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Show SCHOOL CAMPAIGN TO ASSIST AS-SIST N GATHERING FRUIT PITS FOR WAR. Tho Government needs carbon. car-bon. It asks tho boys, and glrJs of America to save peach, apricot, apri-cot, plum, cherry and prune pits; and hickory nuts, walnuts, butternuts, but-ternuts, and shells of these nuts. Two hundred peach pits or seven pounds of nuts produce enough carbon for ono gas respirator. It Is used to nutrnlize poison gas in :he trenches. Tho schools iirejalways alert to assist in winning win-ning this war. |