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Show Point Rationing Brings Equitable Sharing, Food Administration Officials Announce .N Enough Food for All U. S. Promised; Sub-standard Diets Said Unnecessary Even though Americans will have to have a ration book with their can opener starting next month when all canned, dried and frozen fruits and vegetables are rationed, those who live on farms and in the rural section of America will fare much better than their city dwelling friends and relatives. will be required, according to Leon Henderson, OPA director. Food administration officials have hinted that for a while the point rationing plan will be somewhat confusing. They feel, though, that the American people will be able to swing into the point purchasing plan in a minimum amount of time with but little complaint, and witn the same spirit they have shown the past year of war effort. Food Rationing List: Here are the processed foods to be rationed and the exceptions, as listed by the Office of Price Administration: Canned and bottled fruits and fruit juices (including spiced fruits) . Apples, including crabapples, applesauce, apricots, baby foods, berries, all varieties; cherries, red sour pitted, other cherries; cranberries and sauce; fruits for salad and fruit cocktail; grapefruit, grape-fruit, grapefruit juice, grape juice, peaches, pears, pineapple, pineapple juice, all other canned and bottled fruits, fruit juices, and combinations. Fruit juices in containers holding hold-ing more than a gallon are exempted. ex-empted. Canned and bottled vegetables and vegetable juices: For fresh fruits and vegetables, j and those preserved at home, will not be affected by the rationing order. or-der. Those who have hoarded canned goods will have to declare the amount of goods they have on hand. But housewives on farms, and in the rural sections of the nation who have always been more "canning conscious" than those living in the cities will reap the benefit of all their extra housework during the past summer and early fall months. But, all in all, everyone will have enough to eat, even though there will not be the usual assortment as-sortment of formerly available foodstuffs. Food Administrator Claude R. Wickard declared that nearly half of next year's production pro-duction of canned and dried fruits and vegetables will be i en different commodities. Using meat again as an example, a pound of one kind of meat might be given a value of eight points. A pound of another kind of meat, more plentiful, plenti-ful, might be given a value of six points. The more plentiful a foodstuff, food-stuff, the less point value it will be given. The government will determine deter-mine the point value of each commodity com-modity on the basis of supply and demand. As the supply or demand fluctuates, the point value can be changed accordingly. The new ration books will have stamps that are designated designat-ed as worth eight, five, two or one points. Virtually any point value can thus be computed by using this combination of stamps. When purchases are made the appropriate stamps are turned in to the dealer. The stamps besides having the point needed for military purposes. He also stated that rationing in the IT. S. does not mean substandard sub-standard diets. It is possible that eventually all food and wearing apparel will be rationed. The rationing system will ! be carried on through the new so- vaiue designated on mem win also be marked with a letter to indicate the period of time In which it may be used. This point rationing system would be similar to the system that has ? .-.0fir t f , . , & t 11 ; -4 ft I4it ll ?! t Asparagus; baby foods; beans, fresh lima; beans, green and wax; beans, all canned and bottled bot-tled dry varieties including baked beans, soaked dry beans, pork and beans, kidney beans, and lentils; len-tils; beets, including pickled; carrots; car-rots; corn; peas; sauerkraut; spinach; tomatoes; tomato catsup and chili sauce; tomato juice, all "other tomato products; all other canned and bottled vegetables, vegetable juices, and combinations. combina-tions. Vegetable juices in containers holding more than one gallon are exempt. Other processed foods: Canned soups, all types and varieties. va-rieties. Dried, dehydrated fruits: prunes, raisins, all others. Frozen fruits: cherries, peaches, strawberries, other berries, all other frozen fruits. Frozen fruits in containers holding more than 10 pounds are exempt. Frozen vegetables: asparagus, beans, lima beans, green beans, and wax beans, broccoli, corn, peas, spinach, all other frozen vegetables. Frozen vegetables in containers holding more than 10 pounds are exempt. The following additional items are exempt: Candied fruits, chili con carne, fruit cakes, fruit puddings, jams, jellies, meat stews containing some vegetables, olives, paste products (such as spaghetti, macaroni, mac-aroni, noodles) whether or not packed with added vegetable sauces, pickles, potato salad, preserves, pre-serves, relishes. mm 1 1 1 ii ii ii ii ill i ii in i i ii i ii ii i ii i mn in i t i " it nrnr vm if -nr-; w - m -n-tr- iwtafifimtmr n aw mil aim Secretary of agriculture, Claude Wickard (1.), and chief of the office of war information, Elmer Davis (r.), as they broadcast to the nation announcing the pending food rationing. been in use in England for some time. There the system is used for food as well as clothing. According to OPA officials British housewives learned to welcome point-rationing. To put the rationing system into effect more than 1,500,000 volunteers called universal ration book, or war ration book No. 2. This book is designed de-signed to handle two or three ration ra-tion programs simultaneously. Its coupons are numbered to permit the rationing of consumer items by the expenditure of an allotted number of points by each individual, rather than the coupon system as used for coffee and sugar. OPA officials explained that while the unit-coupon system works well for sugar, it cannot be used for rationing ra-tioning foodstuffs that are diversified, diversi-fied, such as meat. Using meat as an example, rationing officials showed how impossible it would be to divide the total supply on a per person basis because there are too many kinds of meat, too many cuts of each type, besides too many grades of each type and cut. Point rationing, they say, provides pro-vides an equitable share for each and every one, besides permitting per-mitting freedom of choice for the consumer. Different point values will be giv- |