Edward of Wales, reporting to the manufacturers of Great Britain on his South American tour (TIME, Jan. 26, et seq.), made two speeches, one in Manchester and one in London last week, both to bigwigs. His advice, painful to British ears but received with loyal cheers, may be summed up in eight words: Be bright, be cheap, be American or German.
The present British practice is to make dull-colored things out of massive materials (such as cast iron), state quietly that they are British, therefore exceptionally well made, therefore necessarily higher priced, and...
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