Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-12-07
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE


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The following. taken from the columns of the Washing
ton, D. c., Post, of recent date, ought to be of interest to
all Americans, and should have some educational value
for our free trader friends who are insisting that we
ought. to lower the tariffs so that foreign producers could
get into our market-as if they were not already here:
SIt would be thought that odd Glory would be an ex-
elusive American product; that all flags of the nation
would be made in the United States, and that foreign conf
petition would not be felt in this particular case.
'tThis is not so-at least in Washington, the capital of
these United States-because here it is impossible to buy
a certain type of flag which does not bear the mark Of
origin, made in Japan
''The flags in question are tiny emblems-1A by l inch
in dimensions-to be used usually for table decoration.
EThat no other than ~foreign-made flags of this type
were available in Washington was brought to the atten-1
ton of The Post by the chairman of an entertainment
committee of a civic group.
'tHe wanted to obtain the little banners to decorate a
banquet table. He visited several merchants handling
novelties only to find that the article he wished was in
each case the product of a foreign land.
''In the end he was forced to buy the japanese product.
1t has the prescribed IL stripes but only Is stars. Follow
ing the banquet he made a practically complete survey of
stores in the city and found none that carried an Ameri-
can-made American flag of this size.
'It seems that if one wishes tiny American flags of
American manufacture there is only one way to get them
make them oneself.
''The Post learned that three years ago a leading pat
riotic organization determined to correct the situation
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Evidence indicates that its efforts were not successful. ,;
No doubt this little story of Japanese manufacturers
and the American flag will bring a thrill of joy into the
systems of the internationalists who seem to desire that
our money go to Europe and Asia in the purchase of for
eign goods, that our foreign policies and principles go to
Geneva for renovation and alteration, and that our Amer
lean boys if necessary go to the four corners of the world
to settle whatever political disputes may arise, no matter
whether we have an interest in them or not. If our for
eign policies and our commodities are to be secured
abroad, why not get our flags there too? This is only car
rying internationalism to the Nth degree which is where
all good internationalists want it to be carried. Only one
step further is necessary-that an international emblem
be substituted entirely for the Stars and Stripes-then
the joy of our internationalists should be complete.
Well, if Mr.. Roosevelt can solve the wet and dry prob
lem, get Europe to disarm and pay its debts, and put the
price of wheat up to $3.50 a bushel we will be willing to
admit that at last we have a real miracle man.
The only fellow who can do any good with frozen assets
is the manufacturer of ice cream.
Some statesmen say that 2.75 per cent beer would be
just slop and that eight per cent beer would be a violation
of the Constitution. If Henry Clay were in the Senate
now, what a fine chance there would be for another Mis-
souri, compromise.
Personally we don't blame the Democrats for doing a
lot of celebrating now and we are for it. You must re-
member they only get a chance to shout about every SIX
teen or twenty years.
If Grover Cleveland were alive there is little doubt that
he could send President Hoover a real message of sym
patty. MMSIA
Having registered their protest in September, Maine
Republicans got down to their regular custom of voting
Republican again in November. Unless the world is COM
ing to an end the other Republican states can be expected
to do the same thing in due course of human events.