The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13

Tin cons will soon be un-
available. Gloss bottles will
toke their places and they
won't be any fancy bottles.
either. Think Of all the women
who have been cooking with
can openers for years and
will have to learn oil over oeoin
with bottle openers.
Tennis halls and boseboII
cores will be mode of recloim-
ed rubber insteod OF crude
rubber or Iotex. The substi-
tutes won't be os lively, but
they'll weor as we'll.
The golf ball crisis hasn't
been solved yet.
Buyers O. hot water bottles,
ice bags and all other rubber
products still on the shelves
have been requested to go on
strike and report the dealers
is the prices seem too high.
The same suggestion goes for
u canned fruits and IS CON-
ned vegetables, on which price
ceilings have been slapped at
the oonners' and wholesalers
level.
Silk and nyIon being reserv-
ed for poroehutes, surgical
threod and boes for powder -
the shooting kind - royon is
to be supplied the hosiery
mills insteod and you'll wear
royon hose and like them.
If you 10 to O Urited Stotes
employment office to get q
job in q civilian goods indus
try, you can't have it if there's
q job you con do in O defense
industry. Telephone companies
have been ordered to stop fur
ther conversion from manual
to dio| phone systems. Fancy
telephones ore out.
Mems and boys clothing
hos been ordered simpIified to
eliminate double breasted
models, vests on single breost-
eds, cuffs, pIeots, tucks, belts,
potoh pockets, two-ponts suits,
and so on. Prices IF all bed
ding materials have been froz-
en-, and manufacturers will
please refroin from calling
Seconds" by any comoufIoe-
ed names such as Second Sc
lection"
They probably won't let you
build q new house unless you
can prove it's q war production
necessity, but il they would,
you couldn't use metol 10th,
copper plumbing or spoutin9,
tin-cooted fire doors. You
would be restricted on hard
ware. No more eos furnaces,
you may not be obIe to get
fuel for on oil furnace. and you
can't install q steam or hot
water boiler unless the house
will shelter two or more fom-
lilies. Fancy rodiotors, con-
ceoIed piping and such frills
ore out.
No one can sell q new cleo
trio or Cos refrigerator without
permission from Washington. /.
Manufacture Of new rugs
and corpets will be restricted.
The looms ore needed for
weaving Of miIitory cloth, ond
there isn't enough wool and
jute anyway. You can't even
knit cd lib. Not enough wool
yarn. Cotton ond novelty rug
prices have been frozen. Mo-
hoir is to be Increasingly SUBJ
stituted for wool.
You ore warned TO sove your
onti-ffeeze solution, os there
may not be any next winter.
When you drive your cor to the
service station have your rodi-
otor drained, bring your own
contoiner, and it had better be
q jug, not metol.
no HAM IN CANS
No more beer, coffee or
hams in tin cons otter Moy 81 i.
Shoe manufacturers getting
tanned leather on priorities or
ders must use il all for war
orders - none Of II for civil
ion shoes. The order bonnino
threod for corsets, bros and
such got wide publicity. but u
was included in this same TO-
doy period.
Rubber roincoots and over
shoes for soldiers ond soilors
only. Price ceilings on ci0orets
ore invsstieoeed te!'n6 ! ~