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Show BUY HOME-MADE GOODS Europe can always do a fair business with the United States, for this country is a large buyer of foreign goods at all times. Even in the products that are made in this country, there is a field for creation of business by foreign producer. The commerce of the United States shows interesting cross-currents of trade, with the same products coming into the country as going out. This is a logical logi-cal outcome of the human desire for particular styles, designs or constructions, con-structions, or perchance for something exotic. But, on the whole, . a home industry logically should have the equivalent of all the home market that it can supply. This country has a manufacturing capacity which allows it to make exports on a vast scale. Thi3 does not mean that it must seek markets held by other and take them away. As is explained by Dr. Julius Klien, director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Com-merce, an important part of our foreign trade is dwe rather to marked expansion of sales in commodities not previously supplied by any country than to usurpation of markets hitherto held by other nations. He finds that two vital elements govern our foreign business, rathei than what our foreign rivals are doing: first, the market prospects in any given area; second, our capacity to produce and export the desired commodities- If other countries entered the American markets an this basis of supplying something that is lacking here, no complain-t could be uttered. In fact, such business is welcomed. The so-called invasion of domestic markets by competing goods, however, is an object foi challenge, and a thing to be deprecated. Always allowing V foi special circumstances, 6uch as superiority of goods, in construction design, style and price under fair competitive conditions the American Am-erican consumer should be advised that in general his self-interest lies in patronizing the goods made in the U. S. A.- Made in U. S. A- Bulletin. t |