Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1919 — PROSPERITY ERA IS SEEN FOR U. S [ARTICLE]

PROSPERITY ERA IS SEEN FOR U. S

Dye-Making and Building Trade to Help Boom Whole Nation. —! GREAT ACTIVITY EXPECTED War Industries Centers Show Remarkable Speed in the Transition From Munition Manufacture to Peaceable Pursuits. New York.—Resumption of peacetime pursuits, with the addition of new industries, such as <1 s(“-making and the boom expected, in the—building trades, will curry. the United States at once into a period of great activity, according to reports gat tiered by the United Press. \V4ieir restriethms.on building trades. - are fully raised and the need for manufactured and raw materials in Europe .becomes keenly felt, business depres..„.sien which may result from the stopping of war work will.be rapidly overcome, it is believed. Representatives of industry in 34 states, just concluding a conference ,of the advisory committee of the national council for industrial defense here, declare the nation is on the ’eve ■ ,of “good’times,” with jobs a-plenty >for returning soldiers and men and thrown out of work in munition plants.

Get Back to Peace Pursuits. Reports from ticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Virginia*. Ohio and other war industries centers showed remarkable speed in the transi-tion-front munitions manufacture to peaceable pursuits. Dye factories of huge dimensions have been built by the Du Pont interests to take the of monster shell and explosive producing plants which made new cities in several sections. Philadelphia reported a surplus of Jobs, with returning soldiers and munition makers being greedily snapped up. Steel plants at Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and other centers are rapidly returning to the manufacture of buildIng, bridge and other nonwar steel. Wisconsin’s plants are being shut down, for the most part, but about 15 per cent of them have been transformed into dye workS. Indiana is turning back to the building of automobiles. Detroit, industrial center of Michigan, is gradually returhing to old-time pursuits, with automobile manufactur- ■ ing .leading. Ohio reported a surplus of men, but at least fifty returning soldiers are be-

ing put to work each day in Cleveland. New England and New York are absorbing returning soldiers and discharged munition workers with no <lnflculty. ♦ About one-sixth the normal number of persons ’are now employed at the huge plants at Hopewell, Seven Pines mid PenmrTiah.Va. The big United States -nitrate pl ar. t at Mussel Shoals, Ala., will continue in operation and the surpfts nitrates probably will be used in the manufacture of fertilizer. A war department committee will decide what Is to be done with the powder plant, at Nashville. L> bor officials in Ohio believe manv women Will leave their work soon, “potnrmgr out that took It—up. mainly for patriotic reasons. In this state many government contracts have not been canceled and work is going-ahead. —“ “““