Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 6 | Tightening the Belt

Tightening the Belt IF PEOPLE who use Japanese matches will I 1 E put up with it Japan can save a year yearby yearby yearby by shortening matchsticks of an inch It really wont won't be a saving because the war o lords intend to spend th the money for fighting the C Chinese Chi inese i- i nese armies armie and buying bombs with which t to ravage civilians in peaceful towns far from the firing lines If people dont don't like shorter matches they can lump it or it-or or switch to another brand It is all part o of a tightening belt-tightening program the government has announced so the people can help win the war The edict also says Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese housewives housewives' will have to get along without without without with with- out iron frying pans the pans the iron is needed for death-dealing death munitions Nor will cotton clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing be sold until the war is over the over the cotton is needed for bandages and gun cotton A Automobile Automo Automo- tomo- tomo bile owners will be able to buy no more more than two gallons of gasoline a day the day the gas is needed for the generals generals' cars the tanks and trucks Those who have eyer ever tried tightening their belts as an expedient when meals have been missed missed- missed know know that it is a very temporary aid Japan will undoubtedly feel the same way about it very soon Possibly that party of high German dignitaries which made a ten-minute ten stop here the other day returning from Japan to Berlin had been over there to see if something something some some- thing could not be done about bout it On One wouldn't know because all they would tell inquiring r reporters re reporters re- re porters was nein