Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1929, Page 33

(Continued From Third Page.) those to Rus: tralasia, wil and her exports to Aus- | called & 's 7,500,000 inhabitants, somewhat similar to the game that was Tripoli with the peninsula kingdom. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 12, | 1 hain of French colonies along the west- | has been much activity on the part of | Belgian Kongo since the war is par- om oo of CATtion. The Droximity of | Britain's colonial rivals to put a series | ticularly significant. During the last [Dlllr. on the farthermost tip of the |of non-British ribs in that structure. Europe Leans on Colonies | |t "o s st already being actively utilized in the | air services now maintained on a 9-to- | the recent 12-day |part in the exploitation of these over- | Buenos Aires. Similarly, we have the | gitional appropriation of $40,000,000 in | ities. | seas interests of the Old World. In fact. | strenuous efforts of Mussolini in the de- | con,,,m,,,?‘:m‘;. French interests in the | Dary results is the payment to Belgian Britain's total sales to Ceylon are twice | there is now developing what might be | velopment of air traffic to link the Ital- new “economics of position, are greater than those to all of South | played a generation or more ago in the America, which is more than seven | acquisition of coaling stations. times as populous—greater, even, than | the effort is to establish chains of stra- England’s exports to the whole of non- | tegically located fiying fields and serv-| grongthening of the British spine of | immense resources of iron ore, cobalt. British North America, including the ice outposts. the Dark Continent from the Cape to| mahogany, rubber and many other es- West Indies. | United Kingdom Imports. The United Kingdom supplies ap- proximately one-half of the imports of British India, South Africa and New | Zealand; about 43 per cent of those of Australia, and 16 per cent of Canada's purchases from the outer world. And in this connection it is well to note that the British share of world exports is probably not more than 10 or 12 per cent. Some indication of the significance of the British colonies as sources of raw maierials may be gained from the fol- lowing percentages, which indicate the proportions of the world’s productions of these commodities supplied by British dominions and colonies: Tea. 67 per cent; rubber, 55 per cent; pineapples, 76 per cent; cloves, 95 per cent; cocoa, 61 per cent; peanuts, 53 per cent; rice, 58 per cent; palm oil, 73 per cent, and copra, 46 per cent. As for the market prospects of the colonies from our point of view, the major difficulty, of course, is that in- volved in the systems of colonial ppef- erential tariffs. These play a vital part in the protection of the colonial mar- kets for their respective mother coun- tries. It is, however, a policy to which the United States can offer no objec- tion, since it has long been observed | in connection with our own eolonial | program - Occasionally this policy does exert an almost disastrous effect upon our com- merce. For instance, the imperial pref- erence arrangzment between the British West Indies and Canada has raised Can- ada’s proportion in the imports of the island colonies from 8 per cent in 1912 to 20 per cent at present. Meanwhile, our share in that trade has fallen from 45 per cent to 32 per cent. In such lines as the flour trade in Trinidad, our shipments have fallen from a pre-war yearly average of 97,000 barrels to 7,000 last year. In Jamaica our share in the same trade has gone down from 155,000 barrels to 62,000. This problem of pref- erential tariffs i, ot course, of especial | significance to us since the British Empire takes more than $2.000,000,000 worth of our total exports, or about 42 per cent. Difficulties Over Bounties. All is not plain sailing, however, in eonnection with the intra-empire pro- tective and preferential trade arrange- ments. Crave difficulties, for example, have arisen as between Canada and Australia in regard to the system of bounties—the so-called Patterson plan —paid by the latter commonwealth upon exports of dairy products. Canada, like the rest of the world, has stringent anti-dumping laws, which have been brought to bear against any importa- tions promoted by the Australian scheme. The British Imperial Market- ing Board is rapidly getting under way and its program involves a number of items conspicuous on our export lists— fruits, cereals, co, cotton -and au- tomobile accessories. A far-reaching scheme for the scien- tific development of agriculture in the dominions and colonies should be closely observed by interested American ship- pers and producers. On cotton and to- bacco, the two major items, for exam- gl;, the program is well worthy of care- observation. So far as imperiling American exports is concerned, as, for instance, in the flour situation in the West Indies, it may be noted that in many cases the colonies are vitally interested in ex- ploiting markets in the United States for their own products, notably rubber, bananas, pineapples, sponges, tea, wool, etc. And, in many cases, the colonial authorities have found it inexpedient to undertake, for the time be! at least, any rigorous enforcement the im- perial preference idea. A vital part of this intra-empire pro- !nm. as between Canada and the West ndies, is the establishment of chains of British and Canadian branch banks throughout the American tropics. In- deed, there are more than 181 such es- tablishments in the West Indies and the adjoining mainland countries, as com- pared with 40 American branch banks. The Prince of Wales has done yeoman service as good-will ambassador for the principle of intra-empire trade. His travels, notably his recent mission to South and East Africa, have stimulated to & marked degree the interest of Brit- ish exporters, bankers and shippers in empire possibilities. There has been a comspicuous pick-up in trade between England and the colonies he has visited in the Dark Continent, and especially in the development of new investment op- portunities within the last year, The vast empire from Abyssinia to the Cape is & prac.ically unexploited area a third the size of the United States, with im- mense tracts quite suitable for white Yopulnlom and abundant possibilities or coffee, sisal and tobacco, aside from the already active mineral industries. ‘The question has frequently been raised as to how seriously the advance- ment of our exports to the dominions and colonies might impair the prospects for the mother countries. For example, our sales to Australia have risen since 1912 from $44.000,000 to $141,000,000 in 1928, involving an improvement of our. share in the total tmports of the com- monwealth from 11 per cent to 22 per cent. In the case of New Zealand our sales have risen in the same time from $9,000,000 to $36.000.000, and in the case of India from $11,000,000 to $54,- 000.000. ‘These figures have aroused some con- cern in England, but such anxiety would seem to be very largely unfounded. In the first place, Britain has herself been making notable headway in these very colonjes. Her sales to Australia have advanced from $167,000,000 to $271,000,- 000 during those 15 years, and in New Zealand from $52,000,000 to $94,000,000. ‘ Buying Power Exploited. Evidently the determining factor in the growth of our exports has not been | any inroads upon British trade, but | rather the exploitation of the new buy-, ing power of the colonles. In the first place, it is well to Te- | member that the United States, as in- dicated above, is a major market for | many of the products of the colonles | and dominions. The latter in several | important cases are countries with but | one or two crops or commodities, and consequently any hindrance to the trade of their major specialties would be dis- | astrous. Every bond with the United States inevitably leads to the encour- agement of two-way traffic, although, of course, the normal operations of world | commerce are usually upon triangular or_polyangular lines. | Furthermore—and this is really the vital issuc—there is s fundamental eco- | nomic warrant for this rapidly increas- ing export of American goods to the colonies. The latter are now in many| cases passing through the same stages! of ploneering exploitation which char- | acterized the westward movement of our | own people across the continent a tewl decades ago. Out of that great episode our manufacturers have accumulated a | host of experiences and evolved a va-| riety of products ideally adapted to con- tend with the same types of natural| obstacles and geographic difficulties now | confronting the awakening dominions | and colonies. The very fact that thisi enormous expansion of our exports toi the overseas European possessions has | been developed during the recent years | of strict application of preferential tar- | 1ffs in favor of the products of the home. | Jands would seem to indlcate that im- | ports of American tractors, agricultural | equipment, mining machinery, road- buflding apparatus and irrigation sup- plies constitute a normal, healthy trade whjch satisfies, as no European counter- | part can, the awakening needs of the colonies. { Aviation is going to play an important ! | lonial schedule between Paris interest at this time. An excellent fllustration of this point | Cairo has, of course. been going on for | sentials. M |is the increasing significance of the' many years. Recently, however, there Belgium, Portugal and France have been active in this r-spect. Witness recommendation of b and | prench colonial authorities for an ad- | fivefold increase of river traffic facil- Kongo, and the construction of the ian Moldings along the Red Sea and | Brasaville Rallway in the lower Kongo, |in-dividends rom Kongo enterprises in which will provide a gateway to that ®| " The exploitation of Africa is in many |vast arterial system of the continent— TOdAY | Locnacts the major expression of, co-|an outlet for wha$ is The | world's largest deposit of T I 10 years there have been installed in | the” vast tropical empire some 2,000 miles of airways, 6,000 miles of new the | roads, 2,000 miles of railways and a One indication of the prelimi- investors of some 500,000,000 francs 1928. American engineering skill has had a pruminentt part in this [r:-: o | work, and it is fair to sssume tha Ly Y | even greater needs will arise for Amer- ican equipment. The post-war French colonial under- takings are in many respects particu- In this connection the rise of the'larly interesting. , They involve a ter- ML 7 e Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., 909 F Street N.W JTIIIII 1929—PART 2. ritory more thad 40 per cent greater than the United States. Although much of this is desert and unexplc'ted tropi~ cal land, it is by no means to be re- |increased earning capa It is iquent market prospects. Naturally the Prench have applied | garded as permanently barren. bound to respond to the newer tach- [ power as yet. But the establishment ofscommerchl agreements and treaties new industries throughout the “empire” | with that region give adequate assur- is already having a noticeable effect gn |ance of equal op) rtunity for American and comse- goods on precisely the same footing as |those of France. ‘The colonies, then, have come to play nique of dry farming, of tropical medi- | colonial preferential tariffs through most (an invaluable part in the restoration of cine, of automotive transport, metallurgical advancement. In fact, it is interesing to trace on |t American trade. al shrinkay the still ample opportunities for our ex-|ness, e o b | Portets, particaiasty 't those' linss’ in which French industry has not as yet interesting aspect of the French effort made much advance. tion, incidentally, it is well to know that Morocco—in many respects one of the most promising colonial markets in Africa—has no preferential duties|of most careful scrutiny by informed against American products. boundaries of the ‘‘unknown and un- exploited” areas of the Sahara. An in North Africa, incidentally, is the skillful exploitation of tourist traffic. ‘The 60,000,000 of French colonials, ‘on!-lhlrd of whom live in Indo-China, have, of course, a very restricted bufing and |of their realm, and the results in some | the economic balance of the Old World. cases have been practically prohibitive | They are also of increasingly intimate However, there are |interest to our own international busi- not simply in connection with market prospects, but also as sources for much raw materials and oppor- tunities for American industrial and engineering skill, to say nothing of in- vestment prospects. v ‘The colonial situation is thus worthy In this connec- Several American observers. e CCTCT he Juling Fangburgh Fueniture o, 32 Annjuersary Throughout the entire store, suites, occasional pieces, rugs, draperies, lamps, refrigerators, in fact, eveything desired for beautiful home furnishings, have been very spe- cially priced and arranged in convenient display, at reductions which are barely short of marvelous! 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