NATIONAL AFFAIRS
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MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929
Written for This Paper By
FRANK P. LITSCHERT
One of the favorite methods of our
European rivals for Latin-American
trade and of our own so-called “liber-
als” who constantly seek to discredit
America in every way possible in the
eyes of the world, is to declare that
Uncle Sam has turned imperialist and
that he is seeking to dominate Latin-
America in his own selfish interests.
In view of this constant drive against
our interests it is well to note the
statement of Victor M. Cutter, presi-
dent of the United Fruit Company,
relative to our position in Latin-
America. Mr. Cutter through his
business interests and his contact with
Latin-America is in position to know
something about conditions there and
in a recent address on the Carribean
countries at a dinner given by the
Bond Club of Boston in his honor Mr.
Cutter said:
“Our country has been charged with
imperialism. It is quite possible that
our European trade and banking com-
petitors behold with complacency even
if thev do not openly or even secretly
encourage this propaganda. Imper-
ialism means political conquest and
establishment of empire. No one
would venture to state that our gov-
ernment or our people are really im-
perialistic.
“It is quite true that we have par-
ticipated in maintaining law and or-
der in some of the Latin-American
countries, usually at the request of
their people. It seems equally true
that these participations have been
sincerely, even if mistakenly, intend-
ed to be helpful to nations hampered
by lack of financial resources, rail-
ways and communications; by lack of
experience in self government, educa-
tions and means of enforcing federal
control.
“We have entered and withdrawn
from the Caribbean countries many
times. It certainly cannot be denied
that we have been physically able to
conquer and annex these countries at
any time during the past fifty years.
That we have not done so, ois at
least” four Presidents of both parties,
and many more Secretaries of State,
speaking officially have declared we
have no intentipn or desire to estab-
lish an American empire or forcibly
annex territory, should be sufficient to
convince the most skeptical of the po-
litical altruism of the Udited States,
its government and people.
“No United States business man or
company, engaged in commerce with,
or development work in, the Carrib-
bean has ever been encouraged or in-
structed to work for his government
with imperialistic intent. Quite the
contrary. They have been told to
stay at home or go abroad at their
peril. Our ventures in foreign trade
have never been inspored by our gov-
ernment. We may safely cease dis-
cushing imperialism. If we must find
some disparaging term to describe the
increasingly close commercial rela-
tions which are inevitable, the most
sinister which can be employed is eco-
nomic penetration.”
Mr. Cutter states the case well
from our standpoint. We have never
been imperialistic toward Latin-Amer-
ica. Had we been so, we cou ' have
had as much territory as we needed
almost for the asking. Any of the
European nations now crying imper-
ialism against us would have done it
long ago had such nation been in Un-
cle Sam’s shoes.
The real crow which Europeans
have to pick with us with regard to
Latin America is not imperialism but
foreign trade. That is where the
shoe pinches. Our trade with Latin
America is growing yearly and will
continue to grow. There is a reason.
The United States is the biggest mar-
ket which Latin-America has for its
products. The more they sell us the
more they are going to buy from us.
As Mr. Cutter points out, our imports
from Latin America already exceed
our exports which indicates that they
have found us a ready market. So
long as we continue to trade with
them, to buy and sell in return, this
hypocritical “imperialism” cry of our
trade rivals will fall on deaf ears,
providing of course we expose this
false propaganda on every available
occasion.
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Prints in Silks,
Cottons, Woolens
Attractive Spring Fabrics
Used for Costumes for
Youth and Age.
Prints to the right and prints to
the left; prints in silks, cottons and
woolens. Sauntering down the aisles
of shops the counters and shelves
seem piled high with the incoming
bolts of these new fabrics, observes a
fashion writer in the Kansas City
Star.
The windows herald prints in the
new dresses. The showings in the
dress departments bear this over-
whelming evidence of the popularity
of prints of the 1929 vintage.
Silk crepes, prints in new designs
and plain crepes in new colors, are
decided favorites of fashion design-
ers. It is difficult to say which plays
the more important role. The styles
e«ombine some of the newest fabrics
with the latest styles from the Paris
spring openings.
selection in
An eye to eye encounter brings out
the fact that a certain sophistication
has entered into the new patterns.
The polka dot is neither prim nor
evenly distributed in all patterns. It
may fall in showers like the snow
from the fir tree or float about like a
soap bubble in airy grandeur and
size.
How Black Is Used.
The floral patterns have been given
a treatment which takes them far
afield from the realistic bouquet pat-
tern. Black is used to throw many of
the newer shades and coloring into
relief.
Fortunately, in this season, no one
fabric may overpower us by mere
aumbers. The plain crepes, faille
silks, taffetas and satins hold their
distinction by the new shades in
which they appear and by the rule of
contrasts, the necessary plain back-
ground which brings out the beauty
of the prints.
Strange colors are seen together
this spring. The plain crepe dress
and coat are enlivened by a dash
of color in the scarf and bag or by a
streaming handkerchief. For plain
colors are the perfect partners of the
printed : creations. It is ® nothing
short of silly to consider the prints
without the plain fabrics.
Every woman must make her choice
and on the basis of her particular
type.
When one stops to think about
dress selection for the season, the
general classification of types falls
into the personality of the wearer.
For regurdless of age, there are
youthful personalities, middle-aged
personalities and mature personali-
ties. Whether we like it or not, we
must admit age is the basis of di-
vision. A woman’s own care and men-
tality decides how far the pendulum
shall swing in her particular case.
The woman of conservative tastes
will not break out in « rash of youth-
ful clothes which accents her age in-
stead of giving herself kindly con-
sideration and real youthfulness by
being her age.
Why spend time and money on cos-
metics, exercise ‘and good health
measures and spoil the whole effect
The Princess Silhouette
in This Frock.
Is Featured
by an unwise choice of too youthful
clothes? Any woman of thirty may
look twenty-five, but if she tries to
make it twenty, she has made a mis-
take. Mentality counts in dress as
in everything else. The woman who
is alert mentally has a certain qual-
ity of vigor, countenance and move-
ment which permits her a wider
range of choice. She might even
select the costume which a vivacious
woman wears and still be in har
mony with herself. She may wear a
dull red necklace, but not « bright
one. These are the fine points 'n good
dressing the mode demands. The
vivacious woman often needs to tone
down her personality by conservative
dress. Lively, but not
loud, or in other words, key her |
clothes to certain pitch and keep them |
there.
Classification by Buyers.
Buyers often say youth talls into
the following classifications:
The
The
The
The
The
flapper type.
‘boyish type.
demure type.
vivacious type.
conservative type.
The statuesque type.
The feminine type.
The sophisticated type.
The uninteresting type.
The middle aged personality divides
itself into the following groups:
The
The
The
The
The
The
The
fewer
The
The
The
The
vivacious type.
conservative type.
digaified type.
feminine type.
sophisticated type.
uninteresting type.
matured personality has even
divisions:
vivacious type.
conservative type.
matronly type.
uninteresting type.
At least if style is not vague in
making personality the basis of one’s
wardrobe, it may make the choice of
An Interesting Model Developed in a
Print. This Tunic Is Its Feature.
clothes easier. The gayety of color
and the daring colors, the sophisti-
cated woman may wear with nerve.
She may saunter out in an American
beauty crepe with a printed scarf of
lilac, cream and pale pink and get
away with it beautifully, because she
has been blessed by nature. Her
choice should be left to her alone, not
imitated by the timid souls. . The
golden-haired blonde in warm tones
either of brown or a green that will
make every woman envy her is at
her best and has no need to envy any
other woman. Matronly women should
cling fiercely to their conservative
clothes as the boyish type to her
tweeds.
A conservative, statuesque type in
long flowing dresses has come into her
own, and if a feminine type revels
in ruffles and bouffant silks, it only
shows her good sense. She knows
herself and makes the most of the
fact that femininity is her charm and
not her drawback.
Every age has its uninteresting type,
and here is a place to hold your
breath. Now what is an uninterest-
ing type of woman of any age? Sup-
pose you go into a group of ten women
and stop long enough for a cup of tea
and a little gossip; the chances are
that you can remember accurately
only six and the other four did not
matter.
- True enough, all ten could be thrown
into the uninteresting group, sartorial-
ly speaking. by the selection of the
wrong dress and the four mentioned
retrieved from it by the right dress.
The four mentioned would have mat-
tered if they had taken the trouble
to have lifted themselves to the plane
of interest either by stirring their
mentality to brightness or by clothing
themselves to a standard of good dress-
ing, not expensive dressing but becom-
ing garb.
Be Sure of Your Type.
It is true that many women of hoth
wealth and cultivatiop often are unin-
teresting from the standpoin. of dress.
The woman who can wear chartreuse,
that yellow-green of the pussy willow
tree, should do so, but she should be
sure hefore she does it that she is the
type for whom extreme things are the
best selection. The many who are at
their best in a becoming blue or in
black and white or in prints will wear
these colors with distinction which
they never could attain in clothes for
the sophisticated type.
A full length mirror, a desire to
look well and the assistance of a
stylist who knows it is better business
to send’ a woman away correctly
dressed than to sell her the wrong
thing, will erase the line between the
uninteresting woman and the inter-
esting type. ®
Thinking out a whole costume and
buying hats, shoes, bag and costume
jewelry with her ensemble in ming.
has brought woman to a finer appre-
ciation of the dress problem.
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UR years John Underwood had
been the mainstay of the unpopu-
lar girls of Cedarville. Any girl
finding herself out of luck at the last
moment regarding an invitation to
some festivity could depend on him
as an escort, provided she had not
been forestalled by a sister in similar
plight. The reason for John’s avail-
ability was that he himself never
asked anybody anywhere.
Occasionally he felt called upon for
an explanation. “You see,” he would
say, “I must think of my mother.
While she lives I could not let ‘myself
consider the—er—support of—er—a
wife. And it's unfair to a girl to
monopolize her so that some other
man, not thus placed, is kept from
courting her.”
Very square of him, his audience
would feel and, if it were young, ad-
mire him tremendously. If it were
oldish, it envied his mother.
Cedarville was one of those neigh-
borly little communities which sit up
nights taking a friendly interest in
one another’s affairs, and when John’s
father died it became public property
that he had left only the large stucco
house and a moderate insurance to
his wife, and to John his coal, wood
and ice business. ?
If it hadn’t been for John’s depend-
ent mother all Cedarville knew the
boy could have married long ago.
“What a sweet little thing Carrie
Watrous is,” his mother remarked one
evening from her side of the mahog-
any dining table. “And Paula Scott
has such lovely eyes.”
“Yes, mother,” said John. “€an I
serve you a little of this white meat?
Georgiana certainly can broil I”
“Where is Marilyn Droege these
days?” asked Mrs. Underwood. “She
will make some man a splendid wife.”
“Righto,” said John. “I wonder if
I may be excused? That Rotary af-
fair begins early.”
It can be seen that John bore his
sacrifice quietly. He was not the one
to dwell on the girls and their at-
tractions as one who feels himself
cheated. 7
Shortly after this conversation
Paula Scott’s cousin came to visit her.
Now Paula was much in demand and
never needed John’s escort for per-
sonal use. But she did think of him
for Elsie for the Tennis club dance,
and dated him up accordingly.
Elsie fell for John—hard. Out on
the balcony he told her gently just how
he was situated, and she laid a soft
hand on bis sleeve and turned up. at?
him two large orbs brimming with
sympathy. He was just right in his
attitude and she thought the more of
him for it! ;
The very next day she boldly man-
ufactured an errand, with Paula's
amused help, that took them to call
on Mrs. Underwood. It was the first
of a series of neighborly visits. Elsie
had a winning way of absorbing the
gems of wisdom possible for an older
woman to let fall.
Meanwhile the other delved deep
into the recesses of Elsie’s simple per-
sonality. She deduced that she had
not had very much masculine atten-
tion; that her tastes were quietly do-
mestic and her virtues homely ones;
that she would lend herself to be
gently molded by those with whom
she lived. What she discovered led
Mrs. Underwood deliberately to’ make
up her mind. 4
“John,” She said one evening, “it's
not natural for you to.sacrifice your
life for me. If it wasn't for me you'd
marry.”
“Probably,”
mindedly.
“From now on,” continued his moth-
er, “I am taking myself off your
hands. I am bored with doing noth-
ing. I—er—I am to be librarian at
our little library. Not that I need the
work. You know and I know, my
dear boy, that with what I have I
could manage very well! But now
you and El—and any girl you fancy
are free to live your own lives!”
John did not rise and, with beam-
said John absent-
ing face, embrace his mother. He
frowned, and went out to keep an
engagement with Elsie made by
Paula.
An hour later his mother sat writ-
ing to a girlhood friend.
“Well, at last I fancy I’ve driven
John into matrimony. It's an atti- .
tude, I suppose, . few mothers take,
and it necessitated desperate meas-
ures. But John was getting so set
in his ways! And a friendly little
daughter-in-law and some day a cou-
ple of nice grandchildren will repay
me for a few months’ poking around
bookshelves. The girl is a dear—”
At that very moment her son was
holding tight in his arms the girl of
his mother’s choice. He was still in’
a state of bewilderment and not yet
quite sure how the situation had come
about. Could it be that he, John Un-
derwood, was snared in the very net
he had so long dodged?
“Do you know what first made me
love you, dear? Knowing how good
you were to your mother. Oh, I hope
she won't mind giving you partly up,
but she told me yesterday how it
grieved her to see you caring for
somebody—she didn’t say who—and
feeling that you must not propose be-
cause of her. Tell me, Johh, I haven't
been too forward ir letting you see I—
I cared, too?”
p tightened. Darnation!
captive after all, cherish the
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