Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-26

q gov that curtains of fire and death
IMII dealing guns are wrapping Eu-
Nj rope in a war cloud of horror. the
q nerves of the whole world are
centered on the battlefelds. But it is
inevitable that this slaughter must cease
and after the deluge. what?"
Germany will awaken to the fact that
she has another war on her hands
commercial one. She will find she has
lost forever billions of dollars formerly
sent into her land for supplies which
Uncle Sam did not make.
Coal tar products, drugs. chemicals.
toys, silks, inks, potash, everything i'm
aginable in manufactured goods, espe-
cially optical instruments and scientlnc
apparatus, beads, paints, featherwork and
hundreds of other things were four years
ago imported from Germany at cost to
us of many billions of dollars.
In 1913 we paid Germany about three
millions for dyes, paints and things along
that line alone. Our bill with her for clay
and manufactured porcelains ran into the
hundreds OF thousands For fertilizer we
coughed up a pretty ten millions. Our
toy expense was something remarkable.
In oculist's goods. in scientific apparatus:
in watches and the thousand technical
devices we also had huge account the
sum paid our Teutonic friends few years
ago was probably about the most pleas
ing balance on the German national ac-
count book
But now our money no longer flows to
Germany In May of this year we i'm
ported only S135 worth of goods -pra2ti-
cally nothing.
Three years ago some colors used in
printing rose up to 81 pound. where
few weeks before they had been q cents
for the same amount. And no more
could be obtained from Germany, the
prices went skylarking-but now these
same colors of American make can De had
for 65 cents a pound. Para red mounted
to 1.50 per pound, as against 10 cents
few weeks before. American RED IS IN
the market at IS cents.
When the color panic first set in there
was a general stampede in the market,
literally hue and cry. But the chem-
lists of the Agricultural Department at
once tackled the question and they can
now show a handsome result OF 'elr
work.
DR.. Gill the chemist. has succeeded in
getting out of coal-tar products not only
beautiful dyes which were once to be nad
by importation only, but he has room
full of lars in which virtually every tint
is represented by colored powder or
crystals A chamber about as large as
the dining room of the average nat IS
are ranged glass jars not OF preserves or
pickles but OF eolors which Or. Glli mas
secured as result of his experiments.
Greens. yellows reds. blues. violets Of
every shade. riot OF colors that Would
make an E,aster-egg basket envious.
These, the doctor explains. are made IN
America and are dyes which can now be
placed on American markets to take the
place of those formerly irnpcrted
..It is nonsense. said Ut Gu, 10
dyed material in this country due to
any inferiority of our materials. we
are making excellent colors and pfac-
tically OF every tint. We have almost
duplicated the dyes and
colors we used to depend on Germany
for, and if there are few still lacking.
we are more than comlens1ted by the
fact that we have many new colors.
The United States has within its
borders all raw material needed in the
painting and dyeing industry, and II
we have not every tint, II IS possible
that we will secure il within few
months.
In TOYS the same thing has taken
place Where we four years ago
bought millions of dollars worth OF
tin soldiers, dolls. tea sets, etc, now
we are making them ourselves. What
will the Germans in the mountains
do, the peasants who for generations
have made Noah's arks and dolls?
Whole cities, such as Nuremberg. were
gwen up 10 the 10y lIduSAIg dloHS-
Whole families and entire districts
worked at tiny furniture, wee ships.
picture books. games. wax coils. carved
wooden animals, prancing leaden SOL
diers. for this was their sole means of
support.
Now Uncle Sam makes his own toys.
and very beautiful ones they are. What
is Germany doing with her vast num-
bers dependent on this work? Do they
realize. with Othello, that their oc-
is gone?
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