The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-25
National Body Endorses Pin
chOt and Takes Up
Cost of Living.
CONGRESS BLAMED
FOR "USELESS LAWS
Bsfter Trade Relations With
Germany vi Be
Requested.

No adequate reason can bs assigned
by the repressHtatjves Of sixty COM
mercial bodies attend the fo-lleth an
uuaI convention Of the National Board
Of Trade why the $3.50 600 Go worth Of
American trade with Germany should
be jeCPardized 70 protect the interests
Of the Beer trust abroad when the price
OF beef IS so high as 10 cause borcotts
at home. and they so declare them
selves at the initial meeting OF the con-
veutou this morning. The application
of the maximum duties TO German i'm
ports because OF a difference with that
country as 20 the inspection OF beef was
rOuudiy condemned and the subject was
given a special place on the program
for future discussion Further than -hfs
the delegates with pointed unaniInity
agreed on the appointment OF a com
mittee OF five 20 investigate the high
( cost OF living
Only the routine business OF orcaniza-
. ton was placed on the p-osram for the
first session Of the convention. which
. was called 20 order at noon by Presi-
{ dent Frank J. La lame, but the even
tenor OF the way prepared received a
I severe JOLT when A. n. Reed OF this
Z city, warmed his associates that the Ell
/ tire purpose OF IN" organization v-or1F
I laH unless peTmau ~ headuuarte~s mn
/ der q capable chieL are opened in this
I city 50 that the action taken by the
/ conventions should not be forzot-en.
Z This appeared 10 start other members
J 10 thinking Of other things independeut
T0r t1e routine, and before the conveu-
ton had caught its breath after Mr.
Reeds statement when Mr.. y. KeIv-
Z OF the Philadelphia board Of trade read
a. resolution CondemuinE- the appIfca-
ton OF the maximum duties 10 Geuaan
I imports and asked that il be placed On
I The program Half a dozen members
/ sprans 10 their feet ali eager 10 cup
( port Cls resolution.
Unqualified Endorsement OF the con
/ serEsio1 and forestry schemes as laid
I down and fndOrsed by clifford Piachot
I viii be sought from the National Board
I Of Trade
While the initial meeting. ATTENDED hv
/ representsIfve business men from ever
/ section OF the United States. vac de-
Z voted almost entirely to organization
{ indications We're given that the mem
! bers Of the organization viii Iose no
/ time in taking UP the cudgeIs in b. laIf
I o. M PInchot's projects SO "a as +Iev
I are able. and TO announce in nIafn
l terms the sentiments OF the business
/ communities throughout the counrrv. ON
/ this subject
Forestry Resolutions On Program.
/ Five resolutions dealing with forestry
/ and conservation are on the prorrarl
1 fC- consideration during the time OF toe
! convention and il is understood time
I VII be given during the progress OF the
( meetings - representatives or the Nz-
I ttoral Conservation Association. Of
I which Nh Pinchot Is now president.
/ to exl.ress their views.
Brief, Uithy, terse in statement vas
/ the annua' address Of President Frank
I A. la lame, OF Philadelphia, in which
: he aTTaiEned Congress and the State
I legislatures for the multiplicity OF use
{ less legislation enacted during the Uast
. year, made a plea for better trade reia-
4 tions with Germany and endorsed In
J unqualified terms the proposed ship sub
/ sidy- The address of the president was
+ read Immediately after the meeting was
/ convened and required only twenty min
Utes for its delivery The sentiments
! expressed were given hearty approval
/ by the members Of the Board if the
Continued on Fourth PaEeD