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Show pH 0 XHE TIN CAN PROBLEM. B It is surprising how, when you try to speed up in- H nstrial activity, one defect after another shows itself fl "m the system of organization. It is about like mending B wi old pair of shoes. If you repair the sole then the heel B ives out. Next the upper cracks, and by the time that IH 3ias been patched the stitching falls apart. m But wonders can be accomplished with our American B capacity for adjustment. One of the minor defects in our IH -organization for war is now the shortage of tin for can- B img purposes. There is a nationwide campaign to popu- IH lame the use of paper, fibre, and other containers. With m ihe government food organization mobilizing women and B children for canning food products, a largely increased H rood supply in this form should be available. But if tin H as going to be scarce, the canned product will fall short IB ."xozMack of a hitherto despised material. H - "The tm can nas 1)een regarded as about the lowest M .form of value. In the popular mind it is the constituent M of dump heaps, something that bad boys attach to the IH tails of harmless dogs and cats, and the legendary food M yrf the goat. Many a house built on filled in land really IH Tests on a subsoil of tin cans. A back yard filled with iR them represents about the abomination of desolation, and m it is hard to realize that this represents material of vital W rvalue. M "You begin to realize it when at the automobile garage IH they will sell you a given quantity of oil for 70 cents, if M oii hring your own can, but if you expect the product to IB lie put in a container they will ask 90 cents. So far there iH "5ms been no tin saving campaign, but we may have to IH tiome to it. Meanwhile the public is reminded that every IB Time it buys a double quantity of anything in a single IH container it gets a lower price on its product and helps M "tsave a valuable and scarce material. |