Arizona republican., 1909-06-22
4 FEW 0F THE THINGS
 OUR FATHERS COULDN'T BUY
Six Industries Born This Generation- Astounding Growth of Manufac- lures Within Past Ten Years.

the flrSt one within the ineInOTy Ol the oldest correspondent or member of congress in which the infant in- dustry argument has not figured. In this connection somebody made the remark that the day of the infant in- dustry had passed and that, while some kinds of business are growing much more rapidly than others,
 American manufactures as a whole have reached a settled basis where few new lines of industrial activity are introduced and progress is con- fined chiefly to expansion in estab-
 lished enterprises.
 This view seems to be widely held, but a very little delving into the
 returns collected by the Bureau of
 Manufactures shows that the people of the United States are spending at
 least billion dollars every year on
 products of industries that have had
 almost their entire growth since the
 time when the schedules of the Ding ley bill were under discussion, and that the progress of the past ten
 years in the evolution of new activi-
 ties has been greater than in any
 similar period of the country's his tory, measured either by the amount
 of capital invested or by the wide
 spread use of the new products. 1t
 so happens that most of these indus tries are the result of invention or
 of new developments in popular taste,
 so that they are not greatly affected
 by the tariff, although in the shaping
 of the Aldrich-P Payne bill a large
 number of new schedules had to be
 inserted to provide for articles that
 were either unknown or of no com
 mercial importance at the last pre-
 vious revision of the tariff
 At the head of this list of indus
 tries that have grown to vast propor-
 tions within the past ten or a dozen
 years must be placed the manufacture
 and use of automobiles. This is a
 genuine infant industry, for its de-
 velopment hardly runs back before
 the beginning of the twentieth cen
 tury. How lusty an infant it is may
 be gathered from the fact that more
 than s150,000,000 is invested in auto
 mobile factories in the United States,
 and that an expert estimate of the
 value of their products for the cur
 rent year places it at upward of
 $250.O00, ,000 These figures alone do
 not measure the actual proportions of the industry that have revolutionized
 traffic conditions in the large cities and are rapidly reYolutioniZing them
 in every part of the country. The automobile has given rise to several new occupations. There are between 10000 and 5000 chauffeurs in New York alone. In the various branches of making, selling and operating mo- tor cars not less than 20O,00O persons are employed, receiving some s2OO,- e90, ,000 a year in wages. Add this to the expenditures for cars and auto mobile supplies and it will be seen that the American people are ex- pending half a billion dollars or more each year in connection with an in- dustry so young that those who are still schoolboys can remember it's be- ginning.
 Next to the automobile, gauged by the expenditure which it draws from the great American pocket, must be ranked. euriously enough, the mov- ing picture industry. The making and exhibiting of moving pictures is primarily an amusement enterprise. although these views are utilized in industrial lines, in educational work and, in thousand ways that the in- ventors of the various systems never dreamed of. Motion pictures were exhibited in continuous performance theaters as long ago as the middle sos merely as novelty, but the ex- hibition of these views as an inde- fer7f htrcyf stripped all other forms of theatrical has been almost wholly q growth Of the past four or five years, According to the latest statis- ties, there are at present over seven thousand theaters devoted to the dis play of motion pictures in United States territory, including some in l Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii and the Panama Canal zone The making of views to be displayed in these es- tablishments is a world wide indus | try, giving employment to thousands | of persons, and has even given rise to trust; at least that is the term | applied to the. association of leading | of picture films known | as the Motion Picture Patents com | pahy, by those dealers who are out side the association. The organiza- | ton includes all the American manu- | lecturers of films and the more im- | portant ones of Europe. million | loilars is paid daily in admission fees | io motion picture establishments by | the American public, and the total | volume of the moving picture busi- | ness. is not less than $350, GOO, GOO | yearly. The business has assumed | such proportions that it has beeh | made the subject of special regula- ions in many cities, and a board | 1f- eensors representing various civic | organizations. has recently been or sanized in New York to pass upon he views prepared for exhibition in order to eliminate those depicting crime and other i'm proper or demoralizing subjects.
 Another business that has had it's principal growth within the past dec lde is the manufacture and sale of automatic musical appliances, partic- llarly mechanical piano players and monographs. It is only since 1900 hat the government bureau has kept he statistics of this industry sepa- ate from the production of other mu- ical instruments, but in that time he capital invested and the annual | aleS have rniilfinliad cax-aroI +;,,,o.,