Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1920 — Basel Sample Fair Will Have Permanent Building; America May Have Exhibit [ARTICLE]

Basel Sample Fair Will Have Permanent Building; America May Have Exhibit

Basel, Switzerland, grows toward being commercially one of the most cosmopolitan cities In the world. Into stations come the railway lines from London. Paris. Rotterdam, Hamburg. Christiania, Stockholm, and Berlin to the north and went; and to the south and east from Italy. Poland. Austria, and the Balkan states. Thus Basel sits conveniently at the center of the newly arranged commercial map of Europe, and becomes its natural market this state of affairs from the beginning of the annual sample fair at Basel two years ago, and the increasing number of firms that see the advantage of bringing their samples show that the exhibition has a more and more Important place in the business life of the contributing nations. The state government of the Canton thinks so well of the eample fair that some 12.000,000 francs have been expended to erect a permanent building for It; and manufacturers In England have gone farther and are projecting a permanent exhibition in Basel of English-made goods. Although no mention is yet made of the United States, it Is hardly likely, lu theuwakenihg of American exporters and manufacturers to the possibilities of European trade, that the sample fair will go on indefinitely without an American section.