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...President's Lap. Amid the Babel of statements, the fine frenzy, Franklin Roosevelt, finally sniffing a Congressional revolt, summoned eleven rationing bigwigs to the White House. After listening, instead of taking a clear-cut stand, he took an easier road, indicated approval of a drive for rubber scrap. Probable "action": a Presidential fireside chat...
...Wrightstown, Wis., 12-year-old Second Class Scout Gerald Zirbel collected 31,000 lb. of scrap iron in one week, which built up Uncle Sam's muscles as well as his own. So successful was the Boy Scout paper-salvage effort alone (300,000,000 lb.) that WPB had to beg them last week to call a halt to their "magnificent job." The Government asked them to pick up something else for a while-rubber, for instance...
This belief was dead wrong. Nobody has yet made a decent tire without rubber. The United Nations are so desperate for rubber that gasoline rationing will soon be extended everywhere in the U.S., just to keep the present tires from wearing out. Even the treasure trove of scrap rubber which has been uncovered but uncollected in the U.S. is entirely needed for war uses. There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944-at the soonest. Positively...
They gave their pots & pans willingly to the aluminum drive, but resent the fact that the scrap has not yet found its way to smelters. They get maddest, not at the total Government, but at the palladium of democracy and inefficiency, Congress...
...real shortage of wastepaper for paperboard, which started it all, turned into an embarrassing surplus almost as soon as the scrap-saving drive got under way. Many board mills began to refuse to take any more scrap; others would take it only at prices well under OPA's ceiling. By last week, WPB Conservationist Lessing Rosenwald's division was reduced to writing shamefaced letters to State salvage chairmen calling off wastepaper collections except for areas where paperboard mills were willing to take it. The mills themselves were lazing along at 82% of capacity in the third week...