The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-14

l is becoming known as the Wilmette plan of scrap collection because the | technique was perfected by the Civil | ian Defense Council in Wilmette,
 H., where the drives have been so successful that the local OCD outfit has become financially self supporting. That in itself is some
 thing of record achievement. The Wilmette plan was originally the conception of Norman Altman of the Butler Brothers Paper Corpo- ration of chicago. A thousand civilian defense volunteer workers were lined up to handle the col lections on a monthly basis. To date, a million and half pounds of salvage nave been collected. The citizens are advised in advance just what type of material is desired on each collection day and how it should be piled and packed.
 ADVANCE SORTING
 When wastepaper is called for, the toWnfolk are asked to separate and put out only the types of scrap in demand-neWspapers, magazines, brown wrapping paper, bags, corru- gated board or box board Collections are thus sorted and packed in ad- vance, eliminating unnecessary han ding, cutting down on warehouse requirements, saving transportation saving manpoWer. The original na- tion-Wide Wastepaper collection begged down completely because it damned the warehouses, stockpiled papers that weren't needed, put extra demands on manpoWer and transportation.
 Commercial and job printers will soon launch their campaign to con- serve paper, passing their drive on the slogan, stretch the Paper" shop. Every time new boy was which is an old gag in every job hired, the old hands would send the apprentice over to the competi- tors shop to borrow the paper stretcher." Paper being unstretch- able and there being no such thing in existence as paper stretcher, this was always considered funny. It isn't funny any more; it's dead serious. Any way to make the avail able supply of paper go farther, by cutting down margins or using smaller sheets and lighter weights, as the book trade has done, is now an absolute necessity to keep all printers in business.
 ANPA'S EFFORTS
 The American Newspaper Pub fishers Association has been moving in every direction to stretch avail able supplies of newsprint, curtail- ing editions, limiting circulation, cutting of more U. s. pulpwood to relieve the demands on Canadian allocating tonnage, encouraging the production.
 In Canada, which supplies TO per cent of the U. s. pulpwood, Wood- cutting and paper making are not considered essential industries, so the problem of increasing Canadian production to meet the increased U. S. demand is fundamentally lack of manpower Transportation short ages also enter into the picture.
 The paper industry as whole is all users are cut proport1Onately trying to cut horizontally so that and without determination of how the paper is finally used That can't boxes for war materials are essential go on forever. Containers and w. and, to meet those demands, paper bags and wrapping paper may have to go. For printing papers, the problem is one of avoiding imposi- ton of priorities, making the user that his intended use is essential. file lot of applications and prove That would ruin numerous small printers, cause a lot of confusion and be extremely difficult to administer
 Three congressional committees have been probing the paper short age situation-the Truman Defense Contract committee, the Murray Small Business committee and the Boren Interstate Commerce sub committee of the house. There will be a number of paper-kindled bon fires when congress reconyenes in mid-September.