The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1920, Page 9

the tin can has been to you a common thing of commonplace service, think that way of it no longer. Think of the tin can for what it really is—a wonder of.the times. Think of it as a monument to patient achieve- ment in our personal interests, What a tale it could tell! A tale to compel our respect and whet our appetites, Once this tin can lay inert in the Earth in its original elements—had lain there since Time began—awaiting the hand of man that should bring it forth, make the metal, give it shape and crown it with great usefulness, And while it thus lay, awaiting its destiny there likewise lay those other ingredients, from which Nature herself should bring forth the products of garden, orchard and field, so wonderfully nourishing and delicious. You Get Choice Foods Because of It What a stimulus to imagination! Whata A nation-wide organization farmed in 1907, consisting of producers of all varieties of hermetically sealed canned foods which have bees sterilize buys, nor sells. Its purpose is to assure, for the mutual benelit of the industry and the public, Lit MA tribute could be written to what Earth holds in trust for her people! How she holds in one hand the secret of the peach, the pineapple, the succulent vegetable! How she holds in the other the no less wonderful secret of the means that shall carry her bounty to any table—anywhere—any time of the year. Today, all these ingredients lie dormant together. Tomorrow, rising from the earth they meet again, each to triumph in ‘the miracle on your table.” The Needs of Your Own Table Developed It But Nature’s triumph meansman’s triumph also. The tin can of commerce was not born in a day nor without great industrial travail. The can making industry in America paral- lels that of food-canning itself. In the begin- ning, each canner made his own cans, and a workman in those days could make by hand 150 per day. WASHINGTON®D. C. best canned foods that scientific know!odge at RUT Sse oh, ENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920, red by ioe. noite ny neit ue produces, tory of the Today, production of more than Six Bil- lion cans aanually for the canned food output of America is significant of the development of the tin can industry, and of the canned food industry, as well, which makes all these millions upon millions of cans necessary. The imagination is staggered by it. Expressed in terms of tables supplied, and of individuals served, it is almost beyond belief. Science Siands Back of It The “‘tin’’ can is a steel can, coated with tin. It is a product of science, of scientific research by hundreds of specialists who have studied every step of evolution beginning with analysis of the steel itself. “ * Extraordinary Care Has Surrounded It For example, over a period of years, picked men from the laboratories of four great organ- izations united in the common effort of de- veloping the tin container. These were the National Canners. Association a skill am produce, ' ia Si his Soe aN aus Z A reds ag - te Gran oF laboratories of steel manufacturers, tin plate manufacturers, can manufacturers, and the National Canners Association. Special “heats” of steel were experimented with, foods packed in the cans produced from the steel, and the results recorded with scientific accur- acy. The thickness of the tin coating be- came a matter of scientific determination. Methods of sealing and imperviousness of joints are subjects of closest scientificscrutiny. Respect the Tin Can As the tin can stands on your grocer’s shelves or on the shelves of your own pantry, this highly specialized little object claims your respect. The tin can unquestionably is the safest, most practicable and scientific food container that human skill and ingenuity have been able to devise for the benefit of mankind. (an fen tO