Show EAN OIL LEADER IN IN SEATTLE'S IMPORTS Product Is Used in MakingS Making Makin S Soup up Soap and Several Several Several Sev Sev- eral Paints SEA SEATTLE Dec Two 15 Two to five million million mil roil lion Hon Chinese Chin workers worker In the Ute hot bet sun aun un erf c hottest China toll toU that Americans may maz have clean hands hand and fae faces They swelter wet aw wetter t ter r In the heat that Americans 4 in shady abad y took nooks In the homes bome hot hotels and nd cafes cafe ma may enjoy the old favorite combination salad alad lid Few Row know rew It It at of 01 but thin his t 1 vast horde of 01 Chinese CO coolies coolie e helped wl W win n the tb war r They are now helping to APPlY supply supply sup sup- ply America with ou soups salads lads Wa soaps D butler baUer house hOWle paint and explosives by b y means of producing soy y heart bean oil From June 1 1 1 1 to May 1 31 JI 1920 statistics statistic complied compiled b by the of or th the ew e i collector of 01 customs In s. s Seattle tU sho show w Im Imports Orta of 01 soy Dean bean oil for tor the district t of ot Washington valued ton on amounted to tO O pounds valued at 3 DurIn During DUrine nine of the twelve twee months In the period period covered by these theM figures soy 0 bean Man of oil was It the leading le Import for tor the district of Washington and the port of Seattle SM Copper was taa greater In volume as all an a IB In Tn v- v 1 M n hll ft i ed oy befits oil P t ons In n March larch and April Hull n those thos three months the tho 01 oil pressed praed the leading imports im Im- im- im ports porta closely dOHI and was waa easily s second nd d among amoo them S Seattle Ule docks at all aU Um times are fill tilled filled ed with great creat mountains of ot bean oil cane cans Long trains each day are leaving this city loaded with tanks tanh tilled Iliad with re re- re fined tined bean oil All of this Is made possible pos pos- sible Ible b by the insignificant nt coolie who whose se wages wage it is said approximate C G cents cen a do day VARIED USES OF OIL What do they u us use that bean oll stuff oil f for is the question often otten heard alon along Seattle's water vater front Many ran thousands thousand s wonder about It oven even a as they wash their sr r hands with soap made out of ot tho the ver very y stuff they are puzzled about Fifty per cent of ot all aU the millions o of ot f gallons of oC soy bean oil arriving in Se Se- Se- Se attle attle Seattle Seattle being the greatest vegetable ble oil port in n the world world world-Is Is used In th the e manufacture of a soap that may b be e found in every home in the United 1 States State This by one great soap concern alone There are many other and lesser lesse r soap factories that use bean oil for the finest of oC their products The amount of or bean oil soup consumed consume d In tho the United States StatE's toda today or tomorrow might float noot a a. battleship It is asserted d that the soup canners of ot the count country have accepted highly refined bean of oil as a's the best befit available material as a n base bas e for tor certain kinds of ot soup At the dinner din din- ner nor table in most moat American homes it i is s almost a case of from soup to nuts nut s for tor bean oil is on the table In forms o of ot soups and salads the sand oil in man many y Instances being refined with bean oi oil l and other Ingredients Although it is J possible to make butter butter- ine from SOY sov h in ni nil n on n make n n u. u unu 4 cocoa cocoa- cocoanut nut oil are preferable Still in man many homes butter made partially out o of or r the bean oil is now being belD used Chops are sputtering in the panso pan so f l' a million product kitchens being fried tried in a lar lard d ad made from the same bean of oil oU made from the beans gathered Chinese by th the e coolies Bean Ilean oil on Is shipped to Seattle from th the e orient in cases and barrels and in bulk bull Shipment b by the case is Is the favorite favorit e method In Seattle the method of or handI hand hand- I ling has recently been systematized 6 by Y reason of oC great groat storage tanks and auto auto- t I ma matic tic can openers rUl Unloaded from the ships by means mean s of ot slings the cans are first weighed d and then tal taken en to the storage pile o on n the wharves whar There they are entered d through the United States customs customs- chemists bean oil being free of ot dut duty Next Nex t sample it to determine th the percentage of free tree fatty tatty acids moIsture mois moil e ture and impurity As ee cans are loaded needed th the e onto trucks to th the e dumping table where the removed cans ar are e from their cases and placed place on an endless belt which carries the them remarkable machine cuts the top and an of ot the cans with one movement t. t Then each can Is given a Jolt turned and an ti around when a second set o of ot f knives weight cuts on the the- two sides th the e fe of ot the oil oU forcing out the ho bottom bot bot- t- t tom and allowing the oil to the tank beneath to flow into int o In an at hours hour's time by means of ot th the e endless belt and the cutter 11 1120 0 cans containing automatic five fire gal c-al- can ca n I Ions lons each are dumped Fourteen me men are arc required to run one table thirty y men required to handle the ym I oil fro from m the tho dock to the table and five trucks truck ye I required in the transportation Qt th the e oil to the tho tables From Prom the tanks tank the oil is pumped into tank cars an and d thus shipped East to the big factories I There Is no limit to the amount of ot bean oil wanted In to this one prominent SM SI ft M i country L' L I n me toda today During LeI lUlU the Sear war we got ot it all shipments to Europe at that time being impossible But Lut now bean oU oil Is being shipped to all parts of ot the world Shipments to Seattle amountIng amountIng amounting amount- amount Ing to approximately will annually an an- will continue to grow year b bv by y year ar Seattle Is now and will remain remain the biggest bean oil port in the world This is because of ot two facts First Seattle t is the nearest port b by water to the Orient and second cool weather er conditions make It ft ideal for tor the storing ot of bean oil fL IX IS J CUY S II OH 1 It is safe sate to sa say say that bean oil Is being used in the shape of 01 soap in evor every American home Soap requires most of the bean oil now being re received received re- re in America but a big percentage percentage percent percent- age is made into oils for tor paints oils for tor salad lad butter r soups loups and nitro nitro- glycerine u In the homes homeI especially where there Is la a prejudice against animal fats tats steaks potatoes and chops are being fried tried in oil made up from beans 8 and ano o other vegetable a oil mix mix- tures Bean an oil is also used d ol In some salad oils although peanut oil for which Seattle is the American distributing distributing point is the favorite vegetable vec oil for salad dressings Seattle by Its distribution distribution- of ot soy bean oil is becoming known to every it man W woman mai and child In ln the United States who Is curious enough to In Inquire In- In inquire quire where whore the bathroom soap comes from It is a IL long wa way from the soy bean oil docks of or Seattle longer Seattle longer from the I Sean Hean ean oil oU fields In to China the battlefields bat bat- of ot Europe but the points were closely l eM linked during n the war The IS Seattle Chinese oil supplying P I ng the C glycerine used in the explosives of or many hundreds of thousands of shells Toda Today soy bean oil is 18 resting in hundreds hundrEds hun hun- of ot the worlds world's s arsenals Then there are the dried dried products of the soy bean oil after atler after the materials for soap soup paints paints' salads and explosives explosives ex ex- plosives are extracted What does become of ot the dried products was asked d of or the importer I dont don't know exactly what Is done don e with bean oil after atter making soap lard products paints soup and explosives explosive he replied do I know however howe that tha t it has some use There Is tg nothing K g wasted about the bean oil So If It your face tace is clean and you like the soup lOUp for dinner mentally thank the Chinese coolie for he is th the theone e one who makes both possible |