Show Waste Fats Make Munitions and Medicines Need Million Pounds a Year Says Nelson Every Family Must Save a Pound Each Month to Meet l Quota An adequate supply of fats and oils is essential to the successful successful successful suc suc- prosecution of the war With those words Donald Nelson chairman of the war I production board urged housewives of the nation to toI I I cooperate actively in a campaign campaign campaign cam cam- designed to salvage every a available vaila ble ounce of waste fat The fat salvage drive Is aimed at every home Its specific target target tar tar- J get Is the kitchen where unfortunately unfortunately millions of pounds of glye- glye I containing erine-containing fat are arc being poured I into the garbage pail or down the kitchen drain I j Fats will help win the war and be bea I a prime essential in negotiating and implementing the peace Fat and oil sources have taken a terrific beating in the war Whole areas that produced palm and coconut oil have been laid waste cattle have been killed of oft off to feed fighting men Europe is in the throes of a fat fam fame ine me How seriously this shortage may I affect our own troops and our civilian ci ci- ci civilian vilian population depends in a large measure on the people themselves I The quota of million pounds of fat for household salvage in 1943 was not set as a measure of the need The shortage for all purposes I military industrial and domestic was far tar in excess of that tha t figure ItI It was worked out that American I households could save and turn in million pounds of used kitchen grease without undue hardship and without depriving families of their fat energy requirements Due to many factors some o of them beyond the control of ot homemakers the rate at which kitchen grease is being turned in is far short of the quota Yet a glance at the figures at nt the quantity of meat butter and shortening available for tor family use Is convincing proof that American households could salvage double their quota if they would buckle down to the job on a drop by drop tablespoonful at a time program of saving and then turn in their grease to a local meat dealer collector The need for waste fat for glycerIne glycerine ine and other products by-products for explosives explosives explosives ex ex- plosives munitions and medicines is not diminishing as our troops advance advance ad ad- i vance on all fronts To the contrary contrary contrary con con- it is increasing Nor is the need sporadic or momentary It 4 r A Four 37 mm anti I aircraft shells can y be fired with irith the glycerine contained s sin S in one pound of s used kitchen fat Start today to sal tal- tr rage oil all cooking fat at t lam you dont don't eat cat and i turn it in regularly to your meat dealer Pd Q c rv i Q cZ S. S py- py 4 Is a long term continuing program which will probably extend well beyond beyond be be- yond rond the limits of a shooting war according to an Office of War Production Pro Pro- Production statement Fat Makes Glycerine Without glycerine we could not produce gunpowder to fire many of ot our shells and ship and plane lane instruments in instruments instruments in- in would not function Glycerine has no substitute or in any case no satisfactory one has yet been discovered for many types of explosives Because of the shrinking shrinking shrink shrink- ing inC reserve stock of ot this vital ingredient ingredient in in- the already has found it necessary to ban the use of glycerine glycerine erine in practically all civilian products products products prod prod- cigarettes cosmetics dentifrices dentifrices dentifrices denti denti- frices and dozens of others This drastic move was made because because because be be- cause we are nowhere near to bringing bringing bring bring- ing tog used fat collections to the point which will achieve the million pounds yearly quota necessary to I provide the glycerine its many war uses I require National collections have continued to climb even with the advent of meat and shortening r rationing but the highest monthly total so far far pounds l last st March is almost nine million pounds short of the required monthly total If you dont don't think waste fat is la important listen to this 31 tablespoons tablespoons tablespoons table table- spoons o of used kitchen fat will make enough glycerine for a pound and anda a half of ot gunpowder Or 31 tablespoons tablespoons tablespoons table table- spoons of fat will provide powder to fire four 37 mm anti aircraft shells Figuring another way a pound of 01 fat will yield enough glycerine for Vz pounds of powder for machine gun cun cartridges There are other materials ma In gunpowder besides glycerine glycerine erine derivatives but the glycerine crine compound is what puts the thc punch In the explosive Other uses for glycerine In war equipment requiring a liquid that does not freeze easily or has some other necessary quality are In recoil recoil reo re re- coil mechanisms for guns buns hydraulic ic devices such as presses and elevators elevators elevators ele ele- pumps ships' ships steering gear In compasses depth charge releases and many for other mechanical pur pur- poses Glycerine Is also employed In special compounds to coat weapons weapons weapons ons as anti freeze in radiators and andon andon andon on windshields and in medicines Medical Uses The medical use of glycerine Is constantly growing in importance Glycerine is present in these and many other preparations Tannic Tann acid used in n th the treatment tT un of powder and other burns bums Some used In the treatment treatment treat treat- ment of shock as well as diabetes Tinctures of ot opium and gentian used as sedatives to ease pain Smallpox vaccine as a preventative tive live injection given to all men inthe inthe in inthe the armed forces Sulpha ointments for tre treatment treatment treat treat- t- t ment of ot fungus growths and abra abra- Nitro glycerine tablets for a heart stimulant used as an antiseptic Military medicine is achieving remarkable re reo remarkable results In saving lives With new techniques and drugs the death rate from wounds has been reduced from 76 per cent in World War I to 31 per cent In this con con- Sulfa Sulla compounds and blood plasma arc are given much of the credit creditt t for r this splendid accomplishment In order that that high rate of recovery recovery recovery re re- covery and the low rate of death of our wounded may continue the manufacturers of for the armed forces must have a plentiful supply of glycerine As more men are sent into various fields of action it is inevitable that there will be bemore bemore bemore more casualties and that a still stillmore stillmore stillmore more plent plentiful ul supply of healing drugs will be needed At the present time the householders householders householders house house- holders of America are contributing around nine n million pounds of used kitchen fats to the war effort each month but this is only a little more than half halt of what is needed to keep our glycerine stocks at a safe leveL I It is safe sate to say that at least three times this amount o of valuable erine-containing erine fI fat t still is being wasted Remember all fat is want want- ed The color is unimportant as brown fat is as good as white for I chemical processing The housewife has only to save as much f fat t as possible each day store it In a tin can and take her savings regularly to the meat dealer who will pay her for It and send it on its way to the war production line Within 21 days it will Mill be processed and the glycerine thus obtained willbe will willbe willbe be put to some vital war use |