Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13

how many articles of war we make
Hitler uses American patents when
ever he wants to and does not report
to anyone. l do not see why we
should not use any foreign patent in
this time of emergency. We can
keep our own books, and when the
world returns to sanity, we can
, compensate those deserving of COM
pensation. This is no time for us to
stand and be robbed with a book OF
| international law in our hands, es-
pecially when the nations who
would rob us threw the textbooks of
international law out of their
schools 10 years ago.
In building our defenses we do
not intend to have our Government
robbed by people at home, so why
should we be robbed by people
abroad?
Pearson and Allen state that in
1888 more than 5000 bids to sell
supplies to the Army and Navy
were identical This kind of con-
spiracy against our Government
to pay for defense, but they do not
want the money to, siphon into any
ones pockets. They want to see
battleships, tanks, airplanes, and
machine guns standing between
their homes and any enemy. This
is time to give, not time to see
how much can be taken.
We should have a director of con-
servation recruited from private in
dustry to conserve tin, rubber, and
other materials, the lack of which
some day may destroy us. Long
ago Hitler recruited the school chill
dren Of Germany in such a conser-
vation program, resulting in the
saving of tin cans, bits of rubber,
and even old tooth-paste tubes.
The United States uses one-half
of the worlds tin production, i'm
England Hitler already has the
Netherlands. Should he get Eng
land he would control our supply of
tin, vital to us in peace as well as in
war Bolivia has an excellent sup
ply of tin, but is not shipping di-
rect to the United States because we
have only one small smelling plant.
The Government should encourage
private capital to enter this field
Immediately. Tin ores could then
be brought from Bolivia to Los An
geles in the event that something
happens to the Panama Canal Tin
is essential in babbitt, bronze, and
solder. Mechanized war without it
is impossible.
In 1897, out of imported tin,
foctnpipc roada Q00 0O0 :.
600 cans for packing, 1892 100000
cans for milk and other sanitary
purposes. and 4,190,000,000 cans
for gasoline, oil and general pur-
poses. Today the number produced
is far greater. All of these cans
went into the trash pile or to the
city dump. They should be washed,
fattened, sent to the smelter, and
used again. The only objectors to
this would be those who have a mo-
nopoly on the tin supply to America,
but we cannot let those few en-
danger our national life. Besides,
if we fall under the control Of
foreign dictator, their monopoly and
their capital will be worth little
Rubber is also a vital necessity in
time Of war. Our present supply
comes from British and Dutch pos
sessions. In 1927 we imported l.
062, 1872, 600 pounds of crude rubber
essential for quick transportation
Of troops and defensive weapons.
We reclaim about one-fourth of the
amount we import each year and
use it again. Much more could and
should be reclaimed New expert
ments and sources of rubber should
be encouraged in South America.
A director of conservation, sup