Milford chronicle., 1942-08-21
HIlford,' Friday, August q, 1919 !

Milford, Friday, August 81, 1919
THE PRESSURE OF WAR is fel
increasingly on the home front
This pressure, this. recoil from tn,
sheck Of battle on distant fronts
takes many forms. 1t takes tn,
form of growing shortages, it car
be felt in curtailed transportation
facilities, it touches every home
no individual. no section, escapes
its force.
Because our desperate need is
for materials and more materials
we must expect these pressures te
grow gteater in the months ito
come Today. Tor the first. time In
this Fags American varships and
Amsracah troops and isAmefican
planes are on the. offensive. , We
hare taken the Offensive to knock
the Japanese ont Of the Solomon
IsIsndk Thr6ngh the steaming
jungles OF this island chain, home
of the head hunters, runs Japan's
line of Communication and in the
Solomons Japan fanks Australia.
Extremes OF Toll And Sacrifice
Ahead
Offensiyes are -costly-Admira
King, Commander-in-C Chief Of the
United States feet, said Of the Solo
mons that considerable losses,
such as are inherent in any Of
fensive operation. must be- expect
ed. r; offensivess are costly, and yet
we must go from offensive to Of
fensive II we are, to win; to win. we
must drive the laps, from the ter
ritosy they have seized and boot the
Nazis out of occupied Europe and
thefNear East. 'sAnd so we must
prepare to-, replace losses on a
great scale. ia' =
The Job Of building and main
taiAlng the military machine we
mud have to beat the Axis will in
yoisA such extremes OF toll and
saeFihce as will make today's minor
depsiyations seem nothing, No one
Of is win be let off either. For a
ting the Eastern seaboard seemed
ID stand alone in the face of La
threatening, fuel. shortage. Now.
however. a similar emergency ex-
istson the west coast. in Washing
ton and Oregon. The hardships of
war may vary in their nature-and
in extent from section to section
but ,hardships there will be and
they must be met in spirit of
cheerful acceptance and coopera-
tive effort. ,.e
Every Form OF Waste Must Go
In addition to increasing our out
put Of raw materials-and unless
We increase this output we shall |
lose the war-we must cut out ev-
cry form of waste. One of our most |
dangerous scarcities is the scarcity
Of steel, a single medium tank con-
tains about 26 tons of steel and
such tanks are destroyed by hun
dreds, in isolated actions on single
sectors. Tanks are knocked out of
actibn by the hundreds and thous-
ands and the metal in them does
not return to the mills and fur
na9es in the form of scrap. That is
why we are renewing our drive for
metal Salvage, why the War Pro-
duetion Board is canvassing $4,000
dairy plants throughout the coun-d
try and has asked more than mil
lion wholesale and retail mer-
chants to search storerooms and
shops for scrap metal.
No. longer may we bask in the
peace-time luxury of "the richest
country in the world" We have
thrown everything we own into the
war. and until the war is won we
must live as though we were a
poor people, a people with scant
resources. Just now we're so short
of rubber that .wPB has ordered
that rubber is. not to be used in
making cartridge clip boxes, gun
grips, and a long list Of other mill
taryi products for our fighting men.
And production. soldiers of the fac
tory. 'front.' will be uniformed in
work clothes Of skimpier cut, work
clothes with fewer pockets, butt
tons and buckles. ....
The shortage Of steel last week
impeiled wPB to order makers of
wooden upholstered furniture to
stop using iron or steel in springs
and at the same time WPB asked
the furniture industry to help re-
Aeye civilian shortages by making
out of wood articles normally made
Of metal. But WPB warned that
these lockers, ice boxes, wash tubs.
lamps. pals, trailers, truck and
bus bodies must be made of the
lower grades of wood since first
quality wood is reserved primarily
for military purposes. a...,
Transportation Problems Acute !
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