The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-01-31

security issues. This opens the do
nestle market to flotations on a com
petitive basis, and, manifestly, the
foreigner would be placed at decided
disadvantage were he to be excluded
from our loan markets. If this applies
to private concerns and individuals,
it is of much greater significance in
| relation to the governments of the
allied nations. which have been count
ing on advances from America in
order to finance the supplies which
they have been purchasing in America
| for their armies.
Increase in Expectation of Foodstuffs
The United States is really feeding
the world" The total value of food
stuffs sent out of this country in the
year just ended amounts, according
to compilation by the National City
Bank of New York to over two billion
dollars, against an average of less
than half billion per annum prior to
the war.
While this large increase in the
value of foodstuffs exported is due in
some degree to increased prices the
Quantities also show very large in
creases. The total quantity of fresh
beef, for example, exported in the
calendar year 1918 amounts to ap-
proximately 540,000O00 pounds against
only 100000 pounds in the fiscal year
1914, all of which Immediately pre-
coded the war and is a much larger
quantity than ever exported in a single
year, even in the highest record of
the years in which fresh beef was
passing out OF the United States in
very large quantities. Bacon, in the
calendar year 1918, shows a total OF
over 1,OOO,O0OOOO pounds, against less
than 2OO,OO0OOO pounds in the year
Immediately preceding the war, and
aggregating more than twice as much
as in any earlier year
While large portion of this in
crease occurs in movements to Eu-
rope, it does not follow that all of the
increase is for the allied countries OF
our own troops participating in the
war Other countries which were the
recipients of American foodstuffs, in
clude India, Japan, Straits Settle
ments, Belgium, British Africa, Can
ada, Australia and Chill.
Business Readjustments.
The prominent part of the readjust-
ment problem today is the cry OF un-
employment which can be heard ir
most of the industrial centers of the
country 1t is along time since the
complaint has been heard in this coun-
try of inability to find work for those
who are able and willing to be en-
ployed, but labor leaders are going sc
far as to predict the bread line" by
May unless decided improvement:
are made. in the labor situation. Man,
of the plants which employed thou
. sands of men and women at higf
goods, have either curtailcd thei
working forces or closed down alto
{ gether. These workers have i'm
providently failed to take any accoun
: of the future, spending their none,
| for articles of luxury at the highes
, prices that have ever prevailed.
! Added to the unemployment 0
} these workers is the fact that hun
| dreds of thousands of troops are bein!
demobilized, and while many of then
t will return to the positions they he'll
= before the war others will join tn
5 ranks of unskilled labor and compar
n for whatever positions are open i
:. this big field
s Most of the war expedicnts hav
= been abandoned and business is large
: " upon the normal basis of supply an
! demand. This is as it should be for
( would be manfestly unwisc to cor
n tinuc war restrictions after the pcrio
v when the emergency for which the
- were designed ceased to exist. A larg
j. fcrcipn trade is openinp M for Amer
r can business men who arc preparn
: to bid for il more effectively tina
+ ever before. Important negotiation
have been in progress looking te
/ wards the organization Of great iol
= eign selling agencies to market III
" product Of American producers ut +,