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Show New Jersey's Way LAST winter in New Jersey, imitating a German custom, there was an exhibition of the state's industry in clay products. As described the Newark New-ark exhibition was so arranged as to give a complete com-plete bird'seye view of the state's potteries, showing show-ing their history, their development, the special processes employed, the raw materials, and the finished products, from the commonest brick to the most elaborate terra cotta and the finest examples ex-amples of table service and decorative art. Thirty thousand people visited the exhibit. There will in this coming February be another exhibition ex-hibition of the state's textile industry in striking form in its range and variety. It will include not only the processes of cloth making, but also knitting, embroidery, lace making, mak-ing, rug weaving, felt hat making and other allied al-lied industries, in the production and distribution distribu-tion of which at least one-fourth of the workers in the state are engaged. In addition to the commercial com-mercial exhibit, Mr. John C. Dana, Director of the museum, plans to have small related exhibits, entirely en-tirely educational in character; a school exhibit of how the textile art is taught in New Jersey schools; a fatherland exhibit, showing textiles made in countries of the old world; and a historic his-toric exhibit, Illustrating the primitive weaving of the New Jersey Indians and the spinning wheel and hand looms of Colonial days. The striking fact in the above is that one-fourth one-fourth of the workers in New Jersey are employed .It.. in making material which other states could make quite as good and cheaply if they only tried. Wo do not know but suspect that Now Jersey has to import its best clays, that is the clays for its finer work. We in Utah have the fine clays right hero; clays that are heavy in aluminum and real kaolin; almost every material used in potteries and beyond that, all the material needed to supply the most extensive chemical works in the world. . It is the same way with textiles. Utah ought N,r to make its own cloth, carpets, rugs, auto robes, blankets, knit goods. It will come after a while, not in small establishments probably, (but through great united capital investments, and people, looking on, will so soon as a success is made, sit down and bewail the presence of great monopolies that draw all the profits from the poor mart's labor. |