The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 10

. Q°SSZESPSSUAESS Q4ene wmgOs BSS. BeseeE SHE eESeHeSY FE ESEFESSE8S2928 2A8E. er eos v teresting observations yi tera al el a we eee BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) ‘Washi , Feb. 4—South Amer- ica still remains a highly competitive market. European nations are ce- termined to regain what they can of the proportionate share of South America’s import trade which they have lost to us in the past 15 years. Leaving aside the complicated ques- tion of tariffs, it may be said that the struggle for this trade in the last few years has been a case of our efficient mass production methods pitted against the cheaper production costs of Europe. With better organ- ization and more efficient methods in Europe the real fight may be yet to come. A few expensive manufac- tures are now bearing .the export load which now gives us the largest share of imports in this territory. eee Brazil is a good example of the situation. We have nearly 30 per cent of Brazil’s import trade, Britain 21, Germany 11 and France 6. In 1913 the division stood: Britain 25, Germany 18, United States 16, and France 10. The imports of Brazil now amount to about $400,000,000 a year. We took the lead in supplying them in 1915, but as late as 1922 and (923 we were led again by England. Our principal sales to Brazil are now automobiles, gasoline and oil, motion pictures, flour, agricultural and industrial implements and ma- chinery, barbed wire, hardware, Paints and varnishes, coal and elec- ‘tical goods. Eight years ago we sold 15 per cent of the automobiles bought in Brazil and now it’s 97 per cent. But we export less than 70 per cent of the imported gasoline, whereas we had nearly all that business once. Our machine tools and machinery such as is used in cotton and sugar mills runs 35 to 40 per cent more ‘ | Saint- Sinner oe Bdnne Austin ™ se" Twice on the seventy-five mile drive from Stanton to Beamish Harry ane was stopped by motorcycle cops for speeding, and twice Teporter's badge and a guarded statement of his mission—that of fol- lowing a clue as to the whereabouts of kidnapped Crystal Hathaway— won him permission to continue as * amazing, frighten- done away with all ’s doing any pre- detective work in the neigh- borhood of Beamish, where the ran- postmarked. It reporter to have of the truth of the upon which he had been work- Crystal Hathaway, for neurotic reasons of her own, has “kid- j napped” herself. It was a white- faced, thoroughly frightened boy who bent low over the steering wheel forc- ing the car to give every ounce of its power. Not frightened for his own safety, but for Crystal's. He had & loaded automatic in his pocket, and grimly hoped that he would have cecasion to use it upon the fiend who ggiteie HH tr 3 a i Aue eeyberagees i i 4 i TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF C Latin America THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE GUMPS— TEAMWORK Ytan — THAT SOUNDS FINE- AN - MARRIED PEOPLE GOULD PULL UP THE HILLS ALOT BASIER Ss 1 Yuink EVERY MARRIAGE WOULD BE AU RIGHT IF BON PEOPLE DID THEIR. PART — MY FATHER USED YO SAY MARRIAGE REMINDED HIM OF A (| HOPE MARY GOLD 1§ NOY MAKING A’ MISTAKE IN MARRYING AUSTTNN - Sue's SUCH A SWEET LITTLE THING = expensive than other machinery available, which means that our salesmen have a large margin of superior quality to prove. On the same basis we continue to sell suc- cessfully tractors and construction machinery, despite strong new com- Sue SEEMS BUT . AND NEGOTIATE THE ROUGH - HAD BUT tition 1 lines from Ger B ig TEAM NORSES = ROADS MUCH BETTER m wt Phe cheap Jevelry and toy business pg AND Twat WEY SHOULD 1» THEY DIG PULL TOGETHER: ONE Yonaue appears gone for us, as European 'D LOVE To SEE BOTH PUL YosEER- FIETY= FIFTY < goods of that type run as much as INEM NAPPY~ your SYSTEM wouLd work 60 per cent cheaper than ours. The British have the plumbing and bathroom fixture business almost monopolized. One reason given is that tariff on plumbing supplies is paid by weight and that ours are heavier. Office equipment, steel furniture, adding machines and typewriters are all American, but we are getting com- petition in electric motors from Switzerland, France and Germany. In this field our motors win on en- durance; theirs on price. eee BETWEEN THEM FINE - 1F_ = Phillips of Holland, which is con- nected with General Electric, sends in radio equipment 10 to 15 per cent cheaper than it comes from the United States, although Brazil has not gone wild over radfo yet because of her poor broadcasting arrange- ments. Electric refrigeration sales are all ours to date. Only 8 per cent of equipment on Brazilian railroads is American-made and recently we lost a bid on 240 box cars to the Belgians. Some American business men complain that Euro- pean cheap production is eating in on our trade in many other lines and that American manufacturers ought to give some thought to price revi- sions. TABYLL LI 60 7 M HONE? I'M GETTING IN THE HOSPITAL= BLESS ANXIOUS. RIDE IN ac aes GOING TO AYE ISAT HE THE AIcesT Boy! AY GOES eee Brazil imports no clothing. Good tailoring comes cheap and Brazil has good factories which clothe the work- ing classes, using materials from Eng- land, France and Italy. American voiles are favored and a few cheap cotton prints. The largest American plants in Brazil, some in Rio and some in Sao Paulo, include the General Motors and Ford assembly plants, American Corn Products, Victor Talking Ma- chine, U. S. Shoe Machinery, Otis Elevators and the General Electric Lamp and Globe factory. Armco is building a corrugating factory. T FOUND HER ASLE! SITTING ON THE FLOOR AND WHEN 1 YES AND HE DOCTORED ME FOR INDIGESTION WHEN ALL THE TIME DOC STULL SAIDT WAS SUFFERING FROM + DYSPEPSIA. WE'D BETTER CALL "DOC STULL AND GET THE SAND: TUE-NEVER LED Doc PILLER:SINCE ME KEPT SENDING ME BULLE AFTER I CLAMED ME FEEL LIKE 1 WAS RIDING \CALLED UP THE A cT:HAD DD-TuEM | AN A FLAT-WHEELED FLIUVER) FIRST DOCTOR” we . Cold sweat was breaking out on his ON A DIRT DETOUR grim, white face as Harry Blaine turned the car into the lane that led to Peter Holliday’s shack in the woods. The cabin was a popular re- treat both summer and winter. Young Peter Holliday, son of old Peter Holli- day, publisher of The Stanton Press, on which Harry worked, spent almost every week-end there for fishing in the spring, summer and fall, and hunting after the season opened in November. Harry himself had helped chop the ‘great pile of wood stacked against the rear wall of the cabin now. Harry swerved the car sharply from the end of the lane toward the shack, his front bumper striking with a dull report against the wooden coping of the well. Cursing himself for a fool not to have killed his engine in the lane and walked to the shack, so that the kidnappers, if they were still guarding their captive, might not be warned of his aj proach, the reporter tore open tl door of the car, and with drawn and cocked pistol, ran to the porch. There was no light in the shack, no smoke rising from the chimney. He had remembered to possess him- self of Nils Johnson's flashlight. What scenes would it reveal? “Hello! Hello! Open in the name of the law!” : The boy was too frightened of what he should find inside that dark, silent shack to smile at his melodramatic demand. There was no answer. ‘ After waiting a moment, he shouted urgently, terror making his voice harsh: ‘Are you there, Crystal? Crystal! It’s Harry Blaine!” Next: Fever, delirium and thirst. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) CMON, YOU COPPERS! We. GOTTA )(HeS comin’ DOWN, & Rescue Sam — He's UP There Ing ther, Bcimel wv - Her! 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