas as cen ts comet co chain oma goats fr he pom we Restioning Board which eucd &. i che peewee = ‘che Unined Staten, or nave the couscy ier mere han 3 & A person who finds « lost Wer Ratice Book must reture it to the War Price and Rewening Beant «tub sound & 4 Parsons Wao Yotars Ramonme Rectisnons Anus Suspect se 10,000 Poe oe leresemee c= Berm OPA Form No. R-181 — YOU WILL SGON GET THIS POINT RATION BOOK. Here is what the cover | and a typical page of stamps from War | Ration Book Two look like. Soon every American who has War Ration Book One— the sugar and coffee book—will get Book Two. The new book will introduce ration- ing of canned and other processed fruite | and vegetables under the point system. | the best way to get facts to the people is to place them where they will be read with reliance gpon their wath. That place is in the newspapers. And the way to get them into the newspapers of foreign lands, as welll as ar home, is to preserve the function of the press associations in their work of news dissemination. Deport AP, he Byline of