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Show Patriots Support Rationing The OPA is moving to tighten control over ration currency by establishing verification centers throughout the country. These will receive ration coupons, count and examine them for counterfeits counter-feits and evidence of abuses. It is admitted that ration banks, which have attempted to do this work, have been overburdened, but several types of evasions have been discovered and special efforts will be made to eliminate them. There are reports of the use of counterfeit coupons, especially in regard to sugar, which is in demand for illegitimate distilling, distill-ing, and gasoline, where the use of countrfeit coupons has developed devel-oped into a major wartime racket. The OPA will continue to require re-quire endorsement of coupons, thus tracing delivery to a dealer, and a scientific screening will be used to detect bogus coupons. Deposits of coupons will be checked to insure accuracy and proper endorsement. If unendorsed, unen-dorsed, invalid or counterfeit coupons are discovered, the dealers deal-ers will be required to make them good. While it is probably inevitable that a nation with as many people peo-ple as there are in the United States should have a percentage of chiselers and cheaters, the frauds and abuses that have developed de-veloped in the rationing system are a reflection upon the patriotism patriot-ism of the American people as a whole. We call attention to the new plan for the benefit of the people peo-ple of Sanpete Valley in the hope that it will serve two purposes: (1) Encourage patriotic Americans Ameri-cans to abide by rationing regulations regu-lations and (2) discourage the small minority of selfish, unco-oprative unco-oprative individuals from attempting at-tempting to take advantage of other citizens. It is vitally necessary that the rationing programs work effec-tivly. effec-tivly. The success of our war effort ef-fort may well depend upon the proper handling of available supplies sup-plies and their distribution upon a just basis. Every time an individual in-dividual gets more than his, or her, share, the war economy suffers, suf-fers, the reserve pool is unfairly darined and the possibility of increased quotas becomes more diffcult. Compared with the sacrifice and privations of our fighting men, the American citizen on the home front has been asked to do very little in this war. The Government has levied no capital tax to finance the struggles which, if successful will preserve and protect property rights. It has definitely requested specific spe-cific cooperation in the use of certain cer-tain scarce commodities, establishing estab-lishing fair and just rules for their distribution. Cartainly, the home front patriot cannot do less than cheerfully cooperate in this respect. |