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Show w MADE IN AMERICA During the period of the war. people peo-ple when buying, turned their preference pre-ference to merchandise marked. "Made in America." The attitude of the public at that time was one of the greatest incentives to the upbuilding up-building and advancement of American Amer-ican industry and labor that a na tion could adopt. What has happened happen-ed to that slogan today? The buying buy-ing pubile now finds itself r counters and shelves filled with merchandise mer-chandise bearing the stamp, "made 'n Germany," Made in Japan." or some other foreign country. The inducement in-ducement which leads the public to buy these products dis'Mte the foreign for-eign stamp, is cheapness in price. Quality appears to be only a minor consideration. The war is only a memory to most of us now. while to many it will continue to be an ever-present ever-present thought. The majority, however, how-ever, have lost to a great extent that marked feeling of patriotism which was so noticeable during the war. The patriotic fervar is there still, but it has not. the surroundings now to keep it uppermost in our minds. More consideration of the slogan. "Made in America" is what is needed need-ed now in this country. We have been benefactors to the world for a long time, so much so that European and other countries owe us collectively some $-0,000,000,000,000, a debt on which we are not even receiving the payment of interest. Our debtors plead inability to pay. In spite of the plea, nearly all of the European coun tries indebted to America are able to support standing armies greatly outnumbering any we are able to maintain here. No one has yet undertaken under-taken the task of explaining this inconsistency. in-consistency. It is about time we had an America Amer-ica First campaign one that would Impress' upon the buying public the fact that their power to buy is dependent de-pendent upon their ability to seure decent employment and that every time they purchase a foreign competitive compe-titive product, they are reducing the demand for its American equivalent, and thereby are lowering the de-I de-I mand for labor in the manufacture of that product" here in America. m. |