Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-24
GOVERNOR TELLS
WHAT CAN BE DONE.
Industrial Outline Given by the
State Executive During
This Afternoon


Governor Martin G.. Brumbaugh this
afternoon issued statement indicat-
ing the line OF activity which the State
Committee on Safety and Defense can
take up when it begins its work here
next Wednesday morning.
The Governor says:
1t may be of interest to the peo-
pie of this Commonwealth and it
should be source of gratitude that
Pennsylvania, in the event of military
necessity, has now in effective opera
tion industrial organizations of the
widest range and of the greatest mag
nitude. To these great industrial
plants of the Commonwealth the ma
tion must turn and it should turn con-
iidently in any crisis the country may
face.
THE Committee of Public Safety
will, | believe. Immediately turn to the
serious question of making all this
activity within the State effective in
maximum way for the uses of the
National Government The committee
will also learn what additional indus
tries may be necessary and give its
powerful support TO the establishment
of such supplemental and additional
activities as to make Pennsylvania eff
fective in every element of supply the
government may need.
ITO give our people in n few words
graphic outline of our equipment it
is only necessary to state that there
are now in successful operation in,-a
large way, one hundred and seventy
eight separate industries that will be
of great value to the nation. No other
State can show such a complete equip
ment and no other State can do so
much as ours.
These industries include the fol-
lowing general classes:
q. Building and contracting, with
six separate and important industries.
"2. Chemicals and allied products,
with seventeen branches.
"S. Clay, glass and stone products,
with eight separate departments.
Il. Clothing manufacture, with ten
distinct sub industries.
'5. Food and kindred products, in
Guiding fourteen separate forms of
manufacture.
sc. Leather and rubber goods, with
ten important departments.
-. Lumber and it's manufactured
products, including thirteen great in
dustries.
IS. Paper and printing industries,
with at least five important divisions.
80. Textiles. including seventeen
great industries all vital TO the nation
in time of need.
40. Metals and metal products, in
cluding forty-one great departm
the most complete and important in
the country.
81. Mines and quarries. with eight
! separate and distinct functions, includ-
| ing our great coal output as one of
! the group.
~. Public service, embracing twelve
great corporate activities, mainly hay
ing to do with the vital matter of
transportation and equipment.
Is. Miscellaneous, including seven
teen great activities of our people,
among them the production of coke,
ship building, flags and like important
industries.
I'm these industries above 40 per
cent. of all our people are engaged.
That is to say, above 100000 of our
people are now trained and engaged
in industries directly necessary in any
national emergency.
"The statement of these facts in
outline indicates in part our indus.
! trial equipment and figures in outline
this commemorative preparedness and
/ its obligation"