SELLING LUMBER 



83 



A Voice: Will that stocking turn yellow? 



Mr. Weiss : No. 



I have a product here that is not made in the United States, 

 but I won't show it to you because all of you have heard about the 

 British blockade to starve out the Germans in connection with 

 making gun cotton. According to the newspapers all the British 

 ever had to do was to keep Germany from getting American cot- 

 ton and after a while they would run out of ammunition. That 

 is all poppy-cock. The Germans got busy with their wonderful 

 skill and appreciation of organized industrial effort, and where 

 did they go for a substitute for cotton? They went to the forests, 

 the very product we are all interested in ; and cotton is now being 

 made by the Germans out of the spruce and pine of the forests 

 that grow in the southern part of Germany. That product is no 

 joke, not only in making gun cotton, but also in bandaging the 

 wounds of the soldiers. 



Here is another product which is made in Norway. Now, 

 unfortunately, most of these things are made abroad, and it will 

 be exceedingly difficult for us to get any information regarding, 

 them, not only on account of the war, but because the concerns 

 that are making these things are keeping it just as secret as they 

 can. 



Here is a sack 100 per cent wood. That bag is coming into 

 this country. It is, I am glad to say, an American product. They 

 are shipping ore from Chili into this country now in bags 'made 

 out of this material. 



Here is a sack, a Norwegian product, 100 per cent wood- 

 made in Norway. A very strong, tough, durable mesh. 



Here is an American product a coffee bag, a good deal like 

 that bag there, only you notice it has been washed or treated to 

 close up the mesh, so that it is absolutely impervious to air, so 

 that the aroma of the coffee will not escape. That is all wood. 



A Voice : What is the comparative cost ? 



Mr. Weiss : It is about the same, because we don't lower the 

 price; don't have to. 



Here is another product. This is a piece of linoleum made 

 out of wood fiber and boiled linseed oil. .Wood fiber is rolled 

 between steel plates and then oiled with linseed oil. 



We' have here another American product ; it is a cloth made 

 out of maple. It is already in use. Marshall Field & Company 



Wood a 

 Substitute 

 for Cotton 



Rugs and 

 Linoleum 

 from Wood 

 Fiber 



