Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 5, DeMotte, Jasper County, 30 December 1937 — He’s An Industrial Worker! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

He’s An Industrial Worker!

X7OU would naturally think of the man I operating the tractor as a farmer. And he is a farmer, but he’s also an increasingly important figure in the industrial world, not only as a consumer but as a producer. He’s engaged in hoeing up a field of soy beans which later, after passing through various factory processes, you’ll be using in the form of paint and varnish, soap, linoleum and scores of other products. Consumers Information points out that 91 million pounds of soy bean oil, a comparatively new crop for American farmers, was produced in one recent year Of this amount, 2V4 million pounds went into the soap kettles, 5 million into linoleum and 13 million into paint and varnish.

This brand new market for American farmers, who are now growing a large number of industrial as well as food products, has been developed, like many others, through the vast research programs undertaken by American industry, whose laboratories have added untold millions to the national wealth and also thousands of jobs for American workers. •