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made in India, Burma, Cuba, and West Indian islands. The first equipment installed in British India is in operation at the Elphinston Picture Palace in Calcutta. Other equipments are in operation in Kingston, Jamaica, in Panama City, and in Costa Rica. In Havana the first equipment has been installed in the Fausto Theatre.
The R. C. A.-Photophone has likewise already made a complete survey of conditions in foreign countries, as a result of which the installation of Photophone will be effected in principal cities throughout the world. It is expected that the manufacturing for Photophone may be located in Europe. The DeForest Phonofilm recording apparatus is now installed in studios in Australia, Spain, and the Argentine. So it may be inferred that American manufacturers do not propose to overlook the foreign market but to follow it as keenly as in the past.
Any other course, in fact, would prove impossible. However sharp the competition, however great the reduction of trade balances, isolation is out of the question. We shall not merely continue to participate in world trade but shall increase the measure of our participation. That is what the phrase "world trade" implies — an ultimate, if gradual, elimination of geographical boundaries under the erosions of commerce. At present, no doubt, the pressure of change makes itself apparent in friction and resistance. But the forces of evolution are not to be gainsaid; they will push ahead to their end in the unity of the economic scene. They can be halted here, turned back there, but not stopped. The United States will be part of the movement because it is part of the race; it will lead because it is young, resolute, brainy. We may render to scoffers and doubters our gratitude for sobering rash and ill-considered hopes ; we cannot look to them, however, to point our way for us.
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