The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-19

regarding the collection of tin cans.
 Most people who have not spent all their lives inside the panelIed walls of Wall Street, should know that large part of the United States, particularly the south and midwest, are tenn perate even bone dry. They should also knOw that most American housewives, even ytcn not drys, would Objecs to hav- ing the brewers inject them selves into the tin-can coIlec- ton campaign and skim about 50 per cent of the cans.
 Most people who have not spent all their lives inside the panelted walls of Wall street, know that the American people are so anxious to win the war that they will gladly save their cans and deliver them to com munity center, without any heip from the brewers, even if the brewers were not going to take a single can from what they col- lect.
 However, MT. Rosenwald didn't understand this. So now he has thousands of irate housewives ana temperance organizations bonn barding him with letters, while preachers in the midwest exhort their congregations not to par ticipate in the tin-can collection. UNDERMINING CONFIDENCE
 All of this, even if it did not curtail the amount of scrap go- inc into bombs and airplanes. un- dermines public confidence in the WIPE, MT. Nelson and, to some extent, in the whole war effort.
 So far MT. Nelson has not "gOt tough" with his old boss, hesslng Rosenwald, or with Rosenwald's deputy chief, Paul Cabot, a very ukeabl Boston investment bank CT whose life in Back Bay so- ciety apparently has given him little understanding of American psychology.
 And if Nelson does get tough, the chances are it will be at the expense of Herbert L. Gutterson, chief of general salvage, who opposed the brewers; or Burton Parks, head of the tin salvage unit; or Ed Place in the same unit. These are the little fel- lows who fought the brewers to the last ditch. In fact, Parks already has felt the ax for re- sisting. He has been denoted and replaced by R. K. White, former assistant sales manager of Pon- tiac, an appointment which bears out the theory that big business, lon longer needing salesmen, is loading them onto the WIPE. BREWERS SELL MORE BEER
 Most interesting inside fact about the battle over tin cans for beer caps Is that the brewers seem to be prospering regardless. Here are the reasons:
 1. The office of Defense
 Transportation by orders No.
 5 and 6, requires brewers to
 reduce deliveries 25 per cent
 and confine them within city
 limits. That is Santa Claus
 in disguise. Previously beer
 trucks were making calls six
 to ten times a week. and the
 ODT order has enabled brew
 CTS to do what they should have done themselves. It also cuts
 labor costs. with no backtire
 from the unions.
 2. By Crown Conservation
 Order MiO6, the brewers were
 allowed metal for bottle caps
 up to 60 per cent Of the ton.
 mage they used last year. But
 by reducing the weight of the metal from i0S-pound stock to
 % pounds, they actually get 70
 per cent of last years caps iri-
 steao of 60. And thls ls virgin
 metal, before they begin get-
 ting tin cans.
 .. The new system of using s2reunee bottles fqunFtal Instead
 og ia-onnes bottles fsteinlea)
 may even ineFeasG beEe cons
 sumption, At present. dealers
 are requiring retailers te take