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Show ':-k ml Is Progress Based on Canning Process? 3S the perfection of our processes for preserving foods responsible for the modern world's remarkable remark-able progress? Is our present day civilization epitomized in an ordinary tin can of preserved food? "The Canning Trade" thinks so, and recently re-cently justified its opinion in a re-l.arkahle re-l.arkahle editorial. Under the heading head-ing " Becoming World Wide" this magazine said: Canning Voods Grew Rapidly "Considering how rapidly the canning of food products gTew in those United States, and in North America generally, and particularly taking into view the immense importance, im-portance, convenience and palata-l)i!ity palata-l)i!ity of the food in" cans, the won- 'tr ' is that other nations did not follow our lead and install canning s their main food reserve. "Of course, there has always been ine canning done in all' countries if the globe; the house of Appert, in France, for instance, continuing in this day to produce canned foods. Hut even this now famous house 'urns out a. quantity that would compare only with the fair-sized home-canning outfit in our country. And that remains largely true with 'lie so-called commercial canneries of France. Germany, Sweden, Norway Nor-way and Spain, though the fish can-ners can-ners in the north and the Italian -nnnrrs have reached a production vhich entitles them to exception. "Hut since the great war, and the prominent part canned foods played n it. even as they did in our Civil vir. nnd which made the canning '"-'Ktrv in America, the canning '.wis hns steadily grown in all countries of the globe, and there is an immense amount of interest shown everywhere and a desire to know more about the business and how to conduct it. In other words, the whole world is now taking hold of canned foods, and we may expect to see it grow, even as it has grown in this country, though in no other country to the huge bulk it has assumed in our country. "England has been the latest to show a definite drift towards the establishment of the canning industry in-dustry as a means of saving surplus food crops, and in her characteristic, character-istic, thorough manner has gone to the bottom of the matter and is building up, slowly but steadily and well. Following the efforts to solidify sol-idify the industry in the home country, we may expect to see her Colonies take up the procedure and to build the whole into a worthwhile worth-while and prominent industry. (The editorial explains here that Canada has always been reckoned with us in the development of the canning industry.) "There is nothing surprising in this awakening of the world to the value and importance of the canned foods industry, because . it was bound to conic. We have long claimed, and without fear of successful suc-cessful contradiction, we believe, that the Treat advancement of the world is due to the discovery and introduction of the method of preserving pre-serving food by canning "It may be a mere eoinrindenee, but it is, nevertheless, the fact that not until mankind fcirl recovered re-covered this means of making sure a steady supply of nutritious foods and which only canning makes possible progress was halting and slow. But since that day when Appert proved the correctness of his theory history has gone forward for-ward with leaps and bounds in every effort of mankind, Human Progress Now Rapid "Turn back to your history and note that for the about seven thousands thou-sands years of recorded history previous to Appert's time, mankind had developed no way to provide even for a few days in advance his necessary food supplies, not even through preservation through ice. He had, of course, learned to dry some foods; to take the grain crops and the root crops and store them against the winter months, and had ventured very slightly into preservation through sugar but, ; with all these, scurvy continued a ,' a dreaded evil that held men to their homes and caused armies, explorations ex-plorations and almost every human endeavor to hesitate, and very properly so, because man was '" poorly fed, and a poorly fed man is not a good worker. "Came the method of preserving foods with all their natural succulence suc-culence and food value, through ! the instrumentality of canning, and the world took wings and spread out to the wonders you see on every hand today. Compare the developments develop-ments of the world In those first """ thousands of years with the developments of the oast 12! vears s sn? you have the vrtnre which we .' claim was ctne hrotigh the dis- 1; covcry of canning." f f |