Evening journal., 1918-12-26
AMERICA STUDIES
l WORLDS MARKETS
Commercial Scouts Out to
Exceed Production of All
/ Other Countries
HIVES OF INDUSTRY
ARE DUE TO HUM
BY RICHARD sPnLLaNE
Editor of Commerce and Finance and
Special Writer for The Evening Journal

Special Writer Tor The Evening journal.
From Washington men have gone out
and are going out into every quarter
Of the globe to study and report as TO
the needs OF various nations OF the
the goods. whether they may be raw
materials or manufactured products,
that America has TO sell.
These men, selected with the greatest
care. are Americas scouts OF commerce.
They are specialists in particular lines.
These men work for the nation at
large. What opportunities they develop
Will be for no single interest, but Will
be reported to all the people in the
various lines at the same time. They
are to work for years and the force is
TO be increased until no part OF the
world i neglected. This body of spe-
cialists is supplemented by the COM
mercial agents stationed at every Inn
portant center in foreign lands whose
duty 1t is 10 act for the development Of
American trade.
Along with what the government is
doing every great industy in America
has It's agents out in particular fields.
Do not doubt that the American
business man Is alive TO The situation.
So soon as the channels Of trade are
open, so soon as the ships are to be
had to go TO all the ports Of the
Seven Seas the hibes Of industry viii
hum throughout this land.
The problem is likely to be not so
much Of developing foreign markets as
Of Americas ability to produce all the
soreign markets require.
: Production is wealth. The larger the
production the greater the wealth OF
+ll, the larger the return to labor, the
s@Sider the distribution Of prosperity.
= America is the most prosperous ma
lion OF the earth. This prosperity Is
uscribed generally to its colossal wealth
.tf raw material. The ascription is only
1rue TO a certain degree. The larger
share OF the credit is due TO the high
ability of the American workman and
10 the enterprise OF the American
manufacturer.
- 1t is common to scold the worker and
1amn the boss. Sometimes it is over
ftlone.
= Read what follows and draw your
own conclusions.
Great Britain ranks near the top
among nations, yet the present use OF
motive power, /. e., steam, electricity,
machinery, etc. is twice as great in
American industries as IL is In British
Industries as IL is in British industries.
.lhe authority for this statement is
The London Times This explains the
higher wage Of the American working
man compared with that OF the foreign
workers.
Coal is one of the greatest industries
Of Great Britain. BY coal il has COM
manded by the seas. Its coaling stations
dot the trade channels Of the oceans.
For years the coal'producton per man
ln Great Britain has been declining. For
years the coal production per man ia
America has been increasing
= Look at the figures:
In 1902 the coal production Of the
United Kingdom per miner was 2s2 tons
per annum in 1912, It was PA tons, and
IN 1917 81 was 2i9 tons.
In 1902 the coal production in the
limited States per miner was 539 tons
per annum, in 1912, Coo tons, and 1917
it reached the unprecedented total of
$40 tons.
: The American coal miner produces
dhree times as much as the British
1niner.
once more the authority for this
statement is the London Times.
= The explanation Of the high produc.
aion Of the American worker is in th'
aigher use Of power-pover that is ex-
Dressed in steam, electricity. machiner,
&nd highclass tools.
< One Of the greatest truths labor ha.
20 learn is that the larger the use oil
labor saving machinery, the larger thl
-slroft 20 labor. for labor saving ma
Ehinery, instead Of reducing the EN-
9,loyment OF labor, increases it, becaus
81 cheapens the cost OF production 5,
much that it swells production enor
hnously.
= When rhe spinning jimmy was intro
-iuced there were riots Yet without tn
spinning jimmy the world would hav
mo such textile industry as it know
1oday and all our clothes would b
-nade by hand.
When the linotype was introduce
mot so many years ago, the printer
Thought their trade was ruined. To
~lay the printing trade ranks mint
among Americas major industries an
Employs ten times as many men as
did % years ago and the printer is
prince in comparison with what he wa
IN the days OF setting type by hand.
So It goes through all The broad lane
of business.
Produce and multiply. saith the Boo
Df Books.
The injunction applies to industr
40 less than TO the propagation Of tn
human race.
American labor is the best labor in tn
world today Americas industrial es
Establishment is more highly develope
End better managed than that Of an
1ther nation.
The basis of winning world trad
4 the production Of the American Ia
borer He, not the banker, the states
man or the manufacturer, is the key
Stone in the arch.
The larger the production Of th
american worker the more prosperou
Will labor be and will America be.
2 PRODUCE AND MULTIPLY.
HARyE yWOULD HAN GkAIsER.
8y The United Press.
- NEW YORK. Dec. Hang the Ka
Ser" was the stand Of Col George Han
Sey, editor OF the North American re
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