THE MORMXG OREGOMAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920 .
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li rMnderfiit Story of the Gain
"F 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! What a
tribute could be written to what Earth holds
in trust for her people 1 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 means man'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.
Today, production of more than Six Bil
lion cans annually 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 Stands Back of It
The "tin' cari isa steel can, coated witht
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
laboratories of steel manufacturers; tin plata
manufacturers, can manufacturers, and the
National Canners Association. Special
"heats" of steel were experimented with, foods
packed in the cans produced from the steelj
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 scientific scrutiny,r
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.
A nafjarHwide
buy.
National Oanners Association
WASHINGTONf D. C.
wide organization formed in 1907, consisting of producers of all varieties of kermrieallv seeled canned foods which have been sterilized hr heat. It neither produces,
sells. Its purpose is to assure, for the mutual benefit of the industry and the public; the bast foods that knowledge and kn.w ikill can produce.
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