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Show HOW THEY WASTE. Herbert Hoover, during the war, had ' much to say to American housewives 1 about waste. Ho told ihem how mueh 'fi of the sorely-needed food was going j into the garbage pail; why it should i not go there, and bow they migbt keep It out. They reduced food wastage, t and did their bit toward winning the ggggfl tlfi wav. That, as you may remember. s"' : Hooer an international reputation as an expert on waste. Considering him in ihat light n la only reasonable (hat a world should be'ftupresBSd with bis most recent observations ob-servations on waste. Now he is talking about wastes in American production. They are. he as erts, responsible for unemplo no n: and business failure-, lurce and Small. Among production wasres Hoover lists labor conflicts (strikes and lock-nut-1. losses in labor turn over, failure I to obtain maximum production of rhe individual, poor co-ordination of great industries, and allures In transportation, transporta-tion, coal snd power supplies. Some of those wastes can be wholl eliminated; others may bi grestly re j duced. H is up to American business I labor and capital. Will the response i be as unanimous and earnest as that Hoover Kot from the American house-w house-w I e in the ar ? |