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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. G, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1943
The World of Tomorrow—Action in the Air, in Construction and in Industry
Draw Plans to Lick Depression After
War Is Won; Predict Demand for Goods
Will Keep Nation Busy for Many Years
Chemurgy Provides Broad Uses for Many Farm Crops; Need for Building Will Be
Great; Expansion in Aviation Transportation Is Foreseen.
By A. F. JEDLICKA
While the war rages and war production takes up the interest of the country, there doesn’t seem
to be time for anything else.
But as unsuspected as it might be, there is a great amount of study being made about solutions
to the vast problems that will arise after the peace has been won.
Millions of soldiers and sailors will be returning from the far flung fronts; munitions and arma
ment no longer will be needed in mass quantities, and millions of workers will have to be switched
back to normal industry; and, pending the final disposition of lend-lease, and full development of
our own domestic market, the huge production program of the farmer will have its complications.
With all these things bound to come up, it is obvious that any studies leading toward
the formulation of plans to solve these problems, will be of service in averting any hard
ships and confusion that might grow from them. Memories of the economic disorganiza
tion that followed the last war, both in the cities and on the farms, still are hve enough
to spur the present planners, such$>
as the department of agriculture.
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
and the National Foreign Trade
council.
All told, more than 137 important
government and private agencies
are engaged in post-war economic
studies. This number does not in
clude many state and local groups.
New discoveries and methods de
veloped from war production; the
tremendous demand for all kinds of
consumers’ goods upon which man
ufacture has been stopped, and the
new crops and many uses for old
staples that have been found—all of
these things are on the asset side
for a promising post-war prosperity.
Surely, we will suffer from no
lack of labor; in fact, profitable em
ployment of all of our labor will be
the big problem. From present in
dications, we will be the most fortu
nate of all of the nations of the
world, since most of our factories
and equipment will emerge un
scathed from the war. No matter
what kind of a monetary system we
adopt, our credit facilities should be
limited by a need for money, and
not by any scarcity of it.
As the president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce so
optimistically declared, we are fac
ing new horizons, in which the guar
antee of economic as well as politi
cal freedom will open vast produc
tive fields.
Chemurgy Should Aid Farmer.
Of all, the farmer stands to profit
the most after the war as a result
of the advancement of science.
Chemurgy is the new miracle which
has taken the old crops apart to
discover their essential substance,
and then applied the specific prop
erties to the manufacture of many
items.
Chemurgy has been active in de
veloping plastics. According to a
survey, a composite 1942 automobile
has more than 125 plastic parts, and
airplanes have anywhere from
scores to hundreds of plastic appli
cations.
Plastics on the automobile include
upholstery buttons, steering wheels,
accelerator pedals and interlayers
of laminated safety glass. Plastics
in the airplane range from grease
and oil resistant tubing to handles,
knobs, sight gauges, lenses and ra
dio antennae.
Besides chemurgic uses which
have been found for the old crops,
the scientist has gone into the fields
to find useful properties in such for
mer waste growth as cattails, milk
weed and dandelions. These amaz
ing discoveries have opened possi
bilities for putting formerly unpro
ductive submarginal lands to good
work.
The loss of many of our former
sources of supply for medicinal
crops, vegetable oils and fibers has
stimulated their cultivation in this
country, where, indeed, they grew
successfully many years ago before
being produced in Asia at much less
cost. Continuation of the growth
here of belladonna, castor beans
and hemp, for instance, is a ques
tion which eventually will fall com
pletely within the political realm.
Expect Building Boom.
Next to agriculture, building holds
the greatest immediate promise. In
fact, much of our post-war planning
seems to be revolving around the
construction industry. As a part of
it, the timber trade figures promi
nently on new mass - production
processes for fabricating sections of
buildings and shipping them to a
site for assembly.
It has been estimated that the
United States needs 900,000 new
buildings every year—500,000 for new
families, and the rest to replace old
structures.
Considering the fact that practi
cally all residential building has
been stopped by the war, the con
struction industry will be faced with
a gigantic job of meeting the accu
mulated demands when peace
comes.
Because of circumstances arising
from the war, the timber industry
has received an important push that
will stand it in good stead later.
Since most shipyards, arms and mu
nitions factories demanded all of
the steel that was being produced,
it was necessary to revert to the
use of wood in constructing many
new factories, etc.
Because the wood had to meet
specifications in strength and safety,
lumbermen developed processes for
treating the timber against loads,
decay and fire. As a result, wood
is expected to be used in increasing
quantities in ordinary building.
Besides the tremendous demand
expected for private construction
after the war, it is reported that
the government has been studying
plans for an extensive public works
building program. Such a program,
as old as Caesar, would take up
any slack in employment, particu
larly in the passage from a war to a
peace economy.
In connection with the anticipated
post - war building activity, the
American Institute of Architects,
the American Planning and Civic
Association and the Conference
Committee on Urban Problems have
been particularly concerned with the
reconstruction of many of the run
down districts of the big cities. With
in recent years, many private corpo
rations have beei. seeking charters
from legislatures for rights to re
vive many slum areas with huge
housing projects.
May Expand Air Travel.
Of course, the tremendous expan
sion of aviation because of the war
Pollination Still Is Bees’ Biggest Job
The greatest contribution of honey
bees to our wartime production is
still in pollination of agricultural
crops for production of seed and
fruit, though the importance of both
honey and beeswax has also in
creased.
Domestic honeybees pollinate most
fruits, as the wild insectg are sel
dom numerous enough to accom
plish this early spring job. In areas
where most of the land is cultivated,
wild insects have few places left for
nesting and breeding, and the polli
nation of most other crop plants
also depends on the domestic bees.
With the present urgent need for
greater production of legume and
other seeds, honey bees may have
to be brought into the seed pro
ducing areas for assurance of good
crops. Beekeeping fits in well with
seed production, as the fields of clo
ver, alfalfa, and other crops fur
nish bees with food and with nectar
for making honey.
has led to the popular belief that
the impetus it is receiving now will
carry it into the post-war period as
the biggest industrial development.
If we are to consider the opinion
of many aviation executives them
selves, the airplane will pay a prom
inent, but hardly a predominating
role after the war. Costs of ship
ping freight by both train and boat
still will remain much cheaper than
air rates, and as a result the plane
may be used on an increasing scale,
but for special purposes. It should
carry most of the mail.
It is in the field of transportation
that the airplane promises to enjoy
its greatest expansion. Already,
there has been substantial talk about
the creation of branch lines to hook
up with main trunks, thus establish
ing direct connections with all
points. Larger, more comfortable
and faster planes should come out
of the busy research laboratories
now concentrating on production of
the best bombing, transport and car
go airships in the world.
Automobile executives already
have warned the people not to ex
pect drastic revisions in models aft
er the war. Cars of the immediate
future will not be much different
than those that were being manu
factured at the time all of the plants
shifted over completely to war pro
duction. The reason styles will not
change much,, automobile executives
say, is because factories are stocked
with tools for production along re
cent lines.
With money in their pockets, peo
ple will raise a clamor *ot many
items whose manufacture has been
discontinued because of the war.
Wash machines, vacuum cleaners,
refrigerators, stokers and oil burn
ers, buggies, etc., all will be in de
mand, and if sufficient purchasing
power is available, the problem will
be one of production.
New Products.
Among the more colorful products
predicted for the future, are gaso
line for automobiles yielding 40
miles to the gallon, and nylon cord
tires of unparalleled strength.
Eye dropper quantities of lead
tetraethyl added to a gallon of gaso
line will convert it into high-octane
fuel necessary for airplanes. It is
this new and more powerful fuel
which heralds performances of 400
miles an hour for civilian transport
planes, and promises 40 miles per
gallon for automobiles after the war.
Due in large part to chemical
products developed for use in proc
essing and vulcanizing rubber, tires
of the future are expected to pos
sess longer life. Cords of rayon and
nylon, along with special carbon
blacks for increasing toughness and
anti-oxidams for retarding the de
terioration of rubber, are among the
new developments.
So much for the U.S.A. Lookin;.
around us, we see numerous
changes in the world, many of which
a^e bound to have their economic
effects after the war.
As an example, we need not g-
any further than South America.
First of all, many of our good neigh
bors to the south are accumulating
large amounts of dollar exchange,
that is, American money, which will
be spent or invested here or abroad
when conditions permit.
Further, many of these countries
have substantially reduced their
I debt to foreign countries.
PATTERNS
S£W!NG CIRCLE
8371
!•* yr*.
ROLL OF OIL
CLOTH WILL
PROTECT TABLE
AND GIVE A GOOD
CUTTING % UR FACE
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer 10
Enclose 15 cents for each book
desired.
Name
Address
Real Charmer.
pANTIES to match—as if Miss
■* Sweetie-Pie wouldn’t take the
cake in pinafore and open crown
bonnet alone!
• • •
Pattern No. 8371 is in sizes 1, 2, 3, 4,
5 and 6 years. Size 2 pinafore and bonnet
take 1% yards 35>inch material; panties,
% yard. 3 yards ric-rac.
A Closet for Your
Sewing Equipment
A/f ANY women who have learned
to sew for the Red Cross are
also sewing for themselves. They
are thinking of sewing as a craft
and taking pride in their tools.
Many who do not have space for
a sewing room are planning ef
ficient closets to house equipment.
Here is a model sewing cupboard
from my new book Better Dress
making.
The cupboard is six and one-half
feet high; four feet wide and twen
ty inches deep. The dress form
compartment is five feet six inches
high and twenty-four inches wide.
The ironing board compartment is
four feet ten inches high and eight
inches wide. This leaves ample
space for shelves for the pressing
•cushions Shown at the top; the
sleeve board; iron; water pan and
sponge; stout slide-in boxes for
findings; notions and patterns;
and a lower shelf for fabrics. The
construction throughout is of half
inch plywood.
• • •
NOTE: If you tare in need of more
closets and storage space you will find
directions in BOOK 7 for a linen closet
built into waste space. Also in BOOK 8
there are directions for making door
pockets to use every inch of space in your
clothes closets. Booklets are 15 cents
each. Send requests for booklets direct to:
TASTY, NO-SUGAR
ALL-BRAN MUFFINS
ARE EASILY MADE!
Sen’s your family these delicious
muffins soon! Their tempting textms
and flavor come from crisp, delicious
kellogg’s all-bran. Here's the reeips
In a wartime version, using no sugar.
Try all-bran Muffins for breakfast
tomorrow!
Kellogg’s All-Bran Muffins
2 tablespoons
shortening
% cup corn syrup
1 egg
X cup Kellogg’s
All-Bran
% cup milk
1 cup flour
y% teaspoon salt
2*4 teaspoons
baking powdcS
Cream shortening and com syrup
thoroughly; add egg and beat wen.
Stir in All-Bran and milk, let soak,
until most of moisture is taken up.
Sift flour with salt and baking pow
der; add to first mixture and stir only
until flour disappears. Fill greased
muffin pans two-thirds full and bak*
In moderately hot oven (400'’ F.)
about 30 minutes. Yield: 8 large muf
fins, 3 Inches in diameter, or 12 smaS
muffins, 2 >4 inches In diameter.
Airplanes Were Out
The Hague conference of 1899
ruled that no aircraft should be
allowed to take part in war!
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Flattering Lines.
EX)R so many reasons this button
* front frock is slated for wide
popularity this spring. It has a
softly tailored, distinguished look
and if done in one of the new
prints, should be most flattering.
• • •
Pattern No. 8360 is in sizes 14, 16, 18,
20; 40, 42 and 44. Size 16 takes, with
short sleeves, 3% yards 39-inch material,
fe yard for contrasting collar.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more time
is required in filling orders for a few of
the most popular pattexTi numbers.
Send your order to;
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT.
530 South Wells St. Chicago.
Enclose 20 cents in coins for each
pattern desired.
Pattern No Size........
Name
Address
4 for 10c
Manufactured and guarantred by
F.d.ral Rarer Blad. C... N. V.
Kept Japs In
Departure from Japan was, un
til 1870, an offense punishable by
death.
HOW NOT riW
TO CATCH A rlr/
Roster of Specialists
So that American firms and gov
ernment offices may know where
to find all kinds of scientists and
various experts, on short notice,
a card file of 700,000 of them,
quickly classifiable by sorting ma
chines, has been compiled and is
known as The National Roster of
Scientific and Specialized Person
nel. V
In the Navy a floor is a “deck,”
doors are “bulkheads,” down
stairs is “below,” and a cigarette
is a “Camel.” At least. Camel is
the favorite cigarette among Navy
men, as it is among men in the
Army, Marines, and Coast Guard.
(Based on actual sales records
from service men’s stores.) And
a carton of Camels is a favorite
gift. Though there are now Post
Office restrictions on packages to |
overseas Army men, you can still
send Camels to soldiers in the
U. S., and to men in the Navy,
Marines, and Coast Guard wher
ever they are.—Adv.
The SLAP METHOD is the most
convenient "miss" that is em
ployed in swatting flies. You sim
ply swat a perched fly on the back
of a lovely dowager, the fly flee*
and—so does your social standing,
A better way to get flies is to
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If is the old reliable fh.f neve* fails.
Always economical fo use, and not
rationed. For sal# at drug and
grocery stores.
IN THE WAR!
Charlotte Gillam, inspector
at General Aircraft
Corp.
ZONE
—WHERE CIGARETTES ARE JUDGED
The "T-ZONI"—Taste and Throat-is die
proving ground for cigarettes. Only yosrr taste
and throat can decide which cigarette tastes
best to you... and how it affects your throat.
Based on the experience of millions of smokers,
we believe Camels will suit your "T-ZONE" to a "T.*
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