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Show LI L'lBd f ! Rl B1U K SHORTAGE Axn spied demons. ! "THKIiK IS NOT a pound of rub- bor that c .ti hr spared for other j than war furx ses." is win t Leon 1 Hender.Min 1. Id a se-uie committee. ' Owners ..ml drivers of American j passi-nger automobiles will realize before ip.v.y t"o!ith: that Mr. Henderson';; Hen-derson';; s; .k'ti.;,-i:t meant just what ' it said. As 1 - t at a window, over- looking a pnpular drive, I wonder I at the Ihou-ghlU'ssness of drivers i who are burning up lurs as though no shortage existed. Cars go whi.zing by at 40 to.j 7l) miles an hour, and I venture a (Jiiess that titiie saved does not mean a thing to one in ten drivers It is the American craze for speed. Our desire to go 'fast, to beat and pass the -fellow just ahead. The car going go-ing 00 to 71) miles iin hour will burn, up tiros 1n half the number of miles that can be covered by a car traveling trav-eling from 25 to 40 miles per hour. There is one satisfaction in It all. The speed demon will be the first fellow to walk If having to walk while the conservative driver still rides should teach speeders a lesson, the rubber shortage might be considered con-sidered a blessing. It would reduce the number of deaths and mannings mann-ings for which the speeders have been responsible. I, for one, will not he sorry when the speed demons have to walk. May it be soon! GATHERING SCRAP 1 OR WAR EFFORT AROUND F.VEHY GI1KAT steel mill, where materials for ships, tanks and guns are being produced, will be found a large, but rapidly diminishing pile of scrap iron. That scrap iron is a first essential in rnaking steel, and the piles grow less each day. On every farm and in every town home can be found one or more pieces of old iron. In every corn- munity, hundreds of pounds of such scrap could be dug up if the people but looked for it enough scrap to help build a battleship or a tank; enough to build a gun. Why not a community scrap party that vyfvlld dig out all the. oi(Llon, bid paper,) rubber and rags? A locSl. committee could quite easily ascertain ascer-tain the name of a scrap dealer and a price paid for each class of waste material 1 Children could - be encouraged en-couraged to dig it out The effort would turn Into cash waste material that is of no use in the community. It would help to replenish the diminishing supplies so badly needed, and it would give people of the community a definite war job. They would be doing something some-thing tangible toward defeating the enemy. Paying for the scrap with war savings stamps would induce many to buy additional stamps. It is- a Job a church, school, American Amer-ican Legion post, a service club, 4-H club, or any other organization could easily do, carrying on a house-to-house and farm-to-farm canvass. see GREEN COLOR OF 1 SPRINGTIME GREEN, the glorious green of the trees and the grass! Not a primary pri-mary color, it is made of a mixture of the golden rays of the spring and summer sun and the blue of the skies, mixed with the rain. What can be more glamorous than the stately tree with its crown of spring and summer green? Though old in years, it represents the springtime of life, What more restful than the green carpet of a wide, spreading lawn as a setting for the spring and summer flowers? Green, nature's backdrop for our stage of life. Each spring it drops into place to cover the agonies and .tragedies of a winter in the drama of living a (J. S. FARMERS AND FOOD PRODUCTION AMERICAN FARMERS, as a class, are not complaining because of war conditions under which they must plant and cultivate and harvest har-vest the food needed by our own and our allied nations. They accept as a necessity the taking of their sons and their help for service In the armed forces. Those who are left, those too old or otherwise incapable of military service, will work longer hours that food may be provided. But Ani'cricah' farmers' do object' to supplying food for the highly paid labor leaders, motion picture actors, newspaper writers and others capable capa-ble of bearing arms, who are exempted ex-empted by the draft boards. If they would eat, they, too, should fight. Buy Defense Bonds EVER HEAR of "volunteer wheat"? 1 never did until recently when traveling across Kansas and a resident of that state told me about ! It. "The farmers do not plant 'volunteer 'vol-unteer wheat,' " he explained. "It Is purely a product of nature and Is perfectly good Brain. This year It is estimated that Kansas has approximately ap-proximately two. million acres of it Under the rules of the AAA lt cannot be harvested, nor can lt be used ss pasturage for cattle. It cannot be regimented or regulated, and the farmers can't benefit from nature |