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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Impending Sugar Shortage Necessitates Government Rationing of U. S. Supply - By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) of Time has done THE March to give us good pictures and just now not only taking good news pictures, but getting them home is quite a feat. But they have done something else; Producer Louis de Roche-moinstituted the School of Pic- nt torial Journalism, to train enlisted men of the United Nations forces in the elements of motion picture photography. Three classes have already- been graduated, and the men are engaged in gathering material in the various fighting zones making a complete and graphic picture of the war. That shampoo youll see Frank Morgan receiving at the hands of Spencer Tracy, John Garfield and others in Tortilla Flat was done with a mixture of melted soap flakes and flour. The scene had , to be filmed four times, because when theyd get the stuff spread over Morgans head and into his ears, eyes and mouth somebody would begin to laugh. And Morgand been told it was a dignified role! - Tarzans New Adventure has been chosen as the title for the new Tarzan film, with Johnny Weismul- - Citizens Must Apply For Ration Books Early in May. Sugar cant swim! Whether you take one lump or two, this is the primary reason why War Ration Book No. 1, to be issued by the Office of Price Administration, will cover sugar. Sugar beet is cultivated in no less than 19 American states from Ohio to the Pacific coast. Cane sugar is produced in Florida and Louisiana. Yet, less than 29 of our sugar requirements were raised within the bounds of this country. More than 71 came to the United States from After the first registration, latecomers may obtain their ration books from local rationing boards after a period following the May 7 registration. Those away from home may register in the nearest elementary school if they know the number of their local rationing two-we- ek 4-- Building a Rock Garden board. Provisions for Preserving, Canning. Special provisions will be made to provide householders with sugar for home preserving and canning, certain persons who have it for medicinal reasons, and for farmers, ranchers, etc., who customarily buy sugar in bulk for use over prolonged periods. One thing is certain. Rationing is necessary, but a sugar shortage is all a matter of what country you live in. Prospective per capita UnitAh watch it! Twos enough. Two ed States consumption (including industrial use) may run as high as will do instead of the usual three. 77 pounds. Compare this with nora per day basis... Bemal, peacetime per capita consump- on cause of blackouts, night operations area. tion in all other lands during the are unlikely this year. Retention of Cuba is famed as the sugar 1937-3- 8 season. It was less than 31 all relatively clear shipping lanes bowl of the world. But in 1941 pounds per capita. the period preliminary to the during There are many drains upon no more than one-thiof our full, peak re-- , of our marshalling Americas sugar supplies. Cuba also sources for the maximum offensive 7.989.000 ton deliveries came must supply our Allies, countries effort also is a controversial point. from that country. which formerly drew heavily upon All these factors call for careful the Ukraine and sources Java Puerto Rico supplied us with husbanding but not hoarding of about 16 per cent of our sugar last which are not now productively sugar supplies. year. Hawaii and the Philippines available to them. Russia, which In 1941, some 5,641,000 tons of sugeach sent us nearly an equal per- counted on a good share of the 1942 ar used in this country came from centage. The small balance came Philippine crop, now must rely upon areas. This year, possisome Cuban from the Virgin Islands, Peru and supplies arriving by bly a maximum of 3,315,000 tons will other miscellaneous and outlying way of Archangel, if possible. show up from such points. sources. In addition, a large amount of CuOne must picture this sugar probban sugar will be Required this year War in the Pacific, Axis submain terms of shipping and the lem morine action in Atlantic and Carib- for the manufacture of high-teneed for space on the competitive from lasses which alcohol be can bean waters and necessarily curboats for other materials, in either tailed shipping has interrupted the made for war needs. In 1941 the the raw or finished form. more of than 1,300,000 equivalent sugar supply column from these off- tons .When War Broke Out. of Cuban sugar was used for shore areas. this purpose. A slightly larger When the war broke out in SepRegister May 4, 5, 6 and 7. amount may be needed for this use tember, 1939, there were 69,440,000 So Mr. and Mrs. America will regduring 1942, particularly for explo- - gross tons of world merchant ship- ister for ration books at their local elementary schools May 4, 5, 6 and 7. Industrial concerns, wholesalers, retailers, grocers, .restaurants and hotels already have .registered. From April 28 until the second day after individual registration begins, all sugar sales have been suspended throughout the nation, OPA has announced. Services of approximately 1,400,-- . 000 registrars and facilities of some 245.000 elementary- - schools will be employed in the rationing procedure. In addition, work of the registrars will be. supplemented by more than 7,500 local rationing boards, with a membership of some 23,000. A registration card and ration book containing 28 stamps will be issued for every man, woman and child in the country, with the exception of members of the armed forces, inmates of institutions, persons temporarily or permanently in hospitals, convalescent homes, etc., and persons with hoards so large to disqualify them. Each household will be allowed to have on hand two pounds of sugar for each person at registration. Hoarders will be penalized, either by not getting a book at all or by having from one to eight stamps Here is the final step in the sugar industry before you see it on your tom from their books before they table at home, or in the restaurant. This is one of the many storage cenreceive them. Carry the book to ters throughout the nation where sugar is kept until it is rationed out. your grocer. The stamp must be torn out in the store keepers pres- sives and for other war require- ping (vessels of 100 tons and over). ence and detached stamps will not ments. At the end of 1939, vessels of 2,000 be accepted. Best posted sugar trade and Wash- tons and over (representing most of g bottoms) totaled Stamps will be numbered for pur- ington quarters recently added up the gross tons. chases in a specified period and the tote for the 1942 sugar barrel. The United States total was 7,880,-00- 0 when the time limit is reached the The result was an estimate of some tons. However, only 2,094,000 stamp will be voided. In this man- 5.515.000 short tons available from d less tons of the American merchant maner no one can save or hoard-sta-mps all points or roughly than the amount used last year. rine were used for foreign comfor use at a later date. In 1941 our mainland sugar, pro- merce, the remainder working in One adult must register for each family unit, although the head of the ducers (beet and cane combined) coastal and intercoastal shipping family may register for all family managed to account for 2,348,000 and on the Great Lakes. Some of members. Servants, lodgers and oth- short tons. We can count on only these ships doubtless have been ers who may live in a household, 2.200.000 short tons from them this pressed into service on longer hauls, must register individually. General- year. It certainly is not that pro- where possible. Furthermore, new merchant marine construction is ly speaking, a family unit consists ducers here lack price incentive of persons related by blood or mar- since the OPA ceiling level for raw perking up and, according to best available, by the end of riage and living and eating under sugar 3.74 cents per pound New estimates 1942 construction of new shipping is York, cost and freight duty paid the same roof. is the most attractive that has pre- expected to proceed at the annual rate of nearly 2,500,000 gross tons. vailed since 1929. Beet Sugar Shortage. Translated into terms of sugar, However, distribution of beet sug- shipping is a most important factor. ar from domestic areas will fall The general freighter working the short of the 1941 figure as there are Cuban run averages some 4,000 tons smaller inventories to draw on than and can carry about 4,000 tons of existed a year ago. Sugar beet sugar as its cargo. It can make processing starts in the fall. While about nine trips per year. In other words, each average freighter can to the utfarmers will most with the U. S. department of account for roughly 36,000 tons of agriculture supply pro- sugar providing it carries nothing gram, there- are definite limitations else in its homeward bound cargo. To carry the 1,285,000 tons indicaton the quantity of new crop sugar that can be delivered to users be- ed for Cuban shipments to the Unitfore year-ened States in raw sugar form, thereour domestic Admittedly, sugar fore, would require the services of supply arm may be improved ma- 36 ships, of 144,000 tons total. Add terially in 1943. As on offset, how- about 120,000 tons in shipping tonever, the calculations have taken nage needed to bring in the Puerto into account such supShes a young n, all right. But ply items as frozen stocks, as well Rican crop and without any other points we would tie up she knows how to lop down the sugar as 500,000 tons estimated to come cane. In her spare time she also through from Hawaii. Effects of more than 10 per cent of our entire likes to chew on some of the stalks, the war on shipping, labor and har- ocean - hauling merchant marine for they make good tasting sugar vesting will make their imprint. Or- (based on 1939 tonnage estimate) . sticks. dinarily, Hawaiian sugar is ground for sugar needs alone. - ' ? , off-sho- 24-ho- ur re rd off-sho- re st , JOHNNY WEISMULLER ler and Maureen OSullivan. In it Tarzan buys himself a wardrobe and has exciting adventures away from his jungle home. SS 1 Tom McGuire is now selling newspapers inside Grand Central station, for good pay. Forty-eigyears ago he sold them outside the station, for pennies. The reason is that then he was a newsboy, just over from Ireland now hes an actor, in The Major and the Minor. ht When Les Newkirk, manager of the West theater at Trinidad, Colo., il package from opened an of stumped. sort he was Hollywood It contained a record of greetings from Hollywood to the town, to be reproduced through the theaters loud speaker when Two Yanks in Trinidad was first shown and it was in little pieces. Newkirk called Hollywood, the pictures star, on location with the "Hes My Old Man troupe, and OBrien talked directly to the audience. air-ma- Which scenes do you remember best from Gone With the Wind? A survey reveals that most people recall (1) Atlanta burning; (2) the thousands of wounded soldiers lying at the depot; (3) Sdarletts fall downstairs;. (4) Scarlett shooting the Yankee soldier; (4) Rhett Butlers sayIts ing I dont give a damn. drawing crowds for the third time in New York; seems as if it will go on forever. Kate Smith has begun her fifth year of broadcasting Kate Smith her daily commentator Speaks, program. Its originated from hotels, theaters, restaurants, railroad whistle stops, wherever she happened to be once, lately, front her mothers living room. Shep Fields and his new orchestra have just completed a musical short subject for Columbia Pictures; titled Lightning Strikes Twice, it traces his rise as a bandleader, and his switch to a brassless band and new' success. His wife and his baby Jo Anfi, have daughter, prominent roles in the film, which will be released nationally soon. two-year-o- ld sea-goin- one-thir- all-o- ut - d. Soldiers and sailors are sure to have a chance to win that $64 on the Take It or Leave It broadcasts; Quizmaster Phil Baker has added a third glass bowl of numbers to the one for men and the one for women, just for them, and contestants numbers are drawn from each, in turn. This was one of the first major programs to set aside a block of seats for service men.J 'f non-recurri- off-shor-e 00 . Variously known as a rock garden or a rockery, any portion of garden, farmstead, or suburban lot which yields readily to landscaping with rocks, with a bit of water, and with plants suited to such locag tions, is a delight to the true gardener. The chief problem with which the gardener must deal, in this connection, is that of deciding just which plants are most likely to succeed under the existing conditions. No plants can be used for rockeries in all parts of the country; plants must be selected for the particular locality in which they are to be grown. CHOOSING THE SITE If happens, sometimes, that the gardener says, deliberately, I will now construct a rock garden, and does so from the ground up, as one might say. As a rule, however, some contour of the land, some characteristic of soil or background, or some rocky outcrop provides both the incentive to the project and the basis for all calculations. If no such motivating factor exists, and if the rockery must be made from the ground up, then great care must be used and the maximum of good taste exercised to make sure that the result has a natural and informal apnever-endin- pearance. ROCK WALLS Quarried stones, or angular field stones can often be used to bolster up an artificial bank, with very natural-lookin- g if stones results, particularly are chosen which have weathered surfaces. An accepted authority on the building of rockeries states that if there is a gentle slope to the land, a row of stones may appropriately be placed at the bottom of the slope, leaving spaces between the stones two or three times as wide as the stones themselves; other stones may then be placed behind these spaces, back far enough to hold the soil at a desired slope. Stones should not be of uniform size; the more irregular the finished outline, the more attractive. THE SOIL FOR THE ROCKERY While the rock structure is being placed, soil suited to the plants to be grown should be placed behind the rocks and between them; if the rock garden is a natural formation it will still be advisable to fill in with a good garden soil. In the northeastern part of the United States, and especially in shady and moist formations, leaf mold and good friable soil are desirable. Frequently, in open, sunny locations, limestone chips may be better than soil, and sand and coal ashes are sometimes desirable. It is essential to decide what plants are to be used, before the soil is placed, if the gardener is not to be disappointed in the outcome. CHOOSING THE PLANTS Since the rock garden is a permanent installation, permanent plants are generally used, although it may be necessary to use annuals at first to secure a quick result. As a matter of fact, it may be desirable to use a few annuals each year, to vary and enliven the rockery. Plants of first importance in a rockery are varieties, though this term is relative, since what seems a plant on a rugged hillside would not seem so in a terrain of gentler acclivities. In choosing plants, it is well to look about in surrounding country since native plants will adapt themselves better and look more natural than will imported species. Two large groups of plants the Sedums and the Sempervivums provide many of the kinds suitable to be grown among rocks; most of them are hardy and will adapt themselves to wide ranges of temperature. n The of the Sempervivums, which grow in clusters or rosettes, are the various houseleeks such as the ; among the commonest of the Sedums which trail over the rocks and along rock crevices, are stonecrops, low-growi- low-growi- best-know- gold-mos- s, love-entangl- false houseleeks and liveforevers. The perennial alyssums are also adapted to a wide range of country. Other favorites are phloxes, dwarf irises, and many of the columbines. For shaded situations, one may plant forgetmenots, bluebells, primroses, saxifrages, bellflowers and ferns; for sunny places, especially in northeastern United States, bellflowers may be chosen, or pinks, together with green candytuft, lavender and speedwells. In dry regions, cacti are naturally indicated. low-growi- For further information. tend Bro cent! to Superintendent of Document, Washington, D, C asking for LeaBet No. 90, entitled Roekeriea. |
