Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — Waste Not [ARTICLE]

Waste Not

“Clean-Up” Movement Rewarded

by Government

The definition of waste is appreciably narrowed by the war which the department of commerce, in conjunction with the national “Clean-Up and PaintUp” campaign bureau of the savings division the United States treasury, has declared on the»city dump. That institution is a notorious prodigal. How extravagant are its destructive methods, says the Philadelphia Ledger, is demonstrated by the government’s plan, to exchange War Savings stamps for sufficientquantities of “trash" gathered together as a result of the spring housecleaning. Old paper is especially valuable. The practice of burning it on the dump has been a glaring example of American extravagance. England w r as cured of this sort of wanton destruction during the war. The opportunity of the American housewife is now at hand. She can augment her collection of War Savings stamps, make the cellar neat and at the same time aid the government if she deals with the “Clean-Up” agents who will visit her. The individual who will venture to call anything “worthless trash” nowadays is likely to be ’way off in his economics.