New Britain herald., 1915-09-16
INDUSTRY BENEFITS
 BY WAR ABROAD
American Manufacturing Future Is Great-ReVieW Of Conditions

(Correspondence of the Associated Press) .
 Washington, Sept. 14.-How every phase of American industry has been henefted by the world war was outlined in an official statement todav bv the department of commerce fore ca sting the effect of the conflict. on tha industrial future of the country.
 '.The blow in the face received bv American industries through condi- lions brought about by the European war has acted as a tonic, has forced the nation to create new branches and enlo,~~o n, scope of existing phases of manufacture, opened the way to util-: ize, on a vast scale, great natural re- sources of the United States, and in- duced manufacturers and merchants to expand their markets into foreign fields with prospects of permanent re- sults," says the statement. }}..l
 American ingenuity has been ap- piled with success to the making of articles previously imported, and among those who have shown con- spicuous ability in meeting the sit uation, an important place is given to Thomas A. Edison, Americas scien- tific wizard who has had great part in the enterprise and initiative re- quired to build, at a moments motive, some of the new American manufac- lures required by the emergency.
 Adds to Manufacturing.
 "A review of the chief industries ministering particularly to the tenn porary needs of the be1ligerents across the Atlantic shows that the final out come will 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 in time of peace, but is a distinct asset in the national preparation for an adequate defence 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 raw materials, of a variety of articles for which we have hitherto been depend ent upon foreign skill and enterprise In a more or less uncomfortable way, we have suddenly been brought to recognize the unwisdom, the folly, of shipping vast amounts of the crude i material ot our farms, forests, and | mines 5000 miles across the ocean, and buying it back in a manufactured form, at a vastly enhanced price We have likewise come to recognize the l absurdity of allowing many natural 1 products of the tropics, of South 1 Am erica, of the Far East. to find their way to Europe, and of having foreign and skill to transform them into articles of daily need in our lives.
 American ingenuity, adaptation, inventive talent, scientific attainments, and general enterprise have promptly rallied to meet widespread demands, and establish on our own soil the per- manufacture of number of wares, some of minor, others of major The return of peace will see them we'll rooted and able to with stand foreign competition.
 Dyestuffs Situation.
 The bureau of foreign and domes- ,ic commerce points to the course of events that followed the cutting off oy war of the analine imports from germany and the supply of potash rom the same source with the re- ult1ng tremendous impulse given to he expansion of domestic manufac- lre. It also calls attention to the act that, side by side with the in- reased production of artificial colors, las come the realization by dyers of extiles that the possibilities of the atural dyestuffs have been sadly ne- lected during the past few decades. ,