The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-05-24
Current Comment
BY Henry Willis

We Must Get Along With LESS
Sugar is the bad news In an OPA
letter of earlier in the month. Here
Il the way Sugar rationing bumped
the Local Ration Board; At first,
February, the direction was to al
low each applicant 20 pounds, limit
ing a family to 100 pounds. This the
Board proceeded to do as applica-
lions came in. May 3rd this was cut
TO Is lbs, effective Immediately, and
the next applications were handled
on that basis with a family limit of
120 pounds. Then, May 18th came a
bomb; the Board was allowed a
limited quantity for the county. The
total would have given each person
about seven pounds II none had been
already allotted. But, already twen-
ty-five per cent Of all the sugar had
been given to the less than ten per-
cent who had applied. Remember
that there had not been any total
limit assigned to the Board before
that time but only q limit per person
Of, first 20 pounds, then reduced to
IS pounds. Now the Board is told
that they will get no more sugar
above the mentioned allotment. The
only recourse Of the Board was to
divide the remaining pounds Of sug-
ar in their allotment by the number
Of citizens of the county who had
not yet applied for sugar and adopt
the result as the individual limit
that could be assigned to applicants.
The result was close to 5 pounds per
person. Perforce the Board had to
accept that. To assign more to any
Individual would result in some ap-
plicants receiving zone. In brief, the
Ration Board Is apportioning the
sugar they have as evenly as 1t is
possible to do. II is said that 900, 1000
tons Of sugar has been used in max
ing automobile tires; that our do
mestic sugar crop was short; that
our sources Of supply-Cuba, Porto
Rico. Hawaii-made very short
crops last year.
Some Extracts From Letters from
the Army boys; This from Czecho-
slovakia very pretty country,
good farm land, plenty Of room.
long way behind US, still blowing
with oxen. II the German people
would think Of something besides
war they could be the best country
over here, If they had built some
thing besides the west WALL. 1T Is
showing tonight MAY 5th) won't
warm up till June. We now have
good quarters, hot water, etc.. Girls
not as pretty as Jul home girls by
a whole lot. .These 155mm. Howit-
zers a very good field piece Chat is
the gun Battery B left here with
such a long time ago. they do plenty
of damage to the enemy. From
Floyd Malone Daniel F. Malone.
2O42434l, Hq. Bat. 955 F. A. Bn., A.
p. o. $50, Care Post Master, New
York, N.Y.. And this from Ger
many. shave seen a lot of inter-
esting things. Got down to the
French Riviera at Cannes, surely
nice there, a rest camp now. Had a
good time. From 1t. John D. Gwin,
Jr.. O-688257, 14th TICS. 6lst TGG,
APO 1873, Care Post Master New
York, NY. And this from Some
where in Germany" - Headquar-
tiers set up in q pleasant place, good
beds, running water, hot water
heat, china dishes, beautiful coun-
try. People and live stock live in
same house, imagine what they
smell like. houses built close togeth-
er, streets narrow and crooked. The
Rhein river is interesting and beau
tiful with castles and VINEYARDS. Tell
Ben Bean I'd give . buck for one OF
his coca-colas right now. 1t. Col
D. w. Townsend, 0-330417, Hq. $50
F. A. Bn. APO. 408 Care Post Mas
ter, New York, N. Y.
A Must For Redders who wish &c
keep in touch with public affairs; tc
get some idea as to what is happen
ing to us; to learn what CAN harper
here: is 1.-The Revolution Was" b,
Garrett Garrett, a very ~interestinl
and readable pamphlet written will
such clearness and simplicity tina
one easily understands what ha
taken place in Washington.