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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918.
WAY TO SELL TO FOREIGNERS
‘rhe war has opened up opportun-1
ities for manufacturers in this coun-1
try to capture foreign trade heretofore j
held by other nations. The depart-;
ment of commerce has often told deal
ers that their exports must be made
up of goods hat the people in foreign
countries want and not of goods that
the manufacturers think they should1
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*ant.
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This is a thing that Americans have
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been slow to learn, and on that ac
count they have been unable to in- .
crease their foreign trade as they
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should have done.
Recently the United States consul
at Hong Kong, in reporting on the cot
ton goods market in Southern China,
said that the British and Japanese
monopolize that trade because Ameri
can manufacturers simply will not
make goods suited to the market.
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The same reports have come from
South American, and it is evident that
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American manufacturing companies
would spend money well if they sent
agents abroad to find out exactly what
.prospective customers demand.
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Just because we think we do every
’thing right in the United States is no
reason why we can impose our opin
ions ion other peoples. The first rule
of merchandising, so successful deal- *
-era say, is to sell to people what they *
want. Our manufacturers have evi- *
dently not yet learned that rule.
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A PEOPLE WITHOUT LOVE OF r
COUNTRY l
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Sir Walter Scott once wrote a poem
on the man who cannot say “This is
ray own, my native land.” ^
In a later day Edward Everett Hale
wrote an essay on “The Man Without
a Country.”
The Bolsheviki in Russia might fam
iliarize themselves with these works
of literature with profit to themselves. [
They have looked upon patriotism as 1
an unworthy feeling. Nationalism to '
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them has meant nothing, and interna
tionalism everything.
Then when Germany began an inva
sion of demobilized Russia the Bol
sbeviki government issued a call “to
defend the Fatherland.” It was an
nounced that the invaders would be
opposed to the death.
But few Russians sprang to arms,
and the Hun hordes were not op
posed. Russia was forced into agree
ing to sign an ignominious treaty of
peace.
For the Bolsheviki there is no
fatherland and no love of country.
They are concerned with dreams far
beyond such puerile present-day con
ceptlons. And their course has beei
so abhorrent to patriotic Russian
that they do not have the heart t<
fight for a government so ridiculouslj
contemptible.
The Russians today are men with
out a country that they can or will re
spect, love and defend.
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JAPAN WILL HELP SIBERIA
Press dispatches report that Japur
is preparing to send troops to Siberu
to aid the anti-Bolshevist forces thai
have declared and are fighting for tin
independence of that vast territorj
from the Urals to the Pacific.
That action on the part of Japar
need create no surprise. Japan is not
going to sit idly by and have Siberia
turned Into a veritable province oi
Germany. The Germans are dose
pnoiU'h tn .Tnnnn rii»ht nmv thfnk
Japanese statesmen, and they will not
bo allowed to get a foothold in the
East.
England is as much concerned in
keeping the Germans from controlling
Siberia as is Japan. Siberian and In
dian frontiers meet, it must be re
membered. If the facts were known
it would doubtless be disclosed that
Japan is preparing to intervene with
the consent of England. The Britisti
ire not in a position to take a hand
apenly. England is trying to keep on
good terms with the Bolshevist gov
ernment, and relations would be brok
en at once if England aided the Si
aerian revolters. Japan^can give this
»id as she is not concerned with keep
ng in the good graces of Trotzky and
lis fellows.
Japan’s only interest in the matter
s to have a Siberia that will not be
infriendly. Japan had come to an un
lerstanding with both England and
tussia that meant peace and stability
n the Orient. If Germany should fin
illy come to control the Siberian re
mblic or should control a Russian gov
ernment that held Siberia as a prov
nce, all kinds of trouble might result
or Japan.
It seems to be the intention of Ja
ian, unless a stable Russian govern
aent is soon formed, to give financial
nd perhaps military assistance to
Siberian revolutionists, who have no
ympathy with the Bolsheviki or with
lermany. That would make certain
he creation of a stable Siberian state
k'hose future independence would be
ssured by a treaty of alliance with
apan.
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In several places social outcasts
lave been. forced to kiss the flag,
'an’t anything else be found for them
o befoul except flags?
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Some men are so unlucky that if it
ained gold from the sky they would
ie abroad in their shirtsleeves with
o pockets in their pants.
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Summer girls in large numbers will
o to the orchards this summer instead
f to the beaches. And that makes it
ertain where summer men will go.
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Bryan has launched a national or
;anization of the forces that are fight
ng for national prohibition. At last
he great commoner has launched
omething that gives evidence of float
ng permanently.
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A New York banker worth five mil
ions committed suicide because he
vas too old to “smash Germany.”
Commendable patriotism he had, but
here are a good many other ways he
night have shown it, especially since
le had five millions.
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Registration for the municipal elec
tion closes on Saturday, March 30, and
It is the duty of every resident of Cor
dova to see that his name is enrolled
30 as to be qualified to vote at the
electioh on Tuesday, April 2.
AMERICANS SHOW THEIR TRICKS
\\ lien a German commerce raider
got safely back to port after a loot;
(career in both the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans, the fact was given wide
publicity in this country. ' American
| ''hips had gone down before this raid
er. but its success was not minimized.
That is the American way. Whene
ver the enemy pulls off a daring bit
of work full credit is given. We have
i to admire nerve and ability to do the
| unusual, because those are traits
characteristic of our own people.
The Germans wfll have plenty of
chance to observe those marks of
Americanism. Will they admire them
in us?
News from the American front in
France shows that our boys are al
; ready opening up in the Huns with a
few samples of their initiative. The
Germans are being kept busy all of the
time, and enough of the unusual things
being done come across the cable to
let us know that the Germans are hav
ing a lively time figuring out what the
! Yankees will do next.
There is little rest, and probably'
little sleep in the German trenches \
across from the Americans. The boys j
I from the IT, s. A. are full of ginger, j
and they are trying tricks on the stolid '
Germans that they never heard of be-!
fore.
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l IT’S BEST TO HAVE A GUN
An editorial writer on the Kansas
City Times has read many stories
of how' a piercing look into the eye
of a mad dog will stop it. Shine
hunters have contended that a man
can protect himself from a lion if he
will look hard and straight into the
lion’s optics.
This writer no longer believes these
-reports. When he goes into the Jun
gle he will carry his gun and depend
on it alone. He will take no chanees
trying to abash the king of the junglb
with a gleam of the eye.
The reason for this disbelief In an
oft-repeated story is that it did not
work with the Russians. They threw
away their arms, went down to Brest
Litovsk, took a firm squint at the Hum
and expected to see hiin recoil in
intimidation.
But the Hum was not cowed:
And the Russian was gobbled up. .
Moral: If you cannot frighten a.
mad dog with a few lightning glances
from your eagle eye it is a good thing1 >
to have a piece of artillery on your *
hip to fall' back upon.
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HOES VERSUS GOLF STICKS
Mrs. Howard Gould has offered to
the department of agriculture her
estates in Virginia for grain-growing.
She suggests that other wealthy peo
ple do likewise, in order that the cul
tivated acreage this year be in
creased'.
Here is the germ of a brilliant
idea.
Why can’t well-to-do people who
help maintain golf links and hunting
preserves plant them this season and
every season until the war ends?
Then a member of a golf club, when
he went out for his afternoon’s exer
cise, would don overalls and pick up a
hoe and a rake instead of his golf
sticks. He would get just as much
exercise as he would playing golf and j
he would be devoting his leisure time
to helping feed our soldiers.
It may come to that. The women
neglect no opportunity to knit for the
soldiers, and the men may decide to
use every spare minute to raising
food for them.
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Uncle Sam spends $156 in equip
ping an infantryman for France. This
Is more than any other nation spends.
But then an American soldier is
worth more, too, than any other sol
dier. i
Is Everybody Awake?
I ’Most everyone must be by this time, for the needs of the
nation have been steadily placed before you. Everyone must
save for the additional burdens that will be placed upon us.
The Third Liberty Loan will soon be announced. War Stamps
are still on sale. War taxes will not be reduced for some time.
Your personal needs beyond these necessities should prompt you
to carry a substantial bank account. Start an account this week
with
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houses completely furnished and
stocked with stores and pro
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Merchandise will not be shipped before March
1. On or about March 15 we will have on dis
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Dress Skirts, Suits, Dresses, Baronette and Roy
alty Satins, Yosan Silks, Chinese Silks, Broad
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Silver Tone and Serges, Shoes, Waists, Petti
coats, Gloves, Underwear, Gossard Corsets and
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and domestics. Best and most complete line
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