Show War Junk Made Mad Useful The sale ale by the war department of et f more than than worth of surplus surplus sur sur- plus material at a price representing about 88 85 per pel cent of the original cost shows remarkable public ec economy nomy It ItIs ItIs Itis Is easy enough h to buy war nir supplies but a decidedly different matter to to die dill pose of them advantageously under p peace ace conditions on As It is unused munitions of a certain kind must necessarily represent a t total tal w waste st but copper and brass material chemicals oil lumber co commissary commissary- supplies etc remain merchantable and mean a substantial substantial sub sub- reduction of the country's enormous war bill but The sale of hand grenades for conversion conversion con con- version Into dime savings banks Illustrates illustrates Illus illus- the curious uses to which put The file millions of f brass cartridge cases may me meet t some some demand demand as art novel- novel tics ties The news that a steamship has brought a cargo of German Herman helmets to Wales for fabrication n into knives forks and spoons reveals re the infinite possibilities of transferring the junk of war into the utensils of peace Never ever before has war provided such opportunities for beating swords Into ploughshares The most destructive of all wars may in fact have the opposite opposite op op- distinction also of furnishing ng more material l than any other thel for reclamation reclamation rec rec- and conversion Into objects of use and New sentiment New York York World |