Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 6 | Another Notch

Another Notch Japans Japan's new rule reserving cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton and iron products for export is one more notch taken up Inthe Inthe in ithe the belt of the island empire Cotton Cotton Cotton Cot Cot- ton and iron are two commodities commodIties ties essential to the war machine yet of which J Japan pan has neither She must import every pound she uses Yet under the terrific economic economic eco eco- strain of military enterprise enter enter- prise price Japan needs every penny of foreign exchange upon which she can lay hands She dare not pot forego any revenue to be extract extract- extracted ed from foreign trade Therefore the export of textiles and of iron products will go on onas on Jas as far as Japan can carry the oJ 0 5 f 1 traffic to produce the exchange to buy more raw cotton and iron for export and for munitions The people at home must go without The nation of the conquerors must mast pay a price in privation even as the objects of conquest must pay payin in th suffering T San gan Francisco Chronicle I 1 tf crl