The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-12

everywhere throughout the depart
Wcuts ot the Nutd ana the Pas dc
Calais. and it is only q question %
timD when 90 viii be- completed
RcCrcating the TcNtilc Industry.
I spent yesterday iu Atmvutltrcs
suius through ~uwc ut the cotton
and luon factotics that are now be-.
ing rebuilt The city lies Within "A
pistol shot of the border ~ Bol-
gium. n had 40 spiuhmg and ve0v-
,rg mills at the outbreaks ~ the war
These were an dos,roycd 10y tho
Germans. much OF their machinery
WAS carried over the Rhine Hs we'll
ls all the copper lud brass Some OF
she smukc-tnuks were blown up sn
that they toll uu the buildings and
thus aided in their destruction tho
town is "a ftlr typt ot Oh, ruined In.
dusItidl ,cutora
That region ls almost altogether
given up tu teNtlivs. Boturc the war
more th1u tvo.th,rds ot tho wooi'u
suindlDs OF Franco WuIo Ban the lu-
vudgd districts and % Eruat part M
the linen .piudlea Hud looms The
Germans exported moro than % half
million lluou spindl'g and 1000. 000
cotton spindlcs. They sout home
1000 cotton looms ana greater
number ~ looms used for liucuv
1hCv destroyed 500 much cumhiug
machinery that u will take about
$50. cocoon to replace ~. and the
arIuuiug machinery win take au-
other Sl2.uUO.ouO, They blow up or
carried away tho machinery ~ the
. bleaching. dyClng ana ironing plants.
it is said that tho loss iu tho textile
| industries alone lS upwards OF g.
GOO 600 600.
ina New Iincn M,ll,
I should like To give YOU a picture
~ one linen factory which I visited
no Armuuurrcs New buudWEs are
rising out of the debris. and they are
installing a spinning and weaving
establishment To- which any town In
New England might point with
pride. The min covers several acres
aud o. hns been almost rebuilt The
walls are 90 brick and glass and the
roofs Of glass ana rcd tiles Tho
smukestack IA a mosaic ~ rod ana
white bricks. ana ps whole the
establishment is very artistic.
Before the war the mill employed
I about eight hundred men, but It's III.
rector told me that he viii now be-
able TO get much greater output
with less labor. as his new machinery
| is much more efficient. In one of the
| weaving rooms. covering I should sny
| half an acre. ! found all the looms ~
/ place, ana above them thiCkct oi
/ leather and rubber belts forming O
/ network covering the whole. Som'
| looms were weaving cloth 20 feet IN
width and others fine linens not y
l yard wide Only one section of The
room was operating. Tor much of the
| machinery II Htill complete. The dl,
rector says he is pushing the work
| lust as fast as he can labor, anc
that the whole business viii soon h'
/ humminR again | saw some luoml
on which girls were weaving the fin'
linens used IN our country, ant
and some which were turning on
"p0nEee cloth" for lightweight suit
for American men. The director
SAYS his exports at present are large
ly to the south American countries
He deprecates our tariff which af
fects the Franco American trnde,
During my trip through the de
va stated region / have seen some
thing Of the beet sugar industry
Tho loss there was more than 800,
100000, and to replace the loss o
| machinery In the distillerles, brewer
les and other agricultural induAtrlei
win cost hundreds of millions more
RcmnklnR Plato Glass and Cbcmica
Works.
From ArmontiOrcs went into tn
Rouhaix -Tourcoing district, anothe
/ gre. toXtilo center, which was prh,
tioally destroyed but il now risin