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Show J i i ' - - PROTECtfltfN IS NEED- "less than a year ago a certain gen-tleman gen-tleman named Richard , Kurd was rustling about the country securing signatures to a pledge never again to buy goods made in Germany. He got quite a number of them too. For a long tlmo, now, Germany has been scratched from the entries of the race for the American market, as was also Austria. But figures for Juno . show Germany and Austria onco M moro entered in the HBt8 the fonnejp soiling us nearly a million dol!vs worth of goods nnd the latter about $309,000 worth since tho armistice was signed. This must mako Jtr. Hurd feol vorj miserable, and when this llltlo rlvulot expands into a grcnt I river it will make many besides Hurd foci tho same way. Fortunately a nepubllcan congress Is how In control con-trol of nntlonnl legislation and tho House Ways and Menus committee has reported a moauuro which will. If It becomes a law, effectively withstand with-stand tho attempt of Gormany to destroy de-stroy dye and chemical Industries built up hero during tho wnr; but no adequato protection of' American Industries' In-dustries' in general, can bov secured until tho Democratic administration Is retired from power In 1921. |