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Show ' ' ";- ;" Saw fife ana Shells for Ihcfc Sam . j Charcoal made from them, used lit das raasls, : ; will 5a vg many lives of our sddkrsOvenhsxe" : 1 1 REArj K'i'fy 4"1""-- Y j' i v, 3. rood Admlnijuinen. Don't Let Your Boy or Your Neighbor's Boy Die on No Man's Land for Lack of a Gas Mask, With the Proper Carbon in It. An opportunity for anyone anil evoryono to do war work, Is now oCtorod by the government Thin opportunity la the saving of the pits X certain fruits and the shells of wattta nuLs, which arc to be used In tho making of gas-masks. Receptacles Recep-tacles for receiving the pits and shells will be placed In every city and town, at centrally located points. Uncle Sam wants you all to save tho pits of poaches, prunes, plums, I apricots, olives, cherries, and dates, and tho shells of Brazil nuts, hickory nuta. walnuts and butternuts. Theso must be cleane'd and dried before being turned in. The charcoal carbon mado from theso pits and sholls haa an absorption absorp-tion value beyond anything else known. Tho greater the absorp-tl absorp-tl on ..ofG crijian. mado., .poison gases. the Ices danger to the American soldier sol-dier who encounters them. Two hundred peach pits, or scVen poundo of rut shells, will supply carbon for one mask. Make this your minimum task. Having caved enough for one mask, keep on for a second, a third, and then keep on. Bakers, confectioners, wholesale and retnll druggists, restaurant keepers, fruit sellers, hotel proprietors pro-prietors In fact every source from which material for the musks can bo got. hus been lined up by tho Government. It only remains for the millions of American homes to Join In tho work. Good carbon can be made from tho shells of cocoanuts. but the shortage o nhlpa renders their transportation trom tho tropica MM1 dilllcult- Tho Fo6d Administration L ( reuueatcdbiikers to use coeounuts WS' aa much as por Ible so ns to stlrnu- JmV lale their Importation, but with Tower ships this makes a com- Mkt Pllcaiotl problem at the best. fM" So tho call haa been sent out for W the men and women of the nation f'Bb15 to make tho effort and take thu trouble to supply the tntinltely bet- tcr material, alrcaiy in this country. M' Housnkeepors can either deposit rl,' their accumulations of sholls and JI'M pits In some public receptacle, or s can give their offerings to the .local 'ilKJj Red Crcsa Chapter, which will ahlp fll them to the Gas Defrnse Division of ' the Chemical War Service of the Army., - 1 hi jj |