Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-23
PACKING INDUSTRY
HAS GOOD RECORD
Chicago Concerns Ordered to Ship
200 Cars OF Meat to Sea-
board Daily.
BIG ORDERS GIVEN FOR BACON
Packer Experts Solve Puzzling Prob
lem I'm Manufacture of Gas Masks.
Story OF What Business Is Doing
to Help Win War.

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CHICAGO. Juno EAT least one
hog out Of four raised in America this
summer Is being sent to the allies.
The shipments of meat arc made up OF
beef. mutton. pork and the various
products put up By the packers. Never
before In the history OF the world has
an organization been built up quietly
that handled supplies on such a
colossal scale. The detail involved Is
enormous. The public in general mas
little conception OF the prodigious ma
ture of the tasks handled by the grain
and meat divisions Of the food admin
!stration'
SO said Charles Mccarthy. repre-
sentative of Herbert Hoover, in a state
ment appearing in the Chicago Tribune
OF June 5. IN nutshell. il is the
story OF one industry that has meas
Packing and distributing the food
which is destined TO win the war Is
on. problem which has caused no
worry at Washington because tho cf-
fclent organizations known az the
American packers. have met every de-
mand upon them and delivered the
goods" at the place specified and TO the
minute
In View OF the columns that have
been written regarding the failure OF
various industries to come through
properly on war supplies. II is In
tial OF all army requiem ents-food-
is being delivered in exact accord with
the wishes of the government.
Mr Mccarthy speaks truly when he
Gays tho public has little conception
or the colossal scale on which food
supplies are being handled. Shipments
OF meat arc going to the allies and 20
our expedit!onary forces at the rate
OF 5000 pounds 4 minute during the
ten-hour work day at Eastern ports.
That means 100000 pounds a day.
shipments. OF course. arc not so well
distributed as the above daily average
might indicate. They arc regulated by
available ships. Tho ship movements
are Irregular. and there are times
when numbers o, them put into port
together and want carGoes lnmedi-
atcly. II Is In meeting such sudden
has distinguished itself from other in
dustrics.
For example one day not many
weeks ago shipping space for a con-
siderable quantity OF food became
available or a few hours notice The
government authorities in Washington
Wired TO Chicag" packing concerns to
begin shipping meat to seaboard at
the rate Of 200 cars day Such an
order had never been dreamed OF be-
fore. Bat the packers delivered the
goods and kept It NJ til the govern
On several occasions The rovnrument
buying agents have summoned .eprr-
sentat'ves Of the big packers into con-
ference and then told them that bacon
was wanted IN untold amounts How
much can you suppply2' was the query
directed a each packer representative.
aud some nrodjgI c1s orders haye been
gwen on that kasIR.r.- = ~ q D
Last month tho B-ftfsTseoy RI ne nj
ordered cjH."o9.ooo pounds OF meat TO
De delivered IN three weeks The nnal
shipments have just been made-gell
within tn" time limit
Not alone in meats. but in other
things that tho industry and its allied
branches supply, has packer efficiency
been apparent. For instance. a sand
paper works received an order by wire
for an enormous amount OF it's product
at the earliest possible moment" The
factory bucklsd down TO the task, ran
off eighteen miles OF sandpaper n yard
wide. dried IT, cut 1t up. packed it
and shipped 1t before the following
morning.
These are merely a few Instances OF
TO war demands. They arc the eff
rc.cnt machine with which the food
administration is working in handling
the prodigions tasks which Mr. Nc
Carthy speaks OF in his interview.
The whole story OF packer useful
told in short letter. however One
could he written regarding tho de-
veloprcnt OF any one OF dozens Of by
products which are proving OF in
est!mnb!e value to the nation For in
stance II was an auxiliary concern
which enabled the government to over
come the handicap 10 our army occa
stoned by the German monopoly of not :
ASH sufficiently pure 10 produce the
glass that is needed for our soldiers
and sailors binoculars. range finders
ana cameras. 1t was packer eNnerts
VINO solved ose OF the most tmDortant
rToblems incident to supplying our me,
with gas masks. II Is packer product
!hat Is used TO stanch the flow OF
biood from the wounds OF our soldiers.
II Is a packer product which is usei
TO sew up the wounds: the soan with
which the soldiers clean up inter tbeir
turn In the trenches is n n,cl.er
product the glue which figures largely
IN the manufacture of airplanes cn,na.
from the packers: the aviators' shns,
peit coats are packer producers
Slycerine for use in explosives. amin
OILS FOR lubricating purposes .nd
ieathcr FOR harness puttces and 49,
IKE come largely from packing