World War II Drives

One of the things school children got mixed up with was called scrap drives. Things like silk, aluminum, scrap metal, paper, and rubber was needed for the war effort. Even things like toothpaste tubes what was make out of metal (they had lead in 'em at the first of the war) was needed. We squeezed out ever last dot of Pepsodent and taken the tube to school with us where we dropped it in a barrel what was labeled toothpaste tubes. They had barrels labeled paper, rubber, and silk too. The silk barrel didn't never fill up, but the other'ns did. Sometime we would have a big drive for something like paper and we would take our little red wagons and go all over the neighborhood and gather up old newspapers and magazines. We got encouragement from peoples on the radio, like Bob Hope and President Frankie Roosevelt.

Tomorrow: The Radio and World War II