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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945.
OUR CALL TO ARMS!
Dade County Citizens, along with all other patriotic citizens
of the nation, have another opportunity presented whereby we
can demonstrate our patriotism. The Mighty Seventh War Loan
Drive is now open and this is YOUR CALL TO ARMS!
With the henoism, the hardships and suffering—yes, with the
very life-blood of thousands of our sons, backed and equipped
with modern arms of warfare, purchased by our dollars, which
we have heretofore furnished when we purchased War Bonds,
they have at long last brought arrogant Nazi Germany to her
knees in unconditional surrender.
But our job is only half over. We have yet another war to win;
and this treacherous, fanatical foe to defeat. Japan, a pagan na¬
tion that believes in neither God nor man, and whose awful ar-
trocities against helpless peoples, prisoners of war, our own Am¬
erican boys, and against the aged and helpless citizens of nations
which they have overrun and conquered, have horrified the world
—this pagan nation must also be defeated and brought to uncon¬
ditional surrender.
To accomplish this tremendous task may require long months
of hard fighting—desperate fighting in the jungles of foreign
lands, and the cost of this conquest will be counted in billions of
dollars which we must furnish.
With us our brave boys are rejoicing because Germany has
been so ignominously defeated. But they have not lain down on the
job! They will pay in sweat and blood and death. Neither can any
patriotic American lay down on their job; we must see it through
to the end, or sacrifice our brave boys to defeat and the entire
world—our Christian religion and civilization to utter destruction.
Dade County’s quota in this Mighty War Loan Drive is only
THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. There are numbers of our
citizens who could invest that much and more in War Bonds if
they would do so.
It is not a gift, but a LOAN—AN INVESTMENT—we are ask¬
ed to make. U. S. War Bonds are best, safest investment in the
world today, and the rate of interest pays a fair return on the
amount invested.
Lets not delay or quibble because you think the war is half
over. Our soldiers can’t wait for arms and ammunition if they
defeat Japan, and our dollars must furnish what they need_all
they need without delay.
imn’t stint your purchases of War Bonds, buy liberally and
Dade County will easily double her quota.
BEHIND THE TIMES
The oil industry is sadly behind the times in one respect: the
price of gasoline.
The retail service station price of motor gasoline, excluding
state and Federal taxes, in 50 representative cities in the United
States, was practically the same for 1944 as for 1943.
Compared with other commodities, the price of petroleum as
a group is low. For December, 1944, the United States Department
of Labor commodity wholesale price index iusing 1926 as 100)
showed an average for all commodities of 104.7, an increase of 4.7
per cent, while petroleum and its products were 63.8, representing
a decline of 36.2 per cent.
These figures tell an interesting story. They reflect the in¬
creasing efficiency of industry generally and they explain why
taxes, even before the war, were able to raise rapidly without be¬
ing materially felt by the public. The case of gasoline is typical.
Jt is something that practically everyone in travel-happy America
has always used in limitless quantities. The average American has
never been conscious of the soaring taxes he has been paying on
every gallong of gasoline purchased, because lower prices have
offset taYes. The oil companies, by good management and work¬
ing on the high volume theory of modern industry, have enjoyed
reasonable prosperity, the consumer has gotten his gas for ap¬
proximately the same out-of-pocket price that he has for many
years, and government is reaping hundreds of millions of revenue
_the velvet of oil management's progressive efficiency.
However, all good things have a limit, including the present
price of oil. Inflationary costs are undeniably hampering the dis¬
covery and production of oil. Petroleum men have warned the
price of oil must rise if the country is to continue to have abund¬
ant oil.
THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS
A transcontinental train recently pulled into a Pacific coast
city twelve hours late. Passengers missed connections to many
points. The last half-day on the train they had little or nothing
to eat as the dining car ran out of food.
You would have thought caustic remarks about railroad ser¬
vice would have flown thick and fast. But a traveler on that train
said: "Not one word of criticism did I hear. For 2.000 miles we
had been passing endless freight trains and troop trains. The
travelers all seemed to realize that their affairs were secondary
and that the railroads were doing a Herculean job, in keeping that
volume of war traffic moving on schedule, and at the same time
meeting the needs of civilians.”
The failure to complain about the railroads was a demonstra¬
tion of public understanding and appreciation of the unprecedent¬
ed difficulties the railroads are overcoming as they carry both the
war and domestic traffic of the nation. American industries and
American citizens meet emergencies when put to the test.
Suggested sign for those jammed eating places: PLEASE PAY
IF SERVED”
TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MAV .7,1945,
COUNTY
The
HOME TOWN REPORTER
In Washington
By
WALTER A. SHEAD
WNV Staff Correspondent
Wickard on Food
WNU Wtshington Burttu
621 Union Trust Building
TTOOSIER - BORN, dirt - farmer
n Claude F. Wickard, secretary
of agriculture, sat in his huge office
on the second floor of the depart¬
ment of agriculture
I main building over-
looking the Mall,
| and, gazing out of
his window through
the trees onto the
| shrubbery - studded
lawn, drew a word
picture to me de¬
scribing his vision
of a postwar agri¬
culture ... an agri¬
Walter Shead culture different
from any we have
known in this country.
It was as though he could see the
broad acres of bis Carroll county
farm in Indiana, as he spoke, for
spring was in the air, and he was
itching to get back there, to get the
feel of the soil he loves ... to get
into a pair of overalls ... to go look
at a boar pig he has a hankering to
own.
First, he sees in the years to come
a nation of family sized farms, own¬
er operated, and to make this come
true he cites the record of his Farm
Security administration which has
made more than 36,000 loans to
farm tenants, share croppers and
farm workers enabling them to buy
family-type farms of their own. And
more and more loans are being
made.
He sees food as looming more and
more in importance in the conduct
of world affairs with the American
farmer having a vital stake in the
world peace organization and play¬
ing a most important part in the eco¬
nomic reconstruction of the world.
This will come about, Mr. Wickard
believes, through the Food and Ag¬
ricultural Organization of the Unit¬
ed Nations, the framework of which
was adopted at Hot Springs, Va.,
in May, 1943. Since that time 18
nations have approved the organi¬
zation and a joint resolution is pend¬
ing In the house of representatives
as this is written, authorizing the
President to accept membership in
the organization for the United
States. He sees the American farm¬
er producing to full capacity both
food and non-food agricultural prod¬
ucts and receiving for his work pari¬
ty, or above, prices ... a prosperous
agriculture.
He pictures a postwar age of
farmers who have learned how
to use their precious land wisely
and efficiently, through recog¬
nized conservation and land-use
practices ... an age which will
build a permanent agriculture
—recognizing new and impor¬
tant responsibilities to the com¬
munity, living on the land from
choice rather than from compul¬
sion, and the creation of a
new concept of the dignity of
farm life.
Included in this picture is an
American agriculture freed from
most of its drudgery with new con¬
veniences, and new horizons for
farm life brought to rural areas
throughout the land through elec¬
tricity on a new and
broader scale than
ever conceived by
the Rural Electrifi¬
cation administra¬
tion. As of June.
1944, a little more
than a million farm
homes had been
electrified through
REA; however, it is
the dream of the
secretary of agri¬ Claude Wickard
culture to bring
REA service to every farm home in
America and to make electricity
available to some 3,665,000 farms
and rural establishments in the im¬
mediate five-year period following
the war.
To carry out this program a
measure has been introduced in
the senate by Senator Scott Lu¬
cas (D„ 111.) to supplement the
REA act and the Agricultural
Appropriations act calling for
appropriations of more than a
half billion dollars to be loaned
to REA by the Reconstruction
Finance corporation to facilitate
and expedite electrification of
rural areas "to Improve the
standard of living and the eco¬
nomic condition of persons re¬
siding in rural areas.” The bill,
now before the senate agricul¬
ture and forestry committee,
would provide for 35 million dol¬
lars for fiscal year ending June
38, 1945; 150 million for 1946,
300 million for 1947 and 200 mil¬
lion for 1948.
Instead of the present practice of
building short electric lines to serve
a certain number of customers, the
REA program envisions a survey
of a whole area of 20 or more coun¬
ties at a time, or even larger areas
. . . the construction of lines to reach
all farmers in the area and the con¬
struction of electric plants, or pur¬
chase of electricity, if available, to
supply the whole area.
And last, but not least, there is
social security not only for farm
workers but for farm owners . . .
community health centers and rural
hospitals are a part of this picture.
Farmers, farm workers, farm ten¬
ants and farm families need protec*
The Axis was beaten in the Medi¬
terranean when the British broke
through in a counterattack at El
Alamein and then drove the Afrika
Korps west to the final defeat in the
fall of ’42 and the orushing Allied
victories following the landing of
American troops In North Africa on
November 8 , 1942.
Progress In P&cifio.
In the Pacific, the U. S. fleet had
won notable victories during that
fateful year of 1942. We had beaten
the Japs decisively in the Coral sea
battle in May and had whipped them
again in the battle of the Solomons—
whipped them so badly that the Im¬
perial Jap fleet was to retire to
home ports and concentrate on the
! defense of tfae homeland.
Renew Yuor Subscription!
1941 Saw America
Plunged Into War
As Japan Struck
The year 1941 was a bleak one for
the democratic nations of the world.
England impatiently asked the
United States when we were coming
in, while we went out of our way in
the effort to stay out of the war and
mind our own business.
In the spring of 1941, the Germans
invaded Jugoslavia and drove the
British out of Greece, after Musso¬
lini’s troops were run ragged by the
poorly equipped Greeks.
Tilings had reached such a pass
that Rudolph Hess, the "deputy ;
fuehrer,” flew to England and para¬ I
chuted to safety with what is reli¬ j
ably reported to have been peace
plans for a beaten England.
German paratroopers took the
strategic island of Crete and it
looked as though nothing could stop
the all-powerful sweep of Axis arms.
Hitler Turns on Russia.
But Hitler, balked in the west by
England’s stubbornness, decided to
attack Russia.
On June 22, 1941, again without a
previous declaration of war, Hitler
sent his troops storming into Russia
in the old familiar pattern of the
blitz.
In the early days of that campaign
in the east, everything followed the
neat pattern drawn for it by the cold
military scientists of the German
general staff—the Prussians of an¬
cient war lineage, and the ruthless
Nazis who put into practice what
they had learned in Spain, Poland,
France, the Netherlands and Bel¬
gium.
Russia was supposed to fall in
three weeks, or at the most, three
months. It was popularly supposed
to be an awkward giant, big but
clumsy on its feet and unable to
stand up against the repeated body
blows of the smaller but efficient
German war machine.
Japan Strikes U. 8 .
While the Germans swept into
Russia and closed in on schedule,
Japan was readying a sneak attack
of her own.
On December 7, 1941, the Japs at¬
tacked the U. S. military and naval
bases at Pearl Harbor and knocked
us, with one foul blow, into the mid¬
dle of the world war.
Thus 1941 drew to a close, with the
Germans winning in the battle
against Russia, and tha confided
Jap military machine moving stead¬
ily and remorselessly to its objec¬
tive—the complete subjugation of
the western Pacific and a Japanese
domination of Asia.
The United States was in the war,
but it was in a defensive role and
was not supposed to be able to do
anything offensive before everything
would be over in Europe and we
would be alone against Germany,
Italy and Japan.
‘Beginning of End’
Came With Allied
Victory in Africa
Hitler committed his second stra¬
tegic blunder is 1942 when he failed
to conquer Egypt and seize control
of the Mediterranean.
The Axis knew the value of the
Mediterranean and’by keeping con¬
trol of the western end through use
of the Italian fleet and Tunisia, kept
the British from using it as a supply
line for Egypt and the Suez canaL
But that was not enough. British
convoys dared the Italian fleet and
brought supplies to embattled Malta,
bombed day and night like nothing
was ever bombed before. But the
supplies went through and Malta
stood, giving the British a base.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the
German commander in North Af¬
rica, had made two attempts to end
British resistance in Libya. The
Axis forces had almost been suc¬
cessful in the first two attempts but
had been checked and then driven
back. Now, Rommel decided to try
again.
Rommel’s Final Attempt.
Rommel launched the third and
final Axis offensive against Egypt
in May, 1042. Nothing happened at
first and then the British were am¬
bushed and lost almost all its armor
—a tragic blow at that stage. The
British fell back to El Alamein, only
60 miles from Alexandria, with their
backs to the wall.
Rommel tried in vain for the final
breakthrough, but victory eluded
him. The British aerial bombard¬
ment of German home industry and
transportation, Hitler’s failure to
crush the Russians, and the steady
growth of Allied air power In the
eastern Mediterranean reduced the
assistance that Rommel was able to
get and kept him from getting all
the supplies he needed.
Weekly Roundup of OP A Price and R at i °nin
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RATION CALENDAR FOR WEEK OF MAY 17,1945
PROCESSED FOODS—Blue Stamps H2, J2, K2 Tc I
valid, expire June W2, 2; X2 N2, P2, valid, Q2, R2, S2 now July valid , • 1
30; T2, U2, V2, now expire 31; Y2 Z 2
Cl now valid, expire August 31.
MEATS AND FATS—Red Stamps Y5, Z5, A2 Ro
now valid, expire June 2; E2, F2, G2, H2, J2 now valw
June 30; K2, L2, M2, N2, P2 now valid, expire Jul --
S2, U2 now valid, expire August 31.
SUGAR— Sugar Stamp No. 35 expires June 2; Sun
No. 36 expires August 31. gai - "
SHOES— Aiiplane Stamps No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 n0W|
FUEL OIL—Periods 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 valid for ten gallons ^
GASOLINE—A-15 that coupons each valid through June 21 r!?
rules now require car owner write his license asr!
and state on each coupon! in his possession as soon
sued to him by his be local presented rationing to the board. board Your mileaq appi^J e l
ing record must when ^ \
supplemental B and C gasoline Rations. :
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