Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-21

foothold in markets that have here
tofore been closed to you. Or you can
do as you have to some extent done
in the past. restrict yourselves to
sour domestic markets and lose your
chance"
The quantity production of the
United States was almost startling to
them. Al Kansas City Mr.. Florimond
Hankar, director of the National Bank
OF Belgium and president of the Syn
Dictated Savings Societies of that coun-
try, watched the operations in one of
the, packing houses with open eyes.
He saw eighteen steers minute be-
ing killed, dressed. chilled and placed
in refrigerating cars to be sent to
all the world.
You can hardly comprehend what
this means to me-, said he. In Bel
GUM it takes two men all day to kill
and dress single steer. We make a
ceremony of it."
At the Ford plant in Detroit they
saw the raw material go in a one end
and 5000 ears roll out AT the other
under their own power each day.
Can Compete With World.
You can pay the highest wages
ever given labor and compete with
the world" was the statement of one
member. Another. after watching OPP
erations in the coal mining country.
said:
THE product per miner per day in
the United States is three times the
product per man-day in England.
Not because your men are better
workmen. but because they use ma
chimes. In Great Britain we stick to
! the nick and shovel. We have not
lear ed to substitute mechanical
power for the human muscle.
Perhaps they had yankee bras in
mind when they first came. At Cleve-
land they saw anchor chains being
cast NJ De la Touche of the French
line held up his hands
But you cannot cast an anchor
chain that will hold a ten-thousand-
ton ship in rough weather. said he.
Such "A chain must be forged.
1t was explained to him that during
the war, after American shlpyards got
a going. they turned out ships more
rapidly than chains could be forged.
1t became necessary to invent a
process. This was accomplished by a
combination of a metal mixture, and
a link formation. M. De la Touche
remained unconvinced. So two chains,
one of the old style hand-forged va
riety and one of the new cast-steel
sort, were broken on testing ma :
chine. The hand-1orged cnaih orohe
first
New Machine Devised.
Always heretofore it had been con-
sidered necessary to forge the bronze
for propeller barrels and the like. The
same need of speed compelled new
process and machine was devised
which made use of precisely the same
centrifugal force which throws the
water out of milk and makes the con-
densed sort SO well known to our
Army in France.
But it cannot be as good" said NJ
De la Touche.
Every test. from strength and wear
down to a chemical examination, has
failed to find any difference between
this sort of propeller barrel and the
I old sort They are the same. The
new process FORCES the bronze pre-
cisely as the old one did"
Marshall Stevens of London is the
chairman of the Trafford estates, one
of the greatest owners of railroads
docks. warehouses and the like in the
world He doubted our electric en-
gines until he saw them in operation
pulling long trains over the noun
tains on the c. NJ. and ST. P. Being
convinced. he bought three such en-
yines at Pittsburgh for s24s,ooo eacn.