Show Waste Fats Make Munitions and Medicines Need ZOO Million Pounds a Year Says Nelson Every ver Family Must Mus Save a Pound Pou d Each EachMon Month Mon l to toAn Meet Quota An adequate supply of fats and oils is essential to the suc suc- successful successful successful prosecution of the war With those words Donald Nelson chairman of the war production board urged housewives of the nation to cooperate actively in a cam cam- campaign campaign campaign designed to salvage every available ounce of f waste fat The fat tat salvage drive Is Js aimed at every home Its specific tar tar- target ta target get Is the kitchen where unfortunately unfortunately millions of pounds of ot containing erine-containing containing fat arc being poured Into the garbage pail pall or down the kitchen drain Fats will help win the war and be bea a prime essential in negotiating and Implementing the peace Fat and oil sources have taken a terrific beating In the war Whole areas that produced palm and coconut oil oU have been laid bid waste cattle have been killed off to feed fighting men Europe is In the throes of a fat fam fam- ine How seriously this shortage may affect our own troops and our ci civilian cl vilian population depends in a large measure on the people themselves The e quota of million pounds of fat tat for tor household salvage in 1943 was not set as a measure of the need The shortage for all purposes military Industrial and domestic was far in excess of that figure It was worked out that American households could save and turn in i 1 million pounds of ot used kitchen grease without undue hardship and without depriving families of their tat fat at energy requirements Due to many factors some of them beyond the control of homemakers the he rate at which kitchen grease trease is being turned in In Is far tar short of the quota Yet a glance at the figures at the quantity of meat butter and shortening available for family use uses is s convincing proof that American households leaseholds could salvage double their heir quota if U they would buckle down to the job on a drop by drop tablespoonful at a time program of saving savin and then turn In their grease I to o a local meat dealer collector The need for waste fat for tor glycerine glycerIne Ine nc and other products by-products for ex ex- explosives plosives munitions and medicines Is s not cot diminishing as our troops ad ad- advance advance vance vanee on all nIl fronts To the con con- contrary contrary it is increasing Nor is the need sporadic or momentary It Is a long term continuing program which will wID probably extend well be be- beyond beyond I yond the limits of a shooting war according to an Office of War Pro Pro- Production Production Production statement Fat Makes Glycerine Without glycerine we could not produce gunpowder to fire many of our shells and ship and plane in In- instruments instruments would not function Glycerine has no substitute or In any case no satisfactory one has yet been discovered for many types of ot explosives s. s Because of the shrink shrink- shrinking shrinking ing reserve stock stack of this vital in- in ingredient ingredient the already has found It t necessary to ban the use of glycerine glycerine glycerine erine in practically all civilian prod prod- products products products cigarettes cosmetics denti denti- dentifrices dentifrices dentifrices frices and dozens of others This drastic move was made be be- because because because cause we are nowhere near to bring bring- bringing bringing bringing ing used fat collections to the point which will achieve the million pounds yearly quota necessary to provide the glycerine its many war uses require National collections have lave continued to climb even with the lie advent of meat mea t and shortening rationing but the highest monthly total so far tar far pounds last March is almost nine million pounds short of the required monthly total If U you dont don't think waste fat Is Important listen to this 31 table table- tablespoons tablespoons tablespoons spoons of used kitchen fat will make enough glycerine for tor a pound and anda a half of gunpowder Or 31 table table- tablespoons tablespoons spoons of fat will provide powder to fire four tour 37 anti-aircraft anti shells Figuring another way a pound of fat tat will yield enough glycerine for Vi hh pounds of powder for machine gun cartridges There are other ma ma- materials materials in gunpowder besides glycerine erine ethic derivatives but the glycerine compound Is what puts the punch in the explosive Other uses for glycerine In war equipment requiring a liquid that does not freeze easily or has some other necessary quality are in re re- recoil recoil re- re recoil coil mechanisms for tor guns hydraulic ic devices such as presses and d ele elevators c- c pumps ships' ships steering gear In compasses depth charge releases and many for other mechanical pur pur- poses Glycerine is also employed in special compounds to coat weapons weapons ons as freeze antifreeze in radiators and andon andon andon on windshields and In medicines Medical Uses The medica medi a use se of glycerine glycerin Is constantly growing In Importance fJ Glycerine Is present In these and many other preparations Tannic acid used In La the treatment of ot powder and other burns bums Some used in the treat treat- treatment treatment ment of shock as well as diabetes Tinctures of opium and gentian used as sedatives to ease pain Smallpox vaccine as a preventative five tive Injection given to all aU men in inthe inthe inthe the armed forces Sulpha ointments for tor treat treat- treatment treatment ment of fungus growths and abra abra- abra NItro glycerine tablets for a heart stimulant used as an antiseptic Military ry medicine is achieving re re- remarkable remarkable remarkable results in saving lives With new techniques and drugs the death rate from wounds has been reduced from 76 per cent in World War I to 31 per cent in this con con- Sulfa compounds and blood plasma are given much of the credit for this splendid accomplishment In order that that high rate of re recovery re- re recovery covery and the low rate of death of our wounded may continue the manufacturers of for the armed forces must have a plentiful supply of glycerine As more men are sent Gent into various fields of action it is inevitable that there will be bemore bemore bemore more casualties and that a still stillmore stillmore stillmore more plentiful supply of healing drugs will wilt be needed At the present time the house house- householders householders householders holders of America are contributing around nine million pounds of used kitchen fats to the war effort each month but this is only a little more than half of what is needed to keep our glycerine stocks at a safe level It is safe to say that at least three times this amount of valuable erine containing fat still is being wasted Remember all fat is want want- ed The color Is unimportant as brown fat is as good as white for chemical processing The housewife has only to save as much fat as possible each day store it in a tin can and take her savings regularly to the meat dealer who will pay her for it and send it on its way to the war production line Within 21 days it will wUl be processed and the glycerine thus obtained will willbe willbe willbe be put to some vital war use |