Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-26
Future Industrial independence
Of This Country Is Believed
10 Be Decidedly More Than
a Dream,
GREAT PRODUCTION ERA
is ALREADY IN SIGHT
In Field of Chemicals E8pe-
ciaIy an Inviting Field Has
Been Opened Up on Ac-
count of European Struggle,

SPECIAL coRsEsroHprNcE TO MORNING JOURNAL
Washington. Aug 25.-The net gain
Ia the United States through the
armed struggle i'm Europe is not TO be
measured i'm terms of increasing eX-
ports. for the figures viii decline
sharply as soon as the war ends
Rather viii permanent benefit come
10 American industry through
forced education of our people i'm how
10 make for themselves articles for
which hitherto they have been de-
pendent upon Germany.
Indeed il may be said that almost
the only wholesome effect of the
great war, as far as the United States
is concerned, has been to give the
whole country "a keener and more
vivid appreciation Of our own natural
resources and to demonstrate that we
can meet our own industrial needs
Independently Of foreign assistance.
Impetus 60 Plant Equipment.
Some of the Industrial stimulation
due to the war is feverish and tran
seu huge war orders will be tiled
and immense profits taken. Yet the
manufacturing communities produce
ing the goods may receive no perma-
nent benefit from their activity This
condition naturally applies chiefly in
the production of arms and ammuni-
ton
We have profited first from the de-
nand fer guns and projectiles, in con-
sequence Of which the machine tool
trade has profited as never before
Fortunately many Of the tools Of this
kind created 10 manufacture muni-
tions viii be available for ordinary
purposes The country Will receive
an indirect profit therefore through
the equipment of plants which will
make eventually for our own military
preparedness and also will remain for
the development Of the automobile
trade or any other line Of metal
working for whose product there may
be possible demand.
Auto Industry Hit.
According to advices reaching
Washington, the demand for steel for
making munitions Of war has had
serious effect upon the automobile in
dus,ry Many persons prefer to wait
until summer or fall to buy automo-
biles or to exchange old models. This
year, however, buyers Of some Of the
popular priced cars have been told
that deliveries cannot be made until
November or December.
It is said that one factory which
has q capacity of about sixty cars
day has had its output reduced to
twelve cars a day Recently this has
been Increased, hut even now the fac
tory is not working mp to capacity
because of its inability to get steel
The steel manufacturers are on Easy
street it is said, because they have
been indemnified against loss.
A second trade benefitng directly
from the war is leather Uncounted
millions of dollars are being expended
IN the United States by the belliger-
enls for saddlery harness, belts, boots
and shoes, etc. and this demand In
turn has stimulated business for the
manufacturers of shoe machinery
who have been compelled to equip
American plants With apparatus far
In excess nf their normal demand.
Wide Field in Chemicals.
It is in the field Of chemicals, how
ever, that the United States has been
most lacking ana finds greatest prom
lse' One of the first and most em-
''t'lllA ARilldlhN iIiduN ul'Nii Nn 80
lhe making Of shells was to supply
me explosive contents Of the shell
ror these and the manufacture Of
ayesiuffs the United states has been
dependent upon the intermediary
eoaltar products obtained from GER
many.
We have been paying Germany
slO0O0000 a year for chemicals in-
dlspensable In the production of dye
SUITS, textiles, paper, inks, feathers,
paints. varnishes and many other ar
ileles When the war opened carbol-
e acid went from Q cents a pound to
sSioO, aniline from 10 cents to $l.3o.
nese and napthaline, ammonia, ben
hol and other substances vital to the
trades using them are all products ot
..oallar which national wastefulness
lor years had permitted to go Off in
smoke at the coking plants.
Edison Seizes Opportunity.
The chemists and the coke burners
sei To work and today the great COX
ing plants are rebuilding their ovens
ana recovering from the coal gases
gt9e precious chemicals which are the
nle blood Of thousand different
iades Edison was among the first
"' Nit opportunity mere bll'At g."
snu ne promptly equipped a plant tor
making carbolio acid and other need
~ products. one department Of which
s'one Is paying him net from $1,000
20 $4,000 a day The war has ad-
eanced the price of benzol from 25
Vehls to 5 and Of toluol from 81 cents
- $3.50, These fundamental deriva-
yves are being made in increasing
Quantities at the Edison and other
pants. and their manufacture need
not pc abandoned at the end Of the
"aI II congress possesses courage and
business judgment.
s'rcs Potash In Sea Kelp.
another great line Of industry
allnnlated by the war is potash. Ger
.nahy had a monopoly of potash salts,
9hieh We imported annually to the
esalne OF s15.000.000, or half Of the
,efman supply Two-thirds Of these
aiapments were distributed as fertiliz-