Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-09-23
WAR TONIC FOR
TRADE. ASSERTS
j. s. BULLETIN
Conflict Which Acted as Blow
IN the Face to industries
Reacts as a Powerful Slim
illus to Business,

the department of commerce forecast
.ue the effect Of the conflict ON the in-
dustriaI future of the country
The blow in the face received boy
American industries through condi
lions brought about by the European
WAR has acted AS tonic; has forced
me nation to create new branches and
enlarge the scope of existing phases Of
manufacture, opened the way 20 uu-
lize. on q vast scale, great natural re-
sources of the United states, and n-
duced manufacturers and merchants
TO expand their markets into foreisn
fields with prospects of permanent re-
suits says the statement
American ingenuity has been app
nlied with success to the making of
articles previously imported and.
among those who have shown conspic-
uous ability i'm meeting the situation,
an important place is given to Thomas
"A. Edison, Americas scientific wiz
ara. who has had great part in the
enterprise and initiative required To
build. at a moments notice, some of
the new American manufactures re-
Quircd by the emergency.
Manufactures Increased.
"a review of the chief industries
mnisterng particularly to the tenn
porarv needs of the belligerents across
the Atlantic shows that the final out
come win be a very material addition
to the manufacturing plant of the
United States Part of this plant will
be simply anticipatory Of the normal
growth Of the Country's mechanical
equipment, part must lie idle i'm time
of peace, but is a distinct asset i'm the
national preparation for an adequate
defense against attack the remainder
furnishes at once products needed in
the healthy expansion of the chemical
industry of the country.
Less conspicuous and spectacular,
but of far greater permanent value Is
the impulse given to the manufacture
on American soil, with American RAJ"
materials, Of a variety of articles for
which we have hitherto been depen-
dent upon foreign skin and enterprise.
In a more or less uncomfortable way,
we have suddenly been brought to rec
cguize the unwisdom, the folly ol
shipping vast amounts of the crude
material of our farms, forests ana
mines 5000 miles across the ocean
and buying it back in manufactured
form. at a vastly enhanced price we
have likewise come to recognize the
absurdity of allowing many natural
products Of the tropics, of south
America. of the Far East to find Their
way TO Europe, and of paying foreign
intelligence and skill to transform
them into articles of daily need I'm our
lives
America Rallies TO Meet Demand.
American ingenuity, adaptation in
ventive talent. scientific attalnments
and general enterprise have promptly
rallied 10 meet widespread demands
and establish on our own soil th' PEI
manent manufacture of number OF
wares, some Of minor. others of malol
importance. The return of peace vii
see them wen rooted and able 70 with
stand foreign competition.
",rhe bureau of foreign and domes
tic commerce points to the course O
events that followed the cutting Of
by war Of the anjline imports from
Germany and the supply Of potasl
from the same source, with the re
sulting tremendous impulse given t.
the expansion of domestic manutae
ture. If also calls attention to thu
fact that. side by side with the in
creased production of artificial colors
has come the realization by dyers o
textiles that the possibilities of tn
natural dyestuffs have been sadly neg
lected during the past few decades
The facility and eXactness witt
which the coal tar colors can be EN-
ployed. the endless diversity of tint
and shades readily secured by thei
aid, have led the modern generatio
of dyers to disregard, in great mea
sure, those time-honored VegetaDl
dyes. for centuries the only availabl
sources Of color which sull give thel
charm and value to the choice prod
ucts Of oriental looms The presen
'dyesuff famine has brought thef
again into prominence. Not so cas-
lily applied as the aniline dyes, the
oAili lidAt llltli 'HIltA itil liNA'N'''
result the American works engage
in the preparation Of extracts trot
the yellow oak of the Alleghanlei
from the lockwood of Jamaica, fror
the redwood of Brazil, from the cute
of India, are providing in enormou
amounts the substitutes Of the NOR
brilliant but often more fugitive, hue
of the coal tar products,
Natural Dyestuffs 10 BE Used.
In the future natural dyestufi
will occupy a more important pos
ton in the textile world and MOI
ample recognition will be accorde
to the highly perfected processes
recent years, ensuing their fastnei
upon the animal and vegetable +
bers At the same time, we can loo
forward with confidence to the evoll
ton Of a genuine American coal "a
color industry.
'Of the domestic potash supply
is stated that large amounts of II
compounds Of this element are pre-
ent in the vast beds Of kelp floatr
on the waves Of the Pacific, close
the western littoral Of the countr
that each year the waters Of the n
cific coast are producing crop
which potash salts possessing a no
nal value Of more than $4,000, %
are readily available for use in agr
culture and the arts. Now dozt
companies are engaged in the car
paign. Not only the inexhaustible su
plies IN the waters of the Pacific, b
also the remarkable deposits in Il
arid Masie ahnmt Saarlea lake I'M ca