The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-03

I EAaon to be combined.
 And some people ma yeven be riding 8 bicycle to market instead of driving the old family jallopy.
 This somewhat eye-opening view of what might be called "the situ- ation" comes from no less respon- sible source than the division of industrial economy in the Depart ment of Commerce.
 PLENTY OF
 APPLESAUCE
 You are advised by the experts of this division that their dire predic- ton should not alarm you unduly, btu ti should wake you up to the future facts of living. There is and there apparently will be no short age of items like meat, potatoes, ap- plesauce, bread and vitamins. So far, the only two things which have had their impact on the civil ian population as whole have been teh scrap aluminium drive and the silk stocking thing. Regionally, of COuk oGt bAlClV 4ldNC bCGAA pOWCA bAlOA V ages in the southeast and gasoline shortages in the east, but those mat ters are only the beginning. The fliceties of life will be the hardest hit from now on.
 Mention was made of the very paper bags in which the groceries are carried home. You wouldn't think there would be any shortages of paper, but the kraft papers and the wrapping papers of all kinds are being used in unbelievable quantities by the defense program, and paper mill capacity is limited. Parts are wrapped in paper for shipment to assembly plants. Finished products are paper wrapped for protection, so "save-paper-bags" campaign is not outside the realm of things to come.
 Shortage of heavy paper hits the box and container industry from nearly every angle. One place it will hit hard is in the use of paper milk "bottles", which have gained wide acceptance. The only substitute here is to start increasing the use of glass bottles again.
 Tn areas where the gas shortage becomes acute and labor short- age develops, there may be gov- ernment-sponsored effort to have milk routes of competing dairies combined so that a single delivery can take care of all the customers in a given district. And what goes for milk routes could easily be eX- tended for deliveries of all sorts, in- cluding ice cream and popcorn men. TIN CANS
 DOOMED
 The tin shortage has already been talked about plenty, but that hits the market basket toter indirectly because canners next year will have to shift to containers their custom CTS are nto used to.
 AS for what will go into the tins, bottles, bags, papers or substitute containers, here's @ preliminary pie ture:
 Tea may become scarcer because of a lack of shipping space. Olive oil from Italy has long since disap- peared Some still comes from Spain and Portugal, but If the war spreads to those countries, goodby imported olive oil. As to why the olive grow ing areas of the United States can't produce more olive oil, the answer seems to be that fancy prices for bottled and canned olives take near ly all the pick from American groves.
 Smyrna figs and Arabain dates will give way to the domestic prod uct. Tapioca, which formerly came mainly from the Dutch East Indies, will have to come from Brazil, or maybe not at all Cocoa previously imported from West Africa will like wise have to come in increasing quantities from Brazil.
 All the imports from Central and South America will be made avail abzle to the fullest extent shipping space permits, as part of the hemi- sphere defense plan. This applies particularly to the banana trade. To shut that of would simply ruin the Latin American banana repub- lies. There is plenty of coffee in South America, but the Arabian, Java, Mocha and Turkish coffees, some times used in blending,h are disap- bearing from the market.
 The spice trade will probably suf- fer severely, and that is what will make cooks relearn some of their tricks. Homegrown mustard, sage. peppers, ginger and the domestic spices will still be available. There is a two years reserve of black pepper. But all the trick spices from the Indies the Isles of Spice and the Mediterranean - cloves, cinna- mon, nutmeg, mace, white pepper and even vanilla-lack of these may make the old slice of onion and the parsley sprig work overtime.