The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-12

are making to the comforts
~ ana requirements of the daily
life of those in other parts of the
world are scarcely realized even
by those supplying the articles so
contributed How little does the
girl or woman employed in the
factory realize that the cotton cloth
being manufactured with her coop
Grafton is to become holiday dress
for some other girl or woman in
China, or India or Philippines, or
South America, or the islands Of the
East or Vest How little does the
boy or man who engages in the
daily round of farm life realize that
the bacon to be made from the pigs
which he feeds is to go into the
homes of Liberia, and Portuguese
Africa, and French Oceanina, and Ash
attic Russia or that the eggs which
he collects may be exported to Brit
ish Guiana, or Peru, or Cuba, or Cen
trail America, or the various countries
of Europe! Yet these and many
other curious and interesting Incl
dents of the neighborly interchang-
es between our people ana those of
other distant parts of the world are
shown as part of the every-year, all
the-year-round routines of trade
recorded by the Bureau of Statistics
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
It's annual volume Commerce
and Navigation of the United States -
which is supplied free of charge to
those desiring it for study of our for
eign commerce, shows many curious
things, tor example, to see that the
American mule goes to Africa, Aus
tralia the Islands of Oceania, Brit
ish, Dutch, and French Guiana, Ecu
adore, Brazil, Haiti, Costa Rica, and
British Honduras for services on the
roads and plantations. American
candles, of which the expectations
amount to from 3 to 8 million pounds
year, are lighting homes in Japan,
Korea, Siberia, Tasmania, Venezuela,
the Dutch West Indies, Salvatore,
the Philippines and French posses
ions in Africa. American broOms
and brushes are making clean the
floors and busting the garments of
jewellers in Turkey, Roumania, Malta,
the Azores Islands, Egypt, Spanish
possessions in Africa, German IS
lands in the Pacific, Hongkong,
and Santo Domingo. American pea
nuts, of which the expectations range
from to million pounds a year,
go to British India, the Guianas in
South America, the Danish West
Indies Guatemala, Labrador, the
Island of Bermuda and the Belgian
KOngo in Africa American boots
and shoes, of which the exports range
above ten million dollars a year, go
in increasing quantities to every
part of the world-Honkong Siam,
Japanese territory in China Java
and Sumatra, the Straits settlements,
Australia and New leland, German
possessions in Africa, Liberia, Brazil
Paraguay, Mexico, Canada, and prac-
tically every cOunery Of Europe.
American windmills, of which more
than a million dollars worth are
exported every year, are seen in
South Africa, the Canary Islands,
Turkey in Asia, French China, Haiti,
Santo Domingo, Turkey in Europe,
Switzerland, Roumania, Greece, and
Greenland.
And so we might go on extending
the list indefinitely, enumerating
products of the American farm and
factory which are being sent to other
parts of the world, and these articles
would include sewing machines, type
writers, motor boats, organs, pianos,
pianOlas, soap perfumery, oranges,
raisins, prunes, chewing gum, toys,