Illinois Valley News, Thursday, April 16, 1942
U.S. Requests
Citizens" Aid
In Scrap Hunt
Scrappy Party Ends With Row
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Nation Searches Junk Piles
For Vital \\ ar
Needs.
Do Your Part by
Saving Your Tires
Address
By ROBERT W. McSHANE
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Help win the war by getting
in the scrap!
With this plea, Uncle Sam
is enlisting the aid of every
man, woman and child in the
nation’s war effort.
This new battle cry isn't a
call to arms. Rather, it’s an
urgent plea to salvage every
available scrap of metal, pa­
per, old rags and rubber.
That old stove in your base­
ment, the rusty, ancient bind­
er near the machine shed, the j
bundle of papers in the attic—
all can be used to defeat the
Axis. In fact, almost every
unused item or piece of equip­
ment around the home or
farm can be used with telling
effect in the war against total­
itarian powers.
With the launching of the sal­
vage program, officials of the
War Production board and
representatives of industry
pointed out that a critical shortage
of scrap metal now exists in the
United States. Unless more scrap
is forthcoming at once, war produc­
tion will slow down immeasurably.
Because of this shortage, the war
’ikely will be prolonged by months,
even years.
Salvage for Victory.
“Under normal conditions,” a
WPB representative pointed out,
“the steel industry, for instance, de­
pends upon scrap for approximate­
ly one-third of its supply of raw
material. With the vast expansion
of our armament program, includ­
ing the aid that we must continue
to send to Britain, Russia and China,
it is obvious that the salvaging of
metals heretofore wasted or de­
stroyed must be augmented to a
tremendous degree. In frequent in­
stances recently, steel mills have
been threatened with shut down for
lack of scrap.”
As this is being written, one of
the nation’s largest steel mills re­
ported only enough scrap metal on
hand for two days' production. This
is less than one-tenth of the compa­
ny's normal supply.
The importance of general salvage
is emphasized by the bureau of in­
dustrial conservation, officials of
which point out that the success of
the “Salvage for Victory” program
will have a profound bearing on the
outcome of the war.
According to bureau figures,
waste materials have supplied 53
per cent of the raw materials for
the steel industry, from 20 to 25
per cent for the manufacturers of
aluminum and a large proportion
for many other essential materials.
Guns Versus Automobiles.
For every automobile that isn't
manufactured in 1942, we will have
saved enough zinc and copper to
make brass for 2.400 cartridge cases
for .30 caliber ammunition; enough
nickel to make 100 pounds of nickel
steel for armor plate, projectiles,
and armor piercing bullets; enough
tin to coat 1,000 cans in which we
put food for our soldiers and sailors.
This is only a small part of the
critical material which has been
made available to war industry
through the stoppage of automobile
production.
I), posal of old papers, in a man­
ner both patriotic a.id profitable, is
made easy through use of this
housewife's paper baler. The baler,
which holds 25 pounds, is equipped
with a spool for cord and a razor
blade holder.
AND, YOUNG LADY, REMEMBER.IF YOU
BAKE AT HOME, THE ONLY YEAST WITH
ALL THESE* VITAMINS IS FLEISCHMANNS
Requires Only Ordinary Care.
Patriotic duty was mixed with pleasure recently when Mr. and Mrs.
William Coburn gave a party at their home in Boston. Mass. Party invi­
tations requested each person to bring at least 25 pounds of scrap. Mr.
Coburn views the potential guns contributed by the guests while Mrs.
Coburn tries out a rowing machine donated by Gov. Leverett Saltonstall
of Massachusetts.
Government figures disclose that
there is an enormous pile of scrap
iron and steel on the six million
farms throughout the nation. The
estimates run from l*i million tons
to 34 million tons—more than
enough, when combined with other
materials, to build twice as many
battleships as there are in all the
navies of the world today.
The British ministry of supply es­
timates that one ton of waste paper
will produce any one of the follow­
ing; 1,500 shell containers, 47,000
boxes for .30 caliber ammunition,
71,000 dust covers for airplane en­
gines or 36.000 practice targets. Only
28 per cent of the nation's paper is
now recovered.
Leon Henderson, price administra­
tor, has estimated that defense
needs will require 50 per cent more
waste paper in 1942 than was need­
ed in 1941. A large share of this
must come from family units.
Sixteen per cent of the 882,000
tons of rubber which the U. S. will
use in 1942 must come from rubber
reclaimed from old tires and other
used rubber goods. To get this 141,-
120 tons of reclaimed rubber, whole­
salers will need all the old tires
and tubes, boots, shoes and garden
hose the public can contribute.
Immediate Action Needed.
C A passenger car yields about
1.500 pounds of scrap iron and steel.
C A half-ton truck (blitz buggy)
takes 3,970 pounds of steel, a four-
ton truck 18.000 pounds, a 27-ton
tank uses 72,000 pounds and a light
tank 32,000 pounds.
C. A carload of blueprint paper is
used in drawing the plars for one of
our 35,000-ton battleships.
And your lawn? Your shrubbery? Will
they, too, be a joy to see? Our 32-page
terial at current prices.
Persons
who have been in the habit of giving
wastepaper, rags and scrap metals
to charitable organizations, such as
the Red Cross, are urged to con­
tinue that practice, since these or­
ganizations sell their collections
promptly.
Small towns are becoming an in­
creasingly important source of sup­
ply. Residents have been asked to
collect such material as brass or
iron beds, electrical equipment,
kitchen utensils, picture frames, oid
metal ornaments, toys, coat hang­
ers, old carpeting, blankets, fire­
place equipment, old furnace parts,
plumbing fixtures, radiators, auto­
mobile chains, license plates, gar­
den tools, burlap bags, old rubber
and all types of hardware, includ­
ing door knobs, hinges, hooks, locks,
springs, etc.
The lists furnished by local sal­
vage committees are ample proof
that almost everything found in o
cellar, attic or back yard has a defi­
nite salvage value.
The War Production board looks
upon every scrap metal pile as an
unworked mine. Probably no other
metal is in demand in such vast
quantities as steel. It is needed not
only for tanks, guns and planes, but
also goes into the hulls of new mer-
chant ships, into freight cars and
new housing units and industrial
plants. Already the WPB has acted
Even the lowly rag plays an im­
portant role in wartime. Every
housewife knows how necessary
cleaning rags are to her domestic
duties. Uncle Sam's problem is the
Don't forget to take that empty
same—only it is magnified a few
toothpaste or shaving cream tube
million times. Those are essential
with you to the store when you
to war production plants, where they
want a new supply. Customers
are used to keep machinery clean
are required to turn in sonic kind
and in working order.
of collapsible tube for each new
What can you do to help in the
one purchased. The retailer who
nation's salvage for victory pro­
sells one without the proper ex­
gram?
change is liable to a maximum
The answer lies in direct, immedi­
fine of ilO.dOO fine or a year's
ate action. The scrap material ly­
imprisonment.
ing idle around jour home, around
your farm and around your busi­
ness place must be uncovered and to conserve the nation's supply of
turned over to war production. It steel by ordering curtailment in the
must be done immediately. Short­ use of this essential metal in such
civilian goods as refrigerators,
ages in critical material exist now.
They must be met at once if Amer­ washing machines and automobiles.
However, the methods of saving
ica is to meet the war production
steel at the source are not suffi­
schedule established by President
Roosevelt. Industry can answer the cient. Salvaging scrap iron and
present challenge to democracy— steel, known to be available in huge
but only if every person co-operates quantities everywhere, offers a rich
vein of raw material, of which only
to the fullest possible extent.
Every effort is being directed to­ the surface has been tapped.
Lead Is Vital Metal.
ward developing in the minds of the
general public an understanding
No metal is more directly asso­
that the need for metals, paper, rub­ ciated with the production of weap-
ber and rags now cluttering up ons than is lead. It furnishes bul­
homes, shops and factories is a con­ lets for rifles and machine guns and
tinuing need, and a demand that is used in shrapnel and shells. Me-
will increase rather than lessen.
chanical lead is indispensable for
Local salvage committees are the construction of explosive plants
functioning in every community while tetra-ethyl lead is essential
throughout the nation. These com­ for the high octane aviation gaso­
mittees will, furnish complete lists line which feeds our present-day 400-
of needed scrap materials to every mile-an-hour fighting planes.
interested person.
While emphasis has been placed
on the salvage of steel, the disrup­
Farms Are Best Source.
Farms, the greatest single source tion of supplies from abroad has
of scrap material in the general made it imperative that the nation
salvage program, are expected to conserve every available pound of
furnish thousands of tons of scrap lead. The use of this vital metal
metal in the form of obsolete ma­ has Increased in direct proportion
chinery and tools, junked automo­ to the war effort. Lead, lying idle
biles, old logging chains, wire fenc­ in shops, homes and automobile
ing, old tires and tubes, obsolete “graveyards,” should be reclaimed
motors and motor parts, wheelbar­ and directed back into war produc­
rows, rusted gears and the thousand tion.
Zinc, too, is essential metal. Old
and one things which find their way
to the scrap heaps on almost every , wash pails and buckets, galvanized
wire and tin roofings which are no
farm in the nation.
Farmers who are unable to haul longer in use can go directly into
their own scrap to the nearest sal­ the production of propellers for bat­
vage depot have merely to call the tleships or into essential parts for
closest salvage committee for the tanks, trucks and a variety of other
local county agent) and arrange­ war machines.
One of the scarcest and most criti­
ments will be made to dispose of
cally needed metals is copper. With
the material.
State salvage committees have an estimated shortage of thousands
recommended that any person who of tons of copper predicted for the
has an accumulation of scrap ma­ coming year, government orders
terial, in whatever form it may be, have restricted the use of this es­
call a nearby waste material or sential material almost exclusively
junk dealer, who will buy such ma- . to defense production.
Winning the War With Waste
C Er .ugh steel and rubber go into
a single 27-ton medium tank to
make 24 automobiles.
C The steel in the hull of a heavy
cruiser totals 6.835 tons. In a 35.000-
ton battleship, 18.000 tons are need­
ed.
C The shells turned cut sy army
ordnance plants are packed in 30.000
tons of paper board each month.
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summer comes. If you have a
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a clump of shrubbery, the ar­
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Not Worth the Hunt
Life would be a perpetual flea
hunt if a man were obliged to run
down all the innuendoes, inveraci­
ties, insinuations and misrepresen­
tations which are uttered against
him.—Henry Ward Beecher.
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