The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-06

vices and models which represent
thousands of dollars invested, but
which guarantee to this company that
it will be ahead of demand for twen-
ty years. Ideas not commercially
us15le to-day have been acquired for
possible use tomorrow.
Paper manufacturers have their
eyes on the annual fax crop of the
Northwest, where million tons OF
fine fibre stock go to waste every
year. In the South 22,000,00O tons
of cotton stalks are destroyed. An
incalculable supply of cornstalks is
burned and plowed under. Great
areas of wild hemp and marsh hay
find no commercial uses.
All these products, wasted to-day,
possess ingredients required in paper
making. All Of them are to-day un-
der experiment. Tomorrow they
may be commercial actualities. In
chemical plants scientists are being
paid to. discern the secrets Of nature.
Artificial rubber is a possibility. A
substitute may be found for cedar in
pencil making.
Reversing the proposition, present
raw materials are being made to pro-
duce new products. Had the turpen-
tine been extracted from the yellow
pine that went to waste last year the
gross saving would have been $14,-
900, 900.
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Germ that possesses raw materials
should not use commercial chemistry
to extract products from substances
heretofore wasted only in parts. AS
important as right supply of raw
material, men are learning, is a sup
ply of skilled labor. Here Europe far
excels America in foresight. Only a
few industries and a few concerns
here have given thought to to-mor-
rows supply.
The movement has begun. The
Winona Technical Institute at In
dianapolis, training boys to skilled
trades, is supported largely by bust
ness men who have the tomorrow
idea. The Lowell Textile School has
back of it manufacturers of fabrics
and textile machinery representing a
capital of $65, 100000.
Not few concerns have taken hold
Of this problem themselves. r. Hoe
& Co. in their New York plant, the
Baldwin Locomotive Works at Phila-
delphia, the Browne & Sharpe Com
pany at Providence. are instances Of
manufacturers who have assured
their labor supply by apprenticeship
systems and trade schools. Is it only
coincidence that these are the three
Oldest successful plants in the coun-
tSy?
Another tomorrow department is
that which looks ahead and provides
new and wider markets. A New Eng
land carpet manufacturer had enough
orders booked to ran his plant at
full capacity for three years ahead,
but he realized that within that time
other carpet manufacturers could OBJ
tain foothold and make inroads into
territory which he could not reach
now but which he would need in the
future.
So he launched an advertising cam
paign that was designed to obtain
these results slowly and to impress
upon the consumer the superiority
of his goods, and as carpets are not
bought by the householder every day
this slow process had its effect and to-
day this manufacturer has national
business.
An Eastern manufacturer of a
household article saw more than two
years ago that his line was bound to
become highly competitive. There
were no patents on his goods; small
capital was needed to start his bust
ness; oyerproduction was inevitable.
So he took trip abroad. started in
very small way foreign trade by
mail, gradually established agencies,
expanded his trade.
To-day he does only foreign BUSH
ness. He is the most prosperous
manufacturer in his line. While oth-
crs are fighting for the profitable
home market he has a non-competi-
tive foreign market.
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