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Show SAVE PEACH PITS FOR THE 0. S. I ARMY AND BY SO DOING HELP j TO PROTECT AMERICAN BOYS i i What can be done with the fruit plf?' which are being collected in the ci t ? Make charcoal for gas masks. come3 the immediate answer. Of course, bui that isn't what is meant. What can be done with them has been asked the Standard many times since collecting them began. The Standard tried to find out today but got only as fqr as to learn that they "ought to bo. kept ' Tho .government will probably tell what to do with them within a few days. Although the Red Cross is expected ex-pected to serve as a collecting agency. It is safo to say there are- many thousands of fruit stones saved In th? city already waiting to be turned over to the government. School children have been carrying them to school for a week, housewives have been saving them, gijocers have been saving them, factories have been saving them. The matter of what to do with them was put up to the Council of Defense today but no solution was offered except tho nistniction to save them and sit tight until the government tells where to send them. The Murphy Wholesale Grovory company today gave the Standard a letter which is being sent to all wholesale whole-sale grocers by the United States Food administration which suggests a method. The whole letter follows: "Only the best gas masks will save our boys from painful death. These masks cannot be made without good charcoal. Wood t charcoal hns proved deficient. The necessary charcoal can be made from pits and shells named ' T bolow. Enormous quantities of thcr'c arc needed at once. The government j 6 needs every stono and pit and must $ havo them immediately. "We ask you to save them and "see j that each of your customers Immc-' diately place in adequate receptacle in o a conspicuous place in his storo with A a sign, printed in large letters, read-Ing: read-Ing: "A FEW PEACH STONES MAY ft SAVE A SOLDIER'S LIFE." $J 'Leave yours hero and help make gas masks. Peach stones, prune pits, fl plum pits, apricot pits, olive pits, cher-ry cher-ry pits, date seeds, brazil nut shells, hickory nut shells, walnut shells, but- fl ternut shells. $ "We need them now. Before deposi- ing they should be thoroughly dried in H an oven or In tho sun. ty "Remember the list. Under no cir- cumstanccs deposit any other pits or a shells. 9 "We are collecting these for the 9 army at the request of the United Stales Food Administration. , 9 "The wholesale grocer can render a 9 great serviqe to his country by print- ing these signs for his customers and V seeing that they are distributed and posted. 6 "The Red Cross in your district will y seo to the shipment of the material collected. Special arrangement may be 1 made with tho Red Cross to make fre- 9 quent collections from large produc- ers who are unable to take care of u their own drying. y "United States Food Administration!" |