Show S j Porcelain Making Is New NewS i I Industry Industry- n d America A C Can an lit i s The European war brought a shortage in the United States of many manufactures which hitherto had been imported Americans r immediately set to work to remedy the lack with lack with striking success f This is the second of a series of articles showing that America can cant Editor TELEGRAM f By FREDERICK M. M KERBY S 'S Staff Special ri W WASHINGTON ASHIN TON Sept 13 Two Two years ago nobody in America thought that 5 5 it It was possible to manufacture porcelain In the United States Slates from American clays AM AMERICA ERIC CAN CANI England Germany and France have always supplied the clays from which porcelain and other fine clay products and crucibles have been made in this country r Today Secretary of Commerce Redfield is very proud o of samples of porcelain vases ages made in his own department which equal anything from the finest porcelain manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing turing establishments abroad When the European war restricted imports of clay from abroad the United States bureau of standards at its Pittsburg Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg laboratory undertook a series of experiments with American clay to see if it could produce the fine glaze which distinguishes the imported product This glaze is produced S b by burning the clay tf a The experiments of the bureau were entirely successful and American manufacturers were advised of the results and of the fact that American clay could be obtained which with CS slight treatment could be made equal to any of the imported cla clays s Many of ol these are found in the South and are now being produced for use tm Today there are two establishments making the best type n of chemical porcelain from these American materials and Others are expected to follow in their footsteps Samples of this American made porcelain ware are already beginning i to Y find imd their way nay to market and a new American industry on nn a nm permanent scale has become an an accomplished fact i |