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Show I" MONEY IN RUBBISH. "Ogden is about to enter upon its annual an-nual spring campaign of cleaning. The accumulations that result nfter the period of raking and sweeping arc looked upon as a sheer liability and the citizen is only too glad to get the rubbish hauled away without exponse to him. Yet Secretary Alexander of the department of commerce says the value of unreclaimed waste material throughout the nation is aboui five hundred million dollars! In discussing the reclamation of waste today, Secretary of Commerce Alexander made the following announcement an-nouncement 1 ' "Spring is here and with it comes spring housecleaning. The housewives house-wives will, in cleaning out the house, throw away or burn great quantities gl waste. The lessons learned during the war should not be forgotten; let 5t be borne in mind that the reclama tion of waste is a problem which is not only fitted for war times but for ihe times of peace as well. The argument argu-ment which may be advanced from time to time that the utilization of I waste material in times other than war is not necessary, is fallacious, because be-cause it is very essential that some means of offsetting thet II. C. L. be i found. 1 "Do not waste, waste but turn it back into the channels of commerce. You will bo surprised at the tidy little lit-tle sum of money that can be derived by turning over all character of old paper, rags, rubber, metals, and other odds and ends to the Junk dealers who will in turn start this waste back into useful trades. "It has been estimated that the value of unreclaimed waste material throughout the United States in the form of paper, rubber, metals, etc., is about $500,000,000. Fully 90 per cent I of this material can be reclaimed (through the proper efforts. I "The Department of Commerce has I on hand a limited number of publica-tlons publica-tlons on waste reclamation which it jwill bo glad to send interested per- j sons." oo |