The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1943, Page 3

1943. poe = ______—_—_—_—_—_—_—————— SE FEEDING THE POST-WAR WORLD i By JOHN GROVER } World wheat stoeks, already: Food rationing won't end with overflowing granaries in the ece-j the armistice. It’s considered a real belts, will be.ample to supply | certainty in Washington that ra- bread to the post-war hungry. will continue at least Shoriases In Oil through the first crop year after That’s all to the good. The post- hostilities cease. war shortages, however, are sure And there’s no guarantee it, to be critieal in meats, fats and! will end then. ‘oils and the high-vitamin foods. From Seeretary of: Agriculture Europe's livestock is going fast. : ‘Wickard’s statement that “Baod) It's doubtful if breed. stock re- will win the war and—write the | mains te supply European needs, | Peace,” through Vice ,,, President; even in the meat exporting coun- ; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, EES eT — THE ARMY OF MEN AND WOMEN °° IN OUR GREAT MOTOR INDUSTRY are an unbeatable combination. They met every test when they changed overnight to building better planes and tanks, better trucks and-guns and other equipment. We Americans everywhere appreciate what they are doing to swing the tide of vigtory to our side. ‘Wallace’s post-war plans; there the clear implication from ,Ad-; ministration sources that food will implement our military and diplo- | matic policies during and after the war. One announced purpose of the rehabilitation organization headed by Herbert Lehman is feeding the: peoples liberated from the Nazi yoke, Our allies, now drawing food supplies from our production pool, will have clear claim on further food supplies during the recon- struction period. It is even probable that the van- quished Axis peoples will have to be fed while the post-war world is being fashioned. A"! On Short Rations Everything points to a whole world on short rations for at least ome crop year after the war, the U. S. no less than other nations.' Ht could take longer. } No clear formula for food dis- tribution has been, advanced in the post-war world suggestions. Those who have considered the problem suggest that some food items will be taken from the shortage class almost at once. Right ' now coffee, sugar and cocoa are searce because of shipping she~ - ages. Huge stocks exist in producing countries, awaiting ont Shipring that will be rvailabl- al-! most on armistice day. The mustering ovt of millions af farm laborers, and the release of farm workers now in war in- dustry, should ease the farm labe= Problem in the first peaeeti crop year. PATENTS MASS , These : the war won. that the peace aims | tries, for many years. The enormity of the post-war feeding problem can be seen from the fact that in 1943, according to the Department -of Agriculture, military and lend-lease require- ments “will probably account; for 20 te 25 per cent of our total | supplies of beef, 34 to 40 per cent of pork, 25 to 30 per cent of evgs, 40 to 45 per cent of cheese, 15 to 20 per cent of butter. From four-tenths to half of our condensed and evaporated milk! , will go to the fighting forces or lend-lease: slightly more than half of our canned fruits; and 45 to 50'- rer cent of canned vegetables. shipments will not, of course, take care of the starving millions in the countries now oc- eupied by Hitler, who would be} ealling on us for help when the} Nazis ‘are kicked out. 1 : Not Defined . The production program for the nest-war period has not been de- fined. Congresswoman Clare Luce | urged continuation of lend-lease, | which . presupposes _ government purchase of food supplies sent) Whether the people of the! United States will consider, with; are important enough to continue taxine themselves to make food} transfers a weanon of post-war) . iplomacy is an untouched ques- tian. Those who ate thinking along, these lines emmhasize that the WAR 8B | @uestions have barely been formu- | lated, let alone answered. ies | * BUY * THE CIGARETTE THAT GIVES ONDS | 7 ‘You'll find (GHESTERFIELDS Milder. They have a Better 'Taste and smoke refreshingly Cool. Ask yourself,what makes for 100% smoking pleasure and then light up the cigarette that satisfies. Only in Chesterfield’s Right Combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos do you find all the good smoking qualities you want at their top-notch best. You Can't Buy a Better Cigarette. FOR WAR’S END By FRANK CAREY . SMOKERS WHAT THEY WANT Copyright 1943, Liccerr & Mvrrs Tosacco Co. esterfield bs AP Features ‘WASHINGTON, Mar. 17.— Could you use a pocket ash tray,! an illuminating door lock, or a} fan attachment for your sewing machine to keep friend wife cool! as she works? $ Patents for such have just been granted by the U. S. Patent office but, in these | days of priorities, you'll have to guess when they will be avail- able. Applications for most of them were entered prior to Pearl’ Harbor. Pocket Ash Tray t That pocket ash tray might be) the answer to a bridge party “hostess” prayer. If you couldn't! find a regular ash tray, there would be no need of flicking | your cigaret on the sly behind the radiator. All 'd have to — 0. sould Se to ‘tame. your own} ‘ Official Navy Photograph tray out of your pocket. It’s a cup-shaped gadget with several) trough-like little arms which can | jg be slid from the main receptacle! C v and projected outwardly for) vy. a jor Blies- holding your cigaret. z Lock For Night Owls The illuminating door lock is! designed. primarily for vehicles,) but, presumably, it might also be applied to y use door as a handy finding the keyhole on r you've been down to Joe’s place play- ing seven: . It consists ‘of a push-button arangement to turn on a tiny}? light close to the keyhole. You're entirely on your own so far as finding the push-button is con- cerned, The sewing machine gadget is simply a fan motivated by the} fly wheel. { Nursery Bottle Guard A guard for a nursing bottle} with an attached chain which} Loving words will cost but little mes a nipple-cover and a spare! Journeying up the hill of Life, safety pin. | But th ke th ak and An illuminating razor handle; by welty os 9 Sed ae —and a combination shaving mug " ind razor reve | Stronger, braver for the strife. ee propelier—and | Do you*count them only ‘trifle, supporter.” | What to earth are sun and rain? No «candidates for the better | Never was a kind oe wasted, mousé-trap premium are. among | Never was one said in vain. he invent but got F — ps aang an § But brought each a kind remia- chargéd vermin ‘traps Deetaets <) der Tit For Tat en Jones was sitting with his wife! when they chanced to meet behind a palm on a hotel veranda} again. late one night, when a young man’ and a girl came and sat down on, a bench near them. The young man began to tell the girl how! pretty and good and lovable he| thought she was. | Hidden behind the palm, Mrs..) High School students caught let- Jones whispered to her husband: ting air out of automoible tires ‘, MAJOR A S. ‘BLIESENER z & f ; er Army .in World ray ry | From the stranger or the friend, | Sometime after they were spok- SOPHIA L. NASH. PUNISHMENT PITS CRIME $,| cast headed by Ethel seal which had been STILLWATER, Okla—Junior Some Sugar For By RAY PEACOCK Ap Features Writer NEW YORK, Mar. 17.—Betty Garrett made her debut in musical eemedy when she was the third blonde from the left im the infant's | ward of a hospital"in &.. Joseph, | Mio. When she cried, she had a basso profundo, and she gave the | murses hysterics. Today the grown-up Betty, who jean hit C above middle C a ii la treat to the eve as well as the tear, isone of the reasons why | Michael Todd has struck gold with his musical, “Something For The | An added starter in a brilliant Merman, Betty is the extra cup of coffee, !the nylon stockings, the second spoonful of sugar that Mr. Todd has conjured up in these days of tioning. She was given one of the songs left over j | Miss Merman and _her le: g! man, Bill Johnson, had received théir quota. It’s called “I'm In Love with a Soldier Boy,” and she sings 4¢ with such appeal and feeling ye would swear it’s straight from heart. “It’s funny,” says Betty. the dimple in her left cheek showing | prettilv, “because my boy friend is in the Merchant Marine.” | Overnight Success Five, feet two, with blue ¢ and ash-blonde hair, Betty is} something of an overnight suc-j| cess, but it took sixteen years of | waiting and going hungry and! | appearing in a distressing number of flops before she got her chance | !im a show like this, which has | Cole Porter songs and a book by | Herbert and Dorothy Fields. Her | only fame before seemed to come from that genteel Pullman car strip-tease she did in “Railroads on | Parade” at the New York World’s Fair. Born. in St. Joseph. she spent | most of her childhood in Seattle. | When she finished high school, ‘her widowed mother suggested a fling at Net Yerk, So they backed up their cat and came east. That was: in 11986 Betty got ‘down to business with, the Amer- ican Youth Theater. doing about '20 small shows. Her first real * stead of waiting around for some- 515 Fromt Street HEY, GOODLOOKIN’ appropriately reads the title of the song Betty Garrett studies- while waiting her | turn on the stage. ' | show was with Orson Welles’, understudy to Miss Merman, but! Mercury Theater. Her part was anj| soon showed she was too good for} off-stage baby cry. | that. t ‘go Sige amiga che|_ “All this attention is fun,” Bet- worked as a singer and chorine in| ‘Y *#¥S “but we had fun before, | night clubs. Onee in a while she | t00. Mother and I and the cat used clerked in stores. Then the youth | te live with two other girls in one group tackled a more pretentious | T¢0m. She cooked for all of us on! show, “Of V We Sing,” which| 2m electric plate. We had no iron-/ drew some Broadway trade about; ing board and I used to sit on the; a year ago. She had a better part/ floor, my legs spread out, and iron. in “Let Freedom Sing,” which! It was good exercise. But when also attempted Broadway last} we collected $1.95, enough for a fall, but failed. | new ironing board, we spent it on | Max Gordon saw her, however, | 2 show instead.” | and arranged an audition with Now she and her mother have Cole Porter. She. was put into! an apartment. But they still have; “Something For The Boys” as an! the same old cat. { ‘COYOTES SAVE : THEIR SKINS | SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 17— | When the coyotes how! out on the lone prairie these days, it's with “Oh, John, he doesn’t know} have taken the pledge never to do! glee. rere here, and he’s going to pro-/ it again. As punishment, police pse. Whistle to warn him.” “What for?” said Jones. “No-'they had deflated—with a hand ody whistled to warn me.” pump. There’s a good bounty on their | made them inflate all the tires pelts but they stand a_ better chance of hanging onto them than at any other time in years. Traps’ lare hard to get, ammunition is’ FURNISHES MUCH AID searee and most eof the private hunters have gone into mare lu-|_ NEW YORK. — Australia, crative war work or into the arm-! ee Lecterorel | ait. se at <u erties nished American forces with more : than 26 million pounds of fresh} The force of bunters employed | jmeats, 2 million pounds of pota-| by the Utah federal animal di-! toes, 25 million pounds of fruit,; vision has dropped from a high and almost five and a half million; mark of 140 to the present 62. | quarts of milk. : aa | FA EEE DS } Net loss of $105,003 reported by| Savings as a record high of $28,-| the Curb Exchange for 1942. * 900,000,000 bring SEC warning. THE LOWDOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE The way ideas are pouring in on my contest on * try needs less of verus more of,” is surprising. If you just listen on vhat this coun- Lendon ENGLISH CHILDREN : RETURN TO LONDON | (Ry Axnecinted Press) LONDON, Mar. 17.—Despi cent air raids, childre ing to London in bers. The number of children in the are ret incr .asing mum- the radio and read things thi we all gotta have done ay . “ capital has reached a war- will think we are destitute ai now nd. time record of 226,750 aged five helpless. to fourteen, with an additional 48.- But the ones saying all this and 300 aged three to five wanting to save us, and sending Fewer than 125,000 London chil- it out from the old show grounds dren are now in the country. The there on the fix-everything-pr (oe a Potomac, I guess they figure we, your swimming—and put away a are maybe halfway pixilated or few more war bonds. balmy. But in the eontest, the an The folks coming over on the swers coming in give you a dif-: Mayflower had iron im their blood | ferent feeling. The folks who have |—they didn’t lean on samebody. their feet’ on terra firma are still Yours with the low down, going ahead in the old and quaint JO SERRA. manner of looking out for them-; 0 selves. If somebody wants to get | wwwwwwwwwwwerervee himself elected, or something, just | KEY WEST BEDDING co talk, let him s it off. But in- - on talk, let him spout o! - The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States @ MATTRESSES RENOVATED @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTERED asapapsscesesaonae body to throw in a flimsy life pre- server, it is safer to brush up on Relief At Last Fr Yu Cough | relieves promptly be- to the seat of the ELECTRIC IRONS 1.—Don’t turn your iron on for a few pieces. 2.—Don’t drop your iron. Be sure the stand will support it. 3.—Don’t allow starch to accumulate on the lightly in kitchen salt, spread thinly on a smooth surface and applying para- fin afterward, removing excess perafin while warm. 4.—Don’t iron over buttons, zippers, etc They roughen the sole plate. 90% of all ren trouble develops im the plug, terminals and cord. I for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronch FEISS IS ISISISSISI SITIOS ISIS ISI SEI TODISITO III IIIA ITI SOIR IAI IIA 6l REKKEREAH et eeeeeeere Give to the American Red Cross 1943 War Fund! Nehehehshahehshehahe a eeerenere tL ehhh ahah hahha hhh bbheeanhenh aaa aha hehe hhh nin nd