Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 18 June 1942 — HOOSIER HOME FRONT [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HOME FRONT

Land-locked Indiana has produced the equivalent of 15 destroyers, and. more appropriately. 121 medium 27-ton tanks in the month of May. This, through only the operations of the Auto Graveyard Section of the War Production Board headed by Donald Cumming*, district chief. That mean- that Indiana auto graveyards have delivered to *teel mills 13.798 tons of -crap (hiring May. which put together with that much pig iron makes double that amount of *teel. That much steel make' that many de*tmx er# and that many tanks. ********* About 25 Office of. Price Adminstr ♦ion investigators polled Indianapolis this week see what compliance there was with the po'ting of price* ? living” items. It - has been found bv -pot check that onlv one third of thretail merchants have been complete! complying with regulations (hit third have been incomp! telv comp!' ing. One third have not been comp!' inn at all. Othri survey* iii.:-. !>•■ made md pkt chants must know that thev mu-t cam ply. « *««««*** Alter i little more than -ix month' of war we are turning out -hip* and weapon- at a rate that mu-t give Hitler and IHohito nightmare-. But if we are » win the war and win it qnicklv we -I i d< !»'■ re than merely keep up the present rate of production of war products. Vie must turn out ship- and weapons even more rapidly. This mean* we nm-t have war mater ial- to put into the machines of war and it mean* that we must use almost all the space in our ships and almost all of the engines and cars on our rail roads to move these materials to the factories and the finished weapons to dock «ide. Onlv in one wav can we provide these great amounts of materials and the trail spoliation to move them and that is bv living live* at different from the . lives we are li' ’Pg, m»v as the life we are now living differs from the life of pence Thi* we -hall do. and never doubt it because we have demonstrated our ca P.icitv for acting together toward i tom mon end, It is one of the lies of the dictator- that the democratic peoplecannot wark together, that people onlv work to-efhm when, tilt v ir-- whipped to work bv the la-h of tvrannv. The dictators doubtless are i- di-m.’ived !>' the accompli-limcnt- of the XX ar Pro duction Drive a- bv the fierce am I tied! rated re-i-tame of the Russian*. >**♦*♦♦ The need* of total war dredge up -ome -traiige materials from the industrial -eas Recent W.P.B. orders, for instance, have dealt with istles. waste waste, osnaburg. ami “dotted women foothold-' Dotted women- footholds are the bottoms of women's rubber galoshes with rubber dot- in them for decorative purposes. l-tlr i* a mexican fiber used as h «ub stitute for jute and other fibers we used to import from the east Osnaburg is a loosely woven cloth . .Since the sum mer of 1940 we have spent $30,615,000.000 on the army and navy la-t month we were spending at the rate of $l4B. 000.000 a day. more than $1 a dav for everv man. woman and child in the country... The “victory” bicvcle ha* been put under a price ceiling bv the Office of Price Administration . . .The highest retail price in the middle zone $33.50 .These bicycles, a* all other bicycles, will be rationed bv «-*«*>****f If vou have pawned your typewriter von ran get it back if you pay the pawn broker ...OP A so interpreted rationing legulation* recently... Use of tin for unnecessary civilian purposes will be cut another 10 per cent July 1 because of urgent military and civilian need*...Most of America'- milk trucks will be off the streets in less than two years unless further steps are taken to •ave their tires. After September 1 no mattres«e« or pad* may contain iron or steel... .There is goin£ to be a lot of substitute material in electric light bulbs from now on but WPB says their efficiency won’t be affected. WPB estimates that the order requiring the use of substitutes in making light bulbs will save a million pounds of brass. 40.000 pounds of copper and 30.000 pounds of nickel... .WPB has prohibited the use />f cellophane for packing animal food, rubber nipples, candy and window card*.