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Show American Goods Best That American inventive genius and manufacturing skill are gaining ever wider recognition is evidenced by the brisk demand which has been created in Europe for superior electrical elec-trical household applances made in the United States, in spite of their higher cost as compared with the output out-put of European factories. One striking illustration of successful success-ful competition by American-made equipmen as seen in increasing exports ex-ports to Germany, where a marked rise in the purchasing power of the average family has been experienced of late. According to a report recently re-cently made to the Department of Commerce by Silas H. Altorfer, maker mak-er of ABC washers, his company alone has appointed twelve leading German jobbers as distributors of its product within a few months, while an expansion of foreign trade is likewise noted by manufacturers in other lines. ' American household equipment has also gained high favor among the women wo-men of Poland, Rumania, Austria, Czechoslovakia and ' other countries of central Europe, which are gradually gradu-ally recovering from the disastrous effects of the World War. With the further rehabilitation of thse countries in prospect, it is reasonable rea-sonable to expect a steady growth ir their demand for high-class American-made goods, which will add materially ma-terially to our exports and effect a corresponding inscrease in our factory pav rolls. |