The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-06

- July 6 marks the beginning of national cleanup campaign the like of which this nor any other country ever saw. From the greases will come ex- plosives.
 From the cans, tin and steel.
 From the rags and old iron, from practically everything except bot ties and bones and the few remain ing items of waste which no one has found 8 use for yet, salvage for the unsuitable maw of war.
 Announcements from Donald Nell son and other big shots of the war production machinery. Ads in 400 newspapers of 192 cities, paid for by the glycerine and soap industry, ed- ucating the people on how to save the kitchen grease that usually goes down the drain pipe or into the garbage pail. Pieces in the neWspa- pers and messages on the radio from from coast to coast. Posters, counter cards and leaflets.
 In the rural areas, county Ex- tension Service leaders have been trained to head up the drives. In the city areas, house to house calls from the local Salvage Com mittees. Old aluminium, old pa- per, old rubber drives are over the hump. Now its grease, scrap metals and rags that are being sought, and in the 28 selected cities, tin cans. This is the way the war will be won in July, after which there no doubt will be Ger salvage drives.
 FARMERS
 HELPING
 No fooling, the war could be lost without this salvaging of household fats. Germany found that out in 1887, and two years before the war began the Nazis started hoarding grease. They put grease traps in all the kitchen sinks. They rebuilt sew- age disposal plants to recover oils, they did without butter in the fam ous guns not butter drive, and they boiled up animal corpses of all kinds. Germany Is therefore fat- sufficient, and not just in the head.
 The United States has always been the most fat-wasteful coun- try. The consumption of fats scared to 82 pounds per person per year, which is 8 third more than the fat consumption was 30 years ago. Two thirds of this is eaten in the form of meat, butter, shortcomings. A fifth goes into soap. A twelfth goes into paints and varnishes and the re- maining twentieth into industrial uses.
 But the war has upset this ball. ance. Last year the United States consumed Il billion pounds of fats. This year t will be 12 bil- lion pounds. Next year 1t may be 13 billion pounds.
 Normally, the United States would be importing up to 25 bil- lion pounds of fat a year, about half of it form the area under Japanese control. This year, the U. s. will export up to Is billion pounds for the use of the United Nations, and faces a shortage of Is billion pounds year.
 Two billion pounds of grease are wasted in kitchens every year. If one fourth of that can be sal- vaged, the country can get by, for the farmers - raising more soy beans, harvesting more peanuts, ginning more cottonseed, farrow- ing 105 million head of hogs this year will produce the other bil- lion pounds of needed fats.
 QUOTA:
 H POUND WEEKLY
 What will be done with the fat saved by the housewife. The 500 million pounds of salvaged kitchen grease will go from the meat mar kets to rendering plants to make 50 million pounds of glycerine. Glycer- inc floats the compass on battle ship, lubricates and cushions the re- coil mechanisms on hoists and big guns, goes into the making of ex- plosives. Fifty million pounds oi glycerine would make 1250 million anti tank shells.
 The quota for every American family is to save 8 quarter of s pound of grease a week, which will make enough glycerine fol one anti-tank shell. See the butcher tomorrow, for instructions and as you pour that bacon grease into an empty one-pound coffee can, which will hold two pounds of grease, just pretend you're pouring explosive into the easing of a shell for your favorite soldier to fire at the Japs and Nazis.