Evening star., 1941-12-02
Waste Salvage
Fight 70 Open
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State Is Chosen to
Lead OFF Nation in
Defense Phuse

Maryland defense officials today
mapped plans to carry out Fed
orally sponsored drive to salvage
scrap metal, waste paper. rags and
rubber, as an example to the rest Of
the Nation.
Lessing j. Rosenwald, chief Of the
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
of the Office of Production Manage
ment, last night announced selection
of Maryland as the State for launch
ing the program.
The program will be carried out
by State Salvage Committee,
shortly to be announced as a new
division of the Maryland Defense
Council. The Federal bureau will
provide information and promo
tional material for widespread dis
tribution to homes shops, farms and
factories in every section of the
State.
Movement to Spread.
Shortly after the Maryland pro-
gram gets under way, the bureau
will start similar efforts in other
States on the East Coast and,
finally. in every section Of the
country. Bureau officials empha-
sized that the salvage program will
not be In the nature OF a short
term campaign or drive, but will
be aimed at continuing war
against waste for the duration Of
the emergency
Chairman w. Frank Roberts Of
the Maryland Defense Council is
issuing invitations to a meeting in
Baltimore at pm. December 8.
when Federal officials will outline
the details OF the program. Mr..
Rosenwald and Herbert L. Gutter
son, chief of the general salvage
branch OF the bureau, will be
present. More than 100 persons are
expected to attend the session. in
Guiding representatives of the waste
materials industry and OF chari-
table agencies which partially sup
port themselves by collecting SAL
wage, as we'll as number OF civic
leaders
Mr.. Roberts is expected to an
nounce the appointment of the
State Salvage Committee at the
meeting. The committee will be
headed by a chairman and an ex-
ecutive secretary. the latter to serve
AS liaison officer between Wash
ington and the State organization,
It was understood.
Separate Baltimore Unit.
A separate salvage committee for
Baltimore City will also be set up.
and as rapidly as possible thereafter
additional local committees will be
formed throughout the State-in
every case stemming from local de-
fense councils.
All Marylanders will be urged to
save scrap metals of all kinds, waste
paper, rags, inner tubes and old
tires, Mr. Rosenwald said, and to
sell them through local dealers.
Those accustomed to giving their
waste to philanthropic agencies
which normally collect such ma
terials will be instructed to con-
tinue the practice. he added. BY
either of these routes. it was pointed
out. the salvage will be directed
rapidly into production, thus con-
serving materials critically needed
in the defense program.
Practically all scrap metals, in
whatever form they may be. are
seriously needed by our defense in
dustries today" Mr. Rosenwald de-
clared. Iron, steel, copper. zinc,
lead. Alumni and chromium are in
tremendous and constantly in
creasing demand by the plants pro-
ducing our planes, tanks, gun and
other defense weapons.
When it is realized that even in
peace times steel mills rely upon
the return of scrap metals for
about one-third of their raw mate
rials, it is obvious that the present
vast expansion in production de-
mands the whole-hearted co-opera-
ton of the entire Nation in guar
anteeing that none of the materials
SOW italy needed are wasted or de-
stroyed."