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MEDFORD 'MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1933.
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Highly Diversified List Ex
ported From Nippon
Small Profits and Quick
Returns 0rd6r of Day
By RICAItTM) LEON
United Precis Staff Correspondent
LIMA. Peru. (UP) Japan has made
an amazingly complete commercial
penetration Into Peru.
Nippon not only has exported a
highly diversified list hero but he
has backed up her sales by sending
Japanese salesmen and store owners,
to such an extent that It Is not at all
unusual to find two Jnpnnese shops,
cheek-by-Jowl In the same street,
nelllng, apparently. In fierce compe
tition. There la In active operation a
sort of Japanese chain store system.
The hold which the Emperor's
traders have achieved oa the Peru
vian market Is all the more remark
able because It succeeds a period,
only a few ynr hnck, when Peru as
a whole united in a movement to
"Buy Peruvian" and "Buy From Those
Who Buy Prom Us."
Born Shopkeepers
The Japanese are born shopkeep
ra. Their courtesy Is proverbial, their
patience Infinite. Their Lima shops
are for the most part small, the goods
huddled together In a somewhat hig-geldy-plggeldy
Btyle. But the shop
windows are always carefully arratiR
ed with an eye to effect, and th
prices are clearly marked. This Is In
contrast to many Peruvian-owned
shops where the tendency Btlll exists
to fix the price according to the cus
tomer's apparent ability to pay and
to make a reduction when the latter
Jibs.
Small profits and quick returns is.
of course the order of the day. The
advantape both to vendor and to cus
tomer Is at once seen. Take, for In
stance, the small employe the office
clerk and the like. These, according
to American standards, are usually
miserably paid, but thoy have to keep
up a good appearance. There Is still
something of the dandy in all Peru
vians from top to bottom. Shirts, for
instance, are needed. tCvorywhre
throughout Lima are to be found
small workshops, often no more than
a back room in a side street, where
Japanese men and women may be
seen busily engaged In making ar
ticles of men's wear. Of these, shirts,
well-flnlshcd. made of attractive ma
terials and durable, sell Cor prices
ranging from seventy cents to $1.60.
The American or English similar
costs, at present rates of exchange
are anywhere from 3.20 to $4.60. Cot
ton or near-silk socks of Japanese
make find plenty of customers at
from 11 to 14 cents, as against three
times the amount for similar quality
socks from the United States or Eng
land. Latterly the Japanese have
started factories in Lima where men's
felt hats are tnrned out at retail
prices averaging about 1.8fl. The un
deniably better and more enduring
American or English felt hat costs
7 00. But who with a lean purse Is
going to buy them when he cau buy
for a third of the amount a hat
which, for several months at least, .
will look Just as good? i
Apart from their cotton goods
which constitute two-thirds of their
Imports into Peru, the Japanese have
nought and aro conquering other
fields. Last year, for tnstiuice, thoy
commenced to Import rubber tires of
the former English make. "Brldge
Htone." made In Japan. So far as Peru
Is concerned, this trade is only in the
Inltiitl stages. But the prices are de
cidedly Japanese, and th tires by
those who have tried them, are pro
nounced "distinctly good."
Prices Tell Htory
Details are not yet available of the
number Imported into Peru last year
from Japan; but the price works out
nt 3.5B per kilo an against f5.88 rer !
kilo in the case of American tires and
6.75 per kilo in the ease of English
tires.
Another field Is also In the course
of belnp conquered In Peru, Thnt la
In the cane of electric light bulbs.
The Japaneso can sell his bulbs (up1
to 60 watts) in Lima at a wholesale
price of about 39 cents per doen
against t7i) per doyen for the Amer
ican article and 11H per dozen for
the Cirnnim article.
In the Inst four years, Jnpanese ex
ports to Peru h.ive increased from
?67,440 to H2.y67.000. Of this latter
total, cotton goods accounted for
503.950 as nnti.st $1,747,200 (Eng
land) and t.274.000 (United States) In
view of the threat to the national
cotton textile Industry which unde
niably has been hard hit both by
the prices and the. quality of Japan
ese textiles, the government intro
duced a provisional quota system for
a six-month period commencing June
1. It alms at limiting Imports of for
eign cotton goods during that pe
riod to 2,458.209 kilos, based on the
volume of cotton goods Imported Into
Peru during 1929. Under this system
English cotton goods will be allowed
a quota of 845,387 kilos, the United
States a quota of 467,804 kilos and
Italy 448,190 kilos. But Japan la to
be hard hit (and Japanese shops In
Lima not less so, unless a tremen
dous dumping can be effected before
then) by a quota of no more than
204,238 kilos, a mere trifle as com
pared with last year, when nearly
twelve million yards of Japanese cot
ton goods were Imported.
The quota. It Is clearly stated in
the decree, Is to be provisional pend
ing new commercltl treaties with cer
tain countries. Including Japan. But
there are many tn Lima, even best
patriots, who will lament If It should
become Impossible to "Buy Japanese"
to the same extent and to the same
benefit to the pocket as In the past
few years.
FLYING ALARM CLOCK
CUTS SARDINE CREEK
SLEEP NEAR DAWNING
SARDINE CREEK (Spl.) A new
sort of alarm clock has made Its ap
pearance In the upper stretches of
this canyon.
It Is a very decorative as well as
effective alarm clock, Its grace and
beauty being as Irresistible as Its t,p
peal to rise. Its color scheme Is quite
modish: a body of ebony black, a top
of strongly contrasting scarlet, a pen
point of Indefinite yellow.
The new alarm clock came to the
notice first of your correspondent
who was awakened at 6 o'clock one
recent morning by Us unusual though
not unpleasant sound. Prom the bed
room window the sound was traced
to a near-by plum tree around the
trunk of which was a sheet of tin
Intended to keep squirrels from the
luscious fruit above. The sound was
a metalic rat-atat-tat-tat.
At first your correspondent was
genuinely puzzled, for there seemed
to be nothing In evidence producing
the rhythmic tones. Presently, how
ever, the alarm clock came Into view.
It was a red-headed woodpecker,
pecking away at the sheet of tin.
Whether the scarlet-topped bird
did not know tin from bark or
whether It used the metal as a sharp
ener for Its beak, your correspondent
ventures no opinion. The red-head,
however, has continued to rat-atat-tat
upon the tin at S o'clock every
morning. It Is a gfod alarm clock
but It goes off too early for a city
bred fellow who likes to sleep laM.
"That only goes to show." contin
ued the sage of Sardine Creek, "that
It Is the lazy sleeper who hates the
early bird."
AI
OREGON STATE COLLEGE, COR
VALLIS (Spl.) Miss Margaret B
Younger, daughter of L. N. Younger
of Medford. who Is one of the 57 high
school graduates of the state recently
awarded scholarships by the state
board of higher education to attend
Oregon Btato college this year, made
an exceptionally creditable showing
as a student at Medford high school,
her record shows.
TheBO scholarships were granted
only to students from among the up
per one-third of their graduating
classes. Miss Younger was highly reor
ommended by C. O. Smith, principal.
and others of the community to re
ceive a scholarship.
In addition to maintaining a high
scholastic record throughout her high
school years. Miss Younger played an
unusually prominent part In numer
ous student activities especially in
the field of music. She was a mem
ber of the glee club, the Latin club,
the commercial club, the school hon
or society, the Oirls" Athletic associa
tion, and the Olrls League council,
and took part in tennis tournaments
and operettas.
Miss Younger' application has been
accepted to enroll at O. S. C. wheie
she will register In lower division and
speelallo In nursing education, which
Is. administered hy the school of sol-
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She will enter the state college this
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No Punctures
CARSON CITY. Nev. (UP) Motor
ists are being given a break by the
state highway department here. A
huge magnet has been used In clear
ing the Btreets of nails and ether bits
of metal that might puncture tires.
Malicious Thieves
SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. (UP)
Adding Insult to Injury, thieves stole
a bag of laundry from a parked laun
dry truck, and then released the
brakes so the vehicle would roll down
a hill.
Made aStrlke
TUSCARORA, Nev. (UP) The first
excitement of decades In this ghost
town of early mining days came when
Forest Kllborn found 1500 worth of
nuggets in a rusty tin can.
Spirit of Competition
RICHMOND, Va. (UP) A bantam
hen owned by Dewey L. Wllkerson
was prize winner In a poultry contest.
To cinch her victory, she laid an egg
while being judged.
Widow at 14
RUTLEDGE. Tenn. (UP) Mrs.
Berry Dalton Is a 14-year-old widow.
Her husband committed suicide by
shooting himself after leaving a fare
well note to his bride of nine months.
A True Fish Story
WALNUT RIDGE. Ark. (UP) A
93-pound catfish was caught in Black
river near here by Jorn Beeman. local
fisherman. It was feet 9 Inches,
long.
Adaptation of hydraulic mining
methods to road building enabled the
California highway department to ex
cavate 1,500,000 cubic yards of earth
at a tenth of the cost of excavation
by mechanical or power mans.
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