Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-26
LUBIN HAS PLAN To
DEFEAT GERMANS
IN TRADE CAME
Would Have International In
duStrial League Teach
Backward Peoples to Man.
ufaCture Their Own Goods

ROME, Oct. 27.-(Correspondence
OF the Associated Press David
L.ubin, American delegate to the In
Iernational Institute of Agriculture,
mas suggested to the Italian and Bri =
lsh government officials and finan-
ciers plan to block German en-
croachmenIs in foreign markets Dy
teaching the backward peoples OF the
world now TO manufacture their own
goods. IL is proposed 10 send com
mission TO the United States TO ad-
vOcate the adoption OF this method.
MIR. Lubin'S plan is to organize an
International Industrial league when
would establish commercial bases in
zones of foreign trade and to teach
the people OF those zones important
methods of business and manutac-
ture. 1t is pointed out that this
would eliminate the necessity -or
them to purchase manufactured or
ticles either from Germans or from
any others.
"At a first glance, it would seem
inadvisa5le for the English or Amer
lean exporter to help build up indus
tries in a foreign market, said MT.
Lubin. 'They would feel that they
were. by teaching raw labor to be-
come expert, destroying their own
trade, and even running the risk Of
having that labor return to compete
In their own home market. think
reflection will show that there is
really little TO fear from the legiti-
...sssS Cv-A.P~tISOA. a. Ass~s' IAAS SviA'
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.ns ht4oH5vr me CU4.lpStiLIOn lac inVI Z
,slIuaDIS IIie custom, DOIn LLs Cn4I-
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car lIUIn aLUroSSU. LOr tiIstanCv, as
:. OOIupvt4tvL, DuL IihSwLsc IItey NAYS
..t.Ie ~ gam al pa SseIIl W ner Gus
,Otm. however n .IOtOCSO nc COn-
,vIled lnLO al IuuuStLIdt centers IL
,UuIu become 4 cus.VIIIer.
"Ouuer Lne pIeseAC saInpie-truuh
.IeInvu Oh ic,es..sins BUSINESS, inca
ls 40 BUSINESS NorelI w4i4Ls Lor ANY
vUuy lnvIe, DuL IL A1ofOCGO MeLe
,ausnI 70 use nef raw IaDOTs sue
would start 10 InanuLaCsuIe anGs
.4snl GA, cvUlu Ne svIu raw pIoduG.s
s...u mat uinery. 1ne4e MUaIu aIsO
&c a gam on tln3uClaI lnESs L4IlcnIS,
Vn DauAIHg IrstIisdS LtUnSi On her m
Lreaseu voIume OF eAporlS and in'
pUrIs.
Also, once this intensive plan OIL
ueyeIUpnenI We're Scared, We would
Iave a DIock 20 the OeIHlan nlstIIOu
We have complained o., wnlcn was
always dangerous because GerIildi
business was accompanied by point
ic2i meduilnS III tno country III
holNeui ana neE prOIllS Carried Dack
nome 10 nelp bulIu up her armies,
lad ner armies used [, buIldoze tine
world.
we are under the impression thai
We are living IN the IwenLleLn cen
Jury, but nom an industrial point or
view TINS is true OF onIy a small paTI
OF the world. the backwoou couh-
tries are sun Scratching the earth
with a pointed STICK, SOWING seed
Oy hand, reaplng by sickle, making
SHOES and clothes By hand. Tine diff
ference between the old world of Cne
hand ana the new world OF the ma
cnine is seen right here in the basin
of the Mediterranean, where lclvillZd-
lion was born, say two thousand
years ago. Much of this immense
territory IS still where it was two
thousand years ago. Why? Because
II hasn't the machines of France,
england and the United States.
1T is in the interest of the ma
tions now fighting Germany to IN
wade her former fields and there set
the machines at work. teach the
leaders business organiza ton and
their workers how to become ex-
perts."