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Show The China Trade . . . and Jobs j J. E. Jones When the war ends, some 10,000,000 men will be released from the armed forces, and perhaps per-haps another 7,000,000 persons will leave jobs in war plants. Can jobs be found for these millions mil-lions in peace time pursuits? There is good reason to answer an-swer "Yes," provided every opportunity oppor-tunity to provide additional employment em-ployment is realized. The American Ameri-can people will have a higher standard of living after the war than ever before, and people must be employed to furnish the goods and services they will want. Con-V Con-V sidering the increased efficiency of industry, however, it is very doubtful that jobs will be available avail-able for all if our manufacturers are to be limited to the home market. They need outlets abroad also. Only if foreign countries will buy locomotives, freight cars, steel, electrical equipment, automobiles and similar products will the American manufacturers who make these things be eble to operate continuously at capacity, and , employ the added workers that capacity operation makes neces- sarv. The richest of all foreign markets mar-kets open to America after the war is China. With more than 400,000,000 people, with vast natural na-tural resources and with a hardworking, hard-working, enterprising population, China will offer a market of fabulous fab-ulous proportions. Time was when Yankee clipper ships dominated the China trade. Many a New England family of wealth based its fortune on trading trad-ing with China. Then came the Age of Steam, and British steamships steam-ships took over from our clippers. ' But in those days China was a backward agricultural country, and her commerce was very small by comparison with her size. All that is changed now. The Chinese Chin-ese people know that they must industrialize to survive, and they have already begun the process in the vast western stretches of their country that are beyond the Japanese invaders' grasj. When the war is over, .we may be sure that all China will hasten to develop de-velop new industries and commerce, com-merce, and that the country will become one of the great trading nations of the world, just as we did after the Civil War. Far-sighted American business men recognize ' this opportunity. They know that China is determined determ-ined to catch up with the western west-ern nations in her economic development, de-velopment, and that if we do not provide the equipment and machinery ma-chinery for the purpose, the British Brit-ish and Russians will. Just as all British interests concerned with China have organized a China Council for efficient, effective action, ac-tion, so all American industries that plan to do business with China have set up the China-American China-American Council of Commerce and Industry. This China-America Council is a very important factor in assuring post-war jobs. It will make certain cer-tain that in the post-war period the United States shall play the leading part in the development of a new strong industrialized China, just as the picturesque clipper ships helped build the commerce of the treaty ports a hundred years ago. And hundreds of thousands of additional jobs will bo provided for Americans in the process. |