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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5525, 16 September 1942, Page 8

HUSBANDING EVERY OUNCE “There is no longer any room for doubt about it, the shortage of rubber in America is genuine. Every bit of the material that exists or can be gathered or made on the United Nations side of the war lines in the next two years will be needed, and more, for military uses. For the fact that America and the United Nations have any stock pile of rubber at all the thanks belong largely to Professor William Y. Elliott, of Harvard, and to a. few other individuals who foresaw the dire consequences of being cut off from the 95 per cent source of supply in the East Indies. Not only that stockpile but also every tyre on every automobile in the nation becomes now part of a reserve on which the national safety may in part depend. Every ounce of rubber should be husbanded accordingly. If it should prove necessary later to ask anyone who owns more than five tyres to sell the remainder to the Government or even to give up an automobile if it can be spared for more essential uses, this prospect should not impel anyone to use his car any less frugally.”—Editorial, “Christian Science Monitor.”