u. S. Requests
Citizens’ Aid
In Scrap Hunt
Ration Searches Junk Piles
For Vital War
Needs.
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, paper, old rags
and rubber. That old stove in
your basement, the rusty, an
cient binder near the machine
shed, the 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 the totalitarian
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
likely 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 50 per cent
of the raw materials for the steel in
dustry, 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.
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Disposal of old papers, in a man
ner both patriotic and 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
hlade holder.
Winning the War With Waste
C, Enough steel and rubber go into
a single 27-ton medium tank to
ma ke 24 automobiles.
<1 The steel in the hull of a heavy
cruiser totals 6,635 tons. In a 35,000-
tun battleship, 18,000 tons are need
ed.
<• The shells turned out by army
ordnance plants are packed in 30,000
tons of paper board each month.
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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 V/z million tons
to 3Va 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.
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
same—only it is magnified a few
million times. Those are essential
to war production plants, where they
are used to keep machinery clean
and in working order.
What can you do to help in the
nation’s salvage for victory pro
gram?
The answer lies in direct, immedi
ate action. The scrap material ly
ing idle around your home, around
your farm and around your busi
ness place must be uncovered and
turned over to war production. It
must be done immediately. Short
ages in critical material exist now.
They must be met at once if Amer
ica is to meet the war production
schedule established by President
Roosevelt. Industry can answer the
present challenge to democracy—
but only if every person co-operates
to the fullest possible extent.
Every effort is being directed to
ward developing in the minds of the
general public an understanding
that the need for metals, paper, rub
ber and rags now cluttering up
homes, shops and factories is a con
tinuing need, and a demand that
will increase rather than lessen.
Local salvage committees are
functioning in every community
throughout the nation. These com
mittees will furnish complete lists
of needed scrap materials to every
interested person.
Farms Are Best Source.
Farms, the greatest single source
of scrap material in the general
salvage program, are expected to
furnish thousands of tons of scrap
metal in the form of obsolete ma
chinery and tools, junked automo
biles, old logging chains, wire fenc
ing, old tires and tubes, obsolete
motors and motor parts, wheelbar
rows, rusted gears and the thousand
and one things which find their way
to the scrap heaps on almost every
farm in the nation.
Farmers who are unable to haul
their own scrap to the nearest sal
vage depot have merely to call the
closest salvage committee (or the
local county agent) and arrange
ments will be made to dispose of
the material.
State salvage committees have
recommended that any person who
has an accumulation of scrap ma
terial, in whatever form it may be,
call a nearby waste material or
junk dealer, who will buy such ma-
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 plans for one of
our 35,000-ton battleships.
HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
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, old
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 a
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
Don’t forget to take that empty
toothpaste or shaving cream tube
with you to the store when you
want a new supply. Customers
are required to turn in some kind
of collapsible tube for each new
one purchased. The retailer who
sells one without the proper ex
change is liable to a maximum
line of $lO,OOO fine or a year’s
imprisonment.
to conserve the nation’s supply of
steel by ordering curtailment in the
use of this essential metal in such
civilian goods as refrigerators,
washing machines and automobiles.
However, the methods of saving
steel at the source are not suffi
cient. Salvaging scrap iron and
steel, known to be available in huge
quantities everywhere, offers a rich
vein of raw material, of which only
the surface has been tapped.
Lead Is Vital Metal.
No metal is more directly asso
ciated with the production of weap
ons than is lead. It furnishes bul
lets for rifles and machine guns and
is used in shrapnel and shells. Me
chanical lead is indispensable for
the construction of explosive plants
while tetra-ethyl lead is essential
for the high octane aviation gaso
line which feeds our present-day 400-
mile-an-hour fighting planes.
While emphasis has been placed
on the salvage of steel, the disrup
tion of supplies from abroad has
made it imperative that the nation
conserve every available pound of
lead. The use of this vital metal
has increased in direct proportion
to the war effort. Lead, lying idle
in shops, homes and automobile
“graveyards,” should be reclaimed
and directed back into war produc
tion.
Zinc, too, is essential metal. Old
wash pails and buckets, galvanized
wire and tin roofings which are no
longer in use can go directly into
the production of propellers for bat
tleships or into essential parts for
tanks, trucks and a variety of other
war machines
One of the scarcest and most criti
cally needed metals is copper. With
an estimated shortage of thousands
of tons of copper predicted for the
coming year, government orders
have restricted the use of this es
sential material almost exclusively
to defense production.
Approximately 600,000 tons of the
estimated supply which will be
available next year will be import
ed, most of it from South America,
and an. disruption of this outside
source would be a deadly blow to
rearmament.
In 1941, approximately 34 per cent
of the copper supply came from
scrap. In 1942, it is plain that even
this must be substantially augment
ed by an increase in the return of
potential copper now lying unused in
cellars, attics, and back yards, on
farms and in shops and factories.
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