Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-01
STATE AHEAD
IN INDUSTRIES
Commonwealth Would Easily
Win Prize For Supremacy,
Says Trade Bulletin

Pennsylvania would easily win a
prize for industrial supremacy among
the states of the United States, the
monthly bulletin of the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association, says. New
York leads the country in the amount
OF revenue collections. but deducting
the amount collected from the Wall
Street district. which really should be
credited to the whole country. the bull
letin says. Pennsylvania will be out in
the lead.
The bulletin notes with satisfac-
tion. however, that the state not only
is doing its part along industrial lines,
but it is supporting the government
IN ways that should make all of its
citizens proud to be able to live in
the Keystone State. The bulletin
says in part:
If prize were to be awarded to
the state showing the greatest in
would wirN IL easily.
In railroading. in shipbuilding. in
mining. in building and loan associa-
uor 5, and most important of all. in
manufacturing and wages paid. Penn
sylvania leads all the states in the
Union.
"A conservative estimate of the
value of Pennsylvania's manufactur-
ing output for 1917 is $4,000. 900, 600.
For 1915 it will probably be s6,50O,-
100000, or between one-sixth and one
seventh OF the output of the entire
country.
There are fully 800. 600 employees.
TO S1.S5Q. 100000. This last item is.
however, misleading, as the wages
paid in the preparation of so-called
raw material and in every phase of
production, transportation and dis
tribution would give us much larger
payroll credited to manufacturing.
''of coal. Pennsylvania. with its pro-
duction of practically all of the an
minous mined in the entire country.
is pre-eminent
I'm railroad mileage. counting all
tracks, and traffic, Pennsylvania leads
all the states.
Again. in building and loan asso-
Citations. in both number and assets,
Pennsylvania leads. This is popular
form of savings, and while other states
lead us in savings banks deposits. yet
in actual money saved. Pennsylvania
is among the first.
IN shiphuilding. this year Penn
sylVania will be first of all the states,
and the banks of the Delaware within
a few miles of Philadelphia has be-
come the shipbuilding. center of the
world. This form of manufacture
will put the state still further in the
van in the total value of production
and wages paid.
While Pennsylvania cannot be call
ed an agricultural state in comparison
with several states of the west, yet II
is among the first fourteen and mas
a county that exceeds in value OF crops
any other county in the United States
But Pennsylvania is not only in the
forefront as regards industry, the part
II is playing in producing the muni-
tions of war. but also leads in its con-
The revenue collections for the fiscal
year ending June, 1918, amounted to
1851. .9lS.236. The two leading states
were:
New York ...... .SSSS.4l6,tSl
But the collections from the Wall
street district OF New York were
S+57.05S.250. and this should really be
accredited TO the whole country, as
every large financial, commercial and
industrial concern was more or less
involved. Deducting Wall Streets
share we have for the rast of New
York state 1881. l.55S,53l, while the re-
turns from the Pittsburgh district
alone were sS32,159.T01. Comparing
income and excess profits tax by itself
we have New York state, outside Wall
Street dis-rict. $275, sos, lis, while the
share we have for the rest of New
s292. 2.576.362. This is another confir-
nation of our contention that Penn
sylvania has passed New York state
in the value of its manufacturing
output.
new 10TH lily dS q CitdI
ing house for the entire country, puts
the Empire State in the van financi-
ally. but with that exception, the Key
stone State is supreme among her sis
ter commonwealths. and while not
boastful nor unduly eXultant, is justly
proud of the position she has gained
and is maintaining.
Figures are not available for a
comparison of Liberty Bonds or vol
untary contributions, but Pennsylva-
MIA has done her part in that way, as
she has in the number of men who
have gone to the front and TO the
training camps. In fact. our produc-
tion of coal and the output of our
factories would be still greater if il
were not for the men who have VOL
unteered and been drafted from the
mines and mills. In this connection,
the following from the Harrisburg
Telegraph of June "a, will be found
most interesting:
This week Pennsylvania will send
to Camp Lee for the National Army
more of her sons than there We're
American soldiers with Washington
when CORVALLIS surrendered to him
and the French at Yorktown.
Last month Pennsylvania sent to
the various camps more of her hoys
than there were troops commanded by
General Scott when he marched to
Mexico City.
I'm April Pennsylvania sent to
camps more of her youth than there