| Show UNCLE SAM AM I IS SELLING WAt WAR WA 1 a t U But He Is Getting Good j f 5 Prices Despite Despite All Allf 1 f I Rumors By A. A E. E Geldhof Telegram Washington Bureau 1128 1134 Munsey Building WASHINGTON April 14 14 H. Youve You've all heard tf reports ports like these thee Tho The war departments department selling motorcars motorcars motorcars mo mo- It do doesn't nt need for or apiece You Ton can buy an airplane from the government for now The Tho army Is selling arm army blankets for litho or at nothing The They're re all aU false It Is true that the army has a lot of ot war material to sell but It Isn't letting go of It at such heavy los loss Nor Is It true that thousands of or dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars worth of or ammunition and high ex explosives explosives ex- ex plosives havo have been destroyed The on only ammunition the tho army has destroyed Is captured German shells which were plied on the deserted battlefields of France and blown up One modern weapon which has las been blen destroyed Is poison gas pas Tons of It have been dropped Into the ocean for forthe forthe forthe the war ar department believes that never again will poison polson gas gaa b be used usell In n war war- fare The United States at least wille will e not be bo the first to use It again But nearly everything else owned by the the- war department I In Is ebing put In storage storage- or old sold at market prices TNT TURNED TO WORK Recently OOOO worth of or T TNT T which was on hand In various Eastern Eastern Eastern East East- ern plants plant was wa turned d over overto overto overto to th the Interior department for tal use In reclamation work Alaska engineering work the national parks park and other places where blasting blasting- Is 18 necessary The Tho war department had planned d to end send this dangerous accumulation of explosives Into the sea se after the poison polson gas air but Secretary Lane rescued It And nd said It would save hi his department a. a lot of or the mone money It has been spending spending spend spend- ing for tor dynamite For the disposal of ot other war materIal material material mate mate- rial such as lumber steel copper motorcars motorcars motorcars' mo mo- and chemicals the tho war department de department department de- de has organized a R sales division divi l Ion sion to which everything no longer n needed eded for tor the arm army Is being turned oVe over None of ot this material will bo be soldat MIdat sold MId soldat at bargain prices because to do so 0 would disrupt the commercial markets and raise a howl from Industry t SALE OF COPPER The sales division Islon has haR reached an ana a agreement with the copper opper producers of or the country for instance under which pounds of ot copper now In the hands of the arm army will be bo placed on sale for tor a period of ot fifteen months It will be sold at market markt prices and a company has haR been organized organized organ organ- to dispose of or It It In handling It Its surplus lumber a 1 similar arrangement was waa made and anda a H firm which represents the majority I of oC th the American lumber r associations was RS organized to purchase the surplus lumber sell lien It at the current market price and pay the proceeds to the war department less the expense of or handling NO HO BARGAIN N SALES fly D this method the government g avoids dumping Its surplus material hack h on the tho market to Injure the in industries In- In which tripled and und quadrupled their production luring during the war to tome me meet t the needs need of ot the arm army In ca cases where It Is 18 not r feasible I to dispose of the material In this wa way the department through Its field clerks J scattered 0 over 01 1 the tho country countr is 8 selling It at public sale nt advertised d In Inthe I Ithe the newspapers This sort of sale sale Includes Include tI typewriters desks s and office supplies supplier which arc no longer needed But Rut these are nrc not being sacrificed either cither The They are marked at a price which allows for or depreciation and sold the same as ns an any other second secondhand secondhand hand furniture USE FOR TRUCKS TRUCKS' Many an of or the tho arm army's motor trucks of or which at one time the war wat department department depart depart- ment owned nearl nearly havo have been turned over o to the postoffice department depart depart- ment while part of ot Its motorcars motorcars motorcars motor motor- cars have boen been given n to tho the public health service and other government Jo departments Airplanes have ha been turned over to the postoffice department department depart deput- ment for tor use on the air mail maU routes route One Ono excellent example of ot swords beaten Into plowshares Is the d dis disposition s position of ot tons of or nitrate of soda aoda which was to have been blen used d In making makins- high explosive shells It has hu been turned over to tho the bureau of or markets of at the department of ot agri agri- culture and will bo be used as fertilizer In the tho matter of surplus clothing the war department Is not given to worrying for or It ft I is planning to use Its surplus stocks of ot uniforms uniform blankets and equipment to outfit the tho volunteers recently called for tor So dont don't get excited and take your purse urso out when you ou hear of or a salo sale being held b bv by the war department dep |
