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Show 11 mm now SAVES MUCH MONEY Gas Torch Doing Part in the Conservation of Resources. These ar3 the days of the most intense in-tense sort of conservation of all necessities. neces-sities. America is learning the need of prohibiting the" waste of anything whatever that is good foodstuffs, paper, pa-per, cloth and metal. The latter in particular par-ticular is important, for metal is playing play-ing an important part in the world war and doing a huge Lit to make the globe "safe for democracy. ' ' For that reason it is considered that the oxy-acetylen? torch for welding metals is one of the most important inventions of recent times. Only a few short months ago little or no metal welding was being done, ironworkers preferring to junk motal parts, as they ! did not understand welding them. To-; To-; day what a change- very few articles jot machinery or manufactured iron arc 'thrown away, it -being possible to save them ut a slight cost. In the autcniobile world this discovery discov-ery was j JTtieulai ly important. Formerly For-merly the breaking of an important part of a car, such as the frame, meant the necessity of getting a complete new frame Now it may be welded together, to-gether, making- a new piece of solid metal, as good or better than the original orig-inal piece. The oxy-aeetvlone torch, for which gas is supplied by tanks put out by the Pr( st-O-Lite commtny, is thus saving thousands of dollars daily, is the estimate esti-mate of K. K. Darling, manager of the Monarch Motor company, I'M) East Second Sec-ond South street. Mr, Darling's company com-pany has Veen named distributor in this" se'-ti'tn for the tanks put out by the Prest-O-Lite company, and is able to furnish metal and ironworkers with this weldbig outfit. |