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Show Reasons Given for Food Ration; Faculty Assists in Paper Work "Why do we ration food " This is the question in the mind of many people as we start the new point rationing system this month. We Must Share With Our Fighting Men The biggest reason is that sharing shar-ing all food and meat with men in the armed forces is necessary to "keep 'em fighting". All the food that we send them is processed. pro-cessed. That is it is canned, dried, frozen. This cuts down our supply sup-ply at home of these kinds of food. A soldier eats much more food than he would in civilian life. Also, much of it is lost because of submarines. sub-marines. We Must Share What Is Left The food that is not needed by , the soldiers and sailors must be divided di-vided among us all here at home. The people who make less money need good food just as badly as the bank presidents. We must all stay healthy to win this war. The reasons in a "Nut-shell" are that we must give our fighting men all they need, and then share the remainder. The groups on duty at various schools were organized into teams. Over each team was a representative representa-tive titled "Lieutenant". Heading the schools work was another individual indi-vidual called a "Captain" to whom a great deal of responsibility was given. Commendation Due These people, one and all, should be given a great deal of commendation. commend-ation. Comparing the number of people on duty issuing books and the number getting them and the time concerned, the enormous job of issuing the O.P.A.'s "Regulator" is understood. Mrs. Moss L. Egbert Eg-bert is captain in the absence of Mrs. Stephen T. Gil more of South P.T.A. "The public seems to appreciate ap-preciate the emergency and we have had little if any trouble throughout the week," she said. And how is your good wife, Sultan? Oh, she's all right. But the other 99 are more fun. Last week various members of the South faculty were engaged, along with elementary school teachers, P.T.A. representatives and volunteers from the populace in i ssuing O.P.A.'s War Ration Book No. 2. |
