The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-16

regulations which bring the war to
your very doorstep and hit most
people right where they live.
Tin cans will soon be lnavail-
able, Glass bottles will take theiE
places and they won't be any fancy
bottles. either. Think of all the wo-
men who have been cooking with
can openers for years and will have
to learn all over again with bot
tie openers.
Tennis balls and baseball cores
will be made of reclaimed rubber
instead of crude rubber or lateX
The substitutes won't be as lively
but they'll wear as well.
The golf ball crisis hasn't beer
i solved yet.
Buyers of hot water bottles. ice
bags and all other rubber products
still on the shelves have been re-
quested to go on strike and report
the dealers if the prices seem toe
high. The same suggestion goes fol
IL canned fruits and Is canned
vegetables, on which price ceilings
have been slapped at the Gamers
and wholesalers level.
Silk and nylon being reserved fol
parachutes, surgical thread anc
bags for powder-the shooting kinc
-rayon is to be supplies the hosiery
mills instead and you'll wear rayon
hose and like them.
JOB CONTROL, TOO
If you go to United States en-
ployment Office to get a job IN q
civilian goods industry, you can't
have it if there's a job you can
do in a defense industry. Tele-
phone companies have been ordered
to stop further conversion from
manual to dial phone systems.
Fancy telephones are out.
Mems and boys clothing has been
ordered simplif1ed to eliminate dou-
le-breasted models, vests on single
breasteds, cuffs, pleats, tucks, belts,
patch pockets, two-pants suits, and
so on. Prices of all bedding ma
terialS have been frozen, and manu-
facturers will please refrain from
calling seconds" by any camou-
tagged names such as second selec-
ton"
They probably won't let you build
new house unless you can prove
it's a war production necessity, but
if they would, you couldn't use
metal lath, copper plumbing or
spouting, tin-coated fire doors. You
would be restricted on hardware.
No more gas furnaces, you may not
be allie to get fuel for an oil fur
mace, and you can't install steam
or hot water boiler unless the
house will shelter two or more FAM
lilies. Fancy radiators, concealed
piping and such frills are out.
No one can sell a new electric
or gas refrigerator without permts-
sion from Washington.
Manufacture of new rugs and car
pets will be restricted. The looms
are needed. for weaving of military
cloth, and there isn't enough wool
and jute anyway. You can't even
knit ad lib. Not enough wool yarn.
Cotton and novelty rug prices have
been frozen. Mohair is to be in
creasingly substituted for wool.
You are warned to save your
anti-freeze solution, as there may
not be any next winter. When you
drive your car to the service station
have your radiator drained, bring
your own container, and it had bet
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NO HAM IN CANS
No more beer, coffee or hams in
tin cans after May 81.
Shoe manufacturers getting tan
ned leather on prioritieS orders
must use it all for war o1ders-rone
of it for civilian shoes. The order
banning thread for corsets, bras and
such got wide publicity, but it was
included in this same To-day pc
Rod.
Rubber raincoats and overShoes
for soldiers and sailors only. Price
ceilings on cigaretS are investigated
| found fair and equitable, con-
firmed. Paperboard containers will
be thinner.
You are warned to get ready to
register for ration book No. 1, COW
ering sugar, of which you will be
allowed only half a pound week
# you don't get registered the first
four days, you're out Of luck fol
two weeks.
This is only the beginning of "a
tioning. You are already rationed
out of new cars, new tires, recapped
tires. Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau thinks all civilian goods
should be rationed, but it probably
won't come to that.
If all this talk makes you feel like
going out and buying a gun to blow
your brains out with, bear in mino
that War Production Board limita-
ton order No. L-60 provides that nc
person other than manufacturer
shall sell, lease, trade, lend, deliver
ship or otherwise dispose of any
new pistol, rifle, or shotgun using
an explosive cartridge to propel q
metal bullet or metal shot"
No, it's not a free country any
more. This is the hell that Sher-
Vrao,, naIIad 1,yar