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Show CONFLICT II EUROPE OF SOME BENEFIT Milton E. Lipman, Manager I of Cohn Store, Discusses Business and Fashions. Milton R. Upma n. vice president a nd inanaR-er of the I,, and, A. Cohn More, Is buck In town after a i wo monl ha' a b-Honce b-Honce In New Vork and. other eaatera buying centers. Submitting i" Interview, my. Lipman talked of the war feeling In the cunt, gen-crnl gen-crnl busincnit condition! and, upon rc-tiiicBt, rc-tiiicBt, full fashion i for the women. At a glance, for men read are, this in what in said : "Manufacturer! teem to he very busy with order! and general business; the east has the hum of business." busi-ness." At a glance, for women readers (probably (prob-ably this should have come first), Mr. Lipman said: "Kuis and fur trimming! are to dominate In full toga for woman; the mllltaiy motif still prevails to a considerable con-siderable extent." Mr. Ijlpm.tn bald: The linking, of the Arabic seemed to stir up a lot nf new war talk in the east. They talk mote war on the A t Ian tic i-oast , I believe, because of the number of (.iorman people and newspapers printed In German. Theae Incite plenty of arguments. These German-printed newspapers seem Intent In-tent upon fomenjting trouble. Really, some of their editorials, as 1 heard ot them, are lit lie short of treasonable toward the .president of the Tnlted St a tea. Industries of all kinds ate active, some with orders from SD1 oad and others with domestic orders. There are many buyers in the east from the American retail centers and all of them are buying carefully. They are not "loading up." as thvy used to. but this probably Is everybody's advantage. ad-vantage. It means quicker turnovers turn-overs and newer stocks all the time. In women's fashions, fur trimmings and the military motif are the predominant pre-dominant features. Some of the' fashions come from Paris, hut a great many of them are created In New Vork. our people having brought over to thl! count ry some of the leading designers of the French capital. New York has taken some of Paris unto Itself, as it were. Domestic manufacturers of laces and such goods are now coming into their own. They have Improved their designing, their workmanship and materials to such an extent thut t lie y are turning out good s as excellent ex-cellent aa Europe was before the war. Before that time, the European manufacturers man-ufacturers had the upper hand thetr goods were hetter and frequently cheaper. Now that the American manufacturer Is getting more orders, he la showing vast improvement in his goods. |