The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-09-15
AMERICAN INDUSTRIES
GET NEW IMPETUS
War Acted Like Blow in the Face, Stir
ring Manufacturers to Utilize
Great Natural Resources
on Large Scale.

IeNefy phase OF AHtfledH INDUSTRY ma
been benefited by the world war was
Outlined in an official statement to.da,
by the department of commerce forecast
ing the effect OF the conflict on the in
dustrial future OF the country.
"The blow in the face received by
American industries through conditions
brought about by the European war has
acted as a tonic, has forced the nation to
create new branches and enlarge the
scope of existing phases of manufacture
opened the way to utilize, on vast scale
great natural resources of the United
States, and induced manufacturers and
merchants to expand their markets into
foreign fields with prospects OF perma
lnent results" says the statement.
american ingenuity has been applied
with success to the making of articles
previously imported and among those
who have shown conspicuous ability in
meeting the situation, an important place
is given to Thomas A. Edison, America s
scientific wizard who has had a great
part in the enterprise and initiative re-
quired to build, at moments notice,
some of the new American manufactures
lrequired by the emergency.
"A review of the chief industries min
Iistering particularly to the temporary
needs of the belligerents across the At
llantic shows that the final outcome will
be very material addition to the man
iufacturing plant of the United States.
Part of this plant will be simply aneici-
tpatory of the normal growth of the conn
try's mechanical equipment; part must
| lie idle in time of peace, but Is distinct
asset in the national preparation for an
adequate defense against attack; the re-
mainder furnishes at once products need
| ed in the healthy expansion of the chem
zeal 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 mate
rails, Of variety Of articles for which
we have hitherto been dependent upon
foreign skill and enterprise. In more
or less uncomfortable way, we have sud |
denly been brought to recognize the I'M
wisdom, the folly, OF shipping vast
amounts of the crude material OF our
farms, forests and mines 5000 miles !
across the ocean and buying it back in
a manufactured form at vastly en-
HANGED 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 in our lives.
American ingenuity, adaptation, in
ventive talent, scientific attachments and
general enterprise have promptly rallied
to meet widespread demands and estab-
lish on our own soil the permanent man
ufacture of a number of wares, some of
minor, others of major Importance. The
return of peace will see them well rooted
and able 10 Withstand foreign competi.
ton.
"The bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce points to the course of events '
that followed the cutting of by war of ,.
the anilne imports from Germany and :
The supply of potash from the same
source, with the resulting tremendous
impulse given TO the expansion of domes
tic manufacture. IL also calls attention
70 the fact that, side by side with the
increased production of artificial colors, :
las come the realization by dyers of tex
lies that the possibilities of the natural d
lyestuffs have been sadly neglected dur
ng the past few decades.
"The facility and exactness with which
he coal tar eolors ran be employed, the
ndless diversity of tints and shades
eadily secured by their aid, have led the =
modern generation OF dyers to disregard
n great measure those time .honored veg.
table dyes, for centuries the only avail
BILE source of color, which still give
heir charm and value to the choice
roducts of Oriental looms. The present
lyestuff famine has brought them again
lto prominence. Not so easily applied
5 the aniline dyes, they still have their n
special merits. As a result the Amer :.
an works engaged in the preparation OF -
xtracts from the yellow oak OF the Allie ~
hanies. from the logwood Of Jamaica, y
rom the redwood OF Brazil. from the ~
iteh OF India, are providing in enormous ~
the substitutes Of the more bril- w
ant, but often more fugitive, hues Of ,e
be coal tar products. -
'ln the future, natural dyestuffs win -
,cupy a more important position in the -
'xtile world, and a more ample recogni- AT
on will be accorded to the highly per va
cited processes Of recent years, ensuing ~
Ieir fastness upon the animal and vege. iit
hle fibres. At the same time. we can 70
ok forward with confidence 20 the evo. OF
tion Of a genuine American coal tar De
or industry.
'0f the domestic potash supply IL is IN
ated that large amounts Of the com "a
'unds Of this element are present in the car
st beds Of kelp floating on the waves shl
the Pacific. close 20 the western lit cal
raj Of the country, that each year the IN
aters Of the Pacific coast are produc- irt
: a crop in which potash salts possess shi
2 a normal value Of more than 500. IN
0.o00 are readily available for use in onl
riculture and tho arts. Nov a dozen IN
are engaged in the campaign. ma
= only the imeXhaustible supplies in Coz
: waters ~ the Pacific but also the thi
deposits IN the arid waste ans
out Searles lake in California. and the uui
luabie alunite Of Utah are being rap IN
y transformed into standard. CONNER. lty
I grades. a year or two hence We ant
Is h. able a. fertilize our broad acres abl
. American potash. exclusively. While ]
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