The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
TO TEACH PEOPLE
Block Huns in Commercial
EncrOachment.
By Teaching Backward Races
Art of Manufacture.
FORECAST.



Rome, Nov. 30.-David Lubin,
American delegate to the International
Institute Of Agriculture, has suggested
to Italian and British government Of
ficials and financiers a plan to block
German Entertainments in foreign
markets by teaching the backward
people of the world how to manufac-
ture their own goods. 1t is proposed
to send a commission to the United
States to advocate the adoption OF this
method.
Mr.. Lubin's plan is to organize an
international industrial league which
would establish commercial bases in
zones of foreign trade and to teach the
people of those zones important meth
DDS of business and manufacture. 1t
is pointed out that this would elimi-
nate the necessity for them to pur-
chase manufactured articles either
from Germans or from any others.
''At a first glace, it would seem in
advisable for the English or American
exporter to help build up industries in
foreign Market said Mr.. Lubin
They would feel that they were, by
teaching raw labor to become expert
destroying their own trade, and even
running the risk of having that labor
return to compete in their own home
market 1 think reflection will show
that there is really little to fear from
the legitimate competitor. In fact, the
competitor is, as a rule a customer.
and the stronger the competition the
more valuable the custom. Both the
United States and Great Britain are
competitors but they are also each
others best customer. Neither has
much to fear from Morocco, for in
stance, as a competitor, but likewise
they have little to gain at present by
her custom. However, If Morocco be
converted into an industrial center, 1t
would become a customer.
Under the present sample-trunk
method OF increasing business, there is
no business worth while for anybody
there, but if Morocco were taught to
use her raw labor, she would start to
| manufacture and, right off, could be
sold raw products and machinery.
There would also[be a gain on finan-
cial Investments, on banking transac c.
tons, on her increased volume of ex-
ports and imports.
"Also. once this intensive plan of
| development were started, we would
| have a block to the German method
we have complained of. which was al
ways dangerous because German bust
| ness was accompanied by political
| meddling, in the country involved, and
| her profits carried back home to help
build up her armies, and her armies
| used to bulldoze the world.
! I'VE are under the impression that
we are living in the twentieth century
| but from an industrial point of view
this is true of only small part of the
world. The lakewood countries are
| still scratching the earth with a point.
ed stick. sowing seed by hand. reapine
| by sickle, making shoes and clothe,
by hand The difference between the
old world of the hand and the new
world of the machine is seen righ
here in the basin of the Mediterranean
| where civilization was born, say tive
thousand years ago. Much of this i'm
mense territory is still where it wal
| two thousand years ago. Why Be
| cause it hasn't the machines of France
England. the United States
1T is in the interest of the nation.
now fighting Germany to invade he
former fields and there set the ma
| chimes at work. teach their leader
business organization and their work
erS how to become exDerfs,