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Show "ADVERTISE," HE . TELLS TAILORS "Be Up-to-Date, Then You'll Lead the World in Gen tlemen-MaKing," an Expert's Ex-pert's Advice. XKW YORK. Feb. 15 If the , ustoii. tailors of (he country hope to I10M then-own then-own against the makers of reni1y-mad-clothinir. they must abandon the ati'-ieip ethics of their profession, which forbid them to advertls In the nuhlh press Thev rnut adopt prrsent day meih'His. ami ifn on In search of customers for whom they have waited In the past This was the advice Riven several hundred hun-dred mervhant tailors at the losing session ses-sion of a three-day meeting of the M r-chanf r-chanf Tailors' National exchange 'n the Hot! Astor. by Hiyrh Ardiel(th of this cltv Ardlelgh said the American tailor could come nearer to making a gentleman gentle-man than any other tailor In the world, and that if he did not cause that fact to become generally known he mild blame no one except himself tie advocated persistent, continuous and "gentlemanly" advertising In th-- newspapers news-papers throughout the ooun'ry and prophesied that If his advice Is followed, the American tailor soon wlil lead the clothes makers of all natlonR ( ne effect of the meeting in this i'v was to cement a breach which has evis;ed between the National exchange and the Merchant Tailors' National I'rote, live association, as-sociation, for many vears. The preside".' of the latter organization was a gues' the exchange at the ha nu uel -4ast evening |