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Show Fats And Greases Needed The Office of War Information has appealed to housewives to deliver at least 230,000,000 pounds of waste cooking fats and greases to meet a "critical need" in 1944. The goal is double the collection collec-tion last year but at least three war agencies emphasize the vital need of fats, which are an ingredient in-gredient in more than eight hundred hun-dred was products. Of course, we have no way of understanding the full extent of the need, but it should be apparent appar-ent that the Government would not make such a strenuous effort to colect waste cooking fats and greases unless there existed a real demand. Anyway, the drive gives housewives an opportunity to do something more about the war than to express verbal sympathies sym-pathies for the men who are fighting the enemy. There is a tendency, on the part of some women, to relieve themselves of this wartime opportunity op-portunity by thinking -that the contribution of one individual is unimportant. It is easy to convince con-vince ourselves that the small a mount of fats and greases that . are available is not enough to compensate for the time, energy and effort required to collect and i deliver to product. Fortunately, there are many women who do not take this attitude. at-titude. In fact, the WPB and WFA report that collections last year relieved a "critical shortage" short-age" of glycerine which is essential essen-tial to the manufacture of munitions muni-tions and other war materials. Consequently, it should be a matter mat-ter of pride for every housewife to contribute her maximum a-mount a-mount of fats and greases in order or-der that there may exist no possibility pos-sibility of a shortage in 1944. |