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Show Orient Fast Becoming Independent of U. S. Textiles, Says Commerce Expert Primitive . methods ot spinning yarn and weaving cloth no longer leave a wide-open door ot opportunity oppor-tunity ln the Far East tor America's Ameri-ca's cotton textile Industry. Such Is the conclusion of Charles K Moser, Chief ot the Far East Section ot the Bureau ot Foreign and Domestic Commerce, ot the V, S Department ot Commerce, follow-ing follow-ing a first hand Investigation 0 the future market ln the Orient tor American made cotton goods. While hand weaving still remains re-mains as a "cottage industry" '.In some sections, the product of these looms rarely gets Into the larger . M,nnMs of trade, being consumed chiefly In the family or community where produced, lie states. It is In the industrial development by Oriental peoples ot a cotton Industry In-dustry to meet their own needs, and In particular in competition by Japanese mills, which are the latent word in textile economies and efficiencies, effi-ciencies, that the explanation of our lost markets In the Far East really lies. Moser's studies, made for one of New England's oldest cotton textile tex-tile companies the Pepperell Manufacturing Man-ufacturing Company, ot Boston-while Boston-while detached from service with the Department, discloses little to encourage the American textile Industry In-dustry in its efforts to restore the waning demand from Far Last markets. Twenty-five years ago," he saj. ...,, ..ovMer ln Eastern lands could "the traveler in fc-asium i"" always be sure ot at least one sight. Whether his camp were pitched In the hih mountain passes ot north cn l idia, oV in the desert wastes of Mr.n solid, long strings of camels v .-ure to pass solus deeper into c' a.'ra! Asia. And every other i ...i-'ns crunty bean would be ".;,,, i , yamc a -ae t kero-'. kero-'. one ?i1" and a hale of cot-,.;' cot-,.;' ,:,- L-Hls tn.ikcd -Mi.de in . v .-, the oth-r. An American of k.-1-o.-.-n.- ""d the famous '. -,- i-r-mil of uray .oi'H ---t .,'.' .-.,:.,lHr.! f-.r th. -ir kind all over V :aii: cor.tinerit. v i;:t. ;::. 1 "! u" .u.. .;.,-, Vu. the eye ot ' l' , f I i " ' . e y&&ti f H i r , ,.--1 If' 1 u..''t -,,n,Ly : J . f l pmnnrino warn for Chinese hand loom Chas K. Moser ' H 1 , ... i.,,.,. ... , t " ' L Little cloth mBhes a Qdrmenc for Uhis Indian weaver. 1 most discerning traveler can hardly discover, even In the bazaars of the seacoast towns, the remnants of that early American trade in may piece goods, which Is almost as if it had been sunk without a trace." ' Japanese domination in the textile tex-tile markets ot Extern Asia, Moser -tales, hi.s developed rapidly since the World War. la addition to the tremendous Impetus given the industry in-dustry at that time, immense re-serve3 re-serve3 were built up which havo enabled Japanese mills to extend and perfect their marketing as well bb their manufacturing organizations, organiza-tions, until today they threaten t.) contest with American and British mills not merely Asiatic hut also African and South American markets, . |