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Show and cotton clothing, artificial silk manufactures, and wool clothing. Optical goods exports amounted to $621,000; leather and manufactures of $576,000; furs and manufactures of $551,000; and jewelry and gold manufactures manu-factures $466,000. The figures are now available for the first time being the result of a new service recently inaugurated by the Commerce Department at the urgent reauest of those industries MILLIONS IN PARCEL POSTJPT First Figures Compiled Show Textiles, Tex-tiles, Optical Goods, Leather, Furs, and Jewelry and Gold Manufactures High on List Klein Believes Statistics Sta-tistics Significant and Explains Why. Uncle Sam has joined hands with the exporter and through the help of the parcel post', American goods are now being shipped abroad to the 1 value of approximately two millions of dollars each month, according to the Commerce Department. On the basis of partial figures, exporters ex-porters using this method are shown to have sold their goods in foreign countries to the value of $8,300,452 during the first five months of the present year. Starting with shipments valued at only $1,036,500 in January, the business has grown to $2,236,803 in May, Dry goods and clothing with a valuation val-uation of $2,110,000 account for one-quarter one-quarter of the entire trade. Silk goods and silk wearing apparel are the most important item in this classification, clas-sification, followed by cotton goods after foreign trade in true American style. The whole thing is a striking testimonial to American adaptability and readiness to meet new conditions and opportunities. It means of there is to be any continued uncertainty in the business situation it can be materially ma-terially corrected or modified by resorting re-sorting to overseas markets. The products of American farms and factories fac-tories will be 'offered for sale on foreign shelves instead of piling up in domestic warehouses awaiting the readjustment of the home market." The following statement hsows the values of the principal classes of exports ex-ports by mail or parcel post (exclusive (ex-clusive of all shipments valued at less than $25) during the first five months of 1924: whose exports have been hitherto" considerably underestimated in the trade statistics. The new figures do not show our total exports by parcel post, according accord-ing to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, because they do not include in-clude shipments valued it less than $25. It is estimated that the are at least half a million such shipments each month. Parcel post business of: this class is so great in fact that the cost of compiling the figures would be excessive and out of proportion to the value of the datat thus collected. col-lected. Commenting on the significance of the new figures, Director Klein points out that where formerly the average American business man considered con-sidered foreign sales as some "fantastical "fan-tastical super-mysterious impossibility," impossibili-ty," today a mail order from some remote point of the earth for a parcel post package causes no more excitement excite-ment than a similar request from Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco. The most gratifying feature of this new export development, in Klein's opinion, is the fact that it proves that the American business man is at last viewing foreign trade in its true light as merely "long-distance selling." "Our main street manufacturers in inland towns, many of whom have never seen salt water, are sending goods abroad as nonchalantly and as expertly as their supposedly better informed rivals with every seaboard facility and even as efficiently as some of the branches of so-called 'super-exporters' of foreign lands located lo-cated in American ports who are supposed sup-posed to have inherited sales instincts from previous generations." "As soon as the inland producer realized that the doorway of some good foreign customer was no farther away than the nearest postoffice and that foreign sales can be just as easily negotiated in dollars as can domestic transactions, he has gone |