The Washington herald., 1921-04-04

FOR U. S. ELECTRIC
APPARATUS GAINS
1920 Foreign Sales We're
In Excess of $780,
100000.
HEAVY '21 GAIN SEEN
Present Years Trade Will
Probably Exceed $780,
100000:
HEAVY '21 GAIN SEEN

The whole world is calling upon
the United States for electrical ma
chinery and apparatus. 1t bought
from us in 1920 over slo0.000.00o
worth OF material OF this character.
including telephones, telegraph In
struments. incandescent lamps, cleo
trio fans, heating and cooking ap-
paratus, motors. insulating and wiz
ing materials, and the thousand and
one requirements of modern elec-
trical comforts and conyeniences
Our sales of this class OF material
which we statistically designate as
electrical machinery and appli-
ances," amounted, says a statement
by the. National City Bank Of New
York, to less than s20,00o,o00 in
1914. s10l 100000 in 1920. and will
probably exceed sl50.Oo0. 900 in 1921.
for the exports are now running at
the rate of sl5.00o.ooo a month";
half million dollars q day.
Telephones I'm Demand.
Telephones alone amounted to
nearly $4,000, 900 in the electrical
exports of 1920. as against a little
over sl,000,OoO in 1914, and incan-
descent lights, over $4,000. ZOO as
against sl,500.000. or incsndescent
lamps. the number exported in 1920
was over 100000 against less
I than 100000 in 1914; OF electric
fans in 1920, $4,000. valued at ST.
$4,000. against $4,000 valued at
s296,000 in 1914, and electric motors.
the biggest single item of the
| group. Sl3,265, 900 value in 1920,
against $4,000. 900 in 1914.
OF course. adds the banks state
ment. a trifle OF sl0O. 100000 or
| even sl5o.o0o.0o0 exports for the
current year, is not a large factor
| in our present tremendous eXpor-
tation of manufactures, which
| amounted to over $4,000. 100000 in
| the calendar year 1890, but il does
tivities in supplying up-to-date and
high grade manufactures to the
outside world. and at the same time
| the highly commendable habit
which the outside world mas de-
veloped of coming to the United
| States for material of this chsrac-
ter. for il will be observed that the
| total value Of electrical machinery
and appliances exported in 1920
was more than FIVE times that OF
1914.
Tnbulation of Distribution.
| Illustrative of the absolutely
worldwide" extent of the demands
upon us. adds the banks statement
an examination Of the details OF our
distribution Of material Of this par
| ticular class of manufactures shows
that we sent to Brazil in 1919. -
$4,000 'mersl flament" electric
lamps for lighting her streets
homes and business places: to Ar
| gentina, l.424.0o0; to Mexico. 1852
| 600; to Canada. 3.061. 900; to Aus
tralia and New Zealand. I.lIO.O 900
and to such distant and less aC-
cessible markets as the Dutch East
Indies. 253.ooo: India. 2S1 ,O0O:
Straits Settlements. $1,000: Hons
Kong. $4,000: Siam, 5000: French
Oceania. 5000. and Iceland. $4,000.
The telephones exported went to no
less than seventy-five countries and
colonies. including all of South
America, all of the Asiatic coun-
tries. British, French. Dutch. Am
erican. and japanese islands in the
Pacific, Iceland in the Far North
the Falkland Islands at the cx-
treme south. and Ecuador as its
name implies. directly under the
Equator. One other interesting
point-not for the purpose of
Knocking" our neiShbors. but just
for the encouragement of our own
manufacturers-it seems not inn
proper to note. that while the value
OF our own exports of electrical
apparatus grew from less than
$20,000,000 in 1914 TO over $780,
100000 in 1890. the exports OF
similar materials from our pres
ent chief rival in that line. Great
Britain, were in 1920 only s65,000,-
600 as against s26,0o0.00O in the
year Immediately preceding the
war. her exports in this line hsv-
ing barely doubled during the
period in which our own quin-
tupled.