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Show NEW SIGNIFICANCE OF I "MADE IN AMERICA." "Made in America" is taking on aj new significance. The movement to; 1 v:.v i rriean made goods is said to Li flowing by leaps and bounds, es-. pecially in the larger cities. When1 Great Britain adopted "Buy British"; as its slogan, it started something that lias set Americans to thinking; and their thoughts is that if it is a; good thing for Britons to patronize Br'tixh industry, it may not be a bad thing for Americans to patronize American Am-erican industry. It is being rapidly discovered, too, j that some of the foreign goods that are f ooding our shores are just as cheap in quality as they are m price. J;":r.n.--.--3 electric light bulbs are not-' able among such art.'eles. Tests of these bv.lbs indicate that 100 hours is a long life for some of them, and that they bum from 25 to 50 per cent rnoie "juice" than American bulbs of similar wattage consumed, so they are expensive even at the low prices for which they sell. j Seveial of America's important corpoiations with 000,000 on their payrolls have joined in a cooperative; movement to buy only American goods when these are available in competition with foreign goods. The effort is to be made in the interest of giving jobs to jobless Americans. An educational committee to teach the public the value of buying American goods only when these are available, is to be named, but there should not be any great need of education upon this subject. It should be evident to anybody 'that if he buys, say a chair that is made in Germany, he has given giv-en employment to a German instead of to an American chair worker; that if he buy a German made chair, most of the money he pays for it will go to Germany, but if he buys an Am-' erican made chair all the money he pays for it will remain in America, j Americans often have been allured . by the statement of a store clerk in' response to an objection to the high price of some article, "But this is im-j ported." The word "imported" carries, a certain amount of "class" with it to one class of Americans. But these j are being gradually educated to the j need of buying American goods if we j are to protect our own markets, our ! own manufacturers, our own jobs, even. That does not mean to boycott foreign-made goods that are not or cannot be produced in the United States. You cannot demand an American-mined diamond, nor American-grown American-grown coffee and tea, of course, nor American silk. But we can and should demand American steel, American toys, American woolens, American hats and cravats and American foods whenever these are obtainable. |