TEE VALLEY SETTLER is published
every Friday by the Matanuslca Val
ley Farmer's Cooperating Associa
tion at Palmer, Alaska,
Mng. Editor: Irving Kewville
Subscription rates: $1.00 year
By Mail: $1.75 year
Mailed Anywhere: .10 copy
This paper is issued for the pur
pose of giving information and
news of the Matanuslca Valley Far
mers Cooperation Associations'
v;ork, prob 1 erns, accomp 1 ishments,
also news of local and general
interest and to foster the Co
operative spirit of the Farmers
of the Matanuska Valley.
Many times duri the past
few months, orders sent out for
various kinds of merchandise have
been returned with marginal no
tations " discontinued,1' "out of
stock", "back ordered", etc.,of
ten, a part of your order has
been shinned and a copy returned
with :"p lunations, why your en
tire order may not have been
fjlied.
A peep at part of the Gov.
eran.nt's purchases, of one Com
modity - Paper, will servo as an
example to illustrate the causes
of shortayes in many other lines
and indicate to some extent the
tremendous demands of this war
on labor, industry and natural
resources, ^n idea of what it
takes in the way of paper goods
to operate an Army and Kavy may
he obta.ncd from figures released
by the O.P.M. office in V.ashin.don
showing 3ome of the purchases
since the start of the Defense
Program.
7.500 tons (or 375 carloads)
Mimeograph paper
3.500 tons (or 125 carloads)
typewriter paper
;:*~4 3/4 MH sheets carbon paper
2.000. 000 rolls toilet tissue
for each Army camp
50.000. 000 paper file folders
1.000. 000 paper milk booties
per day at the present tire for
camps.
100.000. 000 lbs. for soldiers
handbooks (this amount of hand
books, if stacked, would be six
teen times as high as the .ash
in gt on L. onument)
30.000. 000 albums for defense
stamps.
100.000 lbs. for soldiers hand
book- covers.
15.000 tons (or 550 carloads)
target aner.
14.000 lbs Asbestos paper for
each cruiser of which 64 are now
being built.
1 carload blueprint used in
the construction of each oattie
ship. ’
111.000 tons (or 550 carloads)
paper each month for wrapping
shells.
1.000. 000 envelopes for lease
lend work.
1,000,000 lbs. water-proof paper
to cover equipment sent to Ice
land.
3,900 tons Kraft paper for en
campment laundries,
80.000. 000 grocery bags
50.000. 000 corrugated cases to
ship canned goods to England.
And this is only a start.
The Govern ment Printing office
■will use approximately 5,bj0 car
loads of paper during 1941.Steel
plants use paper to the extent of
3,000 carloads for the purpose of
interlaying armor plate.
The most critical thing fac
ing the mills today is the matter
of chemicals. An important chemi
cal used in the production of
paper is chlorine. The curd on
uses of chlorine means that writing
paper, paper napkins,books and
magazines 30on will have a yellow
ish appearance. Chlorine is used
not only to bleach paper, ut
also to make dry-cleaning mater
ials, anti-freeze compounds and
premium gasoline. Also it is used
for smokeless powder, gases and
smokescreen materials.
A reliable estimate indicates
(Con’t on page 5)