The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-17
France Will Rebuild
With American Steel,
Says Corey
BILLIONS WILL
BE SPENT HERE
Demand At the Wars
Conclusion Will Be
Tremendous
BY HERBERT COREY

PARIS. April l7.-Thst greatly
feared after'the-war slump in Amer.
car business may never come. We
may be TOO busy in supplying the
myriad necessities OF France.
That may seem coldly selfish
way of looking at the situation. II
is not so intended. but the truth is
that
France will be In the market for
millions-billions- dollars worth
OF the things the United States alone
has TO sell. That business may be
spread over decade. II means
that we will get In France one OF
the best markets In the world for
all time"
Look at the facts. One OF the first
things France will buy OF US when
the war ends Is houses. Steel houses.
She must hire our men TO come
ovs- here and show her men how to
rut these frames together. Does
that sound absurd! Then read fur.
Their.
France proposes TO rebuild her
ruined factories on the American
plan" said United States CONNER
cial Agent Needham. They are to
be light. airy, thoroughly modern
structures, built on the modern or
automobile efficiency plan by which
the goods suffer no loss or waste
motion in the course OF manufac-
ture."
Not every manufacturer whose fac
tory has been destroyed. of course.
But very large percentage OF them.
The government Is indirectly inter
csting itself TO this end. The old
Ways are TO be forgotten. even as
the old days have passed. France
Is to be systematized. modernized.
made more efficient. She realizes
that competition will be more ruth
less and brutal in the years imme-
diately following the war than ever
before in the world history. There
will be a contest for that world bus
mess so largely held before the war
by Germany France has determin-
ed to get her share.
France must buy our steel build
ings." said Henry c. Long. director
OF the American section OF the Re.
construction exposition.
mo one but America has steel
buildings TO SELL
Another man said that. His name
may not be used because OF his po-
sition in French syndicalism. o.
trades unionism. England might. In
the fulness OF leisurely time. make
the steel skeletons for these build.
ings. She has not In the past for
various reasons. one OF which Is the
delight she has taken In sneering at
the Americans who do. That has
cost her position In this race. She
will have no steel frames 10 sell.
even IL II wer enot also true that
she will have a reconstruction prob
lem OF her own TO face In the days
Immediately following the declara.
ton OF peace. II is not probable she
will appear as a serious competitor
FOR this class OF business for some
time. And there In another reason
why American steel buildings will
De preferred to those OF English
make, II all other conditions were
even:
1--WE want to put American ma
chimes In our new factories"
American machines are better
than either English or German.
French manufacturers say. THE
English machine IL too heavy and
awkward. II 10 built to last. but IN
the pressure OF modern business the
American has found that II pays to
scrap machines sometimes. Tho
German machine Is neither a. fast
nor as dependable as the American"