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AMERICA MAKING TOYS Industry Developed in Last Two Years?Women Manufacturers Are American parents going to encourage their children to play with American toys, or will they be content in the future to buy imported playthings, as they did before the war? That day in 1914 which saw Germany trown down the gauntlet to the world saw also the beginning of a new era in American industry. The nation was compelled to go without many products and manufacturers which it hitherto bought in other lands, among them toys, most of which were made in Germany. And so the struggling toy industry of the United States found a new ODDor turity, the output was increased, and children took kindly to their home made playthings. But there is always the danger that the foreigntoy may come into this market again in large quantities, and in order toprotect the home industry against another invasion, toy manufacturers of the United States of America, Inc., has begun a campaign of education which will extend throughout the country and carry home to parents the idea that American children . . ahould play with American toys. "This is the first time that there j has been cooperative advertising of I our toy industry." said Fletcher D. Dodge, secretary of the organization. *Few people realize how many toys made in this country and the campaign is to bring about a full recognition of the fact. TheVe has always been a belief in the superiority pf foreign toys as well as other foreign products, and this idea has to iged in people's minds, giving im-j ported things a fictitious value. "Germany's toy business was devel?j>ed through home labor, whichmade it possible for her to turn out cheaper goods. But we have always been Able to compete with Germany in toys of good quality from the standpoint of workmanship and material,j and we can make them here as cheap I as they can be mAde anywhere. America has always led in the development of educational, constructional and all toys that require the following of instructions and are based on more or less scientific principles. There are more than 400 toy factories in the United States, for the most part north of the Mason and Dixon line and east of the Mississippi. In the doll industry alone, which was negligible before the war. there is an output of 500,000,000 a year, jy???i / * Great! Comprising i Our display Mr. Silvermj peri We do not d>A tr/ ft c illvlie y\ SI] East * ti! ?> r - ,a?> m . , and we are now making all kinds of EE dolls. The making of Christmas tree ornaments also has come about since the war and the great difficul- > ties in their manufacture have now been overcome. The manufacture of rubber tovs is a third branch since I | II 1914, and where there were three : a^c factories making rubber balloons then jac there are 10 now. jaSl "Toys are one class of merchan- ern dise that, regardless of conditions, 1 mQ! always sells well. Even in years I when finances are low parents will' i buy toys, even if they have to go |. without something else. Toy stores j w all over the United States report a i ^ steady increase in toy sales for the ^ last 25 years. The toy business is one of the most stable that, exists." mQ According to Mr. Dodge, not every ^ one can make toys. ; "The success of a toy factory," he I said, "does not depend on large capi-' ^ tal but on the personality of the people who run Jt. iney must oe j genuinely interested in making toys, i j I don't believe it possible to work, ^ with capita! alone. Toys are made. ^e? by many companies whose main line is quite another thing, when the men i in charge work with toys for the love of it because they feel it keeps ^ them young to make things for chil- i yjc dren." .. br0 Do little girls play with dolls as , much as they used to? Mr. Dodge CQj( says they do. tJj "The demand for dolls," he said, ^ "is larger than ever before. There' are factories all over the country r>r making dolls alone. In Chicago, Jes- ! ^ sie McCutcheon Raleigh, sister of the juj cartoonist runs a doll factory and pje Mrs. K. A. Rauser is the head of one making clothing for dolls." According to Mr. Dodge, these are wa the only two women in the manufacturing field, although there are a ? large number of retail toy stores run j s by women. he' "N'o one on earth can gauge before- ^ hand the popularity of a toy,,, said Mr. Dodge. "If 75 per cent, of the e(j articles developed by a company sue- WQ ceed, the company considers itself wa very successful. on< There are always, of course, cer- b tain standbys from year to year. pjc Then anything that is new or inthe efj public mind is apt to appear in min- er iature as a toy?for instance, this ar( year there are several farm tractors. boj Fo/*K fnnfAvnr i o onn ? nrvArl UOVI1 lilUi * IUU?N AUV WV1 J MO f/pvw ftO* to develop a certain line of toys and in each one there is a designer con- ? stantly working on new items. Be- toy sides this, outside people are con- suc stantly sending in designs for new Y? \NN< Showing of... of the Sea Serges, Garbadines, T will be a delight to e^ line a c in, who for 18 years> ience in buying the rij to be tl handle furniture, groceries nor 1 >u cardially to our up LVERMU c n lam Dtreet, t FT AS STOWAWAY COMES BACK HERO Uthough he left this country a vvawa.v concealed in a barracks : dragged a broad a transport by apathetic soldiers nearly two years >, Maurice' Bailey, 16 years old of kson, Me., landed in New York t week from the transport NorthPacific, the hero of one of the st interesting episodes of the world r. in ugly scar over his right eye is only service record because he 5 never officially recorded a memof the American expeditionary res, but a French war cross pin I on his tunic bears silent testiny of his heroism on that autumal ' in 1918 when he crawled over II torn field in the Toul sector and cued a colonel and two majors of Twenty sixth Division who were ig wounded in no man's land, lis brother, Alfred, who enlisted the One Hundreth and Third Intry, and his father, Victor, a serint in the One Hundreth and Fifseventh Infantry, whom he foled to France, were among that nortal army of Americans destinnever to return. Against the ade and pleadings of his father and ther, Maurice decided to 'do his " by going to France followed the )rs of his brother's regiment unthe war was over. Vhile carrying chocolate, cigar5 and water from 3 Y. M. C. A., iteen to the men at the front in Chateau Thierry operation in y, 1918, Maurice was struck by a ce of shrapnel. Two months later rejoined the company which was n about 28 miles from Toul. It s there that he won decorati. 'We were just fighting again and aw two majors lying wounded," said. "I got a soldier from Comny H, and we went over to them i also found a colonel lying woundnearby. One of the majors was unded in the arm and others leg s half cut off by a shell. The colli had a bad wound on top of his id and couldn't see. The soldier ked up the major with the woundleg and carried him on his shouldI put the other major's arm >und my neck, the colonel grabbed d of me and we made it to the spital." s. 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