Show Waste fats Make Munitions and Medicines Need Pounds a Year Says I Every Family Must Save a Pound Each l to Meet Quota An adequate supply of fats and oIls IS essentIal to the suc suc- suc successful prosecutIon of the war With those words Donald Nelson chairman of the war productIon board urged houseWIves of the nation nahon to cooperate actIvely In a cam carn campaign desIgned to salvage every available ounce of waste fat The fat salvage drive IS lImed at every home Its specific tar target target get Is the kitchen where unfortunately unfortunately m millions of pounds of I Ienne enne containing fat are being poured into the garbage pallor pail or down the kitchen dram drain I Fats will help win WID the war and be beI bea bea I a prime al m in negotiating and implement ng the peace Fat and ando o 01 I sources ha hate hae e taken a terrific beating m in the war Whole areas that produced palm Ind coconut oil have been lard laid waste cattle have been killed off to feed fighting men Europe IS in the throes of a fat fam me ins How seriously this shortage may affect our own troops and our CI VII an population depends ill in a large measure on the people themselves The quota of million pounds of fat for household salvage ill in 1943 was not set as a measure of the need The shortage for all purposes military mIll tar industrial and domestic was as far m excess of that figure It was as worked out that American households could save and turn m in million pounds of used kitchen grease Without undue hardship and WIthout depriving families of their fat energy requirements Due to many factors some of them beyond the control of homemakers the rate at which k grease IS being turned m in IS far short of the quota Yet Yet a glance at the figures at the quant ty of meat butter and shortening ava available able for tam fam ly Iy use IS convincing proof that American households could Salvage double their quota if they would buckle down to the lob Job on a drop by drop tablespoonful at a time program of saving and then turn in ID their greas grease to a local meat dealer collector The need for waste fat for me and other by products for ex explosives plosives munitions and medicines IS not d as our troops ad advance advance vance on all fronts To the con contrary contrary It IS increasing Nor IS the need sporadic or momentary It e c r r iY cY 1 hf y c Four mm ants t shells can r be fired with the glycerine contained J Jy cn one pound a aused used kitchen fee j Start today to sat y page CU cooking fat 1 don t eat and you turn it in regularly f f to your meat dealer c t L 0 Ao a s v vre re w n 1 r Rif r ra rM a 1 Is a long term continuing program which WIll probably tend extend well be beyond beyond yond the limits of a shooting war accord ng to an Office of War Pro ProductIon statement Fat Makes lakes Glycerine Without glycerine we could not produce gunpowder to fire many of our shells and sh p and plane in instruments instruments would not function Glycerine has no substitute or in any case no satisfactory one has et been discovered for many types of explosives Because of the shrink tug Ing reserve stock of this vital m in ingred gred ent the already has found It necessary to ban the use of erme m in rally cally all CIVIlian prod products products cigarettes cosmetics dente dent forces and dozens of others This drastic move was made be because because cause u e are nowhere near to bring mg used fat collect ons to the point wh ch will ach eve the m million llon pounds yearly quota necessary to provide the glycerine ItS many war uses reqUIre Nat onal collect ons have continued to climb even With the advent of meat and shortening rationing but the hIghest monthly total so far 7 pounds last March is almost nine DIne mill on pounds short of the reqUIred monthly total If H you don t think waste fat is Important listen to thiS 31 table tablespoons tablespoons spoons of used kitchen fat will make enough glycerine for a pound and anda a half of gunpowder der Or 31 table tablespoons tablespoons spoons of fat will provide powder to toI I fire four 37 mm antI aircraft shells F another way a pound of I fat will y eld enough glycerine for forI I 13 12 pounds of powder for machine gun cartridges There are other ma materials in gunpowder besides glycerine erme erine derivatives but the glycerine compound IS what hat puts the punch lD in the explosive Other uses for glycerine m war ng a liquid that does not freeze easily y or has some other necessary quality are In re recoil recoil coil mechanisms for guns hydraulic ic dev ces such as presses and ele elevators elevators pumps ships steering gear gearin gearin in compasses depth charge releases and many for other mechanical pur purposes purposes poses Glycerine IS also employed m lD special compounds to coat weapons weapons ons as ant freeze in radiators and andI andon andon on windshields and m in medicines I Medical Uses The medical use of glycerine is constantly growing m Importance Glycerine IS present m in these and many other preparations aCid ill in the treatment of powder and other burns Some used m in the treat treatment treatment ment of shock as well as diabetes Tinctures of Opium and gentian used as sedatives to ease pam pain Smallpox vaccine as a prevents live five injection given to all men ill in inthe the armed forces Sulpha ointments for treat treat- treatment treatment ment of fungus growths and abra abrasions N tro glycerine ta tablets for a heart stimulant used as an antiseptic Military med cine IS achieving re remarkable remarkable results In saving lives With new techniques and drugs the death rate from wounds has been reduced from 7 6 per cent m in World War I to 3 1 per cent m in this con flirt Sulfa compounds and blood plasma are git gh en much of the credit for this splendid accomplishment In order that that h gh rate of re recovery recovery covery and the low rate of death of our wounded may continue the manufacturers of medic nals for the armed forces must have a plentiful supply of glycerine As more men are sent into various fields of action It is table that there will be bemore bemore more es and that a still stillmore stillmore more plentiful supply of healing drugs will be needed At the present t me the house householders householders holders of America are contributing around nine mill on pounds of used k fats to the war effort each month but th s IS only a little more than half of what is needed to keep our glycerine stocks at a safe level It IS safe to say that at least three times this amount of valuable glycerine glycerine erine containing fat st at U 11 IS being wasted Remember all fat IS want wanted wanted ed The color Is unimportant as brown fat IS as good as white for them chern cal processing The housewife has only to save as much fat as poss ble each day store It m lD a tin can and take her sa savings regularly to the meat dealer who will pay her for It and send it on ItS way to the war product on I ne With n 21 days It will be processed and the glycerine thus obtained w will willbe l be put to some vital war use |