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Show Ridiculous Campaign One of the most monotonous and disgusting practices of the government govern-ment 1s Its constant publicity campaign cam-paign about canning more fruit to help feed starving Europe while limiting li-miting tiie supply of sugar for canning can-ning to ten pounds per person. Before the rationing of sugar became be-came effective families In rural arias ar-ias where fruit Is produced usually canned several hundred quarts of fruit each season, providing their entire supply for the winter, making mak-ing It unnecessary to purchase enn-ned enn-ned fruits from the market. However, How-ever, under the present rationing plan, they can put up only a small per cent of the amount they need In spite of the fact that fruit Is golrg to waste all around them. Te OPA provides canning sugar to every Individual in the United States although a vast majority of them could not obtain the fruit If they did have- the desire to use the sugar su-gar for that purpose. At Hie same time fruit goes to waste each year in the producing areas and in the rural sections because sugar for canning can-ning purposes cannot be obtained. It is about time that the Wizards of Washington wake up and make sugar available to those who can and will bottle fruit, or discontinue this constant howl about canning fruit to help solve the food shortage. They are flooding the country with posters and radio ballyhoo that can i only bring contempt and disgust to I the minds of housewives to whom ' the appeals are made. |