The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-10-27
Those Held at Paris, Lyons and
Bordeaux Grow to Proper
tons OF Expositions.
AMERICANS ARE TAKING PART
Everything Conceivable for Use In
Foreign Lands Is Exhibited-May
Revert to 6antering-rx
of Foreign Trade Planned.

Paris fairs has not only created world
wide interest in them. but has addet
TO the importance of international
trade Americans are participating il
them more and more. and at the las
Lyons fair there were about 1O(
American exhibitors. in striking con
trast TO the dozen that displayed mer-
chandise at the first one. There has
also been corresponding increase In
the number of American buyers.
For those who are unacquainted
with the French fairs" writes Dun
j correspondent at Paris, sit may not be
amiss to state that the one at Lyons
Is held in the spring and fall, the one
at Bordeaux in the early summer and
1 the one at Paris in the late spring.
AT the Lyons fair silks are offered in
the spring and machinery in the fall
! The Bordeaux fair. though only four
years old, has established place for
itself and has become particularly i'm
| portant as a French colonial exhibit
| ton.
Means Much to Future.
This means a great deal to the fu-
ture trade between America and
France. for this great colonial port of
France seeks to centralize at its fair
everything from raphia to palm oil
and from Yankee notions for Moroc-
cans to petroleum engines for NADIA
gascar. While the colonial products
are more or less raw materials. the
finished products that the French
colonies require are not wanting in the
United States, whose foreign trade
under the new order of things can be
said to he still in it's infancy.
IAN announcement of one of the ex-
hibitors at the Bordeaux fair. now in
progress. is suggestive of many things
In foreign trade. 1t reads: Sorghum
Straw Brooms. This important manu-
featuring house makes a speciality of
hrOoms called American and of Span
ish mats and brushes These are spe-
cial articles for export. Representa-
tives are sought for France and
o. Dad The house exhibiting these
exotic wares has its factory In the
south of France. There are many
streets of exhibits that are not limited
to articles de Paris.
ITO avoid any duplication of effort
and to correct all conflicting plans. ar
are now being perfected !
to have these three fairs coordinate |
their work. 1t is expected that this
will economic time and money and |
Increase the convenences that can he |
extended to foreign exhibitors and buy
prs. Just how far-reaching this move
'nent will he it IS difficult to forecast.
At any rate. it will give permanence
% these international market places.
md like the former fairs at Leipzig
md Mini Novgorod will permit the
display Of the finished products of the
esnective territories.
"One of the greatest advantages,
owever, will probably be the offering
# unusual facilities for the bartering
4 merchandise. Whether It may be
admitted or not the basic require
nents Of civilization in many countries
re practically understandable owing to
he disparity Of exchange. AS this stu
tion may continue for an indefinite I
,eriod, the world will probably be !
creed to revert to bartering, the meth
d of primitive peoples. In that event
hese fairs will offer nne of the most I
onvenient places for such an ex- 4
hange of merchandise
Concentrate Their Efforts.
''The first thing proposed is to get In
ouch with foreign expositions SO as TO
q reciprocal system of !
ubicity and recruiting. Next they
iii attempt 10 remedy, by mutual
certain defects which have
zen detected in the arrangements OF :
le various fairs. 1t was also decided
lat each exhibitor must have his
10Th ready for the opening of the fair,
I'd not several days later, as has fire. )
lently been the case. The booth, or
,hibit, must be in charge Of re-
'onsible representative of the house :
wing the display; some one capable (
furnishing all required information.
1.-The Bordeaux fair grounds are
,bt in the city. The stands open on =
e side on a covered gallery, with :
ices and private entrances from the
rect side. which can be much inn
owed The exhibits are now housed =;
multitude of wooden buildings .
rming streets along the side of HE .<
or. aud in the neighhOring squares
The city. often 10 the bewildernletp z
4 confusion Of The visitor. .
'rhe Worlds Fair, or Universal Ex- Z
sitiOn. which from the middle of tie
i century to 1900 was held in Paris q
cry eleven years will probably be =
andoned until the new economic SIT 4
lion shall have become entirely SET
d. The changes that have been =
ought by the war make il imprac- q
able to hold such an exposition at =
3 time, as II would be TOO great
ain industriaIly. fins7rially and ai- =
on t'raree and its Ia q
Itries" -