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Show s USEFUL LESSON OF GREAT WAR World's Conflict Has Taught Nation Conservation Conserva-tion of Waste. Willys-Overland Company Among Manufacturers to Profit by Experience. " Perhaps , tlie greatest lesson to America from the entire war will be the one of conservation of waste," 6aid a prominent authority recently, commenting upon a chaugo in manufacturing manufac-turing methods brought about by war-.time war-.time conditions. 4' Proceeding upon tho assumption that JT somebody must pay for every bit ' of waste material and time, the Willys-Overland Willys-Overland company has recently started a reclamation service patterned after that in use on every battle field, which literally coins money from formerly wasted products. It is a soif-ovident Vfact, in light of our present viewpoint, that every bit of waste time, effort or material contributes to tho nation's overhead expense, a part of which must be paid from the purse, of every American Ameri-can citizen. Much is being done today to eliminate wasto and to capitalize time. "Hero in the United States we have taken more than three million men out of our industrial life, and we likewise are producing more goods than we did in past years. This means but one thing we have substantially increased our national energy. Nothing else can explain ex-plain our ability to spend and consume more and still have tens of billions to lay out on war," says a leading writer. In commenting upon the above, Manager Man-ager Arch Browning of the Browning Automobile company, local Willys-Overland distributors, states that the broad conception of tho Willys-Overland company com-pany is that every manufacturing concern con-cern contributes toward a national fund of energy and material, and this fund must be drawn upon sparingly and squeezed dry of every atom of workable work-able worth. Nothing must be discarded, cither during the war or after it, that can be used in any form. TJnder this new department of the Willys-Overland company equipment formerly considered worthless will now be used in some way. Formerly the waste materials-of various departments ' were left to the discretion of depart-J depart-J merit heads for disposal. Tho easy way was to scrap them. Xow thev will be turned over to the reclamation department, de-partment, which will give thought and study for their further use. One plan of this department now under way will be to use all of the burnable wayte in a special battery of boilers, designed for the purpose. Into one set of these boilers is drawn by a Vfan blast all of the scrap from the K. wood-shop. An additional set of boilers will be so arranged that the whole side may be lifted for tho reception of heavier heav-ier combustible .iunk. A car will collect col-lect iuuk and deliver to thp boilers. , This battery of boilers is so arranged that at times when there may not be sufficient waste to keep up a "full head of eteam coal may be used. In this way the company calculates the saving of $50.00 a day on its coal bill a neat saving for Mr. Garfield. Other forms of reclamation are figured to save approximately ap-proximately $50,000 annually by various means. Taking into consideration that for years tho company has been applying apply-ing the most approved and modern methods of using waste, this represents an additional amount gained through, more intensive methods. The Overland does not make this sav-' ing from the light of added profits, but to cut down the overhead and in this way to give every purchaser the benefit bene-fit when they get into large production produc-tion after the war. |