White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-12-19

or casein from Australia. use tons
and tons of printing ink. It's made
of the queerest things-Aleppo gall
nuts from Turkey to make it black,
or logwood extract from Santo Do
mingo to make it purple. use lots
and lots of string to tie up packages,
and that make from American cot
ton, or Mexican sisal, or Manila
hemp"
He broke off and demanded Gust
who are these people you representa-"
"You know the old India House, in
Hanover Square, New York." I said.
"It's been the headquarters of mer-
chants and sea captains, and the Ma
tional Foreign Trade Council has its
offices there. It's an organization to
spread accurate information about
foreign trade, that's all.
"It's chairman is James A. Farrell,
the steel man; and then there's PAS.
Franklin and Capt. Robert Dollar, the
shipping men; e. H. Huxley, the rub
Der exporter; William Pigott, out on
the Pacific Coast; Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick, the farm machinery man,
Lewis e. Pierson, the banker; and a
lot more.
Zine, I know them all. I guess
they'll understand" interrupted the
old gentleman and went back to his
subject.
my soldiers and sailors and ships
my railway trains, make out o.
American cast iron or tin. use tiI
for lots Of other toys. Tin get from
the Malay Peninsula, or Bolivia, OF
the Straits Settlements. There ISM
much in the United States.
ri get heaps of leather from all
countries. I use leather for, gloves
hat bands, in bookbinding, and shoes
not to speak of playthings. l go into
the jungles, cross rivers and prairie'
for leather. get it from the skins
of kangaroos, buffaloes, elk, seals
horses, cattle, monkeys, goats. 1 have
to go to Australia for the kangaroo
; to the Dutch East Indies for buffalo
; hides, to North or South America ant
to the Far East for cattle hides, tt
British India and China for most O
the goat skins. I've got to trave
quickly, tell you.
"The diamond dust sprinkle ovel
Christmas trees may be made of zinc
The candles I makef rom American
| Argentine, or New Zealand tallow. I
costs lots of money. One way ant
another l spend maybe two hundred
and fifty million dollars for ever.
Christmas. Right in the United States
1 spend nearly hundred million.
81 was the first international trader
and l play no favorites. l send Ger
man and American and French ant
| Japanese dolls and toys to children
: everywhere. It's lots easier to make
dolls out Of rubber or paper. Tht
little girls have no idea what trouble
have to make up their dolls, witt
china faces. have to get china ella.
from England, and mix it with bal
clay, and grind up flint pebbles from
Denmark or Belgium, to keep then
from breaking. For the beautiful
glass eyes, get aluminium from
America and France, anthony from
China and Mexico, arsenic from Can
ada or France.
Children mustn't think / am al
ways in cold places. I get hot when
go down south, or to Central America
watching after the loads of oranges
and bananas and all sorts of fruits
gather. 1t was so hot, took off my
fur coat and lost it down there. Any
way I needed another Isn't this one
nice? It's polar bear import"
II never dreamed you had to get
so many things from SO many differ
ent places" l exclaimed.
We'll, I've told you only about some
Of the toy presents" explained Santa
Claus. when it comes to giving
clothes, there's more trouble and
work. Little real-silk dresses and