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The Nation 's Business
(A Series of Articles by National Leaders Published Ex
clusively in This Territory in The Herald.)
"The Necessity for Export Trade," by William C. Redfield,'
Former Secretary of Commerce.
American Legion Notes
"FACTS NOT OPINIONS"
Is the American Lejr'on opposed to
organized labor? Has the Legion par
ticipated in mobs that have attacked
picket lines where men have been
killed? Is the Legion subaidhed by
big business? "lo stop such con
temptible lines and show union labor
that we resent the charge that we fire
opposed to them," William Ritchie, Jr.,
has filed suit for $100,000 agnin?t F.
H. bhoemaker, in the- name of the
23, especially exempts the
society and its auxiliary.
The Nebraska American Legion I'as
adopted an extensive program of Am
ericanism for the coming year, which
will be put into operation through the
300 posts and 20,000 members of the
organization. The Legion will seek to
inculcate a love and respect for Am
erican institutions and principles. It
will impress upon all citizens and resi
dents that the Declaration of Indepen
dence and the Constitution are the
foundation of the best government on
earth, and that faults should be cor
rected through an orderly process and
not by a disregard for the laws and
veterans' by the Nebraska Legion.
I In the press the American Legion
will seek to encourage patriotic utter- j
ances and editorials, secure publicity
for the Americanization program and'
discourage the advertising of criminals
as "ex-service men." Advocates for
the veterans' program will be sought i
rnmnnff ninmtnpnf nnhlfo .nonlrara. in 1
pulpit and platform. j HAND LAUNDRY now open for busl-
I ness west oeconu sireeu au
Corn on the cob would be wholly
admirable if it had not ruined so many
summer romances.
The man who clings to an old-fash
ioned motor car is at least nrotiWod
from thieves. Nobody is going to 'teal
. a car that he has to crank up first.
"The Necessity for Export Trade," by
William C Redfield, Former Secre
tary of Commerce.
Editor's Note. William C. Redfield
w?.s Secretary of Commerce under
President Wilson and is now the chair
man of the board of the National
Manufacturers' Export Association.
His knowledge of the need of an ac
tive and world-wide export trade is
based on investigations carried on for
years both as one of the leaders in
the Wilson administration and as the
head of an organization whose life is
Kiven to furthering the movement to
place the United States in the lead
as the world's greatest producing and
export nation.
China once adopted a policy and
under it she crumpled to a spineless
bulk that at one time threatened
death to her as a nation and her peo
ple as a race.
Thousands of American citizens to
day are. asking why we do not adopt
a similar policy, asking this question
even in the- halls of legislation and
among the units of our commercial
life.
Is the United States sufficient unto
itself? Can it draw about its shores
a Chinese wall that would exclude not
only immigration and the exchange of
relationship but would wipe from the
seas the import and export trade and
turn inward all the powers and possi
bilities of her growth?
Dressed in glittering generalities,
bedecked in false conception of
progress, tricked out in brilliant but
empty phrases of a Bel fish patriotism
grounded on false logic, the campaign
has been carried on since the time,
(cores of year3 ago, when our unthink
able citizens brought shame to true
Americans as they boastfully shouted
before a contemptuous Europe, "Amer
ica can lick the world."
Leaving aside the obvious fact that
there are many things we cannot pro
duce in the Untied States and that our
necessary purchases of these abroad
can be most conveniently convered by
sending our goods in return, are there
no cocent domestic reasons which
make a foreign market for our prod
ucts a matter of necessity?
Three Great Staples.
At least three gieut commodities
Fpring to our thought when this ques
tion is raised. These are cotton,
wheat and copper. We have never
consumed, nor can we consume, any
thing like the quantities of these
which we prdouce. Shall we produce
less, therefore, or shall we sell the
' Fundus we always have in the only
available markets, which are the for
eign markets? Ihe question answers
itself. It is, we at once see, vital to
the prosperity of our agricultural and
mining interests that we have a large
and steady foreign market for these
commodities. The home of every
farmer and miner is directly affected
bv the condition in our export trade.
This foreign commerce has neither
hen larcre nor steady in . recent
months and the result appears in
verv coDoer-mininir town and on
every cotton plantation and wherever
wheat is grown. None are so foolish
An to sav that an export market is
not essential to the prosperity of both
ho capital and the labor concerned in
the production . of cotton, copper and
wheat.
But these three are in some degree
typical of others. We soil abroad
such commodities as lumber, oil and
steel, and each in different forms or
states of manufacture. Why are they
sold abroad? Is it not because there
is no sufficient market for them at
home? Is it not, therefore, also true
that the steady employment of lator,
the regular return upon capital both
reuuire that a foreign market shall be
found for the products which they
jointly make, and that it is certain
that capital cannot continuously earn
and labor be continuously employed
unless such markets are found for any
" surplus over the consuming capacity
of our, own country?
Pre-war Markets.
Leaving these major items, which
some miirht sav were selected ones.
we find that before the war there had
been a steady erowth in our export
sales of partly or fully finished manu
factures until these hau become me
lareejt elements in our outward for
eign business. Why wa9 this so?
The foreign markets are not usually
those in which excessive prices can
be had, and therefore it is hardly true
that our manufacturers sold these
goods to the value of many hundreds
of millions of dollars yearly in other
lands in order to make a larger profit
upon them than could be had at home.
On the contrary, everyone familiar
with the subject knows that before
the war our industrial output had be
come go large that our own markets
could not continuously absorb it when
the factories ran full time. Therefore,
the alternative was to find a market
in other countries or to shut down
in whole or part for a portion of the
time. In other words, manufacturers
knew that if they would run steadily
they mutt find foreign markets for a
portion of the goods they made.
Even-one who gives the . subject
thought knows, also, that during the
war in this country, as in all other
industrial ones, the capacity of our
plants was greatly increased, Ihu
increase "varied, in different industries,
tut thi demands of the Allies and
later of our own forces covered sub
stantially all the wants of man and it
is therefore true that some increase
in pioductive capacity was well nigh
universal. In certain industries the
increase was large; more than a few
entirely new factories were construct
ed. Today's Need.
The war is over. These new and
enlarged plants are here and some ut
Iea3t are idle, while others are work
ing but part time. Capital is invested
in them. The men who own this capi
tal would like to employ labor to the
full capacity of these plants in order
that they may earn interest upon their
investment. The men who are out of
work today would also like to be em
ployed in these plants in order, that
they may earn food and clothing for
their families. How shall this employ
ment be provided ? Can orders be
found in the United States in these
times sufficient to keep these plants
moving? Everyone knows that they
cannot. Can orders be found at any
time in the United States sufficient to
keep all these plants moving steadily
at their full capacity? Everybody
knows that this also cannot be' done,
We could not consume the product of
these plants continuously before they
were enlarged. Now that they are
greatly grown we are much less able
to absorb all their products. There
has not been time for the national
consumption to grow up to the nation
al industrial production and until our
home consumption shall equal our
home production. This is as inexor
able as fate; as certain as gravitation.
It is easy to see the process in its
details. A great plant in a city of the
central west, employing some thou
sands of men, is idle. Far in a distant
land a skilled industrial officer negro
tiates a large order for the product of
that plant with a foreign government
Forthwith the plant springs to life,
Thousands of men find productive toil.
Their families are able to purchase
needed supplies and clothing, and busi
ness revives. In still another land a
great municipality requires a large lot
of American apparatus. Necessary ar
rangements being made for the nnanc
ing of the order, it is placed in an
other city in the central west. At once
the same process appears. Men go
back to work and their families are
once more able to buy. In a different
continent a large eastern manufactur
er finds business sufficient to keep hi3
works moving full time when others
are all but idle. On the other hand, a
large concern finds that it has produc
tive capacity beyond its telling power,
This country cannot consume the en
tire product and circumstances are
such that foreign markets are not
found. Forthwith dullness settles on
the plant. Men are discharged; their
wages cease. At least, in order to
supply the limited market which, does
exist, such a concern offers for sale
the machinery which has been pro
ducing on its floors rather than under
take the expense of manufacturing a
limited quantity of new machinery,
Here is seen the process of actually
reducing - the productive capacity of
the country for lack of markets.
If the basic proposition is plain,
long step is taken toward the solution
of co-ordinate problems. Do the Am
erican people yet understand that their
prosperity is inextricably united witn
the export trade? If they do under
stand this fact, they will be guided ac
cordingly in all matters collateral
thereto. If they do not understand
this fact, it is high time it was learn
ed.
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,S h,f , ert Bn Wn,e.r Ior ? The school children will receive spe
World War Veterans, and in n talk'da, attention, though all citizens ad
before the butchers' union at Omaha ; a)ien3 ., bleached, according to the
said, in effect, 'the American Legion ion pr0(rram. Agencies through
as an organization has broken up' i u .Ca rnrrrarn ,;it wnrVA
picket lines In which disturbances men,,.,,,,,,. .kKi. t,iif ,h t.i.
have been killed. The American I-!, ii '' JS
ion is subsidized by big business. , ... ',.. j iVw, .m';,.
he packers have Contributed to the . tct. Mrl u ,nJ(o-i L ,
Legion." The army records show that; . uHt, Rnial -,mnhaRia on thA
was m the army for six th and ya,ue of American institu-
I tions. The period between Lincoln's
Just when a town thinks it has be
come metropolitan, some citizen spoils
it all bv wnting a letter to the lerd
ing newspaper congratulating the fire
department for some smart bit of
work.
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For the citizen the Legion will nt
tempt to "inculcate a sense of individ
ual obligation to the community,
state and nation", teach the obliga
tion of jury duty, the ballot and other
public service. It will emphasize the
importance of aiding aliens to become
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George L, Berry, national -ice com-I -,w ainT Wrthdav, hi, bn
e Legion and president oti . Sr... thtk fr,.-. wk
mander of the
the international Pressmen's union,
has sent the following telegram to
Mr. Ritchie:
"Am advised that a man named
Shoemaker now in Omaha endeavored
to convey the idea that the American
Legion and its posts are oppose.1 to
organized labor. Such a statement is
absolutely false and unwarranted in
every respect
"The Legion is made up ot American
citizens from, all walks of life and is
pursuing a course that is deserving of
the commendation of every American
citizen, non-partisan and neutral as
effects political parties und between
employers and employees."
"If pardon is granted to Debs or
others fairly convinced of treason or
sedition during the time when the na
tion's very life was at stake, the lives
of those boys who lie on the field of
France and those who lie broken in
hospitals have indeed been w.crinred
in vain." Hanford MacNider, national
commander of the American Legion
has wired Presideit Hardin, requeft-
ine that "no leniency be wio.vn those
traitors who stabbed us in the- back
while we were giving our all to this
country."
A drastic change in the system used
by the Federal Board in dealing with
ex-service men has been suggested by
William Ritchie, Jr., state commander
in an open letter to Colonel Forbes,
head of the bureau. The present Hp-
peal boards, which pass on the claims !
of the veterans, is characterized nyi
Mr. Ritchie as the "dam in the I
stream". The appeal board is compos
ed of a doctor, a lawyer and a third;
person, who pass on the case from the i
papers, affidavits and reports from the l
local representatives. The sittings are
generally held at the bureau head-,
quarters, which for this district are.
at St. Louis. I
The Nebraska' Legion leader ?u-!
gests that the board should hold its
sittinsrs at the various sub-offices ff
the bureau, with a local man sitting f
with the doctor and lawyer; that these
meetings be held at regular intervals
with the local representative author
ized to grant temporary relief in
necessary cases. j
He also suggests that the board
should not judge solely from the
papers but that both the applicant
ahd the government should be reprer (
sented by an advocate, who would see
that the cases are presented entirely
on their merits. i
Mr. Ritchie has asked Colonel I
Forbes to make a public reply, and it '
is being awaited with considerable in-1
terest bv Nebraska ex-service men, as I
the bureau handles all' cases between;
the veteran3 and the government.
IMPERIAL
ONE DAY ONLY
MONDAY, DEC 29
Reserved Seat Sale at
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Adm. 50c, 73c $1 & W. T.
Posts of the American Legion and
women's Auxiliary will not be requir
ed to pay the so-called amusement tax
on admissions after January 1, 1922.!
An act of Congress "to simplify the
Revenue Act of 1918" which was ap
proved by the president on November
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