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Show '' Worth Saving? Ivifles cause the loss of millions of dollars ill! waste. New York City sent plumbers from house to house, stopping up leaky water faucets, and four hundred million gallons of water were saved, last year. An expert electrician says that untold electric power is wasted by forgetting to switch off lights. Millions ot cubic feet of gas are lost through leaky stoves and gas jets. A pharmacist declares that thousands thou-sands of gallons of medicine are wasted by leaving a little in the Gottle when it is thrown away. Telegram blanks tossed in office wastebaskets would send millions of messages. Table waste from average homes could be made to feed many of the world's hungry. To the individual waster, such waste seems scarce worth 6othering about. It means something only in terms of thou-: sands. But there are other wastes for which the man who wakes Ihem pays alone. Wasted minutes, for instance, must be charged directly against the waster. In the course of a lifetime they can pile up a total of months and even years. |