The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-26
USES OF PAPER.
May Play Important Part in Reconstruct
ton Work in France and Belgium.

Paper promises to play a. significant
part IN reconstruction work in northern
France and Belgium. Ideas taken from
the Germans and extension of present
uses by American and British manufac-
turers are being combined. Despite the
shortage in wood pulp and its products
the work Is going forward rapidly.
Waterproof pasteboard houses, easily
handled and put together, are probably
the most important development. Such
dwellings. have oiled paper in place Of
glass windows. They will, be put to-
gether with screws made of wood pulp,
screws that are equally serviceable in
wooden houses and which have the added
advantage of taking colors of the materi-
Iai in which they are placed Tables,
Echairs and other bits of furniture now are
being made Of paper. Even kitchen
Eutensils are SO constructed
Ease of transportation due to the enor-
NOUS saving in weight, as well as the
ease OF replacement, are the chief factors
that are making paper a universal ma
terial of reconstruction days. Tin can
! listers are being replaced rapidly by paper
containers. Paper buckets are more dur
able than galvanized iron or wood. Ga
RACES, fire. PROCEED by simple process,
are finding market and at small cost
Even some of the ships which carry the
paper made material to the stricken ma
tion abroad will be equipped with paper
| lifeboats. That contribution comes from
the japanese. who not only. thoroughly
waterproof the boats, but are enabled
by process-of cementing them to build
them in clinker types, strong and SER
vieeable. The pulp for this use is taken
from the eyerpresent Japanese mulberry
. tree, which affords the toughest paper
fiber known.
From the Germans comes the idea of
paper clothes. The efficacious British
blockade cut off so much raw material
THAT Ersatz substituted soon became the
German byword Thread made of paper
and woven into clothing formed a materi-
! al that even would stand washing. A
Berlin newspaper announced recently a
sale of women's and children's clothing
/ in which the paper threads had been
combined with artificial silk Counter.
panes, bedquilts. blankets and underclo.
thing all were made of paper
| When the piratical underseas raiders
were caught. end when the even more
'piratical air bombers were brought down
'tisS II AhA'h dutioiikico
that the oilskins worn by the former and
the feather" Jackets protecting the lat.
ter were basically paper.
Still another use made of paper by the
Germans was in driving belts for ma
chinery, thin steel bands being inserted
ito take up the bulk of the strain IIar
ness and saddlery, of course. came in fol
this substitute. and it is believed some
of the airplane wings were made of paper
in the absence of the linen and silk mix,
ture used by the allies for their aircraft
Sewing silks" hosiery. wool, vast,
and roofing titles" all are being made Of
paper. In this country for a quarter o.
century some of the best freight cal
wheels have been made of LAYERS of pa
per, compressed to a phenomenal degre,
1 by hydraulic press, and provided Will
/ steel tlanges and tires.
| Imitation thing, lasishly decorated. il
/ still another usey and the gamut of.utili
I'ty has been by no means run in this briei
summary of the dawning age OF paper
| New York Sun.