OCR Text |
Show MORE TIN CANS ARENEEDED FROM THIS CITY Housewives Urged To Bring Them To Local Grocery Stores The local salvage committee directed di-rected by Mrs. A. Y. Wheeler, chairman, is again making an urgent ur-gent plea-4o housewives to save all tin cans, flatten them, and take them to the grocery store as they continue to constitute one of the most needed and important salvage items. To illustrate how the tin from cans is used to aid the war effort, a story of the syrette, termed the "angel of mercy" is given, and the syrette is just one way in which the tin may be used. Every Army and Navy nurse knows their function. Every medical medi-cal parachutist, every flight surgeon, sur-geon, carries an extra supply. Every Ev-ery long-range bomber is equipped with these little tin hypodermics. "Syrettes" are standard equipment in arctic, jungle and aeronautic kits used by soldiers, sailors, marines ma-rines and coast guardsmen who must fight alone. A wounded fighter, alone and awaiting assistance, assist-ance, can administer this pain-relieving pain-relieving potion to himself. The "syrette" is a tiny individual morphine hypodermic syringe about the size of the first joint of one's little finger, as big around as a lead pencil. At one end is a hollow needle covered with a plastic, plas-tic, which is torn off when used. It looks like a baby toothpaste tube with a needle at one end. The infinitesimal nouch is made of soft tin, and when the needle is inserted insert-ed near a wound and the tube is pressed, a single dose of pain-relieving pain-relieving morphine is injected. A wounded soldier can make bearable bear-able the hours before the arrival of help by use of the "syrette" in !his kit. The tin reclaimed from two tin cans is needed to make one syrette. Prepare tin cans take them to your grocer today! |