Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — Tin Cans to Aid in Winning War [ARTICLE]

Tin Cans to Aid in Winning War

Garbage, Too, Will Arast, But Fancy Articles Not Deemed Neceaaaiy by U.S.

Jade carving, lacquered shrines and carved wood jewel boxes will not help win the war, in the opinion of the American government, but tin cans and garbage will. In its steady progress toward elimination of the great American waste, the government has put the three former items on the restricted imports list. The latter Items are being looked after by other departments of the government. Tennis rackets, tennis, golf, base, ping-pong and bowling bails; almond flour used in cosmetics.; metal vases and similar luxuries also are on a newly Issued restricted imports list. The department of agriculture announces that if you do not throw away, your tin cans, but save them to can the kaiser, you may make some money. If you gather 7,000 or 8,000 of them, free from rust, you may get sl2 for them, according to quotations furnished by a smelter. So worried has the government become about the sinful waste of garbage in this country that the food administration has Issued an appeal to the housekeeper, saying: “One ton of garbage contains; “Sufficient gylcerine for 14 75-mllli-meter shells. _ “Sufficient fatty add for manufacture of 100 12-ounce cakes of soap; suffident fertilizer elements to grow eight bushels of wheat; a score of other materials valuable in munitions making. "If used as hog feed it will produce: “Onq hundred pounds of good, firm, first-quality pork. “Can you afford to destroy these valuable products when your government needs them to help win the war? “Put less in your garbage pell and take more out. But what must go in should be kept separate from other household refuse so it can be used. “Remember ! Garbage is valuable. Keep it clean I”