Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16

Tree 10 deal with the insurgents IN a
more efficacious manner than she has
been allowed to during the past four
years, so that this other granary of
ancient times will necessitate ire
mendouS amount of agricultural ma
chinery. There is Americas oppor-
tunity for charging her markets in
all those regions.
American Imports.
The war has also caused a change
in the imports from italy to the
United States. The suspension of i'm
ports or alimentary paste from Italy.
for instance, has caused the growing
of a large number of plants producing
that staple in all the styles of the
to ia l pu Of rros ' durun %s
this country, the domestic product
is somewhat inferior to the one made
in italy out of Russian durum. but
it would really need connoisseur
among Americans to find the differ
compensate for such difference among
people eff limited means. 1t is, there
fore. expe cted that the importation of
allmentary paste from Italy will in
future be smaller than that which
was taking place before the war.
A similar statement may be made
for tomatoes and tomato products.
The suspe nsion of imports from Italy
caused the creation of many tomato
canneries here and compelled those
interested in that industry to look
around and find lands where agricul-
tural conditions were favorable to the
raising of product similar to that
which is obtained in Italy In this
Held success has been the reward of
daring enterprise, and it is useless
mato products that can successfully
stand the competition of the italian
product, both for price and quality.
AS to cheese. which, before the war,
was imported from Italy into the United
States to an amount some times reaching
$1,000. 600 per year, the situation is more
favorable for Italy. because the expert
ments for obtaining substitutes in this
country have turned out far from favor
able While Swiss cheese has been
fairly initiated, especially in Wisconsin,
All the substitutes for various sorts of
Italian cheese have practically been a
failure, and with the. resumption of i'm
ports from Italy the domestic grades
Will be used only by people who are not
very particular as to what they eat or
use for cooking purposes.
More italian Textiles.
The other products from Italy, such as
dry vegetables, raw silk, straw braids
and hats, marble, leather and its manu-
ported into this country on scale no
less than before the war. 1t would,
however, astonish nobody if textiles
would be sent here from Italy in a much
larger quantity than in the past owing
to the development of this industry,
especially in northern Italy, which is
greatly favored now with a view to con-
quering foreign markets.
Undoubtedly that will depend also
upon the question Of dyes. which was an
unsolved problem for Italy even before
the war. The righteousness of the ItaI-
ian chemists has already given the best
proofs OF special application to solve
other and more important problems of
an industrial or practical character.
Untrimmed soft felt hats win also
take prominent place in the imports
from Italy. as it is known that even be-
fore the war they had already made ire
mendous inroads in the American mar
ket, successfully competing for price and
quality with the best products of Ameri-
can batteries. one Italian factory alone
having sent here over / Zoo, 900 hats the
year before the var.