White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-06-27
20 COUNTRIES TOG
WELL-DRESSED MAN
Walking Economic League
of Nations Is Homo.

nat NAlA thC WSti-
dressed business man wear this sum-
mer?
London and New York haberdashers
have their own answer to that Ques-
ton; geography predicts he will wear
the products of 20 foreign countries,
more or less.
IF bright national labels were
pasted on the pieces of masculine
wearing apparel wholly or partly Of
foreign origin, the well-dressed bust
ness man would look like trunk
just returned from a world tour Of
the best hotels" says bulletin Of
the National Geographic society from
it's headquarters in Washington, d. c.
'From top to the toe this Ameri-
can, attired for the street, Is walk
ing economic League of Nations.
"He may declare that his hat came
from Danbury, Conn.,, his shirt and
collar from Troy, N. Y, his necktie
from Paterson, N. j., his coat ard
trousers from local tailor, his foun-
tain pen from Chicago, his money
from United States mint, and his
shoes from Massachusetts; but that
isn't half Of it.
The Matter Of Hats.
'"Take his hat, for example. 1t mny
have been made in Italy, Ecuador or
the Philippines. If 1t was made in
the United States, the straw probably
came from abroad, from Switzerland
Italy, China or Japan. In one recent
year the United States imported $780,
000 miles of braided straw for hats,
"The leather swaziland probably
came from New Zealand sheep; the
filmy gauze of cotton net under the
crown from England.
Ellis collar, trim, cleaning collar
that resists willing, probably owes
much of its stability to long staple
cotton from Egypt. Extra fine shirts
also have In their weaves long staple
cotton, possibly grown in Arizona or
among the lowlands of the Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida, or in the British
West Indies, but more probably In
Egypt.
iiC SliA VI lIIS llSChblc COlllcS IOlIi
Japan, of course; but If it is one of
the cheap variety, sort Of stiff, the
kind that looks fine the first time 1t
is tied, bad the second, terrible the
third, then 1t is probably loaded With
tin from Singapore.
Even His Coat.
"His coat, his light summer coat
Of mohair, is Turkeys and Indlas
and Ecuador's gift to America. Mo-
hair from Turkish goats, jute dur
lap) cloth lining from the Ganges
delta to make the coat hold It's shape,
and tagua buttons from Ecuador or
Colombia.
'The entangling alliances Of this
Americans feet are indeed wonderful
to contemplate. Four continents, at
tie very least, annually save millions
Of United States citizens from Eat
tering around barefoot
Now for look in the business
mans pocket. That fountain pen
with bright case Of casein-where
did it come from? From COW. not
an American cow. In all probability
but an Argentine COW, because in
Argentina there is a smaller demand
for milk for food than in the United
States Casein for pens and similar
objects Is solicited milk The gold Of
the pen point may be Amcrican-or
1t may be South African. The very
point of the pen, the part he writes
with, is not gold, but iririum most
likely from the platinum mines Of
Soviet Russia's IRA, mountains.
1.-THE yellow pencil in the cca;
pocket has lead of American or
Mexican graphite, and paint colored
by Rhodesian chrome yellow. bound
by American or Argentnian linsced
oil. and provided with durable sur
face by lac from India, perhaps, or
tung oil from far up the Yangtze In
China. or kauri gum from New Zea-
land boys
Some lncdcntals.
"Paper of his pocket memo pod
may he all-American; more probably
1t is Canadian. Cigarettes are doubt
less of American tobacco with
pinch of Turkish tobacco from Greek
Macedonia. too, 1t may be, and
wrapped in cigarette paper from
France. Ard the good American
money in his wallet and his pocket.
an American product surely! But
no, the green OF the greenbacIl r.
chrome green made from Rhodesin or
Mozambique chrome. He may shnn
n Canadian dime, but never Cane
dian nickel, for nearly all our nichels
are Canadian. The chief u S. A
contributions to n nickel are the N
dian and the buffalo,