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Ashtrays, old pianos, broken radios, and old clothes are among the items listed by the war Service Committee as Harvard opens its first scrap drive today and Thursday. Entry representatives will canvass every inhabitant of the Houses, Dudley Commuters' Center and Wigglesworth, except Winthrop House, which is holding a mid-week dance tonight. Winthrop will conduct its drive on Thursday and Friday...
...Scrap rubber and metal are particularly needed by industry. Out of one piano can be made three or four machine guns. Andirons, unusable inner tubes, old shoes, and galoshes are of extreme value. Students are also urged to give up their softsponge rubber cushions because of the large amount of firsthand rubber contained in them. Sponge rubber is considered A-1 materiel...
...keep on the alert for anything which they can contribute in order to make this campaign a success. Collections can be made at all times. Whenever an entry representative is notified of an article to be salvaged, he will come around for it and take it to the scrap room in the House...
Today and tomorrow the familiar cry of the junk man calling for "Any Old Clothes?" will be taken over by the War Service Committee. A scrap drive is being conducted to empty Harvard rooms of all the old clothes, metal, and rubber that can possibly be salvaged. The money from the sale of scrap will go to PBH and the USO, while the records and musical instruments collected will be sent directly to the navy and the merchant marine...
Inhabitants of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth will be contacted by entry representatives of the War Service Committee Wednesday and Thursday for any rubber, metal, old clothes and cloth, used phonograph records, or musical instruments which they would like to contribute to Harvard's scrap drive. After the drive entry representatives will continue to relieve students of any scrap they may have, but paper and tin cans are not wanted at present...