Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-04-14

ers that IL the pulp and paper business
sis permitted to become ambulatory.
it will clear out of the country and
across into Canada"
1--WE must keep it at home where
1t belongs" he added. $50 far as eco
orous. friendly competitor. She can
produce mechanical pulp % gper cent.
lower and chemical pulp Is per cent.
lower than it can be produced here"
Available data show us stablish-
ments engaged in the manufacture of
pulp and paper or both. Senator Will
lis said. with capital investment of
$3.50, 100000. They employed 10000
men, paid out s53,0oo.000 in wages and
turned out an annual finished product
Of $685., 900, 900.
1T will be observed" he contin-
ued. that it takes approximately
two years product to equal the fixed
investment. This indicates a very
high investment of capital as com
pared with other industries and con-
tributes one OF the serious probe ms
Of the business.
The turnover Is too slow. the de-
pendence on local conditions of tim
Der supplies too great. and the risk to
serious to make investment attrac-
tive.
II saw one paper machine at work
in Wisconsin that cost 100000. Such
machinery is too bulky and costly to
be moved from place to place and
hence a constructive program to sup
ply essential raw material in the inn
mediate vicinity, must be adopted.
American paper mill employees
are so eager for technical training in
their trade that they are swapping MP
text books as fast as they can be
printed, George +. Williamson. pr6si-
dent of the Technical association of
the pulp and paper industry declared
in an. address at today's session.
Described educational work being
conducted by the association in CO.
operation with the government. Mr..
Williamson said it had been found
necessary to order a second edition
OF the first off five text books being
issued, while two others, already off
the press, are selling rapidly.
Glasses already are under way in
the mills of the Strathmore Paper
company. Mittineagu, Mass, S. ID.
Warren Co. in Maine and Marathon
and Nekooska- Edwards companies
in the Wisconsin river valley. SINH
lar classes are planned by many
other mills.
Walter J. Raybold was reelected
president of the American Paper and
Pulp association. Henry W. Stokes
OF Philadelphia was elected vice
president of the cast and A. J.. Pratt
Kalamazoo. Mich. for the west. The
executive committee consists of the
presidents of the treaty affiliated
associated to which three members
at large we're added. Louis Bloch OF
San Francisco and w. f. Haskell and
Sidney Mitchell. both of New York.
Officers of other associations elect
ed today follows:
Pulp Manufacturers association,
Thomas w. Ross, Hopewell, Va,
president; Fl. II. Bishop, New York.
secretary treasurer.
Waxed Paper Manufacturers asso-
citation, c. A. Burskirk, Otsego.
Mich. president: ]. w. Hurlbut,
Pennington, VT, vice presidents
Cardboard Manufacturers associa-
ton. G. Frank Merriam, Springfield.
Mass, president; j. A. Lowe. Fitch
burg, Mass. vice president: II. w.
Suter. Hamilton, Ohio, treasurer; ..
NJ. Porter. New York. secretary.
Gummed Parer Manufacturers as
ISOLATION, c. II. Crowell. Brooklyn,
n. r.. president; Phillip Kimball,
New York. vice president; Q. NJ.
Porter, New York, secretary-treas-
urer.
Glazed and Fancy Paper Manufac-
turers' association, w. ii. Stuart,
Springfield, Mass, president; n. \.
Fowler, Holyoke, Mass, vice presi-
dent; o. NJ. Porter New York, sec
rotary; G.. Frank Merriam, Spring
field. Mass, treasurer.