Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-28
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WAR GIVES NEW iMPErus
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Factory Forces Being Added - eeNeo
Manufacturers Report ssassn's Do.
ness Equal to That o. Fsrmse Nsaso
Talk Of Closing Faeteriss Net D. /
ing Heard Now.


business and trade conditions thruSue
the country indicates an upward tend-
ency comparable with that which has
been reported In the chicago district.
In many smaller manufacturing cit.
les the plans that mako material
needed by the armies of Europe arc az
periencing more~of rush OF business
that the factories whose output IL for
other purposes.
However. the reports from correse
pondents in industrial centers such -
Pittsburgh. Cleveland. and Detroit Are /
invariably optimistic. In nearly al
cases the improved conditions arc IN"
dicated by tangible evidences such -
the Increased employment OF men. the
reopening OF plants. and the receipt OF
large orders.
Add to Factory Feress.
Factory forces are being enlarged
cautiously and in such Industries a.
steel and railway equipment the re-
turn to normal is still matter for the
future.
Nevertheless canvass OF the innu.
merable small manufacturing cities. as
undoubted turn to better times.
The mild weather has held back &C.
tivity In demand for winter garmento
and goods, except where orders have
come from Europe.
The extent to which American fac
tories are providing supplies Tor Eu-
rope, of a sort that usually would %
furnished In Europe itself. Is an I'M
pressive feature Of the reports.
Conditions Favorable Herr.
An evidence OF the condition In the
Chicago territory Is shown this week
by the addition OF twenty-five new
members to the Chicago Association %
Commerce.
For the last three weeks the NUM-
Der of new members added to the rolls
of the commercial organization
amounts to more than 100. OFFICERS %
the association say that no better ther.
mumeter OF the business conditions CT
the city can be found than the mems
bership additions to the association.
Among the new members Is q factors
In Piqua, o.. which enrolled under the
new ruling of the association permit
ting firms outside OF tho city to Join
for participation In tho foreign trade
campaigns OF the association.
Quincy Plants Prosper.
From Quincy. ILL.,. comes word or
prosperity in tho shape OF orders for
machinery. ]. II. Calkins. president OBJ
n steel wagon and wheel manufacture
ing company In that city. said mis- coma
Germ in tho last few days had recatved
orders which caused them to opcrtte Ae
capacity. The orders came from ALI
sections OF the country. and were for
parts which other factories use In ass
sembling various kinds of machinery.
1.-The only difference I have noticed
between this season and previous sea.
sons has been the dislike on the part
of purchasers TO sign up for long time
contracts" Mr.. Calkins said. Now
however we are getting down to cons
tract business with larger orders than
usual.
in addition our company has sent ~
salesman TO South America to study
the conditions there. We told him to
stay year without making an effort
to get orders. Other manufacturing
plants in our territory are doing moro
business because OF foreign orders than
they ever did before
Runs Night and Day.
A manufacturer OF electrical machins
cry in North Chicago chiefly magnetos.
talked a month ago about closing his
factory Now he is running night and
day. with larger orders than he ever
received before. This Is the time OF
year that the farm implement manu-
facturers start full blast on their spring
machinery. Reports from cities where
these plants are located state that
large numbers OF men have been placed
at work.
Tho farmers OF the middle west are
prosperous. the implement manufac.
turers report They have the money
to buy just rs heavily next spring as
they ever have.
The manufacturing industries look
| forward to n spring as prosperous Al
any in the history OF the nation.