New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
out the Importance of that trade as

to supply their clothes, blankets,
sweaters, stockings and in addition
cotton for explosives, medical suppllel,s'
tents, shelters, wagon covers. sadoie
bags, etc. The modern battleshlp mas
no sails, but Jack wears cotton DUCK
he sleeps in a cotton hammock, bathes
with soap from cottonsced oil, wipes
his face with a cotton towel. cleans
his decks with cotton mops, poilshes
metal work with cotton waste, handles
coal in cotton sacks, stretches awnings
of cotton to shelter himself from the
suns rays, protects the ships Launches
and boats with cotton tarpaulIns, ea's
cottonseed oil on his salads, wears
heavy cotton gloves to protect ms
hands in rough work, cleans his guns
with cotton swabs, sleeps at tunes un-
der cotton blankets, on cotton she3Cs
and cotton pillow cases. In snort, ne
lives in world composed almost. whoiiy
of wool, cotton, steel and coal.
Speaking for the lumber industry, J.
J. Donovan, of the Bloedel-Donovan
Lumber Mills, said that inadequate
TRANSFORMATION was the one difficulty 10
be overcome. =,
zone cloud is in the sky" he said.
"and that is the failure Of transporta-
ton. The government wants alrplane
and ship timber, 20 per cent OF our
product, but it does not permit cars or
ships in sufficient number to care Tor
the so per cent commercial Jumper.
Coal Tar Dye Industry's Part
How the coal tar dye industry III
peace time may readily be converted
for the manufacture Of high explosives
was described by Henry Howard, or tna
Merrimac Chemical Company, who sald
in part:
"There is no doubt that a permanent
coal tar dye industry is matter vita-'y
affecting our national safety IN tln1S
of peace, because in no other manref
can the necessary plant and skilled
workers. easily and quickly convertl-
BILE to use in munition manufacture be
kept available for emergency calls IN
times of need.
tIn my opinion the permanency OF
our foreign trade can only be ass 1red
in the fierce competition sure to foi-
low this war through the organization
of exporting agencies by our different
industries so that these Industries VIII
work for foreign trade as a unit, avoid
ing all competition between their
members in foreign markets and hight
ing only our foreign competitors.
Something of the vital Importance OF
the motor car industry in war time was
of the Willys-Overland company in the
following remarks:
"The armies having the best trans
port and the best air service will wln
The transport service is organized on
a motor truck basis, officers have III
creased their efficiency many times by
the use of motor cars, dispatch riders
are mounted on motorcycles, tanks lead
the infantry in advances against the
enemy, the injured are hurried to the
hospitals in motor ambulances. heavy
ordnance is hauled by motor tractors,
and airplanes keep the commanders ad-
vised of enemy movements, drop bombs
on their concentrations and depots and
pour fusilades from machine guns into
his trenches and advancing troops.
'It was calculated last year that the
armies on all fronts were using more
than 100000 motor vehicles.
after communicating most of the
motor trucks and many Of the pas
scnger cars in Europe, the French.
English and Russian governments
turned to the United States to supply
the deficiency. During the first three
years Of the war the United States
exported 45,3OS motor trucks to Eng
land, France and Russia. Nearly all
Of these were for war purposes, as the
exports for the two preceding years
amounted to only 40"
Urges New Cabinet Minister
To coordinate the foreign trade ac-
tivties of the various industries, a new
member should be provided for the
Presidents Cabinet, E.-A. S. Clarke,
president of the Eackawanna Steel
Company, told the convention. He said
in part:
"ln view of what is being done along
similar lines by the governments Of
the manufacturing nations of Europe,
it would seem that our government
might we'll consider establishing a sep
! arate administrative department, with
a. member of the Cabinet at it's head
On effect, Secretary for Foreign
Trade), whose duty it would be to
+, foster and assist in mobilizing the de-
velopment and extension of the foreign
trade Of the United States"
An unprecedented industrial develop
ment will follow the war, according te
A. G. Bedford, president Of the Stand
ard Oil Company Of New Jersey, who
said:
81 am convinced that we are on tho
threshold of a new era in our indus
trial development and that it will bt
the era when we attain our maiorit,
as world merchants. Without undue
pride l think l can say that when his
tory comes to be written it will b,
discovered that not only in military af
fairs have we as Americans come int,
a largeness of life that was almost in
credible. or would have been incredibl,
to us before the war. but in financia
achievement and in industrial effort w
have shown an ability that has bee1
beyond precedent"
That the agricultural wealth O
America is the basis Of it's remarkabl
prosperity, Julius II. Barnes pointe
out in the following words:
I'm a broad way, we may assume a
once that the markets for our surplu
grain will be, after the war as now. i
Great Britain, and France, and Bel
GUM, and Holland, and Italy, and pos
sibly in Germany; but we may be vel
satisfied that in those markets we sha]
meet the keen competition of an i'm
poverished Russia, of an India who's
agricultural activity will have bee,
stimulated by war prices, of a prosper
Gus Argentine; and also The competi
t'on of the British possessions of Can
d. NH