Evening star., 1941-12-20
Waste Salvage
Intensified for
War Victory
Young Calls on
District to Supply
Needed Material .

tNCCOSO IVlutCIIOI
Washington groups and private
citizens were being organized today
for a comprehensive and continued
program for conservation OF waste
paper, scrap metals, old rubber and
old rags, in new Salvage for Vic
tory" program being sponsored ma
tionally by the Bureau Of Industrial
Conservation, o. P. M.
Commissioner John Russell
Young, civilian defense co-ordinator.
announced appointment of a SAL
wage and Conservation Committee
headed by James E. Colliflower, past
president of the Washington Board
of Trade and past president of the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
approximately 10 members OF
church, school, labor and civic
groups, as well as representatives
of the waste material industry and
charitable organizations which de-
rive part of their support from the
collection of salvaged materials, Will
be represented.
Through Trade Channels.
1t was emphasized by officials that
the newly created committee will
not be engaged in collection opera
tions, but will seek to foster and CO.
ordinate salvage programs, the col-
lected materials to be directed to
manufacturers as rapidly as possible
through the existing, normal trade
channels. This still leaves available
to all private citizens and organized
groups their own programs Of COL
lecting and selling the salvaged ma
terials to private dealers, the profits
to go to themselves or to charities,
as they wish.
From the large committee OF
about 10 persons. a smaller Execu-
tive Committee of about dozen Is
to be named, Commissioner Young
said after consultation with Col.
Lemuel Bolles, civilian defense di-
rector.
The need for WaStepaper, scrap
metals, old rags and rubber, has be-
come acute since our entrance into
war with the Axis Power" Mr..
Young declared, in announcing Mr..
Colliflower's appointment. Even
prior to that time, of course, the
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
had mapped out a careful program
looking toward a regular, continu-
ing salvage of previously wasted
or idle materials.
Must Speed Operations.
Nov, however, it has become i'm
mediately necessary to increase and
accelerate the return of this po-
tential mine of raw materials to
degree never before anticipated. In
addition to fulfilling our pledge un-
der the lease-lend program, we are
now faced with the necessity of
stepping up war production to meet
our own demands for all-out war
in the East. and probably in the At
lantic Ocean, as well. Already,
number of our steel and paperboard
mills have announced that they
cannot maintain capacity produce
ton unless their supplies of waste
paper and scrap metals are sub
stantially and regularly augmented.
There is only one answer, OBJ
viously. We in the District Of
Columbia and every man, woman
and child throughout the Nation,
must Fundamentally and unitedly
begin to salvage for victory"
Millions of tons of paper. metals.
rags and rubber are currently de-
stroyed or lying idle in homes,
shops and factories or on farms
throughout the country, officials say.
The Federal Bureau has urged that
all such materials be salvaged and
sold to local collectors or given to
collecting charities.
Special Items Listed.
Among the various items which
may be found in the average home
are all kinds of paper. including
newspapers, magazines, cartons, pa
per bags, scrap metals, such as OBJ
solete or broken plumbing and heat
ing equipment, metal ornaments,
useless pots and pans, old tools, tire
chains, and worn out automobile
batteries, cotton and wooden rags
and old tires and inner tubes. All
of these can be promptly processed
and put to immediate use in the Ma
tion's war program, it has been
stressed.
washington has an exception
ally important role to fill in this
national war against waste" Mr..
Colliflower declared. There has
been no official estimate of the
amount of waste material lying
idle in our homes, stores and Of
fees, but there is every reason to
believe that substantial quantities
can be uncovered and put to effec-
tive use.
"We must realize that most Amer
leans look toward Washington to set
an example in all national pro-
grams. 1t is incumbent upon us,
therefore, to make sure that not one
pound of waste that makes weapons
is lying idle in our Easements, back
yards and attics. I believe that
every resident of the District will
Immediately and unstintingly give
his full support to the salvage COM
mittees program"
Offices for the Salvage and Con.
servation Committee are to be
opened Monday at room 412, Albee
Building.