PRESTO
April 24, 1920.
Japan was not asked to participate, but she has
not been heard to complain of being slighted.
The leading empire of the East is in the strong
strategic position of the small boy who has stolen
the cake from the party to which he was not in-
vited. Let the other allies worry about getting Ger-
man trade after the war; it is her trade now.
Stories of Piano Invasion of Japan in the It is a fact that since the war started, Japan,
United States Need Not Worry Amer-
with a swiftness and efficiency that far outclasses
the German brand, has gone out and taken posses-
ican Manufacturers of Pianos
sion everywhere of markets hitherto dominated by
and Playerpianos.
Germany.
Into China, Australia, Canada, Mexico, South
Of late newspapers have been exploiting the won-
ders of industrial Japan. Some of the writers seem America, England, France and the United States
to believe that the sun of invention and industry she has been pouring the products of her factories.
Great Variety.
rises in the land of the Little Brown Man and that
the sign of her flag is also the emblem of her des-
Everything, from tooth brushes and meerschaum
tinies. And today there are space-fillers who seem pipes to pianos and surgical instruments, is being sent
to want the world to believe that the Japs are about, out in large quanties from the Nipponese empire
to fill the universe with pianos as well as with little over the trade lanes of the world.
graven images and toys. Following is one of the
The harmonica played by the Kansas schoolboy,
recent extracts on the subject of Japenese musical the ukulele strummed by the Vassar undergraduate,
instruments:
the match you use to start the furnace—these are
When the allies called a conference in Paris not a few samples of the variety of things being turned
long ago to plan for a war to capture German trade out for exportation by the cheap and highly skilled
after peace is declared, there was no representative workers of Japan.
of Japan in attendance.
On scarcely any of these articles will be found the
identifying trade mark "made in Japan." These
clever people are not yet advertising their achieve-
ments in this direction. Sometimes a tiny "Nippon"
will be discovered, but the bulk of Japanese wares
for foreign sale have no labels.
For instance, take pianos—yes, the Japanese are
selling pianos to the rest of the world. A few years
ago most of the pianos sold in the United States
bore the name of either a German or an American
maker. The made-in-Japan instrument, now out-
selling other makes because they are much cheaper,
have no names. Our Nipponese ally is not going to
awaken Gulliver until he is securely tied.
This year the Japanese will bring to us a number
of new wares. So effectively has Japan carried on
her campaign for foreign trade that it begins to
look as if the other allies will have her to reckon
with instead of Germany.
No Chance Here.
It is possible that Japan may excel in some of the
things referred to. But it is not at all probable
that pianos from the far East will take precedence
over those from other lands. Certainly Japanese
pianos can not meet with much sale in the United
Sole Makers
Chicago
States, where really fine instruments are too firmly
entrenched to be in any sense supplanted.
The talk about Japanese preferment in pianos is
nonsense. The little instruments of the Nipponese
are in no way as good as the equally little ones al-
1$47
ready produced in this country, and which are al-
ready sold in quantities, not only at home but also
abroad. Don't be alarmed at any stories about the
piano invasion of Japan.
FALSE ALARM IN
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