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Show LEITI FKEE PRESS. LEHL UTAH ; U. S. Requests WHO'S Citizens' Aid In Scrap Hunt NEWS THIS Com-Roa- d, com-Hopef- ul to arms. Rather, it's an urgent tistics for the census bureau and was of plea to salvage every available statistician for the Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen and Engine-me- scrap of metal, paper, old rags and rubber. That old stove in Then be got a sudden ease of your basement, the rusty, anHe quit herding figures cient binder near the machine and was off to China as adviser to the ministry of communicashed, the bundle of papers in the tions. For 30 years, he has been attic all can be used to defeat battling plague, famine, pesti-- ; the Axis. In fact, almost every lenee, social disorder and the unused item or piece of equij of past een- -. feudal bang-ovment around the home or farm off the turies, as China threw can be used with telling effect in Manchus and moved out Into the modern world. Directly or in-- , the war against the totalitarian directly, he probably has saved powers. as many human lives as any With the launching of the salother man living. of the The modern world seems to be vage program, officials and board War Production mainly an extension of the troubles Dr. Baker has seen. Arriving in representatives of industry Mew York on a ship from the Pacific pointed out that a critical shortage war zone, he is calmly hopeful about of scrap metal now exists in the China, as always, and says that U United States. Unless more scrap though the rail end of the Burma is forthcoming at once, war producroad is closed, the road is 8 ill open, tion will slow down immeasurably. and the Chinese have enough goods Because of this shortage, the war stored up to keep traffic moving for likely will be prolonged by months, two years. even years. He knows a lot about this. It was ? Salvage for Victory. just a year ego that he was made "Under normal conditions," director general of the Burma Road WPB- representative (pointed, out, Construction company a drab "the steel for instance, dename for one of the most stirring pends uponindustry, for approximatescrap exploits in history. Dr. Baker cher- ly d of its supply ol raw ishes the Order of the Bountiful Har- material With the vast expansion vest and the Order of the Beautiful of our armament program, includJade, conferred upon him by the ing the aid that we must continue grateful Chinese. He is off to his to send to Britain, Russia and China, home in Mill Valley, Calif. it is obvious that the salvaging of metals heretofore wasted or deFrom his home In Eagle, Wis., j Dr. Baker went to the University stroyed must be augmented to a tremendous degree. In frequent inof Wisconsin, taught country ' school for several stances recently, steel mills have years and, been threatened with shut down for during his years In government t lack of scrap." , t , v.i service qualified as a specialist ' As this is being written, one of sb fiduciary problems of railway ; management. the nation's largest steel mills reIn China, he found not only a tangle of un- ported only enough scrap metal on related railroads, shoved in by . hand for two days' production. This of the compais less than various quarreling exploiters, but a morass of human misery ny's normal supply. which enlisted him for three The importance of general salvage is emphasized by the bureau of indecades in his fight against dustrial conservation,, officials of starvation, in which railroad orwhich point out that the success of ganisation was only a detail. As director of the American Red the "Salvage for Victory" program Cross iamine relief in 1920, he will have a profound bearing on the outcome of the war. got in training for his Burma road job by building 850 miles of . According to bureau figures, waste railroad to get wheat to famine materials have supplied 50 per cent victims. of the raw materials for the steel inWith his Chinese decorations, Dr. dustry, from 20 to 25 per cent for Baker takes back with him to Mill the manufacturers of aluminum and Valley an honorary degree from his a large proportion for many other alma mater. He is 61 years old, big, essential materials.' Guns Versus Automobiles. vigorous and handsome. For every automobile that isn't A RMY research engineers usually manufactured in 1942, we will have aren't around when the band saved enough zinc and copper to begins to play and they don't often make brass for 2,400 cartridge cases get medals and headlines, although for .30 caliber ammunition; enough nickel to make 100 pounds of nickel . Strikes at Enemy righVitne steel for armor plate, projectiles, With Bar of Non thick of the and armor piercing bullets; enough tin to coat 1,000 cans in which we Melting Chocolate pughMt of a put food for our soldiers and sailors. fighting machine-ag- e war. Their sharp pen- This is only a small part of the cils, spearing a new formula, may critical material which has been damage the enemy more than any made available to war industry through the stoppage of automobile gun. production. Here's one of them, studiously Inconspicuous in a Washington JPW" cubbyhole for many years, one Lieut. Col. Paul T. Logan, casu- -' ally in the news in a little item I from Harrisburg, Fa., announc-- : that some big factories were Ing ' manufae-- , taking up large-scal- e ture of his new ; chocolate bar, for the army. That sound like boondoggling, ' might g but, the colonel j two or three years, you find that i the chocolate bar is the army's i proven solution for getting top j mileage and staying power for jungle fighting In tropical counn. t. er ' , - one-thir- I : 1 one-ten- th I . i I I - 16-in- IKON. j non-melti- ; back-trailin- tries. The colonel quietly turned in his chocolate bar in October, 1839, after several years of research and experiment. It is made of raw oat flour, bitter chocolate, cacao fat, sugar and skimmed milk, with a small dash of vanillin. It doesn't sound like food for heroes, but army records show that just a few bars of it will run a soldier until he has to get his shoes Also, soldiers like it. People who have been to Iowa, or who have read Phil Stong's books, know that that's where real connoisseurs of bulk food come from as did Colonel Logan. After entering the army' from civilian life, he was graduated In the Infantry school officers' course In 1926, from the Q.M.C. subsistence school In 1932, and In 1939 from the Army Industrial college. The chocolate bar Idea Is one of Colonel Logan's many adventures In forethought when jungle fighting seemed quite remote. half-sole- d. non-melti- Are Causing Adolf Some Worry . . . Deceased AdmiraTs Genius Now Admitted . . . By ROBERT W. McSHANE "MEW YORK. For about five Help win the war by getting Baker in the scrap! years, young John Earl bad probably the most unexciting With this plea, Uncle Sam is job in the world. He was a clerk enlisting the aid of every man, for the Inter- woman and child in the nation's Back From Burma state merce war effort. Authority l This new battle cry isn't a call of China hot-foo- Japanese Successes (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) WNU Service.) (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) A Ittlerioc Btnin There are inAdolf Hitler that evidences creasing is a little bit worried about Japanese successes in the southwest Pacific. Not that Hitler is confiding to any of our sources what he thinks, but we do know what he is letting the : German people be told, and it is not difficult, at times, to read between l- -' the lines when one knows that what ty'is printed not only has government Patriotic duty was mixed with pleasure recently when Mr. and Mrs. approval, but is government inWilliam Cob urn gave a party at their home in Boston, Mass. Party invitations requested each person to bring at least 25 pounds of scrap. Mr. spired. There are two distinct possibiliCoburn views the potential guns contributed by the guests while Mrs. ties which this line of thought might Saltonstall Gov. Leverett Coburn tries out a rowing machine donated by produce. One is an attempt by Gerof Massachusetts. many to end the war before Japan Government figures disclose that terial at current prices. Persons gets a strangle hold on her new there is an enormous pile of scrap who have been in the habit of giving conquests. Bear in mind here that the mzis iron and steel on the six million wastepaper, rags and scrap metals farms throughout the nation. The to charitable organizations, such as apparently again judging from the estimates run from Vk million tons the Red Cross, are urged to con- comments the government of Berlin to ZVt million . tons more than tinue that practice, since these or- permits are even more surprised t success enough, when combined with other ganizations sell their collections at the extent of Japanese is which we than quite a saying are, as to build twice many promptly. materials, Small towns are becoming an in- lot. battleships as there are in all the So the Nazis confidently expect. navies of the world today. creasingly important source of supThe British ministry of supply es- ply. Residents have been asked to now, that Japan will wind up not timates that one ton of waste paper collect such material as brass or onlv with all of the Dutch East In iron beds, electrical equipment, dies, but with Australia and New will produce any one of the followIning:, 1,500 shell, containers, 47.000 kitchen utensils, picture frames, old Zealand as well, not to mention boxes for .30 caliber ammunition, metal ornaments, toys, coat hangdia, Ceylon, Madagascar, Burma, 71,000 dust covers for airplane eners, old carpeting, blankets, fire- and the PhiliDDines. In fact the gines or 36,000 practice targets. Only place equipment, old furnace parts, Germans are openly talking about 28 per cent of the nation's paper is plumbing fixtures, radiators, autoSouth Africa. mobile chains,- license plates, garnow recovered. Naturally, the Germans have no den tools, burlap bags, old rubber confidence in altruism on the part Leon Henderson, price administrator, I has estimated that , defense and all types of hardware, includ- of the Japs. They know what hapneeds will require 50 per eent more ing door knobs, hinges, hooks, locks, pened in the last war, when Japan waste paper in 1942 than was need- springs, etc seized Shantung and kept it, not ed in 1941. A large share of this The lists furnished by local sal- bothering to fight any more after must come from family units. vage committees are ample proof she got what she wanted. Sixteen per cent of the 882,000 that almost everything found in a Thev know also about the former tons of rubber which the U. S. will cellar, attic or back yard has a defiGerman islands which were man ' use in 1942 must ccme from rubber nite salvage value. dated to Janan. Thev know the The War Production board looks Japs have no thought of ever givreclaimed from old tires, and other used rubber goodsTo get this 0 upon every scrap metal pile as an them back to Germany. tons of reclaimed rubber, whole- unworked mine. Probably no other ing salers, will need all the old tires metal is in demand in such vast What Japan Will Do and tubes, boots, shoes and garden quantities as steel. It is needed not More important, they know what hose the public can contribute. only for tanks, guns and planes, but Japan will do after the war with also goes into the hulls of new mer- every bit of territory she is able to " Immediate Action Needed. chant ships, into freight cars and acquire, assuming Axis victory. Even the lowly rag plays an imand - industrial Those markets will be closed to portant role- - in wartime.. Every new housing units WPB has acted Germany, as to the rest of the housewife ' knows how necessary plants. Already the world, just as Japan closed cleaning rags are to her domestic before this war began. duties. Uncle Sam's problem is the Don't forget to take that empty Now all this, though clear to the same only it is magnified few cream or tube toothpaste shaving million times. Those are essential Nazis (they are protesting in their with you to the store when you to war production plants, where they newspapers that of course Japan is want a new supply. Customers not going to do this) is not at a.11 are used to keep machinery clean are required to turn in some kind in line with the German vision. of and in working order. of collapsible tube for each new the New Order. Germany does not What can you do to help in the one purchased. The retailer who want some of the most productive nation's salvage for victory sells one without the proper exland in the world, and the largest change is liable to a maximum The answer lies in direct, immedifine of $10,000 fine or a year's supply of cheap labor in the world, ate action. The scrap material lyexploited by a rival nation, and cerimprisonment. ing idle around your home, around tainly Japan would be a very active rival for Germany after the war in your farm and around your business place must be uncovered and to conserve the nation's supply of the event of Axis victory. turned over to war production. It steel by ordering curtailment in the So it is just possible that the must be done immediately. Short- use of this essential metal in such thought may occur to Germany that ages in critical material exist now. civilian goods as refrigerators, if she can just keep most of what washing machines and automobiles. she has taken They must be met at once if Amerin and let of However, the methods saving the United Nations Europe, ica is to meet the war production take of Jacare schedule established by President steel at the source are not suffipan, it might be better for the Nazis cient. iron and Salvaging scrap Roosevelt. Industry can answer the in the long run. steel, known to be available in huge present challenge to democracy This may sound absurd at first quantities everywhere, offers a rich but only if every person but the Nazis, like the Japablush, of which raw vein of to the fullest possible extent. only material, nese, look a long way ahead. They surface has the been totapped. effort is Every being directed have no fear that, once the war is Lead Is Vital Metal. ward developing in the minds of the over, the much despised democraNo metal is more directly assogeneral public an understanding cies will penalize themselves by conthat the need for metals, paper, rub- ciated with the production of weapto be prepared for another ber and rags now cluttering up ons than is lead. It furnishes bul- tinuing war. conand rifles factories is a lets for and machine guns and homes, shops That, of course, is the fly in the tinuing need, and a demand that is used in shrapnel and shells. Me- ointment. Roosevelt and Churchill will increase rather than lessen. chanical lead is indispensable for Local salvage committees are the construction of explosive plants are not likely to accept any Nazi proposal, no matter what the lead is essential peace functioning in every community while tetra-ethterms. the nation. comoctane for These the throughout aviation gasohigh mittees will furnish complete lists line which feeds our present-da- y Now Recognized Prophet of needed scrap materials to every fighting planes. interested person. While emphasis has been placed Once Considered Naval 'Pest Farms Are Best Source. on the salvage of steel, the disrup"I explained all this to Joe Daniels Farms, the greatest single source tion of supplies from abroad has of scrap material in the general made it imperative that the nation but he didn't hoist the idea aboard." The was the late Rear salvage program, are expected to conserve every available pound of Admiralspeaker William F. Fullam. The furnish thousands of tons of scrap lead. The use of this vital metal time was February, 1921, just before jnetal in the form of obsolete ma- has increased in direct proportion Secretary of the Navy Josephus chinery and tools, junked automo- to the war effort. Lead, lying idle Daniels passed out of office along old biles, logging chains, wire fenc- in shops, homes and automobile with .Woodrow ing, old tires and tubes, obsolete "graveyards," should be reclaimed sion was that Wilson. The occaAdmiral Fullam had motors and motor parts, wheelbar- and directed back into war produchis into the Washbrought "copy" rows, rusted gears and the thousand tion. ington bureau of the old New York and one things which find their way is essential metal. Old Zinc, too, to the scrap heaps on almost every wash pails and buckets, galvanized Tribune. The "copy,." which was farm in the nation. wire and tin roofings which are no always a masterly editorial in supnavy, but parFarmers who are unable to haul longer in use can go directly into port of a three-pla- n their own scrap to the nearest sal- the production of propellers for bat- ticularly stressing air power and was printed regularly vage depot have merely to call the tleships or into essential parts for submarines, closest salvage committee (or the tanks, trucks and a variety of other in . the Tribune under the nom de plume "Quarterdeck." local county agent) and arrangewar machines His rather long articles, packed ments will be made to dispose of One of the scarcest and most critithe material. cally needed metals is copper. With with the same arguments time after State salvage committees have an estimated shortage of thousands time over a period of years, and recommended that any person who of tons of copper predicted for the larded with the admiral's picturhas an accumulation of scrap ma- coming year, government orders esque expressions (he dated back to terial, in whatever form it may be, have restricted the use of this es- the sailing ship days) were unmistakable to anyone who had ever call a nearby waste material or sential material almost Junk dealer, who will buy such ma-- to defense production. exclusively heard him talk. And that meant every naval officer he could make Approximately 600,000 tons of the listen to him. estimated supply which will be The plain truth is that he was reavailable next year will be importas a pest by most of the adgarded ed, most of it from South America, mirals who were running the navy. and an. disruption of this outside The writer accompanied Admiral ft A passenger car yields about source would be a deadly blow to Fullam on several of the 1,500 pounds of scrap iron and steel, trips into rearmament the Atlantic, off the Virginia capes, half-to- n A ft truck (blitz buggy) In 1941, approximately 34 per cent when General Mitchell demonstrated takes 3,970 pounds of steel, a four-to- n of the copper supply came from what could be done in attacking truck 18,000 pounds, a n In 1942, it is plain that even ships by scrap. planes. uses tank 72,000 pounds and a light this must be .We saw ships sunk by bombs substantially augmenttank 32,000 pounds, ed by an increase in the return of not just flimsy merchant ships, but ft A carload cf blueprint paper Is potential copper now lying unused in war ships. On one of these trips an used in drawing the plans for one of and back yards, on old German battleship was sunk by cellars, attics, our 35,000-toa bomb which did not hit her, but battleships farms and in shops and factories. fell in the water right alongside I it) ? , . - 141,-12- - a ii at rri,a. SHAPES, i COLfll reoa texture. tastY ii in ii i ii I ECU LAI ona SHAPES. -- Krftta um m lasst m Tmr cJ"' M tUm . k4 SEED CO lANFtANasco E fCRRY-MORS- 10 UNIFORM C0LB rLAVQn . nui ptn tifar Uaiai fcrfra Send ABlATl0 . thew resolti: due WASHINGTON. More Raleigh Jingles Raleigh Cigarettes are again offering liberal prizes in a bie jingle contest to be run in this paper. One hundred and e prizes will be awarded each thirty-thre- week. Adv. ABE YOUR JSoweU IfcM try kindSMal Tint ot tU m caa't thus to Mt bbImi 7m fin than 4. huu. Most opU mak iora to MttUadar. 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PARTON .r NATIONAL AFFAIRS Revitwed by CARTER FIELD Nation Searches Junk Piles WEEK (Consolidated Features Scrappy Party Ends With Row f , Bold and A bold general but no general can he is bold. Gen. Wavell. TRY THIS IF YOU'RE Lucky may be lucky. be lucky unless Sir Archibald HI on "certain days" of month If functional monthly disturbances make you nervous, restless, cranky, blue, at such times -t- ry Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable famous for over 60 Compound years to help relieve such pain and nervous feelings of women's "difficult days.- Taken regularly -- Plnkham's Compound helps build up resistance against such annoying symptoms. Follow label directions. Well worth trying) high-strun- g, Origin of Proverbs Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wide ence. Bacon. experi- Don't NeslectTheml Katarodialgncd tho kidnajn to d marvelous job. Thair task is to kP ths n Bowing Wood stream boa of lirini-W tosio impurities. Tho act of Ml is constantly producing wu Irom removs must tho rosttor kidneys the blood U good heath Is to endure. as to (unrtion When ths kidneys isil Ksturo intended, there is "tention dise waste that may cause backscM, body-wid- tress. One may suHer nagging persistent headaehe. attteki ol diain. getting up nights, swelling, pBnsj uaderthe ayes ieel tired, nervous. ' worn out. Frequent, scanty or burning P"?? are sometimes further evidence of moneySri. or bladder disturbance. . . .ra.t miflB 1 la a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys get rid of excess poisonous body"" more - They have had lias Doom's tnan lorry years 01 puoiic "Pi""":" on Insist endorsed the country over. noon's. Sold at all drug stores. ijs- Winning the War With Waste C Enough steel and rubber go into a single medium tank to make 24 automoliles. ft The steel in the hull of a heavy cruiser totals 6,635 tons. In a 35,000-to- n battleship, 18,000 tons are need27-to- n ed. ft The shells turned out by army ordnance plants are packed in 30,000 tons of paper board each month. 27-to- n WNU W 15-- 42 bomb-droppi- needs HUBDEB Do Your Part by Saving Your Tires |