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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1916
Improved Methods For Men In
Foreign Commerce Is Planned
In Department at Washington
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. s.—The
absolute necessity for improved meth
ods of educating men for foreign trade
is strongly insisted upon by Dr. Ed
vard Ewing Pratt m his first annual
report as Chief of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
There may be an exception or two,
but the claim is made that most col
leges and universities are doing too
little to train men for this highly im
portant work.
Exception is taken to tire men with
only theoretical training who are of
ten put in charge of commerce class
es in schools and colleges. “It is to
be regretted that the actual work of
instruction is not intrusted to men
who have some practical knowledge
o fthe subject. A mere second-hand
acquaintance, a mere book knowledge
cf foreign trade is inadequate. I do
not mean by this statement to advo
cate the employment of merely prac
tical exporters as instructors. But I
do advocate the employment of men
who have gathered their facts and in
formation by personal investigation,
and have thus acquired a first-hand
knowledge and have a practical con
tact with the things which they pro
pose to teach.”
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ods of training men to carry on our
foreign trade follows a discussion of
the part the United States has come
to play in international trade. As a
result of the war the Ameriean busi
ness community is rapidly being forc
ed into the ■world’s trade arena. The
United States has been compelled to
become the world’s producing and
commercial center, and, for a time at
last, the world's financial center. If
we are to make the most of the op
portunity thrust upon us, we must
solve a number of important prabl
ems. One of them is this matter of
preperly equipping young men for
service in the export field.
Another is the proper financing of
foreign trade. In this direction we
are making much better progress than
in training exporters. For one thing
the war has forced an improvement
over previous methods. Most imoprt
ant improvements, however, have been
made as a result of the Federal re
serve act of 1913, which permits na
tional banks to accept bills drawn
against actal shiupments in foreign
commerce, and also provides for the
establishment of branch banks in
foreign countries.
The report also urges the adoption
ot a definite and continuing foreign
.'commercial policy. Such a policy is
'not so much dependent upon the offic
ers of the Government as it is depend
ent upon the American public—upon
public opinion—and the American
public is just awakening to a realiza
tion of the situation. “The business
community likewise is just awakening
to a realization of the importance of
such a policy to the extension of bus
iness. Questoning as to the value and
utility of foreign trade is giving way
to enlightened study and .exploitation.
Those who only a short time ago
were apt to declare that domestic
markets were large enough are chaf
ing under restraints of temporary
handicaps in developing foreign mar
kets. Altogether, the business com
munity and the public desire to shake
off our commercial dependence on
Europe and to establish ourselves
commercially independent. This de
sire finds expression in the public in
terest in international affairs and in
oru own foreign policies.”
Dr. Pratt considers it eminently
proper, in view of the fact that the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce is that part of the Government
intrusted with the promotion of for
eign trade, that a suggestion should
be made regarding one feature of
trade promotion that has been al
most entirely overlooked.
“We have utterly failed to make use
ii; our foreign trade promotion of the
machinery of the conventional tariff
system, which our competitors have
employed with great success. We have
been satisfied to get most-favored-na
tion treatment fro foreign countries,
cr, in other words, tariff concessions
adapted to the needs of other coun
tries and not to our own. Other coun
tries, by mutual tariff concessions,
have gained valuable markets for the
goods which they are peculiarity fitted
to manufacture for export. Such con
cessions in the aggregate make up a
conventional tariff. This is a matter
which is entirety outside the discus
sion of a protective tariff, a tariff for
revenue only, or free trade. A con
ventional tariff system may be based
on a high or a low tariff and to be re
garded solely as a method of promot
ing ofreign trade.”
The report discusses many of the
other problems with which our ex
porting interests are particularly
concerned at present, and it contains
the usual review of the activities of
the Bureau for the year under con
sideration. The new commercial at
tache service is thoroughly described
and the need of more money for car
rying on the foreign service of the
Bureau is strong)' insisted upon.
The .effectivenes*’ of the Bureau’s
work in prompting trade in foreign
countries is best shown in the definite
practical results obtained. To prove
that such results have been well
worth while, the report takes up in
detail a number of the largest con
tracts that American firms have cols
ed as a result of the Bureau’s activ
ities. Perhaps the largest order of
this kind resulted from placing rep
resentatives of a Russian concern in
touch with American exporters of raw
cotton. One of these exporters re
ports that it has closed a five-year
contract for 40,000 bales of cotton an
nually. which will amount to two or
three million dollars annually, or be
tween ten and fifteen million dollars
during the life of the contract.
“We are also informed,” continues
the report, “of four other specific in
stances of orders, each one of which
amounted to a million dollars or
more, the information concerning
which was first published in our ofr
eign trade opportunity service. These
are: A railroad for the island of
Formosa; a soal-handling plant for
the port of Durban, South Africa;
battleships for a South American re
public, and arsenal machinery for the
arsenal at Hang Yang, China.
“Recently we were informed by a
large milling concern in the West that
a little over two years ago they form
ed a business connection with a con
cern in Turkey. The name or this
concern had been obtained from the
Bureau. During the past two years
tbe amount of business done with this
ore concern has amounted to over
SBOO,OOO.
Numerous instances have come to
our attention where the results in
each intsance have been smaller, but
i
nevertheless important. For example,
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BOY STUDENT WAS
“GIRL” FOR NIGHT,
THEN GOT “FIRED”
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. s.—Fifteen
eyar-old George De Ford, freshman in
the Nebraska State University, has set
that institution by the ears by dress
ing himself up in girl’s clothing and
in that garb attending a “mixer” from
which all boys and men w.ere ordered
barred.
Implicated with young De Ford were
nine young women, and the ten have
been suspended by the university au
thorities for a month. Four of the
nine young women colloborated with
T.'e Ford in the gathering of the nec
essary materials and in adding the
finishing touches after he had donned
the essential of the garb. The other
five lodged at the same house and be
cause they knew all about it and
didn’t tell, the dean included them.
Landlady Knew of It.
Afterward it was discovered that
landlady also had known of the “joke”
that was to be sprung, and she was
ordered to appear before the dean and
give reasons why her boarding house
should not be put on probation.
Supposing themselves to be free
from the espionage of men’s optics, the
girls at the “miser” indulged their fan
cies in the matter of costume. There
were Gold Dust Twins, Charlie Chap
lins, George Washingtons, circus la
dies, presumably small girls in short
skirts, jesters, Peck’s Bad Boy and
even fire crackers. A football eleven
was present in custome. There also
was a bevy of pajama girls in the
garb made famous on the stage.
In and out of the motley crowd De
Ford moved several hours without de
tection He was attired in a “middy”
costume of blue, with a >plaited skirt.
On his head he wore a red Tam O’Stan
ter, drawn close abouth is face. The
neatest touch was a long braid of light
haid that depended from underneath
the cap. He wore girl’s shoes and a
lavaliere.
A newspaper man got hold of the
story and printed it. There was scur
rying in hot haste. DeFord’s costume
was traced to the ownership of a girl
in the boarding house and when she
was confronted with the charge of
complicity she confessed, and all the
others were brought before the deans
of the two departments.
DeFord is the youngest student in
the university. He is from Staple
hurst, Neb., and is a former student in
Midland College, Kansas. He is re
garded as a prodigy, entering the uni
versity at 15, three years younger than
the average attendance at college.
“HOUSE BASED UPON WOMAN"
“A house is not based upon the
ground, but upon woman,” is an old
Montenegro proverb. To her falls the
hard work of the household. They
use the sickle, tend the flocks, as
well as the spinning wheel and have
tl.e vitality and health to enjoy it.
American women should take more
care to preserve health and vitality
by avoiding nervous, run-down con
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information published as foreign
trade opportunities resulted in a con
tract for a new telephone system for
Bergen, Norway, amounting to $210,-
000, a contract for a petroleum pipe
line at Bucharest, Roumania, a con
tract for the construction of the cap
ital at Taihoku, Formosa.”
As a result of a conference with the
King of Spain a commercial attache
of the Bureau opened up markets for
about 3,000,000 tons of American coal
annually. This conference resulted
in the removal of the Spanish trans
port tax on American coal that had
previously been a great obstacle to
gaining a foothold in this market.
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GLOOMI VIEW WITH
FERTILIZER GIVEN
111 REPORT HE HEID
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.—A
gloomy view of prospects for fertiliz
ing next year’s crops is presented in a
statement issued by Secretary Hous
ton, of the department of agriculture.
Relief measures undertaken by the
department since the European war
disrupted the American phosphate in
dustry and cut off potach Imports from
Germany, will help, the statement says,
but they offer slim possibilities that
the American farmer will get a small
part of the fertilizing materials nec
essary for his needs. Nitrogenous fer
tilizers alone will be available in the
quantities needed.
The secretary takes up first the
potash supply, long since exhausted in
the United States by the German em
bargo on shipments. Investigation,
says his statement, has shown four
sources of supply in this country, but
none immediately available. These arc
the kelp on the Pacific coast, alunite
deposits in Utah, feldspathic rocks in
the East and the mud of Searles Lake,
California.
Manufacture from feldspar has been
found to be feasible, but the cost is
high. Development of Searless Lake
deposits presents technical difficulties
and title to the property is involved.
Manufacturers are experimenting now,
the statements says, with alunite. Kelp
is offered as the best material. Three
large concerns have begun manufac
ture from kelp and government ex-
I arts will be sent to the Pacific Coast
to aid in the .experimental work.
Production will be slow for a long
time, the secretary points out, and
demand for potash in other industries
is so great that none manufactured in
tl.e United States will be available
soon for agricultural purposes. His i
statement says:
“The prices offered under existing ,
conditions by the manufacturers of ;
articles will cause practicality the en-1
tire output of these concerns to be di-1
verted from the fertilizers industry. It j
v.ould require ninety or more plants,
costing approximately $50,000 and hav- [
ii’g an operating capital of $25,000 i
each, to produce the quantity needed j
for agriculture. This would involve I
the assumption that commercial phas
es of the problem were satisfactorily
solved. The department is considering
all phases of the situation.”
The crippled state of the phosphate
industry is attributed to the high price
cf sulphuric acid, much of which is
being used now in the manufacture of
war munitions. The price has jumped
from $5 to $25 a ton. Demand for the
acid is so heavy that abandoned plants
are being refitted for its manufacture.
The Bureau of Soils meanwhile is ex
perimenting with the manufacture of
phosphoric acid as a substitute for
sulphuric.
Nitrate prices have advanced since
the war began, but there is an abund
ant supply of nitrogenous fertilizing
material, and the Department is en
deavoring to find methods to cheapen
the cost of manufacture. The secre
tary concludes with a warning to
farmers to conserve all fertilizing ma
jtcrials on the farm. He urges crop
rotation, proper use of fertilizers and
also use of lime to increase produc
tivity of the soil.
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