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Show THE CITIZEN DYE JOOVER CONSIDERS lei NATIONAL FOREST FACTS. INDUSTRY AID. We are to Bureau of The Journal of ,fWashington Commerce.) . it of Commerce Hoover in an qefp'-sr- M conferences which j iscu.---h:- tli had-bee- n s representatives of the industry placed his department today as favoring' special rc: fceatu: .it for that industry. liate provision must be made, S'liniiii the secretary, to save the do- eld v 1 dye-tuff- mestic ivestuffs industry from German ipd otli.T foreign competition until the jpdust; has attained sufficient growth ' 4 k to withstand the efforts of long eatable lisJieu European companies to serve ie American market with that com-,j- J Moreover, it was said, no ghtj time should be lost in providing suffi-gas3ent protection for the domestic lustry if harmful effects of foreign lna competition are to be avoided. Qii I 1 Regulations now in force, carried S aver from the war period, providing fbr the licensing of all foreign ship-de- J a joints of dyes and dyestuffs coming nsfo! into the country are inadequate to fill loi the need of the domestic industry for ' Gtt protection, the Secretary said. toermore, action in this direction I should be taken even before the enact-men- t of tariff legislation, which possi-11ta!- ! My might afford the necessary protec- modity. it in-fa- ij . Fur-Bno- t; Secretary Hoover indicated that no definite plan is in mind for use in pro- - gjjl e aifi viding protection com- against foreign re-petition. Instead, the question mains to be worked out and probably will be one of the first problems to be taken up for settlement by the Department of Commerce and the proposed industrial advisory committee appoint-hen&- $ l rePresent the dyestuffs industry, wfn such a body is established under the plans for closer contact between government and business. The regulations requiring the licensing of shipments of German dyes and dyestuffs coming into the country, originally promulgated by the War Trade Board, virtually fail in accomplishing the purpose for which they were kklished. it was said. Although Ub:tl,d ontrance in the United States WJon consiPned directly from Ger m?nv f'xcePt under license, it is le-lieved that large quantities of German djres find their way into the country via Switzerland and other countries contiguous to Germany despite the regulations, Fon,rnces have been held by the Vr',:irv representatives of dyes. Included in tlp unference were representatives f.diw innnufacturers and manufac tmvi Vaw ina(prjajs entorintr intc l,,,,,lm,ton cf dyestuffs. Secretary --J ' " ,"iPlaned that it was the pur-ihe conference to make pans ecJ ricd; exai es-iiba- ! pro-laris-- : . fliS 1 tlH )f ;un vort coin-nnnufacturin- tl d ad - i thtfc - eri Icpe- ?' - r?n ! I . t bp i)lesrilt trade of the Amor industry and to plan for 'n.n of new export markets. consuming lumber three times as fast as we are procuring it. Experts predict our saw log lumber will be gone in about fifty years. The bulk of the original supplies of yellow pine in the south will be gone in ten years and within seven years 3.000 manufacturing plants there will go out of existence. White pine in the lake states is nearing exhaustion and these states are paying $6,000,000 a year in freight bills to import timber. in lumber twenty years ago, now has to d of the amount used. import It has $300,000,000 invested in goods and forest industries, employing over 90.000 wage earners. Fire destroys over $20,000,000 worth of lumber every year and kills the reproduction upon thousands of acres of forest lands. Within fifty years our present timber shortage will have become a blighting timber famine. Forests can be protected from fire, regrowth can be encouraged, conservaNew England, self-supporti- ng one-thir- tive cutting can be practiced, reforestation can be accomplished but it takes from fifty to one hundred years to mature a timber crop. Forest devastation must be stopped lands now in forests must be kept continuously productive, forest lands now devastated must be put to work. Ten years ago the United States produced its entire supply of pulp wood of it is imported. but now This means freight rates to be added to the purchase price. Indications are that supplies of pulp wood timber in New England and New York will be exhausted in twenty years. two-third- s In New York alone supplies will be gone in ten years. Dependence upon foreign supplies of pulp wood for news print means we will be at the mercy of foreign manufacturers as to prices. of our newspapers are printed on the product of American forests. High cost of pulp and paper mills prevent the manufacture of plants from following the timbers as do saw Only one-thir- d mills. pulp -- wood has now to be freighted 500 miles to the mills. Get busy and plant some trees. Much JOBS FOR SAWDUST. The towering sawdust heap, once considered a mere waste and a shameful monument to the destruction of our forests, is being salvaged to useful purposes. According to the Forest Products Laboratory of Madison, Wis., fifty-on- e profitable uses have been developed for the utilization of sawdust. From manufacturing soap and fertilizers to the purification of gas and lettering floral emblems, the range of its recovery is widening. Green sawdust. barring its consumption as fuel, is narrowly restricted in use. Once dried, however, the pulverized particles arc adapted to some fifty uses. 13 Commercial concerns in large cities have made its recovery a business, invading wood working establishments, planing mills, sash and door factories and furniture factories for the hitherto accumulated heaps of refuse. An infant sawdust industry of growing importance is the manufacture of fuel briquets. One plant in Los Angeles, Calif., is in operation, and a similar establishment has been erected in Vancouver. The briquets, says S. R. Winter, s in the Scientific American, are fashioned in cylindrical shape, are three and a half inches in diameter and of varying lengths, with twelve inches as a medium. Special machines are purchasable, and Europe is producing fire lighters from sawdust, sandwiched with rosin or pitch and transformed into compact cakes which are scored to permit of small pieces being broken off with ease. Also, we read, furs are renovated by being tumbled in drums where saw-duacts as an absorbent in extracting. grease and dirt. Hams, bacon, fish and sausage may be pickled or cured under the smoldering fires of hardwood blocks and sawdust. A desirable flavor is thus imparted and the preservative qualities of these products strengthened. The meat absorbs the smoke from four to five days while the temperature hovers around 75 degrees Fahrenheit. The method can be hastened by increasing the temperature. Widespread use is made of sawmill refuse as an absorbent on floors, meat and fish markets, hotels, abattoirs, machine shops, garages, factories and warehouses being consumers in this particular. The abandoned or reconverted barroom once was a claimant of the material as an absorbent on floors. Of minor ct consequence, although used in some instances, is its adaptation as an extinguisher of oil fires. Dry sawdust is employed effectively for cleaning and drying metals. The latter, when cleaned in a pickling bath, or when subjected to a plating solution, or greasy pieces produced on automatic machinery in which they are deluged with a stream of oil, may be dried in sawdust and polished to a most pleasing effect when subjected to agitation and more or less intense friction in a tumbling barrel. Twenty concerns in the United States make and lay composition flooring which is constituted of a base of magnesium oxychloride, formed by the reaction between magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride. Substances serving as fillers are of a varying character, but sawdust is one. Its percentage in composition floorings varies from 4 to as high as 50. Ethyl alcohol has long been a product of sawmill waste, the material being inserted into rotary digesters and treated with dilute acid at a high temperature, thus converting the cellulose into fermentable sugars. These are then separated and fermented into alcohol. Hardening and annealing of metals is another very limited method of utilizing waste from the buzzing saw; the product acts as an insulator in avoiding too rapid cooling of steel. In the consignment of canned goods, as well as fragile articles, sawdust is a protector. It affords insulating influences in cold climates and thereby prevents the freezing of liquids in transit. Likewise, the material Is suitable for insulation purposes in the construction of ice houses, refrigerator cars and storage houses. Sawdust is displacing sand in the making of cement barn flooring. Its merits include greater warmth on a minimum of wearing on the hoofs of cattle. Experiments are being made in producing paving blocks and some asphaltic binder from this pulverized wood, although results are not yet available. One plant in the United States is producing oxalic acid from sawdust, and the product has commercial possibilities in the manufacture of carborundum and calcium carbide. Plants have been erected in the Pacific northwest with the view of producing a gas of high calorific value from the distillation of wood under high temperatures. Such plants bear similarity to ordinary coal gas equipment, the wood being distilled in gas retorts. The resulting charcoal can be consumed directly under the ovens, or can be burned in a water-ga- s plant, the gas from which can be diverted into the mains. 'Oatmeal wallpaper utilizes sawdust for its distinctive surface. Current Opinion. MISTAKEN I r : i i I n; , 1 I IDENTITY. suh, explained the unbleached motorcycle courier who had unsuccessfully attempted to navigate a French highway in night traffic, everything was jest goin along fine, and den Ah see mail chance to dodge in between two motorcycles. Well, what of it? Dats all dey was to it, Capn, suh. Dem two motorcycles was a truck. The American Legion Weekly. "Capn, j A LOGICAL. Mistress Did you water the ber plant, Mary? rubI no, mum, I Boston thought it was waterproof. New Maid "Why, Transcript. TOO POLITE. Hes a terribly polite man, isnt he? "I should say so. Why, I believe he would even take off his hat to bow to the inevitable. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. DEEPER THAN MOST. I see a vocational school Bacon for its employees has been established in an Idaho mine 14,000 feet underground. Egbert "Evidently trying to make deep thinkers of the men. Yonkers Statesman. THERE I IS A REASON. According to Dr. Bramer, the savages of Brumari Island never kiss each other. Judging by their photographs, we dont blame them. The Passing Show (London). |