Evening star., 1937-10-11

exclusively with silk cargoes for New
York via the Panama Canal They
operate on a regular schedule of 26
days, returning to Japan chiefly with
cotton, copper, machinery. automobile
parts, tin scrap. asbestos. carbon black
and zinc. Formerly the island empires
great staple was generally transported
over the Northern Pacific route to
Seattle and thence rushed by express
freight trains across the continent to
the Atlantic seaboard. Although the
canal route is slower. there's 25 per
cent economy in the all-water shipment.
In the second quarter of 1897 Japanese
ships carried over 80 per cent of the
islands raw silk exports to the United
States through the canal. American
bottoms brought only 43 per cent. Mr..
Kennedy's United States Maritime Com
mission intends to see about that.
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President Roosevelts recent broadcast
advice to Uncle Sans wayfaring chill
dren, not only to follow Horace Greeley's
advice and GO West" but to go to the
coast, also urged them never to pay
more than 81 for room and bath. That
looks like boost for tourist homes"
and thrust at economic royalists who
run hotels. The Federal Government,
with recent establishment of Secretary
1ckes' United States Tourist Bureau as
branch of the National Park Service.
indicates Washington's intention to push
the travel business. Tourist income is
now an item of major revenue in many
States. Estimates of 1886 expenditure
range as high as $4,000, 100000 for the
year. Maine ranks tourist trade second
only to her whole agricultural output.
California places it right after her great
oil industry; Michigan, second only to
automobiles; Wisconsin. next after the
dairy business, while in Florida tourist
dollars represent many times the value
OF the entire citrus crop. If New Eng
land is barometer, American tourists
blow in 21 per cent of their spending
money on food, 20 per cent on lodging.
20 per cent on transportation, Is per
cent on retail purchases, per cent on
recreation and amusement and per
cent or miscellaneous items.
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Very latest under the sun-believe 1t
or nOt-is semi-serious suggestion that
ways and means ought to be found for
putting true sons and daughters of the
New Deal and the more abundant life
In uniform. AS the Fascist smelling
proposal crops up in connection with
Mr.. Justice Blacks Klan vicissitudes, the
brain wave in question doubtless had
its inspiration in the regalia of the hood
and nightgown brigade. At any rate,
the idea seems to be that the Roosevelt
tian dispensation is lacking in color"
social grandeur" and other trappings
designed to satisfy the craving of the
"joiners" who compose the gregarious
and h-jinks-loving American body
polite.
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Plans to erect $500,000 papal "em-
bassy" In Washington for the apostolic
delegate to the United States revives talk