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U. S. EXPERTS FIND NEW
WAYS OF SAVING MILLIONS
By WILLIAM NELSON TAFT
HARD times are here. The majority of citizens is willing to econodogs
of war possess insatia- mize in all directions, is showing the
ble appetites ; while they eat way; every department is waging war on
their fill of our resources, waste with every ounce of its strength.
the belts of all men must be As a broad, general example of the
tightened to the last notch. manner in which real accomplishment
It has been the summit of patriotism has come in this campaign, we may
to fight and die for one's country. A consider the manner in which the Govcentury
ago all that could be asked ernment has solved the paper problem
from a nation in war time was a pleni- through the utilization of waste.
tude of willing
soldiers.
Today, however,
patriots
behind the van
of battle are
even more
necessary.
Every man,
woman, and
child of the
commonwealth
now possesses
the opportunity
either to devote
all intelligence
and
strength of will
in staving oft*
starvation or
to continue in
wasteful indulgence
and
thereby c o mm
i t acts of
treason which
are no less
damnable because
they are
undiscovered.
The United
States Government,
believing
that the vast
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on the Hottest of Dog 1 >ays
Out in Mont
a n a, Minnesota,
and the
Dakotas fanners
raise every
year 1,400.000
tons of flax
straw, a byproduct
of their
flax industry.
This, up to a
short time ago.
was regarded
as nothing
more than
waste matter,
either to be
burned in the
fields or to be
sold to upholstering
firms at
a price of $3 a
ton, delivered.
A number of
enterprising
paper manufacturersattempted
to utilize
this cheap
product in
paper making.
but in v a i n.
The straw,
they found,