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Show PUI TO GET M FOR KNITTERS IS LATEST IDEA , Novel ideas have been the ruJ.e in the successful enterprise of the American Amer-ican Red Cross Society but another just introduced will at any rate equal any before used. By the new method it is hoped to help local chapters of the society to get around the difficulty difficul-ty of procuring yarn for knitting. A group of traveling salosme.n are touring the country advising the chapters chap-ters what to buy and where lo buy it to the best advantage. Their advice is restricted purely to the purchase of wool and they will point out the ways in which the National Woolgrowers' association has been able to corner for Uncle Sara and his fighting men the choicest wool on the market. The new allotment plan lo the Red Cross has cut off the promiscuous buying of yarns and woolen materials for making soldiers' garments and has limited the supply to each chapter to the allotment made by national headquarters head-quarters at Washington. D. C. This discourages the buying by chapters or individuals of yarn from outside sources. sour-ces. According to word received at local headquarters, no materials should be obtained for Red Cross purposes except through a Red Cross chapter, unless the chapter should be unable to meet the demands made upon It. The traveling salesmen are meeting the situation by visiting every Red Cross branch throughout tho country and advising that if workers cannot get yarn from headquarters they are privileged to buy it from whatever source they can. but not otherwise. This plan was favored by the war industries board. A recent delay in shipment of wool has made speci.il purchases by some chapters and individuals indi-viduals absolutely necessary. |