The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-29
GIRLS WEAR COTTON STOCKINGS
IN BOYCOTT AGAINST JAPAN
BY Preston Grover

HASh1NGIONs JAN Ell
you have not heard much about
the japanese boycott it may help
to bring you up to date to report
that numbers of impressionable
girls in these parts are wearing
cotton stockings and promin-
ent Washington department store
has bought no japanese goods
since the sinking OF the Panay.
Just what the girls or the store
expect to accomplish by this boy
colt is not altogether clear at this
moment but some of them are
determined about It. The general
idea seems to be that if Japan
can't sell goods to the u. 5. she
viii have less money to carry on
the war.
Japan, however, IS roping IN
China mainly TO assure itself adj
ditional markets in which TO sell
export goods. If the United States
stops buying from the japanese
it seems fair guess that the
japanese viii try even more des-
perately to bottle up extra mar
kets in the Orient. That sounds
like more war. instead Of less
Manager Says Mostly Talk
Our reports indicate that the
boycott has become sort of a game
in New York City where the girls
compare notes on the number Of
silk stockings they don't buy. One
anti-Japanese partisan bought
herself a pair Of Isle stockings
Is ,hiAns ofdepfuing the Japa-
LheSe ofmbnitions money, only 10
find pn arrival at home that
Made in Japan" was stamped on
them,
A few store clerks here say
numbers of patrons, especially
during the Christmas holidays,
asked for goods not made in jap
an but a store manager says the
amount of this discrimination was
less than you would expect from
the amount of propaganda you
hear about it.
However, he says some textile
mills are turning out new designs
of Isle hosiery and a few sheer
types have appeared. He seemed
not especially enthusiastic about
them and expressed doubt if the
ladies would give up their silks
Some clerks in New York are
more Jealous about suggesting
what goods are not made in ia
pan.
We learn from a news clipping
that so women of the American
League for Peace and Democracy"
in Beverly Hills, California, start
ed a door-to-door canvas through
out southern California, includ-
ing Hollywood. They didn't say
whether they would picket the
movie studios. There's bit of
silk used there.
Japanese Products Dropped
The National Association of
Parents and Teachers reported
they were taking no official ae-
ton but the local association says
some individuals, strictly unof-
ficially," are going in for the boy
colt.
Woolworth's five-and-ten stores
are abandoning japanese lines but
one of their competitors here is
thoroughly impatient at the idea
says talk of the boycott is so
much propaganda"
Department Of commerce trade
reports don't show clearly any eff
feet Of the boycott The depart
ment's January foreign trade
summary noted that IN Japan
fhere were. reports Of exception
-slly>lo& Tx consumption in the
hited SAFES inring November"
Bot prices were not affected
: The d1pp n six trade continu-
a on ITO December but depart
nfer3S e2perts declined to esti-
ma Whether any part of it was
due % the boycott or all was due
to the recession
If a really serious silk boycott
went into effect It could hurt
Japan Silk is one Of that nations
chief crops and the United States
buys about IS per cent Of the
whole output The purchases run
TO about $s5.000.0 900 a year. One
store manager here says silk
makers estimate this So. 00o, 90 OF
silk is proceSsed into products in
this country worth about S58o.-
000. 900. II that business should
be wiped out il would not be 50
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