The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-08-20

the finish. You supply scrap
you share in the victory. l don't
have to point out the reverse side
of that.
The farmer of America has a
very special task to perform in
this scrap-collecting program
Why? Because experts know that
the average farm in this country
has 500 pounds of scrap against
! the 100 to be found in urban
homes. All told, there are esti-
mates running as high as quar-
ter-milion tons of scrap. on the
farms of America today. Scrap
that would be more useful sent
to battle.
And what could it do in bat
tie? Here's the total: There's e.
nough scrap iron and steel on
farms, if used together with other
materials, to make more than
twice as many battleships as there
are in the whole world today.
Now there's a fleet to Remember
Pearl Harbor" with.
Or take it another way. All
the iron and steel on farms, if
used with other materials, could
make enough tWo-thousand pound
bombs to drop three every minute
from Flying Fortresses without
stopping for over three years. Or,
if you'd like to put it another way:
Enough one-hundred pound
bombs to drop one every second
of every minute of every hour of
every day for over three years.
Imagine what Jimmy Doolittle's
bombers could do with that am
runition?
Where can you find this scrap?
Well, what about that old pillow
out behind the barn? That use
less old set of tools? Don't you
think you could haul that old
combine or disc? Got any old
tires? Each one equals eighteen
pairs of parachute troopers boots,
or eight gas masks. An old gar
den hose will make four Army
raincoats. Thirty pounds of rub
Der 60 into the tire of big bomb
er.
What about the attic, the cellar?
How about the barns? Iron or
steel, rubber, copper and brass,
aluminium, zinc, lead, vegetable
fats - all these can be used -
and used Immediately to speed
war production.
An old flatiron tossed in the
corner can be made into some
thing that can be tossed a lot
more usefully thirty hand
grenades. An old wood or kitch-
in stove can make ten 4-inch
shells. Ten such stoves can make
a scout car.
One old battery can provide e.
nough lead for three 3-inch anti
aircraft guns. Your wife should
learn that by being thrifty and
saving two pounds of discarded
cooking grease, she is saving e.
nough glycerine to shoot five
rounds of anti-aircraft fire.
Now, what can you do with
this scrap? That's simple. Sal
wage efforts in small-town coun-
ties and rural districts are organ
lied in cooperation with the u
nited States Department of Agri-
culture County War Boards. Your
local Salvage Committee is head
ed by our county farm agent ano
he will notify WPA trucks tt
pick up the scrap you have col
lected.
Make it a habit to cover your
farm thoroughly and regularly tt
collect junk. Remember the vita
materials: iron and steel scrap
copper and brass, zinc, lead, alum
mum, burlap bags, manila rope
and vegetable fats. Any piece O
junk containing this material
large or small, is needed for tn
war effort. It is needed now. I
will continue to be needed for tn
war effort from now till victory
Do your part by seeing that you
farm and all the scrap it contain
are in the war effort. Make you
junk fight for victory.
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