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Shanghai and New York are in closer touch to-day than were New York and Baltimore in 1800. Indeed, man's conquest of the natural barriers to his migration and communication, has so advanced that oceans connect rather than separate. Since civilization progresses by the mutual exchange of ideas, it is significant that international exchange of ideas and products has been multiplied more since Washington's day than in all previous history. The father of our country could travel no faster than could Abraham and Moses.

A world partnership

This contact of each part of the world with every other has transformed the American home within a few centuries from a log cabin to a cosmopolitan creation that may include Greek architecture, Persian rugs, South American