Arizona republican., 1914-08-27
A SUMMONS TO AMERICAN ENERGY Va
(Chicgao Evening Post.)

(ChicgaO Evening POst.)
 War is cutting off from manufacturers q thousand and important ingredients made abroad.
 The fact should be immediate summons to American ingenuity.
 We should turn immense reserve of capital energy and organization to producing these things for ourselves We should not close our factories mournfully and say that we cannot continue pusi- ness.
 We have met just this crisis in the past and built up great industries simply because we had to do so for own preservation
 The civil war suddenly cut off the New Or leans grain market from the northwest. At once the route of shipment shifted Chicago. during all four years of the war. handled 2O,0ooooo Dusheis of grain annually it's way between East ana West.
 Europe had to have grain during that era because of her crop failures And, despite the drain of war; gave it to her and deVeopeu nightly own strength in so doing
 This city established as the worlds grain market, it is today.
 For Illinois the president of the State Agricul- tural Society in 1864 thus summed up the ndustrai result of the period:
 "Observe that this state and this people or Illinois making more rapid progress in popula- ton than in any former period; then realZe' Il you can that all this is occurring and has occurred in the midst of the most stupendous ever pros- ecuted among men,"
 Before the Chicago's stockyards had been getting their immense supplies of salt from Vir- ginia fields from importations at New orleans. War cut off this supply. At once neglected sait wells along the Saginaw river in Michigan were oe- veoped until they were producing 5oo'ooo parreis year.
 Our packers used this near-home supply And, incidentally, along the twenty-three miles or the Saginaw river the thriving towns Of Saglnaw anu Bay City created
 This was a case when need stimulated us into appreciation and of overlooked opportunities al our door.
 It is a fact indeed, that whole packing su- premacy was established by the war. St Louis. Cincinnati and Louisville. rivals in this indus try were simply eliminated by the closing or the South
 And Chicago not only for her sake but for the sake of the country to meet the demands thus laid upon her to furnish meat to the nation.
 War made take advantage of unappreciated inventions. The West did not use harvesting ma chinery before 1S60 The scythe and cradle were the implements of the harvest.
 War took the young farmers from the fields, and the West filled their places by buying thous- ands of the heretofore rather despsed reapers As a result our crop production went up instead of down.
 War stimulated invention. The armies had to have shoes They could not be made rapidly enough in the little shoemaking shops. L. R. Blake invented the machine which sewed the up- pers to the soles. and raised shoe production one hundredfold per day.
 The same influence worked in other lines of endeavor.
 More patents" says Emerson D. Fite in his work civil industrial conditions. were is- sued in the height of the war in the North alone than ever before in the whole Union.
 "The period of prolonged war, with it's ardent national pride scarcity of labor abnornaly active production and the creation of industries, stimulated effectiveness to the highest pitch. 1n- ventors had never before found such high in- centves."
 Today the fact that some eastern factories of highly manufactured products putting their men on half time shows that feeling the loss of imports
 Yet we not now subject to the actual drain of war as we in the 60s We have im- mensely powerful commercial machinery to direct toward the weak spots thus suddenly de- veloped in manufacturing structure
 We should at once proceed to develop the yet undeveloped resources of this continent should foster invention: should pick up the little home industries which have faded because their products could be obtained cheaply conven- iently abroad; we should direct every effort to stand upon own manufacturing foundation.
 This done, shall find ourselves at the wars end with tremendous national gain wherewith to offset share in the worlds payment for this