Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-24
TRADERS TO DISCUSS
National Board to Look Into
Cost of Living.
SESSIONS OPEN TOMORROW
$50 Delegates Expected to Be Pres
emit at Opening Meeting-Live
Topics Listed.
SESSIONS OPEN TOMORROW

The high cost of living will be one Of
the main subjects considered by the Ma
tionaI Board of Trade at its annual
meeting, which will begin tomorrow at
noon at the New Willard Hotel. The
cost Of living was not one of the sub
jects submitted for discussion by any of
the constituent bodies. and consequently
does not appear upon the program of
resolutions and recommendations which
has been prepared in advance. Numerous
indications were received, however, that
the subject would be brought UP for dis
eussion on the floor. and for that reason
Il will be given careful consideration at
the dinner this evening, at which Presi-
dent Frank D. La lame of Philadelphia
will have as his guests the members of
the council and other officers of the
national board.
This dinner is what is known as the
business dinner where the final prep
arations for the annual meeting will be
discussed and settled upon. The official
program of recommendations and reso-
lutions will also be discussed tonight.
and the subject of the high cost of liv-
ing will come in under miscellaneous
recommendations. In view of the great
prominence given this subject in all parts
of the country during the last few weeks
it is thought that 1t will form one of
the principal topics of discussion at the
meetings of the national board.
Subjects for Discussion.
The other subjects on the program are:
American merchant marine, diplomatic
and consular service, forestry and irriga-
ton, interstate commerce law, national
banking and currency, parcels post postals
savings banks, postal affairs, river and
harbor improvements, tariff and reciproc-
ity, amending the Sherman antitrust
law, national corporation tax, federal in
spection of grain and department of pub
lie works.
Delegates to the annual meeting arrived
here in large numbers today and 1t is ex-
tomorrow as President La lame calls
the meeting to order. More than sixty
boards of trade, chambers of commerce,
or other chartered bodies organized for
commercial purposes will be represented
at the meeting by delegates who will par
ticipate in the deliberations of the board.
The national board of trade was formed
for the purpose of promoting the eff
ficiency and extending the usefulness of
the various commercial and manufacture
ing organizations of the United States;
to secure harmony and unity of action
with reference to business usages and
I laws; to concentrate public opinion upon
questions affecting the financial, COM
country at large. and to provide concerted
oction regarding national legislative
4nASures.
For Merchant Marine.
The development of the American
merchant marine. which will be urged by
the Washington Board of Trade. will
also be favored by numerous other con-
stituent bodies.
be an important topic of discus ion. The
creation of the proposed national APP
paiachian and White mountain forest re-
serves will be urged by the Philadelphia
Commercial Museums.
The Scranton Board of Trade will Of
fer resolution favoring the creation OF
more forest reserves in the eastern noun
tains and the establishment of national
nurseries for propagation of trees, to be
furnished prospective planters at a
reasonable cost.
The National Hardware Association will
offer a resolution opposing the parcels
post system. The resolution says: 1--WE
believe that the United States government,
should not be called upon to establish q
parcels post system which would be OF
advantage to certain mail-order houses in
a few leading cities of the country an6
TO the serious disadvantage of severa
hundred thousand retail merchants scat.
tered throughout the land.
Parcel Posts Urged.
The Philadelphia Board of Trade and
The Scranton Board Of Trade, however