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States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia. The five highest contributors on a per-head basis were Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington. The New Jersey per capita average was a mere 1.67 lb.; Nevada patriots averaged...
Already its spending is approaching the rate of $350 per capita (nearly half the national income) compared to $176 (31% of the national income) in 1919 and $37 in 1765. In one bill last week Congress authorized the spending of more money on the Army alone than the total U.S. cost of World War I-$43 billion against $40 billion. Already the nation as a whole is bending its efforts to win on a far wider scale than in any former war, none excepted. And still the nation is in jeopardy...
Returns from the first week of the nation's scrap rubber drive show that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts lags far behind the rest of the nation in per capita collections. The figure for the entire country shows that only one and a half pounds have been collected per person-a woefully small figure. But Massachusetts, on the same basis, has contributed a mere quarter pound-four ounces-for every man, woman, and child. To put it graphically, this means about one worn baby carriage tire for each person. And when one realizes that our nation will be seriously handicapped unless...
...have not made reports on their collections. Nevertheless, the western states have shown what can be done in this drive. California, Montana, and Nevada are in the vanguard in the west. Nevada, with a population almost exactly the size of Cambridge, has collected 653 tons, or 11.87 pounds per capita. There may have been a few more broken-down Model T's in Nevada, but otherwise there is no real reason why Cambridge shouldn't rustle up 600 tons as well. Yet the whole state of Massachusetts has turned in a mere 512 tons...
Stressing the poverty of the nation and its paralyzing internal disuntiy, the professor asserted, however, that great strides had been made in Indian production and rearmament. "A nation whose average yearly income is $40 per capita has, by concerted national effort, raised an army of a million men, and has raised steel production to a million and a half tons. Further, Indian manufacturing of small arms, rifles, machine guns, and other smaller weapons and pieces of equipment has tripled in recent years," he claimed...