Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1942 — Page 20

the ‘minds of most people.

rationing.

want to talk about it. foods are to be rationed. | They are not; definitely. They Just happen to be a good example. And this is why: ~ Point rationing is used instead of 8jraight rationing for groups of related commodities that can be substituted for one another. Sugar is sugar, there isn't any very good substitute, and everyone uses it, so it had

straight. The same is true of coffee. But when it comes to breakfast food, there are lots of different kinds. Suppose there were a shortage ‘of bran flakes. If the government rationed

Miss’ Finney them the way it does sugar, an equal amount for everyone every

month, a great many people would get a share who. don’t ordinarily

| eat bran flakes. The ones who do eat them would get such a small allotment that it wouldn't do them any good. So there would be a rush for corn flakes, and that would be followed by a shortage of corn flakes. Or there would be a rush for oatmeal—you get the idea.

Gives Everyone a Chance

80, because there is a wide va‘riety of breakfast foods, and some people like one kind and some another, and in any case it wouldn't be a great hardship to substitute, ~ the government turns to point rationing to try to make sure that the supply of any one kind of cereal is mot exhausted, and that everyone ~ has a chance of getting his favorite at least part of the time. It groups all the breakfast foods together and gives each one a different “point value.” Bran flakes are scarcer than other kinds, so they get a rating of 11 points. Grits are scarce but the shortage “sn’t quite so bad; they get a ratIng of eight points. The situation isn’t acute as far as oatmeal is concerned, so it is put at four ~ points. Wheat flakes are quite plentiful and are set at two points. There are just about as many corn * flakes as usual so they -are pus at one point. Now the housewife is yondy: to "take ration book No. 2. (these will | be distributed soon after Jan. 1) and decide what she’ll buy for the family breakfast. Suppose the government has told | her that cash individual can have

DF POINT RATIONING =

ew System Is Just Around the Corner and Meat Is Likely to Be Affected First; It's Not

As Bad as It Sounds.

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, ‘Dec. 16—Nineteen forty-three and point rationing lie just ahead,

and both are equally foggy in

Nothing can be done about the obscurity surrounding the year in general. But a Httle light can be shed o on point

It sounds worse than it actually is: ; 5 Unless all signs fail, meat will be the first contmodiiy rationed according to the point system, but OPA is still truggling with regulations for meat rationing and doesn’t So pretend, instead, that breakfast|.

48 points to use for breakfast food during the month. She will find that she has the following coupons with which to buy her cereals: Three coupons worth one point each; three: coupons worth two points each; three coupons worth five points each; three coupons worth eight points each. She must decide whether she wants bran flakes badly enough’ to use ‘11 of the 48 precious points on. just that one purchase, or ‘whether she would rather get the same amount of corn flakes for one point plus an equal amount of wheat flakes for two: points—a total of three points. Of course she must pay dollars and cents for what she buys, as well as coupons. But no matter how many dollars she has, she won’t be able fo buy the’ rationed food with them if she has used up all her points before the eng of the month.

Careful Planning Needed

The whole thing is going to mean much careful planning for the housewife. She starts with the number of members in her family —the number of ration books at her disposal. Then she figures how much breakfast food she uses in a month, and how much of each kind. Then she makes a rough plan for buying it ‘with her allotted coupons. ' There will be no such thing as getting back “change” in coupons. The housewife who rushes to the store and spends her small coupons first—the 1s and 2s—will find herself at the end with only 8s and 5s. OPA advises the housewife to use her larger coupons first, so she’ll have a little leeway toward the end of the month, when some items may be hard to find.

Price Limiting Factor

Meat rationing will be slightly more complicated than the example used—breakfast foods. Price will be another limiting factor.” And the small family group will have to exercise great ingenuity ‘in using its larger-value coupons because it will be hard to buy a supply for one or two people that will keep for several days when there's no coupon left but an 8-point one. However, there are always the" smoked meats. Another complicating factor Is the business of dining out. OPA has not decided whether to make you surrender coupons for the meat you eat in restaurants. It’s having

a headache trying to figure out the answer to that one,. .

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Masonic Lodge

HENRY W. MILLER will be installed as worshipful master of Indianapolis lodge 669, F. & A. M., in public ceremonies at 3 p. m. Saturday. William Catlins and Sena Boswell, past masters, will cone duct the instal

Masonic temple at 1522 W. Morris st. Other officers who will be installed’ are Joseph R. Felts, senior warden; Clarence M. Connors, junior

Mr. Miller warden; Ear} W. Williams, treas-

urer; Cecil A. Dunn, secretary; Roy G. Butcher, senior deacon; Benjamin H. Miller, junior deacon; Francis E. Polen, chaplain; Eugene E. McMillan, senior stew.art; Jack M. Romine, junior stewart; ..William. C. Thomas, tyler, and Clarence F. Trieb, trustee. A joint Christraag party with Indianapolis chapter 393, O. E. 8, will ‘follow the ceremony. Mrs. Gertrude Martin and Mr. Felts are in charge of arrangements,

URGES CHECK ON JUVENILE CRIME

U. S. Probation Director

Warns of Hazards

In Wartime.

Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 16—The impression that there has. been a great iricrease in juvenile delinquency all over the country as a result of the war is probably erroneous, according to Charles L. Chute, executive director of the National Probation association. . Mr. Chute’s statement appears in an article in the December issue of Probation, a bimonthly magazine published by the organization. In his study of wartime - juvenile delinquency in the United States, Mr. Chute points out that in many American cities the number of offenses by children brought to court had been decreasing in recent years due to improved methods of dealing with them. Although there was some increase in cases in 1941, according to reports received by the association from many cities, the numbers were still below those for previous years.

Lists Problems

Mr. Chute explains the increase in 1941 as due to these factors: Rapidly growing industrial population; a boom in employment, with more women working away from home leaving children without sufficient supervision; high wages resulting in greater consumption of liquor and extension of commercialized recreation which in turn result in greater temptation and opportunity for youths to become involved in delinquency. “These factors, the indirect re-

‘sults ‘of a war economy, are sure to

bring ‘increased delinquency, espe{cially in the war production centers, unless effective steps are taken to meet them,” he said.: “The greatest danger resulting from war’s effect upon the juvenile delinquency problem is that agencies for the prevention and treatment of children’s offenses, especially juvenile probation work, will be. cut down. or weakened, -as they have been already in some cities. Should there be a breakdown in these bulwarks against juvenile de-

Jlinquency we may indeed expect an alarming upward curve during the

next few years.”

[FAREWELL BANQUET SET FOR I. U. SENIORS

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec. 16.— John S. Hastings of Washington, Ind., attorney and member of the Indiana university hoard of trustees, will’ ‘speak at a farewell banquet for seniors Saturday evening:at the university. The 500 students expected to attend will be graduated Sunday as the first class to receive degrees under the university’s war-accelerated program. Other speakers will be President ‘Herman B. Wells, George F. Heighway, alumni secretary, and William Spencer of Peru, senior class president.

LET CONSCIENCE BE GUIDE PITTSFIELD, Mass., Dec. 16 (U. P.) —Gregory Makaroff, who operates the Brodi mountain ski run, advertised today for a clergyman to conduct Sunday serwices there. Churchgotrs are exempt from the gas-less Sunday driving ban.

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