Your shoes are made up of two parts, the soles and the uppers. If you will look at the uppers, you will see that they have cloth linings which make the shoes more comfortable. The girls near you in this view are stitching the cloth linings into the uppers. Each person in the factory does one thing; these girls stitch, stitch, stitch, all day long. Other girls in this room sew different parts of the uppers together, or make the linings. There are other rooms in this factory where workmen are busy making different parts of the shoes. The cutters are cutting out the parts, other workers are putting on the heels, or perhaps putting on the soles, making eyelets or fastening on the buttons. Still others clean, polish and pack the shoes. The leather, from the time it arrives from the tannery until it

leaves the factory in a finished shoe, goes through over one hundred processes. Nearly all the work is done by machinery. Finally the shoes are shipped to wholesale dealers in different parts of the country. These wholesale dealers sell them to the retail stores from which you buy your shoes. Shoemaking in this country began in Lynn, Mass. not long after the Pilgrims landed. For a long time our shoes were not as well made as those manufactured in England. Today shoes "Made in U. S. A." are known the world over for their excellence. Shoemaking has spread from Massachusetts to other states and now has become an important industry in New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri. The factory in this picture is in Syracuse, N. Y.