Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-08
STANDARDIZATION AID TO TRADE

etie. and clubs In all the countries
Industrial leaders from the South
tseuhlis. who have been
expansion conference in Washington
during the last week were emphatic
In commanding this as a very for
ward step at time when South
America is engaged on an extensive
building program.
Portland cement. carbon steel rails.
open hearth steel girder
Trade and high tee rails. low car
n bon steel splice bars. me-
S"o"s' dunn carbon steel splice
bars. high carbon steel splice bars.
steel for buildings. structural steel
for locomotives. carbon steel bars for
railway springs. carbon steel and al
10y steel forgings, quenched and tenn
pered carbon steel axles. shafts and
other forgings for locomotives and
cars; carbon steel forgings for loco
motives. carbon steel car and tender
axles, wrought solid carbon steel
wheels for steam railway service,
steel tires. steel castings. lap-welded
and seamless steel and wrought iron
boiler tubes for stationary service
welded steel pipe, boiler and fire-box
stee! for locomotives boiler rivet
steel. lap-welded charcoal-iron boiler
tubes for locomotives, stay-bolt iron.
engine bolt iron. refined wrought-lron
bars; wrought Iron plates, cast-iron
pipe and special castings, locomotive
cylinders. extra-high carbon steel splice
ba qusnched high-carbon steel splice
pars. quenched carbon steel track
POTTS. quenched alloy steel track
bolts. structural nickel steel. struc-
tural steel for cars. structural steel
Tor ships. rivet steel for ships. billet
steel concrete reinforcement bars,
ran RAJ. steel concrete reinforcement bars.
colo rolled steel ankles. wrought SOL
id.carbon steel wheels for electric
railway service, automobile carbon
ana alloy steel. cold-drawn Bessemer
steel automatic screw stock, cold
oraWn open-hearth steel automatic
screw stock, iron and steel chains,
FOUNDRY pig iron. ast-iron car wheels,
maileable-iron castings, gray iron
castings, hard-drawn copper wire,
sort or annealed copper wire, lake
copper wire bars. cakes, slabs, billets.
lngots and ingot bars, spelter, man
ganese-bronze ingots for sand cast
ings, purity of raw linseed oil from
North American seed. purity Of boiled
ilnseed oil from North American seed,
turpentine, carbon-steel and alloy
steel blooms billets and slabs for
forg1ngs. welded wrought iron pipe.
quenohe and tempered alloy-steei
axies, shafts and other forgings for
1t will be readily seen that with new
railroad construction work planned
in practically all the
Value of South American coun-
Stonds-d. tries there will be
a widespread use of
these standard specifications.
In the building of the great Ameri-
can merchant marine these standards
have been of inestimable value and
saved much time, money and technical
skill. The question of Standardization
Is being carried still further by the
shipping board as an aid in achieving
americas destiny as the greatest
commercial nation in the history of
the world. The shipping board has ap-
pointed p. A. 8. Franklin of New York
as chairman of a committee to recon-
emend to Congress such changes in tn
navigation laws relating to measure
ment. Standardization and construc-
ton inspection as will place American
Snipping on approximately the same
OASIS as foreign shipping. and stand
i0 to ka
ture of Mr.. Franklin's recommends
lions. no'A
That all looks to a big program of
building from the very groundwork
up and demand for American stand
ara materials. Such a program, while
OF .ne greatest value, is not so readily
grasped by business men generally as
are other phases of Standardization.
Here is another timely example:
American dyes may find a prompt
and practically limitless market 10
China if due regard is
Dyes in given to Standardization
nh;no OF product to meet the
peculiar and rather exact
ing requirements of the native trade,
according to recomme ndations just
received from Consul General George
E. Anderson, at Hongkong. Both
practical dye men working in the
held and Hongkong importers of
dyes. he says. report that the chief
factor in the future of the sale of
American dyes in China is the
Standardization Of color shades.
One of the chief elements of the