davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1942-02-19

Racing N News
Todoys Results Entries and Selections for Tomorrow
Rossvun's Comment
Selections for q Fast Track at HioIeoh Park
FIRST RACE-BIT OF NERVE,
sBLACK g RIP, AK r. o N
TOWN

BEST BET-MICHIGAN SUN.
Evening star., 1942-02-19
HiuIeuh Park
~ the Associated Press.

entry.
b D. NJ. Davis and H. D. Cornell entry.
SECOND RACE-Purse $1,000; claim.
ing; 3-year-olds; 6 furlonEs
Evening star., 1942-02-19

TOWN. .,
BIT OF NERVE, q chestnut
colt from the Bradley barn, has
been working in q manner that
indicates he might be hard to
trim first time out In the opener.
BLACK GRIP has a good post
position and two good seconds to
his credit. AKRONTOWN usu-
ally gets into trouble. Should go
well here.
Evening star., 1942-02-19
Stinson

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1942-02-19
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK, Feb 10 P,.-National
Association Securities Dealers. Inc:
Evening star., 1942-12-28

however, that every one will not
get as much of every kind of food
as he or she wants There may not
be as much pleasure in eating, but
just the same there will be enough
for an adequate and healthy diet.
AS part of the Nations wartime
food program, we should have a
well-planned nutrition program.
Malnutrition is not altogether
matter of poverty. Sometimes it is
a matter of ignorance. In this as
in other phases of the program, the
Government and the people must
cooperate. Britain already has
demonstrated that an effective
food program can mean a rise in
the dietary standards of the people
as whole. even though there is a
reduction in total food supplies.
All in ALL British people are bet
ter fed now than before the war
began and it is because they are
dividing their supplies better than
they did in the past. The nations
of the future must see to 1t that
their people have enough of the
right kinds of food to eat. We have
made beginning toward this end,
Now is the time to go farther.
l realize that this entire food
program is something comparatively
new to all of you. We never have
fought global war before, either.
I am depending on you to make the
program a success. With your sup
port I do not see how we can fail.
For many of us here at home the
battle of food offers our greatest
opportunity to contribute most
directly to winning the war. I am
confident that you will make the
most Of this opportunity.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Rationing Of Canned Food
In Canada Uncertain %
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Dec. 28.-Food Admin
istrator j. G. Taggart said last
night it was impossible to predict
whether the rationing of canned
and dried fruits would become nec-
essary in Canada, but that no defl-
mite plans for such rationing have
been made.
Commenting on the announce
ment in Washington that all
canned, dried and frozen fruits and
vegetables would be rationed as Soon
as the necessary machinery could
be established, Mr. Taggart said
the rationing of these goods in
Canada might possibly become nee
essary. but that the Dominion's po-
sition in this respect differed widely
from that obtaining in the United
States. OF
The United States dries large
quantities Of fruits and vegetables
and is one Of Canada's principal
sources for such commodities.
However, the Canadian government,
through the Prices Stability Corp,
mas control over these supplies at
the source and "can move quickly,
If necessary" Mr.. Taggart sid.
Meantime. the government was
watching the situation closely.
Evening star., 1942-12-28

The official description of the va
rious kinds of processed foods and
vegetables to be covered by the new
rationing program and the compare
lively few excepted items reads as
follows:
United States Of America,
Office of Price Administration.
Schedule of Processed Foods.
From the effective date of ration
order No. l3, the following processed
fruits and vegetables will be subject
to the regulations for rationing
processed foods:
I. Canned and bottled fruits and
fruit juices including spiced fruits),
apples, including crabapples; apple
sauce, apricots, baby foods, berries,
all varieties; cherries, red sour
pitted, cherries. other: cranberries
and sauce, fruits for salad and fruit
cocktail. grapefruit. grapefruit juice,
grape juice, peaches. pears, pine
apple, pineapple juice.
Canned and Bottled
Vegetables and Juices.
All other canned and bottled fruits.
fruit juices and combinations
II. Canned and bottled vegetables
and vegetable juices.
Asparagus, baby foods, beans, fresh
lima; beans, green and wax; beans,
all canned and bottled dry varie-
ties, including baked beans, soaked
dry beans, pork and beans. kidney
beans and lentils; beets, including
picked; carrots, corn. peas, sauer-
kraut, spinach. tomatoes, tomato
catsup and chilli sauce. tomato Juice,
tomato products. all others; all other
canned and bottled vegetables, vege-
table juices and combinations.
II. Other processed foods.
Canned soups: All types and va
rieties.
Dried dehydrated fruits: Prunes,
raisins, all others.
Frozen fruits: Cherries, peaches
strawberries. other berries, all other
frozen fruits.
Frozen vegetables: Asparagus,
beans, lima; beans, green and wax;
broccoli, corn, peas. spinach, all
other frozen vegetables.
List Of Certain Items
That Aren't Included.
The following items are not in
cluded:
| Candied fruits, chilli con carne
frozen fruits in containers over 1C
pounds. frozen vegetables in con-
tainers over 10 pounds, fruit cakes
fruit juices in containers over one
gallon, fruit puddings, jams, jellies
meat stews containing some vege-
tables, olives, paste products-suct
as spaghetti. macaroni, noodles
whether or not they are packed with
added vegetable sauces: pickles, po-
tato salad, preserves. relishes. vege-
table juices in containers over one
| gallon.
Embraced in the broad categories
Of rationed items are more than zoe
kinds of fruits and vegetables, juices
and soups. and a great variety o1
brands, grades and sizes and shapes
Of containers.
! The mechanics Of their purchase
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Administrator Says Nations
Diet Will Still Be Best in World
Cites Figures on Anticipated Larger
Farm Production in Coming Yeor

would face much stronger German
Army some time in the future.
The food we are sending to the
British is helping to keep their
armies strong and to keep their war
production going at full speed. Gen.
Montgomery men who chased Gen.
Rommel across North Africa ate a
lot of American food.
Next year our armed forces and
our fighting Allies will need about a
quarter of all the food that we pro-
| duce.
Incomes Are Greater
For Many People.
! OF course, we are furnishing our
armed forces and Allies more OF
some foods than of others. We are
sending largely the products that
are high in concentrated food value
that ship easily and keep we'll
foods like meat, fats, dried fruits
vegetables, milk and eggs. Conse-
| quently here at home we will need
| to eat more of some foods than we
! have been eating IN the past and less
of others.
The food situation can change
pretty rapidly, as we have learned
in the past year. Unexpected de-
mands are always cropping up, anc
| bad weather may change your sup
ply picture Farmers and process
sors may work harder than ever ir
! 1943 and yet produce less because
| of poor weather, scarce labor anC
other factors beyond their control
Another thing to take into account
is the amount of food people woule
buy if they could buy all they
wanted. Quite a few people are
earning more money now than they
have ever earned in their lives
They can't spend it for new auto.
mobiles, radios, refrigerators, or the
like. The are buying more food.
Some are buying more food thar
they need. This, together with the
demand for the armed services anc
our Allies, and. some price differ.
ences among different areas, eX-
plains the local shortages you heal
people talking about. 1t explain!
why many families won't get all o1
every kind of food they want to buy
But that doesn't mean we will be
poorly fed. At present-assumine
that we meet production goals anc
that military and lease-lend needs
stay in line with present estimates
it looks as if we will have a civilian
Evening star., 1942-12-28

| laxed until one of two things occurs
either we have won a complete
victory or until the men who have
most carefully studied this food
problem should come to the con-
clusion that there is some better
method than rationing for using the
American food supply as a weapon
to win the war.
So far, nobody has found a bet
ter method, or as good a method
for the purpose OF rationing is to
insure that everybody gets his fair
share, and that the health and
strength of the American people are
maintained.
Food is a weapon in all wars, but
in this one more than usual. The
enemy has used it as a weapon,
negatively-looting the conquered
peoples OF their food supply, and
giving back to them just enough to
keep them alive-indeed not always
even that much; hoping to break
their spirit. and when that endeavor
failed, hoping to weaken them phys
ically, so that they could make less
resistance to their oppressors. We
are using our food supply as a
weapon. positively; so distributing it
that the American Army and Navy,
and the American people, will be
we'll nourished: yes, and so that the
armies of our Allies will be kept
strong, too.
Food Is Weapon That Can
Bring Speedier Victory.
Fortunately, food is weapon that
we have more of than anybody else,
but that doesn't mean that we can
afford to waste it. We must use it
as intelligently and as efficiently as
we can, to bring about a speedier
victory. This is not a new idea; in
the case of some other commodities,
the American people have thorough
ly accepted it. Steel, for instance,
Is also a weapon of which we have
more than anybody else; but that
doesn't mean that we waste it, or
let anybody at all have much of
1t as he wants.
There are plenty of civilian needs
for steel, but everybody has accept
ed the principle that our steel pro-
ductlon must be controlled and ra-
toned, SO that it can be effective
weapon for winning the war. Now,
OF course, the two commodities are
not on the same footing; the civilian
need of food is more general and
more continuous and more urgent
than the civilian need of steel.
But the principle is the same for
both weapons-namely, how our
abundant supply can best be en-
ployed to serve the interest of all of
uSfi to serve the national interest.
whose first demand is complete and
total victory in war which we shall
all win together or all lose together.
1t only makes sense to use our
national assets in the way that
seems most likely to win it as soon
as possible.
We Have Best Fed Army
And Navy in the World.
But why does the greatest food
producing country in the world have
to so deal with its food supply that
we civilians at home cannot get as
much of some foods as we want,
even though we shall be able to get
plenty of all foods put together?
Well, of course, the first demand
on our food supply is that of our
armed forces, which are constantly
increasing in size. We have the
best fed Army and Navy in the
world; and l dv not believe there
Evening star., 1942-12-28

DV the PUBIC under the program
are simple.
With few minor exceptions, such
as individuals living in institutions,
every member of the civilian popu-
lation from the newborn infant to
the oldest inhabitant will have
exactly the same number of points
to spend during each ration period
These periods will be announced in
advance.
Point Values to Be Alike
In All Stores in Nation.
Point values will be identical In
every store in the country and a
housewife may shop for the family
in any store she likes.
The new point currency" for proc
essed foods will be represented by
the blue stamps in war ration book
two, which contains both red and
blue stamps. There are a total of
96 blue stamps and numeral on
the face of each shows its point
value. Each stamp also bears a
letter OF the alphabet. These letters
designate the ration period when
stamps may be used.
For example. all blue stamps
bearing the letters A and B or A
through F. or any other combina-
ton might be designated for use
during specific period. Since each
letter of the alphabet appears on
stamps totaling 16 points-one 49,
and "5," one o." and one 1.-THE
letters made valid in any one period
determine the number of points that
may be spent to buy the rationed
foods. If only A and B stamps were
validated only 80 points could be
spent during the first ration period
while If stamps marked A through
F were designated the holder would
have 96 points to spend.
There are three important facts
to be remembered in this connec-
ton:
l. The total number of points that
will be allotted to each civilian has
not yet been determined, nor has
the specific point value of any OF
the foods to be rationed. Points will
be set for each commodity accord
ing to its supply at the time the
ration period is announced.
Scarce Items Will Use
Up Points Much Faster.
2. Possession of points merely en-
titles you to buy your share. You
must pay for the rationed mer-
chandise, as usual, in dollars anc
cents.
3. The housewife has complete
freedom of choice She can spene
her points any way she wishes, al.
though, of course, the items that art
scarce will have a higher poin
value, and hence. will use up hel
points faster.
Food stores will be required tt
display prominently an official OPA
poster showing point values of tn,
various kinds of rationed foods &C.
cording to container size. As poin
values are changed to reflect tn,
shifting supply situation new post
ers will be issued
| 1t Is not expected that 1t will b'
Evening star., 1942-12-28
)avis and Wckard Statements on Raonng Plans

range Of vegetables, housewives can
use their coupons for the particular
kinds of food they like best. AS
many of you know, the point system
OF rationing is now being used very
successfully in England.
Confident Americans
Won't Resort to Hoarding.
Pending the time when the pro-
gram goes into effect. am con-
fident that Americans will have the
common sense and patriotism not
to hoard dried fruits and canned
fruits and vegetables or any other
food for that matter. If you want
to help the Axis, one of the best
ways is to hoard food.
Also, it will be matter Of selfish
interest not to hoard. for you will
be required to declare all of the
supplies of rationable goods you
have on hand. Excess stocks will
be deducted from your ration al
lowance. This part Of the program,
of course, is designed to protect the
overwhelming majority who always
want to play fair. I do want to
explain that home-canned fruits
and vegetables will not be counted
as part of your excess stocks.
Retail food dealers can do q lot.
too, to see that none of their con-
| sumers try to hoard supplies be-
! tween now and the time the freeze
| takes effect. Already retail grocers
have done a splendid Job Of hand
| ling difficulties of distributing food
/ in wartime I know we can count
on them to continue their service
by helping to see that all of their
customers are treated fairly and
that no customers are allowed to
buy more than they usually buy.
| In spite of the tremendous de-
mand for American food, the food
available for civilian consumption
in 1943 will more than meet the
nutritive standards set up by the
National Research Council and other
groups composed of nutrition
scientists.
mere VIII De EHOukH
For Healthy Diet.
Each persons share Of the prob
able supply will contain more
calories of food energy than the
councils standards call for, con-
siderably more protein. more iron,
more vitamin A. more thiamine and
a good deal more ascorbic acid. The
only nutrients we will have less than
the standards require are calcium.
niscin and ribofavin.
The names of some Of these nu-
trients may not mean a lot to all
housewives, but when you translate
them into terms of meat. fruit. veg
etables and so forth, they will be
familiar.
! 1 think I might as well tell you,
Evening star., 1942-12-28

the public to see to it that there
shall be an absolute minimum of
maldistribution through boarding
and scare ouying of processed food
products before rationing goes into
effect.
Heavy Penalties
For False Declarations.
Registration for war ration book
two will provide for consumer
declaration" of all commercially
processed fruits and vegetables in
the individuals possession and
stamps will be deducted accordingly
before the ration book is issued.
Heavy penalties are provided for
any applicant who makes a false
declaration of the amount of goods
he has on hand. Home canned and
processed foods are exempt from
this declaration.
The point system of rationing-
similar to that being used in Eng
land-has been adopted as the
simplest and most effective method
for distributing the wide variety OF
canned and processed foods.
To assure successful operation OF
the system, the public will have to
be acquainted thoroughly with point
rationing. 1t is at this point that
the newspapers. radio and motion
pictures and other media OF COM
munication with the public can be
of inestimable service by providing
the opportunity for the most thor
ough public education before the
system becomes effective.
Because of the need for this un-
derstanding, the necessity that the
entire food industry as well as the
consuming public understand all
phases of this project, we must an.
nounce the ration program before
it can be put into operation. The
utmost confusion would follow were
we to start the rationing program
without sufficient time to inform the
public and the trade of their re-
sponsibihties and of the mechanics
of the plan.
Appeals to All Citizens
To Show Fair Play.
For that reason we are appealing
to every citizen to understand first,
that he must play fair with the
Nations food supply; second, that
there is no justification for rushing
out to the nearest grocery and stock
ing up; third, that whatever foods
to be rationed which he has on hand
he will have to declare before getting
a ration book
Ratloning will be preceded by a
brief suspension Of retail sales so
that retailers may have an oppor-
tunity to prepare for operations
under the program. Issuance of new
war ration books will take place
during this period and upon the
effective date of the program re-
tailers should be in a position to
honor ration stamps for all con-
Sumers.
Very few commercially processed
fruits and vegetables will be exempt
from the rationing regulations
whether in the retail store or already
in the cupboard Of consumer.
Evening star., 1942-12-28

food supply about as big as We had
in the last half of the l930s.
Here Are Prospects
For Some of Our Foods.
Dairy products-9O to 95 per cent
as much per capita for our civilian
population in 1943 as was consumed
in the 1935-1939 period.
Meats-10O to 105 per cent of the
1935-1939 period.
Poultry-150 to 100 per cent.
Eggs-9O to 95 per cent.
Potatoes-95 to 100 per cent
Fresh citrus fruits-l25 to 100 per
cent.
Fresh vegetables-9O to 95 per
cent.
Cereals supplies, We
can have all that we want to eat.
In general, then, we can be fairly
we'll satisfied with the prospects for
food supplies But We must be
deeply concerned about food distri-
button.
The success or failure of our war
time food program depends on how
we'll we divide our supplies. If we
divide them better, we as a nation
can be better fed than in recent
years. If we divide them badly. we
are going to be in lots of trouble.
That is why I have been putting so
much emphasis on rationing as part
of our program for food.
Although we have a comprehen-
sive food program operating today,
including rationing of foods such
as sugar and coffee. we need to go
still further in regard to rationing,
Now let me tell you some of the
reasons for the rationing of can
ned fruits and vegetables. for they
illustrate in a way the reasons for
rationing any food.
Canned Goods Needed
Most BY Fighting Men.
Canned fruits and vegetables, and
dried fruit are among the foods
most needed by our fighting men
and Allies. Next year half our pro-
duction of dried fruit will go abroad
to save shipping space. Nearly half
our production of canned fruits and
vegetables will go to our boys in the
service, mainly in this country. Now
our production of processed fruits
and vegetables is larger than it ever
has been. Even so, after taking out
large quantities for our armed
| forces, we have available for
civilians just little more than half
of the amount they have been US
ing in recent years.
! Mr.. Davis already has explained
why we are announcing rationing
of fruits and vegetables so far ahead
of the date it will 60 into effect.
Every Government agency con-
cerned feels strongly that all ra-
tioning programs should go into
effect just as soon as possible after
| they are announced. In this case
however, we are dealing with new
kind of rationing, and 1t will take
a little longer than usual to get
this program into operation.
This method we are going to use
the points system-is the best one
I know for getting the Job done and
still giving the greatest range Of
| choice to both consumers and gro-
GERS. AS it applies to the greatest
Evening star., 1942-12-28
Hoarder Cheats
Himself, Too.

necessary to announce changes In
a month.
The point system is considered
the simplest practical method of
rationing so diverse group of COM
modities. The rationing of coffee
ana sugar is comparatively easy be-
cause we are dealing with single
commodities. one stamp for pound
of coffee or a bag of sugar.
But in distributing broad groups
of foodstuffs with all of the kinds.
brands. container sizes and grades
involved the problem becomes much
more complex. These products are
largely interchangeable as far as
their use is concerned. If we can't
buy canned beans we buy canned
peas or carrots or some other vege-
table.
Point System Makes
For Freedom of Choice.
The point system makes this free
dom of choice possible, The over
all ration is determined by taking
into account all supplies of all the
things that are alike, and largely
| inter -changeable one for the other,
and dividing the total supply
equally.
The stamps in war ration book
two are the "rationing currency" you
spend under the point system. If
you can restrict your buying largely
to the things that have low point
values, you will get more for your
stamps.
There are three main points the
consumer should remember about
war ration book two.
l. The color of the stamps (there
are both red and blue) identifies the
rationed commodities. Blue for the
processed foods program. Red will
be used later for meats.
2. The letter of the alphabet on
the stamp designates the ration
period during which the stamp may
be used. These periods will be
announced In advance.
| D. LIE IluIIlUcI Oll IIlc SLdIIlp ID
it's point value.
The storekeeper uses the point
stamps he collects to buy from his
supplier with complete freedom of
choice. He can use points taken in
for corn, for example, to buy aspara-
gus, or any other of the rationed
items, according to the requirements
of his business.
The supplier, in turn, uses the
stamps to buy from the Gamer. or
from another supplier-again with
the same freedom of choice.
Since the point values are the
same in every store throughout the
Nation. the retailers business in
these rationed foods will be
limited only by the point value of
the stamps he takes in from his
customers. This, plus his freedom
Of choice in restocking rationed
foods, maintains competition in the
trade.
The point system requires a mini
mum Of record keeping on the part
Of the storekeeper.
Evening star., 1942-12-28
1043 Nutrition able


This table appended the
address last night shows the value of
OF the civilian l943
National Council
l9361940 period and the 194l consumption.
The figures of 1886
by the Agriculture Departments Bureau
for 943 show the nutrients of estimated civilian
ion GOALS.