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THE MERIDIAN TRIBUNE
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1943
My Flag!
Your Flag!
Long May It Wave!
The Meridian Tribune
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
Entered at the postoffice in Meridian, Texas,
as second-class mail matter.
Any erroneous reflection upon the char-
acter or standing of any person or firm
appearing in these columns will be gladly
and promptly corrected upon calling the
attention of the management to the article
in question.
SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.60 PER YEAR
A charge of 50c is made for
Cards of Thanks.
Mother’s Day.
Mother’s Day this year—next
Sunday, May 9—will have more
significance than at any other time
in the history of observance of
the day.
With sons scattered around the
globe—on the battlefield, at army
and navy bases, flying planes, and
operating submarines and battle-
ships and other children separated
by war work and travel restric-
tions—many mothers will observe
the day without the usual comfort-
ing visit from their children.
These mothers may rest assured
that this separation serves but to
accentuate their children’s appre-
ciation of the tender relationship.
No matter how many the miles
between them, mothers will, sense
the feeling that love for mother
bridges the separating distance.
Because she must bear a great-
er load of heartaches imposed by
the hardships of war, special con-
sideration should be given to Moth-
er by those at home. Though busy
and restricted in travel by ration-
ing, those at home should make
sure that all due honor is paid her.
Be sure to see that she is remem-
bered with appropriate messages,
gifts and visits. Accompanying
her to church on Sunday, or going
to church in her honor, or in mem-
ory of her, would be most fitting
to the occasion.
Making Ration Books At Home.
Uncle Sam’s Ration Books No. 1
and 2 cover a good deal of our
daily needs, but the Ration Books
we make at home are just as im-
portant. Unlike Uncle Sam’s Ra-
tion Books, the home-grown sort
are unlimited. They are counter-
feiting ration cards,,in Germany,
but we are not talking about
counterfeits when we say “home-
made” ration books—they are as
genuine as a dish of beans or a
platter of steak for which we give
up a handful of those precious
“points” from Book No. 2.
It’s like this: Victory Gardens
go a long way in season, on the
daily menu, but that’s only half
the story. During their prime
there will be some surplus over
daily needs, and that’s the making
of the extra “ration book.” Two
pounds of snap beans or about
three pounds of tomatoes will fill
a quart jar, three or four pounds
of Lima beans will shell out a quart
of delicious “Bay limas,” and so
on. Every can or jar that is filled
would cost a certain number of
points if bought on the market.
To put it another way, a bushel
of tomatoes in the can is worth
about 300 points, a bushel of snap
beans about 416 points, a bushel
of Limas about 456 points. A
bushel each of these three items
grown and processed at home adds
up to 1,272 points, more than
twice the quota for canned vege-
tables in Uncle Sam’s Ration Book.
This sort of home-made ration
book saves the official coupons^ for
buying a variety of processed
fruits and vegetables which cannot
be produced at home, all of which
belongs to the “home front” where
the Civilian Defense armies must
do as good a job as our boys in
uniform are doing on the world-
compassing battle fronts.
The Wisdom of Children
This Second World War is giv-
ing millions of Americans a new
slant on facts of life on which 99
per cent of the people are igno-
rant. Most of us eat by instinct
with no knowledge of food values.
Our natural appetites and the
variety of foods we have had,
give us a balanced diet in the ma-
jority of cases, without thought on
our part.
But with food shortages, ration-
ing and less food in prospect, what
we eat becomes a scientific issue
and governmental and private a-
gencies are making available facts
about food. Candy, which most
persons considered a luxury for
children and young ladies, has
been found to be an indispensable
part of the rations of our armed
forces. It is included in the field
ration, jungle ration, mountain ra-
tion, bail-out ration and numerous
other rations for soldiers and sail-
ors operating under exhausting
conditions.
Let us help you with your chick-
en house. If you are undecided
about Lhe nlansjsee us as we have
Government blue' vari-
ous st^re^^i^^i^^'i^iychicken
houses and brooders. R. B.> Spen-
cer & Co., Meridian. adv.
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CACKLES
From the Produce Hoiue
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and are not to be taken as
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Meridian’s Future Farmers of
the High School of Meridian are
brooding and raising Baby Beef
Poults this year, hatched in an
incubator and brooding artifical-
ly and rearing on screen porches
doing a great job and say it’s
easier than chix.
We are really enjoying ourselv-
es; was put behind the eight ball
several weeks ago but. the other
fellows are behindit now and
don’t know what to do about it.
Might as well be good sports as
you Dooded it and nothing much
else you can do about it for some
time to come.
Good crowd at lake opening day
and several good catches made.
However lake was rough from too
much wind and it was really work
and lots of fishermen disappointed.
According to Meridian Fishing
Queens Friday is the day that fish
will bite and brother they know.
I’ll bet on them every time.
Sam Lawson’s Hatchery is go-
ing to continue to operate on Cus-
tom hatching and Baby Chix.
Markman’s is continuing on Cus-
tom hatching. Hafer’s Hatchery
going to stay open and I am sure
Buie’s Hatchery will operate also.
Lots of people still wanting baby
chix. Demand has been greater
than the supply.
Our feed stores are keeping a
larger inventory of poultry feeds
and sure working to keep plenty
on hand. Be sure and keep at
least two weeks supply of poultry
feed on hand.
Sell your cream and eggs often
as hot weather getting here fast.
Cotton planting been going on
in a big way and we need a rain
as pastures, grain fields and gar-
dens getting a little dry. And
most farmers fussing about short-
age of help but all of them prac-
tically caught up and doing a
swell job of a real tough one.
Don’t let these points get you
down. Buy what you need and if
you have stamps left, swell; most
of you will. But your grocery
bill will go up 10 to 20 dollars a
month if you use all of your
stamps because you are afraid you
won’t be able to get your wants
later. Just be a good manager
and the points will take care of
themselves.
Eight points on butter is work-
ing a hardship on the farmer as
butter stacking up and market
weaker and lower; understand
this will be changed we hope so as
production will have to fall off
account cost of producing butter
fat will be higher than what the
producer will get out of it.
Egg receipts leveling off again
as the peak lay is over and was
the week of March 27th this year.
In fact last week’s receipts were
greater than the week before and
another 20 days should see our
hope chests full and we have filled
them to the largest volume we
have ever stored. Pity our poor
banker. Reckon everybody has
their worries.
Wonder what a military court
would do to Lewis. We under-
stand from the best information
we can obtain that he is a full
blooded Italian. Of course this
is no drawback but he had his
name changed by court order.
And we are just wondering who’s
side he is on besides his own. We
like to see labor paid what it’s
worth on an open shop program
as we think some men are worth
more than others on the same job.
Competition in work is as good as
competition in merchants and busi-
ness, it’s what makes the wheels
go round.
Reckon we must be wrong but
supply and demand is still the way
we see these markets yet.
Account of our additional cost
of operations we have raised the
price of 12% pounds of Ice at the
plant to 10c and the 25 pound
cut to 15c. All water or thermos
jugs 10c. This is in line with
adjoining towns.
Our rationing boards clicking
and you would be surprised at the
amount of work they do. Think
they should be raised about double
in pay; this would amount to
double nothing each month. It’s
a tough job, folks. It takes a lot
of their time and enegery and all
they get out of it is hard luck
stories, gripes, etc. Give this
gang a pat on the back and tell
them what a swell job they are do-
ing. You know you wouldn’t
want their job.
We want and appreciate your
surplus produce.
Let us help you with your chick-
house. If you are undecided
vwe have
)r vari-
. styles and sizes ~oT* chicken
ases and brooders. R. B. Spen-
• & Co., Meridian. adv.
For saie—200 acres, 205 acres,
233 acres. Each at $10.00 per
acre. 150 acres at $8.50. Good
stock farms at $20.00. Several
farms near Meridian. Five Ranch-
es. Lots of other places. Frank
Frazier, Morgan, Texas. 51p
Not everybody with a dollar
to spare can shoot a gun
straight—but everybody can
shoot straight to the bank and
yjkr buy War Bonds. Buy your
10% every pay day.
I brought you up here to show you
why we need more wool.
On the Home Front
Official Government Information
on The War Program
RATION REMINDER
Ration Book No. 1
COFFEE—Stamp No. 23 good
for one pound through May 30.
SUGAR—Stamp No. 12 good
for five pounds through May 31.
SHOES—Stamp No. 17 good for
one pair until June 15.
GASOLINE—Stamps No. 5 of
A-books good for four gallons
each, through May 21.
Ration Book No. 2
Blue stamps, G. H and J good
through May 31, for canned and
processed vegetables and fruits.
Red stamp G (meats, fats and
cheeses) becomes valid May 9;
H, May 16; and J, May 23. All
expire midnight May 31.
War Expenditures—1918 and 1943
In 1918 American war exendi-
tures were only 18% billion dol-
lars; in 1943 they will exceed 100
billion dollars. These figures show
sharply the difference in cost be-
tween the last war and this one.
There were four Liberty and one
Victory Loan drive: in the last war,
with a total goal of less than 19
billion dollars; but to finance the
present war the people of the
United States must raise about 70
billions dollars before the end of
this year. In that war, our, task
was chiefly to fortify a line of
trenches in France; in this war we
must equip and supply our armies
on all the far-flung battle-fields of
the world.
Meat Points Changed
Reductions on 25 items and in-
creases on 16 were point value
changes affecting meats, fats, fish
and cheese made effective May 2.
Advances largely were confined to
prime cuts of beef, veal and pork.
Reductions were in| the variety
meats, canned fish and other spec-
ial productions already having a
low ration point value.
Change In Tire Ration
Passenger car drivers with mile-
age rations exceeding 240 monthly
now are eligible for any grade of
new tire when their present cas-
ings are not recappable.
More Mileage for Workers
Seven hundred twenty miles a
month will be allowed hereafter
for in-course-of-work driving, in-
stead of the 470 miles previously
allowed. This does not change
the mileage allowed for driving
between home and work. A car
owner formerly eligible for an “B”
ration book only may qualify for
additional gasoline if he (1) shows
he needs it for course-ofwork
travel; (2) meets regular car-shar-
ing requirements; (3) shows he is
not already allowed as much as
720 miles a month.
Job Records of High School
Students
To help high school students
find their proper place in the army
(or in war industry), each one
will soon be asked to make a card
record of his school and job his-
tory. These “educational exper-
ence summary record” cards will
contain such information as A stu-
dents, academic standing and achi-
evement, vocational and preinduc-
tion preparation, wage earning ex-
perience, aptitudes, significant hob-
bies and Social Security Number.
Casualty Totals
Announced casualties of the
United States armed forces from
the out-break of the war to date
(whose next of kin have been noti-
fied) total 78,235. This total, ar-
rive at by combining War and
Navy reports, includes: dead 12,-
123; wounded 15,049; missing 40,-
435; prisoners of war 10,628.
Tire, Car, Bicycle Quotas.
The quota of new passenger car
tires of rationing in May is 1,006,-
882 compared with 1,058,000 for
April. Certificates for purchase
of these tires go to drivers whose
mileage rations exceed 240 miles
monthly and who do not have re-
cappable casings. New passenger
cards in May total 50,000 compar-
ed with an April allotment of 38,-
000. The bicycle quota for May
is 88,200, unchanged from April.
Replacements for Tractor Tires.
Replacement tires can be obtain-
ed for farm tractors when there
are no recapping facilities avai-
lable, the . OPA has announced.
Formerly, no replacements could
be had for tires which were in re-
cappable condition.
New Ceilings on Beef and Lamb.
Retail ceiling prices for beef and
lamb will be reduced one to three
cents a pound below the ceilings
originally scheduled to take effect
April 15. The new prices become
DEADLINE FOR PURCHASING
PEANUTS FOR SEED
It was pointed out earlier in the
year that a directive to the desig-
nated peanut agencies was issued
providing that seed peanuts be
made available to producers and
establishing the date May 31, 1943
as the final date for the sale of
peanuts for planting purposes.
In view of this deadline, produc-
ers are urged to buy their seed
peanuts before May 31, 1943 even
though they may wait until later
to plant them.
In any case where a producer
purchased farmers’ stock or clean-
ed peanuts under the 1943 seed
program, which are in excess of
planting needs, he may dispose of
such peanuts by returning them
to the seller from whom the pur-
chase was made. All peanuts re-
turned must be in unopened origi-
nal bags, and the returned pea-
nuts and bags must be in first-
class salable condition. Purchase
price will be refunded by the sell-
er for all surplus peanuts return-
ed as stated prior to the comple-
tion of the local planting season.
effective May 17 and will be uni-
foiun throughout the country for
stores of the same type.
More than 65,000 women must
be added to the nursing corps if
civilian health is to be maintained
in 1943. There is a drive on to
enroll qualified young women in
June in the 1,300 nursing schools
attached to the country’s leading
hospitals.
Parts For Trucks, Buses
Contrary to general opinion,
owners of trucks and buses do not
need a preference rating to buy a
replacement part. If the needed
part is not available locally, a pur-
chase order may be placed with a
dealer.
Play Shoes to Be Rationed
“Play” shoes not ordinarily used
for street wear that are manu-
factured, packaged or shipped af-
ter April 15, 1943, go back on the
rationed list. Such shoes, if they
left a factory before April 15, re-
main non-rationed, even though
they may reach consumers months
later.
Farm Cash Income Gains.
Farm cash income in Texas took
another leap upward in March, as
total income rose to 61 million dol-
lars, a gain of 70 per cent over the
same month of last year, Dr. F. A.
Buechel, University of Texas
Bureau of Business Research sta-
tistician has revealed.
During the first three months of
1943, agricultural income has a-
mounted to 169 million dollars, a
gain of 52 per cent over the 111
million received by farmers dur-
ing the same period of 1942, Dr.
Buechel reported.
During the five year base period
of 1928-1932, average cash income
during March was approximately
18 million dollars, Dr. Buechel
pointed out. The index figure for
March, 1943, was thus 342.2—a
gain of 242.3 per cent over the
average for the base period.
Nearly one-third of the state’s
farm income during March was re-
ceived in the Texas Panhandle, Dr.
Buechel said. Increased market-
ings and higher prices of livestock
—cattle, calves, hogs and- sheep—
were responsible for this gain in
income.
Two other major crops which
showed a favorable year to year
comparison were milk—income
was up 40 per cent during March
from the same month of last year
—and fruits and vegetables, which
brought in twice as much income
as in 1942.
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Washington News •
By Congressman W. R. Poage
April 30, 1943
Dear Friends:
The method of collection of the
federal income tax should have
been acted upon by the House
before this reaches you. It is still
too early to predict the result in
regard to the forgiveness or remis-
sion of taxes already due the gov-
ernment, but I think that it is safe
to assume that we will get an ex-
tension of the Victory Tax method
of collection-at - the - source. It.
seems very clear that only by col-
lecting taxes as the people earn
will it be possible for the govern-
ment to get its money or for the
people to pay. Most of us who
work for a fixed salary know from
personal experience that it is much
easier to pay an obligation weekly
or monthly out of our income than
it is to allow it to accumulate into
a large lump sum.
In the past most of our federal
income taxes were collected from
a small percent of our people.
Only those who made rather large
incomes paid income taxes. Most
of these people were engaged in
business and in the first place could
not know until the end of the year
how much they had made or what
tax obligation they owed. Grad-
ually we increased their taxes until
we now take approximately $160,-
000.00 from the man who makes
$200,000.00 per year, and we leave
only seven cents out of each dol-
lar of income to the man who mak-
es above a quarter of a million.
Keeping these rates in mind, it is
easy to see why we can’t meet the
needs of the government merely
by tax on the rich. If we took all
of the income that we leave in the
hands of the very rich today, it
would not begin to meet the needs
of the government. We must,
therefore, take smaller amounts
from a great number of citizens
whose incomes are relatively small.
Most of this great group find that
they get their money by the week
or the month. They can more
conveniently pay by a deduction
from their salaries. Of course,
this does not apply to a farmer.
Even though his income may be
small, he earns it in the way the
business man earns his, and he can-
not know what profit he has made
or what loss he has suffered until
he can sell his crop and figure up
his cost at the end of the year.
The “collection-at-the-source” can-
not, therefore, apply to most farm-
ing operations.
Another thing that should be
considered in connection with the
pending tax legislation is that if
we adopt the “Ruml Plan” which
the Republicans are proposing, we
will have remitted some seven or
eight billion dollars of obligations
now due the government, and as
I see it, it will surely have an infla-
tionary effect far greater than if
we were to raise all farm prices
to 110% of parity. This money
that would otherwise be paid to the
government in taxes will natural-
ly be added to the already execes-
sive sums of money seeking to buy
the steadily decreasing supply of
civilian conumers’ goods. Nor is
this the worst feature of such a
rebate. It will in the case of the
largest tax payers allow them to
double, triple, and even multiply
by ten their net income. Take the
example of a man who had a tax-
able income of one million dollars
in 1942. He would owe $880,-
000.00 in taxes. (The five percent
Victory Tax applies only to 1943
income.) Therefore, such a,tax
payer would under existing laws
have $120,000.00 left out of his
million, and if his income remain-
ed stationary in 1943, he would
have only $70,000.00 left at the
end of this year (because he would
be required to pay the Victory Tax
of five percent in addition to the
other taxes he had been paying)
but if he were relieved of his 1942
tax obligation (which he would
otherwise have to pay in 1943), he
would have $70,000.00 plus $880,-
000.00 or a net income in 1943 of
$950,000.00. . I know that some
of the Republicans say that they
would catch this with a “Windfall
Tax,” but why forgive the taxes
in the first place if they are going
back and collect them a second
time? Each time we collect these
taxes, it costs the government
money. Why not make up our
mind that we must pay every dol-
lar we can in taxes. I think our
people realize why the government
must have this money and are
willing to pay taxes. I hope the
Congress is not afraid to levy the
taxes needed.
Yours for Victory,
W. R. Poage, Congressman,
11th Texas District.’
St. Olaf Lutheran Church,
Cranfills Gap.
Saturday, May 8: Confirm-
ands, 10 a.m.; 3:15 p.m., Junior
Choir.
Sunday, May 9, Mother’s Day:
10 a.m., Sunday School. 11 a.m.,
Morning Worship. 8:30 p.m.,
Junior League. Hosts, The Otis
Bronstad and Chris L. Rohne fam-
ilies.
Wednesday, May 12: North
and South Aids at the church.
All-day quilting. Pot lunch and
dinner at noon.
Friday, May 14, 8:30 p.m., La-
dies Chorus.
Stars for the following were
placed on our Service Flag, Sun-
day, May 2, bringing the total to
79: Monroe Sorenson, army; O.
B. Carlson, navy; Mrs. A. J. Hayes,
WAACs; Vernon Rogstad, navy air
corps. May the Lord bless and
keep them.
A cordial invitation to worship
with us.
Benj. R. Maakestad, Pastor.
Poultry and Egg Shipments Drop.
Shipments of poultry and eggs
from Texas stations during Max’ch
were far below those of March of
last year the University of Texas
Bureau of Business Research has
revealed.
Only five carloads of chickens
and one car of turkeys were ship-
ped in March in comparison with
13% of chickens and 4% of tur-
keys during the same month of
1942.
The shell-egg equivalent of all
types of eggs shipped—shell, froz-
en, and dried—during March was
715 cars as compared with 1,305
in March of last year, the Bureau
reported.
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
CAPITOL THEATRE
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MERIDIAN, TEXAS
Thursday-Friday
May 6-7
DON AMECHE and
JOAN BENNETT
in
“Girl Trouble”
Saturday Only
May 8
THE THREE MESQUITERS
Shadows on the Sage
Sunday and Monday
May 9-10
VICTOR MATURE and
LUCILLE BALL
“Sevibii*T?fcys, Leave”
The Musm&^l^e Minute!
Tuesday and Wednesday
May 11-12
JAMES ELLISON, HEATHER
ANGEL, JOHN HOWARD
in
The Undying Monster
May 13-14
GEO. SANDERS
HERBERT MARSHALL
“The Moon and
Sixpence”
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TIPS ON CLEANER CARE
• Empty dust bag every time cleaner is
used. Dust in bag reduces suction.
• Be sure that brush is properly adjusted.
Bristles should extend about one-eighth
inch below nozzle.
• Avoid running cleaner over pins, nails,
coins and other hard objects. Pick them
up by hand.
• Coil cord loosely on hooks. Pulling too
tightly may break wires inside insula-
tion where cord bends over hooks.
• Keep brushes free from lint, hair and
threads. Clean after each use.
• If cleaner is not picking up threads,
check belt to see if it is turning brush.
Increase tension or replace belt if neces-
sary. i
• Disconnect cord by grasping plug at
outlet. Do not yank cord or you may
damage connections.
• Follow manufacturer’s instructions on
cleaning and oiling. Consult your dealer
if you have lost directions.
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