THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940
Bringing Uo Father
HELLO-WHAT-YOU SAY MAGGIE'S BROTHER TOOK OUR ELECTRİC STOVE? WELL-YOU CALL HIM UP AN TELL HIM TO RETURN IT RIGHT
AWAY
PARDON ME. BUT YOU LOOK
JUST LIKE
MARGIE-
I'M GONNA SHOW. „THAT FAMILY. THAT THEY'VE GOT TO STOP TAKIN' THINGS OUT OF MY HOUSE-
CHIYES-SIR=1 CALLED HM UP-BUT HIS BROTHER ANSWERED -AN' ADMITTED THEY HAD THE STOVE- {N BUT THEY DON'T
KNOW HOW TO
RUN IT--
OH! SO THEY ARE GOIN' TO RETURN IT-
1940.
Syndicate,
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Page 11 By George MacManus
NO THEY SAID -WHEN YOU COME IN TO TELL YOU TO COME OVER TO THER HOME AN' SHOW THEM HOW
"TO WORK IT-
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A PAGE FOR WOMEN
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British Housewives' New War Job
Twelve million British women| have a new war job.
They are housewives, called to arms in a stirring broadcast speech by Mr. Herbert Morrison, British Minister of Supply, to fight with the attribute which distinguishes the good housewife all over the! world.-Thrift!
Each recruit in this vast women's army is pledged to be "Up and At 'Emn"
by saving
every scrap of raw material that can be turned into war material. At this time of increased pressure on shipping millions of tons of space a year can thus be saved for these essential British imports] from. overseas.
There is no nced to stress the importance of their service. Its value may be gauged from the fact that one small London diş- trict is already making a hundred pounds' a week from the sale of household waste for pig food.
This is only one of five groups of materials which can be saved in the national interest. The
others are paper, bones, rags and metal. Uninspiring weapons with which to wage a crusade, which will be wielded 'nevertheless with enthusiasm.
First operation in the campaign was a march to those corners of every home where lumber is kept.-Every-housewife knows the strange assortment of small ob- 'jects she keeps because they may one day be useful. The accumula tions of twelve million homes re- presented vast treasure trove.
It had to be collected, sorted] and got to the factories to be turned into war material with the least possible delay. So every town, every village throughout
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the country made a battalion of itself to get on with the job.. competing with each other in the speed with which they could complete it.. 1195,
A town in Kent had its ten thousand houses cleared and the material delivered to the factories in less than a week.?
In all frontiers, there must be singing, dancing girls with lovely figures and startling beauty to entertain those who toll. Marlon Martin, former Follies and Scandals star, plays just Buch an entertainer in "Boom Town."
This is how they did it.
Next day the streets presented an tographic, tracing and chart pa One housewife in every street extraordinary sight. Outside each pers are needed for the Army called on all the others. She made house was an Incredible assort- Navy and Air Force. More than a list of those who would wantment of objects. There were 10,000 tons of clean waste paper. help in the sorting or their Tum beds, baths, palls, old bicycles, is available for preservation every ber Those with small children prams, lawn mowers, garden rail week. So the saving of every had not time perhaps to givé à ings, children's toys. Even hair possible scrap is one of the most whole morning to turning out curlers and lipsticks, cases were to important of the Salvage Army's every cupboard in the house. be seen, destined for transforma- duties. Another list. was made of those tian, into guns, tanks and Each member will tie the paper With time, enough to give help to aeroplanes.
she saves each week into a neat others. Working partics were It must not be imagined, how parcel to put on her doorstep for grouped together. These went over, that this campaign to turn collection. There will be tietyspa- from house to house, sorting cup-raw material into war material pers, food cartons, cigarette boxes, boards, the attic, garage even is a mere skirmish,, to be settled letters and wrapping paper, Re garden sheds. All salvage was by one onslaught on household pulped and processed these will sorted carefully to Its proper "junk." Each recruit, has helped serve again as rifle and group. Then carried out to lor-to launch the first attack with cases and food containers for the ries and driven direct to factories the donation of her home's re- troops. S waiting to deal with It.
serves. She is preparing now a There will be other parcels on Women in another town enlisted, blockade of daily vigilance. Re- her doorstep too! One for bonesi the help of small boys to help garding her home as a battle These are a valuable part o with the loading. They borrowed position, which waste must not be household waste. cars and lorries. Drove them up allowed to leave unless marshalled glycerine for explosives... Feeding providing and down the roads. One lorry in the national interest.
stuffs. Fertilisers. Glue for acro loaded four tons of scrap metal in In peace-time Great Britain planes. less than an hour!.
used three and a half million Unimposing though the work of A London Borcugh asked overy-tons of paper' a year. In war this army may seem to the house- one to hunt out their scrap metal much more is needed. Special wives of other lands, it is an im and put it on the pavement out-, paper is wanted for the making portant, if somewhat strange, de- alue their homes for callection:lund packing of explosives Pho-velopment of modern war.
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