Show 41 RUBBER SHORTAGE AND SPEED demonti THERE IS NOT a pound of rub ber that can be spared for other than war purposes Is what leon henderson enderson II told a son senate ate committee owners and drivers of american passenger automobiles will realize before many months that mr hn dersons der sono statement meant just wa it said As I 1 sit at a window overlooking a popular drive I 1 wonder at the thoughtlessness of drivers who are burning up tires as ai though no shortage existed cars go whizzing by at 40 to 70 miles an hour and I 1 venture a guess that time saved does not mean a thing to one in ten drivers it Is the tha american craze tor for speed our desire to go fast to beat and pass the follow fellow just ahead the car going 60 to 70 miles an hour will burn up tires in half the number of miles that can be covered by a car trav cling from 25 to 40 miles per hour there Is one satisfaction in it all the speed demon will bo be the first fellow to walk if 11 having to walk while tho the conservative driver still rides should teach speeders a lesson tho the rubber shortage might be con a blessing it would reduce the number of deaths and malm ings tor for which the speeders have been responsible 1 I tor for one will not be sorry when the speed demons have to walk may it bo be sooil PA GATHERING SCRAP FOR WAR WAK EFFORT AROUND EVERY GREAT steel mill where materials for or ships tanks and guns are being produced will be found a large but rapidly diminishing pile of scrap iron th that at scrap iron is a first essential in making aking steel and the piles grow f ices each day on every farm and in every town home borne can be found ono one or moro more pieces of old iron in every community hundreds of pounds of such cuch scrap could be dug up it if the people but looked for it enough scrap to help build a battleship enship or a tank enough to build a yun gun why not a community scrap party that would dig out all the old iron old paper rubber and rags A local committee could quite easily adaer tain the name of a scrap dealer and aprice paid for each class of waste material children could be encouraged cou raged to dig it out the effort would turn into cash waste material that Is of no use in the community it would help to replenish tho the diminishing supplies so badly needed and it would give people of the community a definite war job they would be doing something tangible toward defeating the enemy P paying y ing for the scrap with war savas savings stamps would induce many to buy additional stamps it Is a job a church school amerlean american legion post a service cl club ab 1 4 H club or any other organization could easily do carrying on a house to house and farm to farm canvass GREEN GRE greenkolor COLOR OP OF springtime ae GREEN the glorious green of the trees and the grassl grass not a primary color it is made of a mixture of the golden rays of the spring and summer sun and the blue of the skies mixed with the rain what con can be more glamorous than the stately tree with its crown of spring rind and summer green though old lif in years it represents the springtime of life what more restful than the green carpet of a wide spreading lawn as a setting for the spring and summer flowers cowers green natures backdrop tor for our stage of life lacfi each spring it drops into place to cover the agonies and tra tragedies gedlen of a winter in the drama of living U US S FARMERS AND FOOD production AMERICAN FARMERS as a class are not complaining because of war conditions under which they must plant and cultivate and harvest the food needed by our own and our allied nations they accept as a necessity the taking of their sons end and their help for service in the ormed armed forces those who are belt those too old or otherwise incapable of military service will work longer hours that food may be provided but american farmers do object to supplying food for the highly paid labor leaders motion picture actors newspaper writers and others capa ble of bearing arms who are exempted by the draft boards if they would eat they too should fight buy defense bonds EVER HEAR of volunteer wheat I 1 never did until recently when traveling across kansas and a resident of that told me about it the farmers do not plant volunteer wheat he explained it Is purely a product of nature and is perfectly perfect li good grain this year lit it is esli estimated mated that kansas has approximately two million acres of it Un under derAhe the rules of the AAA it can cannot not be ba harvested nor can it be as pa pasturage storage for cattle it cannot be regimented or regulated and the farmers cant benefit from nature natorp |