The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-22

That Are Used In Turning Out Mod
 srn Footsear Is LikO Taking a Les
 son In Commercial Geography.
 What's in shoe?
 Take a factory tag that tells how 8 shoe Is made. Count on it sixty differ ent items of material; also different items of labor. That shows many of the things in a case. And there may be others. ....
 Whence come the materials? When you look at a shoe you see the four cor ners of the globe pulled together in 1t.
 Begin with the bottom, or sole, made from the hide of Texas steer, tanned In oak from Pennsylvania forests. And the heel Is of South American dry hide, tanned in hemlock bark.
 It's a kidSkin shoe you have? It looks 1t, although one never can tell for sure these days. The vamp is made of a goat of Brazil. It is tanned with chrome from New Caledonia, Is black ed with logwOOd from Jamaica and Is glazed with glass from Austria.
 The top is of a kid skin tanned in NJ geria, brought to Massachusetts and there retanned and finished. The tongue Is of sheep leather The sheep grew in Argentine. The leather Innings are of skins of sheep that grew in Australia. The skins were tanned in sumac from Sicily.
 Some of the leather Is treated with fiat liquor" an emulsion made of cod oil from Labrador aud acids from one of the new American chemical labora- | tories.
 Yet only few of the things that the tanner used in making the shoe have been mentioned. He also uses in his mystery of tanning "divi-divi" from the East Indies, valonia from Turkey, myroboIans from India and algarobilla | from the land knows where, salt from Michigan, sawdust from Maine mills, egg yolk from Russia, blood from Chi | cagO and dcgras from France-and few other things from few other coun- 1 tries besides.
 If there's any fellow under the sun, from an Eskimo to a Patagonian or from a HOtteutot to d Korean, who has a hide or skin 10 sell, be cau get his price for 1t If he viii show it to Ean- kee tanner, for the Yankee tanner Is buying belts everywhere.
 The leather of which tho shoe Is made Is fastened together with thread of Irish linen or Georgia cotton. The lacings are of Egyptian or long fiber Sea island cotton, tough and strong. The buttons are of bone, pearl or paper, American or Europcau. The eyelcts are of brass, coated with celluloid.
 The tackS are made by the million in Massachusetts of steel. The. same is 1 true of the heel nails and of the shanks in the arches of the shoe. If person prefers wood pegs that won't scratch hardwood floors in the heels of his shoes he may get them at a New | Hampshire shop.
 The welt may he of pIgskin. The pig was killed in Packingtown, and his pelt was tanned in Massachusetts. His bristles were saved and made into brushes for cleaning the shoe. Between the outSolc and the insole of the shoe Is the filler" compost ton of rubber from Ceylon cut with naphtha and mixed with ground cork from Portugal
 The Iusole perhaps Is of good bark tanned leather. GGt 1t may be of fiber, coaied with Sbcct of leather. The box toe may also be Of leather. But moro likely 1t Is of felt, filled with shellac to make it stiff. Likewise tho counter may be Oi leather But more likely it Is of leather board CT celluloid or of scraps of leather pasted together with fouC paste and compressed.
 The felt Is made from waste woolen, perhaps old coats. The shellaC Is from the lac tree of India, and the leather board is made down in Maine of shred ded leather, hemp and Jute from India and other things.
 Yet a few more things are used in the making of n shoe The last, over which the shoe Is fashioned, Is Of ma pie from Michigan. The patterns, by which the uppers are cut, are of paper board. made from old newspapers.
 They are bound with brass. The brass Is stripped from them after they become obsolete and it is used for brazmg the steel dies win which leath- CT Is cut for several parts of the shoe. The brazing is done in an electric flame or in fire of Pennsylvania coal.
 The snowy white lining is made from cotton of Dixie land. The top facing Is of silk made ill New Jersey mills, and the gold leaf on 1t may be truly product of Fl Dorado.
 The edges OF the heels and soles are furnished with wax, which comes from Brazil, and the shoes are blacked with a blacking of which wax is a chief part , There are forty-seven other things in shoe. But enough already has been told. What does a fellow expect these days of high prices? Enough already has been said to make a lesson in