Evening star., 1923-08-08

Two bulletins from the Department
off Commerce attract attention by
their optimistic headings: Big In
crease in Trade With South America"
ana TRADE With Orient Growing
Rapidly"
Nothing gives greater assurance of
prosperity at home than prosperous
export trade.
The total trade with South America
shows an increase of So per cent for
the year ended June 80, 1928, as COM
pared with the previous year. This
iasE years exports to South America
amounted to s739,427.154, and of the
yeir before s479.71o,139.
The permanency of our strengthened
rel.a tions with South America is at
trisuted partly to the great amount
off United States capital which has
gohe to that continent, in the form
of investments and loans. This has
stitn nulated the various countries to
gr.ater enterprise. with the result
thAt vast quantities of electrical ma
chInery, telephone outfits. railway
supplies, etc, have been called for.
indicated. too, by the fact that both
exports and imports have grown. Ex-
pcrts grew So per cent and imports 65
per cent. We import coffee from Bra
zig, nitrate from Chile, skins and wool
from the River Plata countries. We
sell to South America machinery. tex
tiaes patent specia1ties and auto
mobiles. All of these products come
keep wages healthy. Our growth
commercially in South America is
gteater than with any other region
except oceanica.
We have not yet arrived" in our
commerce with the orient. but we are
bay from the orient nearly twice as
much as we sell TO il. Twenty
ole per cent of our foreign trade last
year was with the orient. Its mer-
chants had built up credit in the
United States which gave them a pal
an.,e a year ago of Sl7l,000,O0O. ana
now it exceeds S510, 100000.
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In the fiscal year ended June 80.
1872, we bought of the orient $780,
ooD. 900. and in the last year s1.o6S,-
92g. 900. We thus increased our pur-
ct,ases by $3.50, 100000.
sn the same period we sold to the
orient in 1922, S564 100000, and last
year s55S. S.665.Ooo-a decrease of So
5e4.75S.
ave made increases in Australia. the
phiIinnines. New Zealand, Dutch East
In1ies and the Straits Settlements.
Amounting TO s46,397,5S5, but de
creased in sales to Japan S55,5oo g.
to British India S7,769.000, and other
countries of the orient s4,o65'ooo-
meking a net oriental decrease OF
sales s5,564,75S.
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POSSIBLY the Japan trade may indi-
cste prosperity on our part, since the
excess of what we bought of Japan
OYER what we sold her is due to the
fact that we bought vast quantities
Of silk. and sold cotton machinery
iron and steel.
1T has taken a long time for the ia
nous Roosevelt ultimatum to the Mo-
rcccan bandit TO take effect, even II
tie effect is not exactly in the terms
os the American. The bandit had
cantured an American citizen, Per-
d5caris. and diplomatic negotiations
we're dragging, until the patience of
tEe President was exhausted, and, at
tie suggestion of a newspaper cor
raspondent, he cabled bluntly: Perdi-
caris living, or Raisuli dead.
Perdicaris was released, and now
Raisuli is-married.
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There is a movement now agitating
the minds of some good citizens to
stop prize fighting in the Army and
Navy The argument is made that
prize fighting is brutal and degrading.
Opposition lies especially against per-
hitting soldiers to fight outsiders,
where charges are made for admis-
sion. No objection is made to boxing
for sport.
Ihe sotdiers reply that theirs is not