Show NEWSPAPERS MUCH IN DEMAND NOW NO E IN IT AL y c 1 A As s s ca ld a R Rancio Th They ey ff Provide Hot Time for forY Y I Soldiers ARE E USED FOR FUEL J. J J Staid Journals Get 4 Ju Just t as Hot as Lurid k 1 f j- Ones i t i By ALICE ALIC ROHE OHE T United Press Staff Correspondent j i 1 ROME Feb 1 16 6 by mail mal mal- 1 f Its fIts r- r Jt's a dangerous thing for an absent absent absent ab- ab sent minded reader to lay down his newspaper in Italy these days Before he knows what has happened hap hap- happened i this very very same da dally daily y will wilt have been been leen whisked off and boiled in oil Not that the paper Is on the index oj of or prohibited literature but just because because be- be cause everyone everone In Italy is working in ina a perfect frenzy making rancio f for br r th the soldiers I rancio literally means Heat rations All the countries countries' make sR same some e provision whereby hep bY the the soldiers at t the front have hot coffee and hot m meals ls j. j l But in I Italy aly It itIs is the dally daily a IY newspaper i d any old sort of oil or grease that 5 IS t saving the day up in the snow beaten mountains of the frontier Everybody Is making School children are taught how to cut cutri ri newspapers into strips the right size t er wind them into tight rolls There rc are re regular stations where these paper paper rolls are retaken taken to be thrown Into big vats of oil or to absorb abs absorb ab ab- ab- ab s rb all aU thereof that they can When c cooled oled they are ready for the front S Save ve All Grease I I j Private families are re told to save bit of old grease and this is often used instead of for the tatt latt latter lat tat t ter r Is expensive Old bits of meat scraps of olive oil of anything that contains grease or oil is soaked up in these newspaper clippings Even the staid and conservative newspapers are said to have Just asI as I warming an effect up at the front iS as the lurid rid ones I IlL i Many r. r any an American newspaper has found Its way to the front to toT T make a soldiers soldier's life a bit happier happier- by helping him get a h hot t meal At the hotels where Americans ns dwell newspapers newspapers pers are grabbed up almost before they I ha have ve a chance chance- to circulate One of the saddest yet one of the most inspiring features of the r rancio work is seen at the the- Villa Aldo- Aldo that lovely villa overlooking R Rome Borne me from the Via Blind Use Scissors Prince with true patriotIsm patriotism pa pa- has turned this residence over td the soldiers blinded in the war war H Here re all day they sit these poor fellows fel fel- fet fet- lows who have given their eyes for their country cutting newspapers into strips and making them into tight rolls so S. that they may be converted into s alda to heat the rations for the tle other boys still fighting sighting at the front to which they themselves cannot return There is a regular rancio campaign campaign campaign cam cam- on in Italy now because these i bits bits' of oil soaked newspapers are the Cheapest fuel that can be gotten to the i front front r K The ration heaters on many of ot which you can still see the name of a newspaper newspaper newspaper news- news paper or the headline of a story are of r different sizes There is a special size for heating a acup cup of coffee a special size for warming warm warm- ing Inga a whole meal There There are are seime some that x last for ten minutes often for fifteen others for longer The smaller ones cost ost two cents and three cents and there are posts all over Italy where they may be purchased by friends desiring to send them to the front Housewives no no longer can save drippings for h home iri use nor can the theold old newspaper man make his usual liv liv- ing ink L Everything is going for the soldiers tl these ese days and every little bit of old oldham ham him fat garnishing an ah au ey evening journal provides a ho hot time for the boys at the front |