. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No. 15 (May 7, 1920)]. e the resources, the spirit to dosomething with them, freedom to doit, and our folks are trained to breakand improve their working habits,not to stick drearily to the same waysyear after year. By speaking onelanguage all over our three millionsquare miles, and by publishingplenty of newspapers, people arereachable for business purposes andalive to business inspiration and op-portunity. If so rich a field wereknown to us to exist anywhere elseon earth we would be eager to get toit, just as many of the most live-wireEuropeans are eag
. The American Legion Weekly [Volume 2, No. 15 (May 7, 1920)]. e the resources, the spirit to dosomething with them, freedom to doit, and our folks are trained to breakand improve their working habits,not to stick drearily to the same waysyear after year. By speaking onelanguage all over our three millionsquare miles, and by publishingplenty of newspapers, people arereachable for business purposes andalive to business inspiration and op-portunity. If so rich a field wereknown to us to exist anywhere elseon earth we would be eager to get toit, just as many of the most live-wireEuropeans are eager to get over here. But the dollar here is not any biggerthan ten dimes anywhere else. Whomdoes foreign trade benefit? Thosewho must have it. Values generallyvary in different places. Hence tradearises; here largely within our owncountry because of the great breadthand variety of our wealth; in Europelargely between countries of muchsmaller size and scope. The greatest traders in the worldare probably the mixed races who livein and among the mixed countries. Most of the A. E. F. was practically French-proof THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY r that line the eastern half of theMediterranean Sea. Some of themare such keen traders that they keepthemselves poor as countries by pro-ducing little or nothing. No part ofGreat Britain is more than seventy-five-miles from the sea, and theBritish have flourished as ocean-goers. Holland is largely Rhinewater and sea-land, and so figuresextensively as an exporter and im-porter. Ship voyages cost money,and it is cheaper to use goods fairlynear where they are made, unless themanufacturing advantages of someother place are decidedly greater. It follows that an exporting coun-try must either be a low-cost coun-try, manufacturing things cheaplyand paying rather low wages, asFrance, Great BritairTand Germanyused to do; or else must export chief-ly that part of its output which isnot needed at home and which cantherefore be sold at rather low priceswitho
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