Betty B.
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I should like to give you a picture of one linen factory which I visited at Armentier.
New buildings have risen out of the debris and the spinning and weaving establishment
installed is such as any town in new england might be proud to own the mill covers several acres the walls are of brick and glass and the roofs of glass and red tiles the smokestack is a mosaic of red and white bricks and as a whole the establishment is very artistic before the war that mill employed about eight hundred men but its director tells me that the new and more efficient machinery means much greater output with less labor in one of the weaving rooms
covering, I should say, half an acre, I found the looms all in place and above them a thicket of leather and rubber belts forming a network covering the whole.
Some of the looms were weaving cloth 25 feet in width and others fine linens not a yard wide.
I saw some looms on which girls were weaving the fine linens used in our country and some which were turning out pongee cloth for lightweight suits for American men.
The director says his exports at present
are largely to the South American countries.
He deprecates our tariff, which affects the Franco-American trade.
During my trips through the devastated region, I have seen something of the beet sugar industry.
The loss there was more than $100 million, and the distilleries, breweries, and other agricultural industries were damaged to the extent of hundreds of millions more.
From Armentier, I went into the Rubix-Tourcoing district, another great textile center.
which was practically destroyed, and saw something of the reconstructed plate glass and chemical factories of Chauny, Siré, and Saint-Gobain.
All of these industries have come back rapidly.
Indeed, the recovery of industrial France has proved one of the wonders of our 20th century world.
I can sum up the whole in one sentence.
All France is at work, the people are cheerful, and they have faith in their future.
They are all saving money, and they believe that God lives.
End of Chapter 5 Chapter 6 of France to Scandinavia by Frank G. Carpenter This is a LibriVox recording.
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