Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-18
BRIGHTER BUSINESS.
OUTLOOK IS SEEN.
Chicago Clothing Merchant
Believes Buying Movement
on Eve of Expansion.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.


NEW YORK, September 1s.-Salem
n. Baskin, Chicago clothing merchant,
Just back from Europe, is hopeful Of the
business outlook.
ut seemingly takes a distant per-
mpective OF the United States to show
one the uselessness and futility of eco
nomic upheavals," he said. The de-
preston appears at distance as the
work of an economic hobgoblin who has
kept a ghostly vigil on purse strings.
Slowly the veil is being lifted, for buy
ing goes only with belief, and belief,
like truth crushed, is steadily rising and
this time on firmer foundation.
What we need then, and what we
are getting, is a public faith in COM
modities and in commodity prices that
transcends periodical hysterias Of pros
perity and depression. Out of this well
ter Of fear and uncertainty there is
emerging a greater public commence IN
commodities of standard and brandeo
character, faith purified and strength
ened by the baptismal IRE OF trying
times.
THE manufacturers who have main
tanned their standards and stabilized
their prices have by now achieved an
immunity that will eliminate fear LOT
one thing, as a contributing factor 70
conditions such as we have just passed
through"
Challenges Coolidge.
Former President Coolidge's recent
statement that the nations composing
the League constantly think in terms
of war" while the United States has
become "a leader in limitation OF arma-
ments." has brought a challenge from
RAYMOND B. Fosdick, Rockefeller Foun-
According to DR.. Fosdick, in 1918 the
limited States had a feet OF 843,0O0
tons, Great Britain 2,222.000 tons AND
France $4,000 tons. But now the
United States has 1,250,000 tons. Great
Britain 1,275,00O tons. ana France
ST., 900 tons.
He attacks the Coolidge statement
from another angle. For Navy arma-
ment the United States is spending
s375, 900, 600 now as against $4,000 0OO
in 1918. Great Britain Is spending
sass, 900 900, as against 1924, 900 900 in
1918. and France 500, 900, as
against Si24 600 900 in 1913. This shows
according to the New York educator,
that the United States is spending 173
per cent more than in 1918, Great
Britain 40 per cent more and France
Ie per cent less.
II other costs are added, including
Army and air defense: the United
States is now spending $3.50, 000, 900 an
nually Great Britain $615, 100000 and
France $370,000,000.
DR.. Fosdick admits the League Of
Nations has made little progress on
disarmament. because, he says, the
world is still governed by its fear."
But the United States has made little
progress. too, he contends.
And Mr.. Coolidge is not helping the
cause of peace when he breaches the
doctrine of self-righteousness," con-
cludes Dr. Fosdick.
Urges Cooperation.
Sir William Jowitt, attorney general
of Great Britain, who has been attend
ing the law conference in New York,
pleads for closer cooperation between
Great Britain and the United States.
It am convinced that the peace and
the prosperity Of the whole world de-
pend upon the Engltsh-speaking peo-
pie" he said.
I'VE seek no formal alliance or ex-
elusive compacts, but we desire and in
tend to set such an example OF friend
ship and sympathy as shall prove q
model to the world
Your people need not fear that the
present government in England Is work
ing for Red ruin and the breaking up
of laws We are working for q better
regulated cooperation between old sec
tions of our community. Peace and
prosperity at home and abroad is the
task to which Ramsay Macdonald and
his colleagues have devoted them
selves"
More than three-fourths Of all of the
trade of the world is carried on in
English-speaking countries. That in
itself is q powerful influence. 1t should
make for world peace, providing both
nations, the United States and the
British Commonwealth, seriously at
tempt to work together in the develop
rnent of world business
More has been done in this field In
the last years than in the preced-
ing so.
Factory Kitchens.
Can any one reduce expenses by eat.
ing? In Italy woman wage Garner
who can make her money go twice a:
far as her fellow workers receive,
double pay.
Agllsto Turati, secretary of the Fas,
ctsti party, has a scheme OF employing
women based on this idea Wages arr
low in Italy, for women especially. Tu.
rati doesn't mean to raise them. Hei
going TO try to make the Ira go fur.
ther.
Kitchens are being installed by fac
tory owners. Teachers of domestic sci
ence are holding cooking classes for tn
woman workers, who are becoming adep
in buying, cooking and serving foot
scientifically. The cooking school i
open during working hours and womel
receive regular pay while at class.
1t is Turati's contention that tn
modern generation, especially the bust
ness woman, knows little about sucl
things. II this idea takes hold he be
lieYes that the women will turn thumb
down" on canned goods and do thei
marketing direct.
Italy has a low standard of living
one Of the lowest in Europe. From a
American standpoint, Italians are yer
economical now. The women know no.
10 prepare a nourishing and wholesom
meal for very little expenditure.
Turatis idea looks like an exceller
one for extravagant countries, but fc
Italy il seems far-fetched
What rice is to China, spaghetti Is
Italy
And each Is cheap.
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