THE WORLD TO-DAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8530, 9 April 1913, Page 6

THE WORLD TO-DAY.

" GUAEDIAN " OFFICE, March 9, 1913

Tho phr^iso " made in England," will' soon lo&a' its significance- if American business men continue to settle in London at the rate they have done during recent years. "Made in England, by American Methods," will be a moreapt description of goods Gxported, and the situation is causing patriotic but slow-moving Britishers some wakeful nights. It i» not that tho visitors are getting it all their own way, but they are in a measure upssttiug age-old ■ideas of how business should be conducted. Mr Amos Stote, himself an out-and-out American, writes to " Collier'a Weekly " on the subject. He declares that the thousands of Yankees ■'ni Great Britain to-day may be divided into two; .classes-^" those who are sit-.-"ting'alongthe..:west coast waiting, for a' friendly- sail to; tako thorn- home again, and .those who , are, sitting in' ■fc'he soatb; of . tho mighty, • cautiotJely: ■turning American steam into their! British orgajiisations." He says that the lesson which Americans in England have to learn is that business in Groat Britain must be done in the British way, and some of them have had ■» fairly costly experience o£ this fact. He quotes a case in which a smart American busmejsa man secured an option on all the patents and selling rights in Great Britain for a machine of practical value to aimosb every business house of any size: The American took control,' worked with feverish energy on American lines for nine years, and-wound up in the bankruptcy court. His business was then reorganised on British lines, >and started almost at to make handsome profits. Tho American's only complaint was that Britain was too slow to allow a business to fail in a reasonably short time. '■-...