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PRICE COMPARISON. It lecmi appropriate in view o( the unutual eonditiona in the paint and vamiah induatry to five a few compart- aont in pricea. both ai a matter of information and record, to they can be looked back upon and future fenerations in the paint trade may read the history ol the strenuous times their ancestors experienced. It is interesting to note that at present white lead, both dry and in oil. is selling at the highest price ever recorded except during June, 1915. when the basis was about the same, except that linseed oil last June was on a much lower plane, while dry white lead then was a fraction higher than at present. A comparison in cost of a few of the leading articles in quantities during June, 1915. and March, 1916, are as follows: June. 1915 Mar.. 1916 Pig lead, per cwt--------------------------- 17.15 67.30 Dry carbonate white lead, per Ih...... 07 H 07 }4 Selected oxide of zinc, per Ih.......-- .07 i .09 J4 White Seal oxide of zinc, per Ih----- .26 25 I.ithopone. per Ih...........................-- .05 .15 Jlarytes, per ton............. --------------- . 16.00 20 00 Linseed oil. per gal........---- ---------- .56 .78 China wood oil. per Hi....................... 06 .14 Vi Soya bean oil. per lb. 04 K, .09*4 No effort has been made here to take uu anything but the materials which affect the basic cost of paints. Reds, blues, chrome gTeen and chrome yellow have all advanced to unheard-of prices. Knough is shown here to indicate that the present prices of mixed paints are not only justi fied. but higher prices arc warranted and are more than likely to occur at any time. At present paint manufac turers are absorbing, to their own loss, a good propor tion of the increase in cost of manufacture. Dealers should keep themselves fully posted and watch their percentage of cost an.l profits or they will be losing munev instead of making it. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. < However we may have differed from him, and per haps at times disapproved of his actions, no patriotic, loyal American can fail to feel a senae of loaa at the taking away of Theodore Rooeevelt nor to edmit that one of the greatest of our leaders has gone to his reward. NEW SEATTLE PAINT 7ACTORY. Making the third move in the last twelve years to lsrger quarters, the Seattle Paint Company h^s let a contract lor the conatrtsetion of a modem paint aod vamiah manufac tory to be erected on a aite 60x277 feet at 1046 Dearborn Street. The warehouaca and officea of the company will remain at the present location, Third Avenue and Jackson Street. The business of the company hat made necessary the plans for the new factory, which will comprise a throestory brick and concrete structure to house the paint factory and a smaller structure to house the varnish factory. Up to the present time the company has been engaged in mak ing paint only, but is now preparing to launch into the vamish-making business also. The estimated cost of the new factory, including build ings and machinery, is about 640.000. The buildings will be completed by February 1. F. S. Roddie it president and general manager of the concern. A. V. CRARY NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF COOK PAINT AND VARNISH CO. The lure of the paint manufacturing game and the phe nomenal opportunities it presents to the wide-awake business man has succeeded in enticing from Chicago trade circles one of its most widely known and representative members in the jiersoo of Arthur V. Crary,- district sales manager of thr American Can Company, who on. March 1st becomes asso ciaivil with thr Conk I'amt and Varnish Company of KautaCity. Mo., in the capacity of vice presidem. Mr Crary, a native Chicagoan, hardly nrmls an introdur lion to our readers as his activities as head of the large*' division of the largest ran manufacturing concern in tin rmimrv coupled with his prominence in club affairs togethci with Ins iusiaiilaiicoii'ly iilea-iiig personality has made- hiacquaintance annnig the irade nadon wide WM. ZINSSER A CO.. INC., EXPANDING. Win. Zinsser fk Co.. Inc.. New York, are breaking ground for a 47`i.O'Hi additional unit to their New York City |dant. U|miii completion of this Ituilding. the plant will occupy eight city plots. The rapid growth of the business in recent years, necessitates increasing its manufacturing space, particularly in the white shellac ilr|ianmem. The new vacuum process for white shellac seems to have proven a decided success. At the same time, it is planned to move the present down town warehouse up to their factory, centralizing production and shipping facilities, and to give over their enure huilding at 1!I5 William Strret to office and sales purposes exclu sively. Vol. LX IX--No. 26 CIHCAC.O. WEDNESDAY, JUNK 30. 1920 Subscription 63.00 The Future of the Naval Stores Industry IKE many of our American industries which have nize lliU condition and expert to eliminate waste, profitably L grown up in the midst of an abundance that was u>c up the wood iinJ stumps on what is now waste land and looked upon limitless, the naval stores industry then sell it for cotton and other crops. The plan is a far haa gone on in a career of wasteful extravagance so fasrigahs ted one and includes the education of the American the destruction of our forrsts is concerned, paralleled by the public to the use ol wood turpentine which may perhaps he 'lumber, wood pulp and other similarly destructive agencies. made more available as the years go on by the attention of Reforestation has not been carried on to any extent and the skilled chemists, and will at all events supply a consider pulling and burning of stumps lias been counted as ton ex able clement of stability to what has proved of late an ex pensive to make reclamation by this method worth while. ceedingly excitable market. There are a large number of ' Now the far-sighted men who are watching the industry other by-products and it is believed that wood palp may also realize that without some great change in policy the days of prove to be one of the large salvage factors of the new old fashioned methods are numbered. High wages, a short modem aystems. Present owners of stills and forest lands working season, and old fashioned, primitive, slow, unorgan in the south should watch this development with particular ized methods of producing and handling all tend against the care in order to keep up with the timis and northern con prolongation of the business in its present condition when sumers may have to revise their attitude toward products of pine timber gets perceptibly scarcer. wood distillation. They cannot welt afford to do otherwise Some of the big interests who have recently purchased ii the difference in cost between wood and gum turpentine large southern chemical distillation plants evidently recog continues to widen." GLD3242C 4A I I !. | Big Linieed which in ordinary life seem to lie white revealed all colors of the rainliow when exposed to the ultra violet rays. Merger (>ne of the white pigments lircunie radiant, just a> do Till', inerj.'er u( two of the larj^st linsrcti crushing the so-called radium dials on a watch. oimjianies in the country is announced liv disfiatches Mr. Breyer said that the destruction of the ordinary ns we |u to press. Rumors which had been current paint on the outside of a huildiue was largely due to the iHr several weeks werr confirmed by the announecfefe ct of the ultra-violet lieht which is present in sun ment that the Archer-Oaniels Co. and the Midland l.iu-eed Products Co., both of Minneapolis, had light. Some of the hardening and the short life of tires and ruhber articles the speaker attributed to this same ! . i tinned forces under the name Archer-I)aniels-Midland Co. The new company will control about .'15 per cent of the total linseed oil production of the United States and will have tangible assets of $15,000,000, it is said, agent. The reflection to the ultra-violet light by pig ments is therefore a verv valuable Quality, and those which ward off the rays the most are therefore desirable for use both in paints and in rubber goods. j Their average annual net sale* ior the past six years | ! are stated to he upwards of $40,000,000 and their average profits, $1,350,000. CHEAP ANTI-RUST PAINT Coal tar is melted with about 10 per cent of gas tar and about J per cent powdered solphur ia added. The mixture is The new rontpanv will have two mills each in Minne- then heated to about ISO to 1H degrees C ior about Z to 1 a|xihs. lUtflalo and F.dgewater. X. I. and one mill hours, until all of the tulphur hat bees dissolved. The cooled ! each in Chicago and Toledo, O.. and it is believed that mast is diluted with juit ao much benzol as will enable it to "substantial economies" will follow the consolidation. Bow from the brush. Various pigments may be added as well. The Prohibition of I --A OBITUARY. HE attempted prohibition of lead in paint manu WQliaa Whittier. Tfacture at the International labor conference at t Geneva was apparently an instance of methods atmilar to those employed by similar sinister One of the pioneers of the San Francisco paint colony paaaad hathowrloadyu-ugrpheocuetntlyCaaltifoHrneimaeta, reneamr oLuorsninAgngefolers,WanildliammanyWfhhlcttaindfe. Mr Whittier was some time ago interested in the old firm ad l labor interests in this country. The reports which have Whittier-Fuller Paint Co., and more recently in Whittscs- continued to come in from that meeting have been colored Coburn Co., of San Francisco, which company was taken vw by the varying attitudes of the authors. One disreputable a couple of years ago by the Glidden interests. sheet in this country, which has long been recognized as a blackmailing excrescence on the industry, suggests that the prohibition should be extended to Uncle Sam's do main--but there is little danger'of any such outcome. . The general use of lead in paint manufacture is too important to the industry and a suitable substitute too CALIFORNIA INK CO. TO SELL COLORS TO THE TRADE. The California ink Co., oi San Francisco, whose factory it at flerkcley. Cal., ijrr just completing a new (100,000 unit ol their plant, it will he utilized solely, ior the manufac difficult to find to make the very slight danger to the turing of yellows, blues and greens. The old plant will be average workmen a sufficient reason for prohibition. All used ior the manufacture of their red toners and lakes. A the modern data on the subject lend to show that the good portion of the colors produced will be used by them ' toxic properties can be entirely obviated by a little judi selves in manufacturing ink, although they will solicit out cious care and cleanliness, and that at worst they do not begin to be as dangerous as many other substances of common use to which no objections are raised. side business and they have already quite an established busi ness among the paint grinders. Fifty thousand dollars addi tional has also been expended in the construction of a nrw boiler plant, and with many smaller alterations to be made, a ) Everything goes to show that the foreign leaded zinc total of approximately 1200.000 will be expended in putting interests are the source from which the propaganda in their factory into shape. The mam office wifi be removed j favor of prohibiting lead arose for they palpably give from San Francisco to the Hcrkelry plant, although they will j away their hand in permitting a certain small percentage maintain, in the former mentioned city, an office to handle -of lead to be used. the sales cud of their business. GERKE LEAVES MARTIN-SENOUR CO. . Testing Paint by Ultra-Violet Raya. The trade will he interested in learning of the announce h e s Imw priwess nf testing paint by exposure to ment that W. H. Gerke has resigned from the position of gen Tthe weather has lung been a source of annoyance eral manager of the Martin-Senour Co. Mr. Gerke is well to manufacturers, ami an investigation uf methods known in the paint industry in both the United States and for pel imp a p<mmI endurance lest in a short time has pump mi for .on*- time. The results of this investiga tion were statril in an address by Frank G. Hreyer. the bCeeannada. His connection than thirty years, during the Martin-Senour Co.' with the industry dates back more all this time being connected with well known research chemist of the Xetv Jersey Zinc Co.. Iirfnrr ihe New York Section nt the American HELP THE STARVING CHILDREN^ Chemical Society last week, of which we have only a The cause of the starving children of Europe has been pre brief re|>r>rt.: lie said that how long paint would last sented lb this country by all the great philanthropists, headed could now lie determined by the use of the ultra-violet by Herbert Hoover who has explained that the nerd is great ray and other methods including various mechanical this year to prevent suffering, degradstion and death. Another processes which have lieen develu|>ed to represent the -.effect of weather and time so that manufacturers of paint may be able to foretell just how well their good- will wear after they have been applied to various surfaces. The use of the ultra-violet light caused the different pigment, toed in Imtli paint anti rubber to l>e identified without recourse to chemical analysis. Six pigments year the crisis will have past and the responsibility removed. Ten dollars will save the life of one child and the paint trade have been asked to do their share. Unfortunately the request came late and the responses up to the present time have been confined to comparatively few. All who contemplate giving or who have given will confer a favor by notifying Mr. How ard Elting, JM3 Srwa-d Street, in order that the Chicago painr trade may be properly credited. GLD32421 *5A