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Show EIS MIDDLE INITIAL IS W. You don't often see it in full but the right name of the elderly elder-ly gentleman we all know so well is Uncle AV. Sam. What does the initial letter stand for Oh, that's because his full name is Uncle Waste Sam. His middle name is Waste. There is no doubt abotit it. You see it everywhere. Most countries would pretty nearly live on the things wo waste. "Wo waste mote than $25,000, 000 a year in trees that we allow al-low to burn up. The other day we heard of fifty-one forest fires going on in the same Stale at tho same time- Wo find duplications in government, two and three and even four bureaus having jurisdiction over the sumo thing. AVa.slo of labor, time and money. Thousands of hotels a u d tens of thousands of restaurants restaur-ants in America charge high prices because their patrons demand quantities of food, much of which is left on the tables. Most of the costly food that is thus left behind, goes into the garbage can. "Which means that the diners wasted huge sums of money in the aggregate, ag-gregate, and caused great waste of precious food. It is a rare thing not to find waste in American industry. (Jo to almost any oil well and note how much oil Mows away. I Visit almost any factory and mill and about the first thing your eye falls upon is some wasted thing. It is so in most homes and in many barns and fields. Waste in greater or lessor de- Yes, his middle initial is AV. |