Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-05-06
Save Your Waste Paper
(BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN)

"dsHllBtOH, ~. ", May S.-0dNc
your waste paper! 1t is growing
more and more valuable every day
/ The waste basket heretofore tolerated
| only as a necessary evil suddenly as
sumed an immense Importance 1t ia
supplying the money with which to
help the poor. to buy supplies for the
Red Cross and to pay OF the mort
gage on the old home. stack of old
ma gaines Is now something to be
carefully guarded and mentioned i'm
pressively in ones will. For 1t Is q
lamentable fact that paper--the mere
paper that we have chucked 80 ex
travagantly into the waste basket
Is fast becoming scarce.
! This shortage. which promises to
get worse instead OF better. suggests
many narrowing possibilities. One
paper dealer recently predicted that
+; in a few years all magazines will dis
appear If the situation is not relieved
and newspapers would be confined to
a very few sheets.
Lack of wrapping paper in another
phase OF the paper shortage apt tc
prove embarrassing in the future II
something does not occur to relieve
the situation.
The people of the nation can greatly
assist the paper industry by savina
all their waste paper and rags and
selling them to the manufacturers
| Csmpaigns are now on foot in the
cities all over the country for the cen
servation and collection Of rubbish
/, which is distributed in the paper trade
where it is most needed. Thus De
troit has recently provided for the
daily gathering of it's waste paper tt
be sent to the Kalamazoo valley paper
raw materials. s...
| In New York City the newspapers
carried large display advertisements
of roofing paper manufacturing con
Germ which besought the readers t.
save their old rags and sell them t.
the advertiser The United Hebrew
Charities society Of New York adopt
ed "A bundle Of rags buys loaf o.
bread for their slogan and conducted
vigorous campaign for the rein
statement Of the old fashioned rag baf
in answer to this advertisement ant
the requests Of many other paper con
Germs. The proceeds from the collec
ton of rags sold by this society are t.
he used in caring for the destitute
families Of the ghetto.
The Old Ladies home Of Chatta
nooga has inaugurated the campaign
in that city. collecting rags and trasl
paper and delivering it to papel
concern. The object Of the members
is to raise the debt on their institu
ton.
Canada. equally embarrassed by tn,
shortage of raw materials for making
paper. is following the lead Of tn,
United States. The Canadian Re,
Cross at Toronto distributed $1,000
receptacles among the households AM
business places Of the city, request
Ing the owners to make use of then
as containers for waste paper and oil,
rags. Once week the contents 0
these receptacles are collected by mo
tor trucks. delivered to the paper con
Germs and the proceeds added to thu
reserve fund Of the organization.
In Cincinnati, the school childrei
have joined the movement daily ran
sacking the city In search of vast,
paper. which incidentally Is conduciv,
to clean streets and neat front lawns
The children have come in contac
with the paper shortage themselves
for they are allowed only one sheet o
PAPER on which to do their writer
Gssons. No matter how many mis-