The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1928, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of three articles on Prosperity, as analyzed by the Department of Commerce. Reports of the department, which President-elect Hoover headed, form an interesting and clear picture of American busi- ness. ington, Dec, 4.—What and is American prosperity, any- wa Probably the best answer to that question comes in the annual report of the Department of Commerce, just issued. This report is a sort of cross-section of American industrial and commercial life. A study of it gives a new understanding of the | \ nature of American prosperity and the way to maintain it. One of the factors, most empha- sized in the report is the nation’s steadily growing export trade. Since the United States has to buy many articles from foreign countries, the report says, it must export an equal or greater number of articles | thes to those countries; otherwise it will! be sending out more money than it takes in, and finance and industry will suffer. : “Without imports of such com- modities as silk, jute, sisal, manila hemp, rubber, nickel, tin, coffee, cocoa, tropical fruits and nuts, wool, | hides and skins, wood pulp and paper, the activity of American fac- tories would be greatly restricted and the standards of living of con- sumers greatly lowered,” says the report. “To pay for the large and increasing volume of imports we must maintain a large and in- creasing export trade. “Approximately one-eighth of the output of our farms and one-elev- enth of that of our factories is sold j abroad. Two or three millions of our agricultural and __ industrial workers would be directly thrown out of employment were export trade cut off, and the displacement re- sulting indirectly from the shock to business would be much larger still. “As a matter of fact, the task of finding foreign markets for Amer- ican products has been met with a noteworthy measure of success. The total exports of the fiscal year just closed were two and one-fourth times as great in value as the average for the five years preceding the World War. After allowing for the lower buying power of money the increase was about 70 per cent. “Very naturally, the gain in American exports, as compared with pre-war years, and as compared with the low point of the postwar depres- |sion, has been most conspicuous in | se of manufactured goods. | This fact is not due to any lack of | the c: efficiency or cnterprise on the part | of American farmers or of exporters | of farm products, nor to any failure jof the government to push sales of | agricultural commodities abroad. The demand for food-stuffs and for | jother major farm products in the } | world as a whole is limited; it ex- | | pands little, if any, faster than the | population increases.” In addition, the report points out, jthe restoration of peace to Europe | brought a revival of European agri- | cultural output, with the result that the demand for American farm prod- ucts tended to shrink still further. Accordingly, it was essential for the well-being of this country that it increase its exportation of manufac- tured products to make up for this | decline. eo *#* “In the fiscal year 1927-28 ex- ports of semi-finished manufactures, | notwithstanding the fact that prices of some of the most important of ese have advanced little or not at all as compared with pre-war years, were 109 per cent greater than the average for 1910-1914,” continues the | report. More remarkable still. the lexport of finished manufactures, which must meet the vigorous com- | petition of recovering European in- dustrial countries, reached the huge total of $2,061,000,000, or more than | the pre-war average.” | After pointing out that finished manufactures are constituting yearly {an ever larger percentage of our ‘total exports, the report goes on to show that the geographic distribu- tion of our exports is undergoing a correlative shift. Sales to South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa have gained hugely; Europe, while buying more than before, buys less proportionately and is no longer our most important market. As a result, American industrial expansion has actually helped the economic recov- ery of Europe; for this country, buy- ing more goods in Europe than be- fore, has increased the purchasing | Power of Europe thereby, and the | vast profits rolled up by our export | trade are being invested abroad, with consequent stimulation of the finan- cial and business life of the countries involved. Summing up, the department pre- idicts that expansion in our export trade will continue; that manufac- tures will continue to become a larg- er proportion of the total exports, and that continued peace and pros- perity abroad will stimuate pros- perity at home. -s TOMORROW: the worker. Production and *—{N NEW YORK {| + ——— New York, Dec. 4.—Motion pic- ture directors have been driven to every form of camouflage when tak- ing street scenes about Manhattan. The very sight of a movie camera is sufficient to start the formation of a mob that grows beyond all pro- portions and defies the efforts of extra police. In_ no other place can so many | people gather on such short notice —whether the attraction be a dog fight, the sidewalk demonstration of a “pitch-man” or the search of a small boy for a lost dime. Not long ago & camera was seen going down Broadway on a truck and the stam- pede that resulted choked traffic in the Times Square belt for half an hour. “ee There are times when a director can do very nicely without a crowd in the background. There are times when he wants his hero or heroine to appear coming from a shop door or walking lonesomely along the streets of a great city. On such oc- casions he has to tap his ingenuity and make every possible effort to surround his activities with secrecy. The slightest hint of such an event, if printed in the newspapers, would bring out thousands of New York- ‘rs. And so dozens of tricks are per- formed under the very noses of the Manhattan mob, without a single man-on-the-street being aware of! what is going on. The other day, I was a partici- pant in such a bit of camouflage. had come to town to ‘ork scenes for a forth- In one scene she shown coming from a Vilma Bank make New coming picture. was to Fifth avenue shop. That morning there appeared on Fifth avenue a coop-like structure, bearing a sign, “New York street ‘ atten- tion. Yet concealed in it was the The blond Vil- ma_made her exit from the store with the least possible attention department. Keep away!” It attracted little, if any, waiting cameraman. being attracted. Later, in attempting to get a shot of La Bank emerging form a sub- e cameraman hid him- for hours in a window just above the street, awaiting such a time as way exit, trafic would be uncongested. es 8 {TITTLE JOE GC xPeNste Thales = DADS. About a year ago a Warner cam- eraman was making pictures down lon the East Side. He wanted to | showagreat line of push-carts at the busy shopping time of day. Yet he did not want the push-cart dealers or the shopping crowds to become self-conscious. A little restaurant, looking down on Orchard street, was rented and |by a neat trick in window camou- |flage the camera, director and as- sistants were hidden. Only one or two push-cart peddlers were “in” on ithe game. * The scene was to show Warner Oland, the most excellent of villains, in pursuit of an obstreperous small boy who was presumed to have stol- en something from a push-cart. As Oland chased the lad down | push-cart lane, the crowd became incensed at his treatment of the child and a mob pursuit was soon on, It wasn’t what the camera man or director wanted, but it made an | amusing shot. Oland barely escaped | with life and limb up the restaurant | stairs, with the crowd at his heels. | : GILBERT SWAN. | (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) et | AT THE MOVIES | ° ——® CAPITOL THEATRE | “The Escape,” Fox Films produc- |tion featuring Virginia Valli, has been hailed by local picture fans as the most sincere and wholly grip- ping melodrama at the Capitol Theatre in recent months. It is superbly staged, intelligently di- rected, and thoroughly absorbing in its swift action and smashing cli- max. The supporting cast, includ- ing William Russell, Nancy Drexel, George Meeker and William De- marest, is more than adequate. Richard Rosson directed this screen- play from the Paul Armstrong stage success and, as in “The Wizard,” he has made another fine picture. 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