TOTAL WAR
SACRIFICE. BY CIVILIANS. EFFICIENCY AND MORALE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, February 20. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says: “If total war requires the civilians to sacrifice all except absolute essentials—an existence shorn of all frills —a report which has been presented by Mr Byrnes, the Director’ of Economic Stabilisation, states that food would be rationed at the rate of 71 per cent of the 1941 consumption, clothing at 64 per cent, beverages 54 per cent, tobacco and smoking supplies 75 per cent, and books and other permanent printed matter 29 per cent. Professional baseball and football would be halved, but movies would be only slightly curtailed. “Experts consider that efficiency and morale would be reduced and the war effort would suffer if these bedrock needs were further cut. The report poirrfs out that the experience of other countries indicates that beer, wine and tobacco have a value in" sustaining' morale.” "
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1943, Page 2
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