OCR Text |
Show BRITAIN LOOKS TO U. S. FOR GUIDANCE LONDON. July 24. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Prees.) As a "nation of shopkeepers" shop-keepers" Britain perceives that shr-stands shr-stands in need of increasing greatly 'her business with the world generally ! .Mnn men have maintained she could I best learn how to do this from America, Ameri-ca, and not a few are arguing thai she can become as prosperous lus Ambrii 1 only by adopting the American : policy of protection. But this is not the view held by the Right Honorable L C. M. S. Amerv. M. p. parliament secretary to the &d-mlrality, &d-mlrality, He believes much can bo learned from America, but that the great lesson is not protection "The most marvelous economic phenomena phe-nomena of the last century Is th. growth of the United States", writes Mr Amery. "From a handful of colonists col-onists on the Atlantic seuboard they have grown into .1 hundred millions of the most prosperous people In the world. Thoy bave achieved the amaa- 1 result y conc.'nl r:i nx on on c'reat purpose: tho development of tbe r?aonrce oT their great territory. I1 is developing ni they fraVC always hopl in view, not trade, knowing that trad: as an nd In Itself does not neceaULTilyl mcap development ;mi1 prosperity, but, Jihit development Inevitably bi-ingi.; both ijrosptriiy and trami. "The rt-xourccs of the British ern-jiri ern-jiri are many times greater than those Of the Dotted States. Jf only v., can conoentrate uion that development In, the same spirit wo shall see In the next generation a rtowMi no les amazing in in iholrs, and oni? that would bring B wholly now and Incalculable oxpans ton of outward trade and Internal de-j velopinent lo Iho country. Power-driven ventilation, for oow, that renews the air in the stable ev I i ery four minutHts and heats It whi-n necessary, la part of the pQUlpment w the farm of a wealty "gentleman I farmer" of New York state. I |