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Highland Park Press, 22 May 1930, p. 29

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TRANSPORTATION 0F U. S. B DESCRIBED Thursday, May 22, 1930 Changed 'from Agricultural to Industrial Country in Hundred Years The transformation of the United Stgtes from a purely agricultural to an industrial nation has been accom- plished in little inure than a hundred years and the record of the achieve. ment is a marvelous one. Two of our greatest industries are those of ready made clothing and preserved and can- ned foods. It is nut generally known that these two commodities were first produced fur the convenience and Wel- lnre of our sailors and other men of the sea. In the early days, it will be renumbered, uur shipping' industry was regarded with a great deal more interest than vials the case in the period between the Civil and the World war.' In,an interesting Article in the current issue of the National 'ltepublic on the growth of our indus- tries Georgiana Waddell has the fol- loving to say ‘of the development of our clothing and preserved food in. tlustries: Clothing and Food "Clorhink and food were among the first articles to be manufactured out. side the hume.e The manufacture of food and clothing still heads the list M' important industrial activities in the United States today. Strangely though, seuguirig men are responsible for the origin of both industries. "Sailors in New England ports for only a few days had no time to have clothing made, yet after a long voy- age. their wardrobes needed renew. ing. To supply this need, the first ready-made, clothing was produced and kept on hand as an item of ships' >upplies. The convenience uf being able to procure clothing quickly in an emergency soon appealed to the land. lubhers and before long ruugh and tvatly-to-werw garments were being mid chiefly to rieirttes, farmers and ialwrers. Recognizing the possibility "The preparation of food, another fivmly-entrenehesl home industry, left the home beetause men would go to so]. Sailors on long voyages, away from the base of supplies, sum-red and died from scurvy and other dis- 1"dties caused by diet dofieienciem So acute did the situation become'in,the Fiench navy that Napoleon offered a n-ward to anyone who would discover oi' extending the market, manufac- ture-rs experimented in ready-made garments of u superior grade. It was ivurnmi that nut only 'work clothes' hut u fair imitation of a tailor-made suit muld be produced at a cost far lens than the tailor was obliged to ask fur made-to-mfder garments. u method by which food could be pre- solved for a considerable period of time. The prize was won by Jiichi)la. Amen, a French scientist, whb proved that all kinds of foods could be pre- seryed in hermetically sealed bottles Ingelop' Canned Food which had been brought ttths high ted States, s1 temperature. The theory is that un- fostering of c dorlying all modern canning and was the business m immediately put to commercial use United States. m France about 1814 and was started _that direction, in England the year 'following. Up tn this time the only known methods of food preservation were by salt, sung, smoking or drying, "One of the first persons to intro. duev, the canning industry in the Uni- ted"States was Ezra Dugget who an rived in New York between 1815 and 1818. William ButterArth, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Uni- Urges Mote Friendly Relations with Canada HUPMOBILE atarted this 1930 swing to Eights, 6 years ago. So Hupmobile ofiert seasoned, time-tried Straight-Eight motors . . . now . . ' Smarmeu and "wallow excellence . . . now . . . Performance that gives ruletship of the mad, today. I33 HORSEPOZWER EIGHT . . .100 HORSEPOWER EIGHT . . . ro, HORSEPOWER " (“CED AT FACTORY FROM '995 TO $2755 , 21 South Second Street I uyllu " engineer . . I uplno-ore . . THE PRESS ted States, strongly advocate: th'ei fostering of closer relations Imonu‘ the busincsl men of Canada and thei United' States. As the first step ini, that direction, a group of, Canadian‘ business men attended the int moot- init of the National Chamber at Washington, and this visit Wu re- paid by Mr. Butterworth and a group of American lumines- men on the oc- casion of the fourth annual meeting of the Canadian chamber of com- mart-e at Edmonton and Calgary. _ in Nation's Business, Mr. Butter- worth says that “business be: out- grown boundaries and nationalities. No longer can the successful. entre- preneur, snug in his own small car- ner, lay his tittiter on any set of cir- cumstances and my: 'Theee are my own peculiar problems. When I Una of these viewpoints decides the purchase of every car...which viewpoint is yours? . . . . Th" harmonir.ol bunny of the Hupmobile In M uunh’ mrtnart, one” sfamm-Il, pu-rl'm-u-cl f'itraighuEight Down. I know that llquHITuv pioneered the Eighuml - mobile wide our" wry I like pom-r pml lotus, Hm I can't hold "'Y “up have solved them, my ditfkuiti" J" lh“Buaineu has become BO comple- t at the problems of ull but“ no the problems of the individual. The customer-'- problem in important to the alumna and vice veru. "In its relutlm'l tu Cut-uh. the Uni. ted sum in: the dual role of ale-- nun and customer. In H028 Cm“: took one-fifth of all this country‘u ox- Porta, and the United Mates purch- ued two-tttthr of all Candi“ up ports. Here, new» An untortitUd (militia, ttom, I two-Why commerce that 1rtbtuMet' cordill relations. "it is Well that busineu men of the United Stat" mould neck I bet. ter understanding ot the aims and idelll of their neighbors to the north." 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