The news that Germany is resorting to underhand methods to dispose of her surplus goods in Greaz' Britain and the United States will not cause any too great surprise tv those who give any thought to the matter. The legend "made in Germany" before the war did not tend to popularize any goods that bore it: it was invariably the comparative cheapness of the goods which tended to overcome the prejudice against them. Now, however, judice has changed to absolute di e, and to mark an article as having Teutonic origin is to secure in advance for it a decidedly thir time. For this present outbreak of dishonesty—the marking of German goods as having British or American origin—there appears an appropriate remedy. It may not be possible to punish a fraudulent German manufacturer for so marking his wares, but what about the importers and retailers in Great Britain an the United States? Morally, if not legally, a person, who sells German goods as having been made, in either of the other two countries named, is as gull of fraud as the person who endeavour to pass off as milk the fluid obtained from the water tap and should be treated as such. If no sugh legislative provisions are to be found among the statutes of the two nations likely to suffer most from the practice, it should be no difficult task to-correct the omission. And while most will agree that Germany should have every assistance to rehabilitate herself economically, it has yet to be stated that she will be permitted to use other than honest means. But it is hard work teaching an old dog new tricks.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.