Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-05
TRADE BOARDS IN
CONFERENCE TALK
Farm Experts Discuss High
Cost of Living at Jersey
CITY Session.
A. v. HAMBURG, OF NEWARK,
is PRESIDING OFFICER
j. C. Lincoln, of New York,
Makes Principal Address
of Day.
IFrom a stan correspondent

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept. 5.-The
second state conference OF local
agencies and individuals interested IN
community development, numbering
fifty representatives of trade boards
and commercial organizations from
all parts of the State, met yesterday
afternoon in the New Jersey state
Chamber of Commerce, in Jersey
City. Augustus V. Hamburg, presi-
dent of the Newark Board OF Trade,
presided.
Previous to the meeting luncheon
was served in the Downtown Clup
and the high cost of living discussed
by farm experts of the State, promi-
nent among whom were Putnam A.
Bates. chairman of the committee
on agriculture of the State Chamber
Of Commerce, and John H. Hankin-
son. farm agent Mercer County Farm
Bureau, Trenton Chamber OF Com
merce
The principal address during the
afternoon was made by ]. c. Lincoln,
traffic manager of the Merchants As
ISOLATION, of New York, who spoke on
THE Influence of an Aggressive
Commercial Organization Upon
City's Industrial Life
.a'ThIs assemblage represents one OF
the most important elements which
GO to the making of the supremacy
of this nation of ours, as the greatest
commercial country in the world; as
through the medium of chambers or
commerce, boards of trade, CONNER
ciaI and merchants association has
been brought about that team work
so necessary to the city, State or
nation for the development of indus
trial and community life said Mr..
Lincoln.
Represent yitals of Country.
s'while our greatest agricultural
interests represent the heart and
vitals of this country, purely as an
agricultural country we cannot oc-
cupy our proper place in theS affairs
of nations. Through agricultural pur-
suits is produced our food and raj
ment, necessary to our living and the
building UP of our Drawn and brain,
but commerce means more than
merely eating, living and a pastoral
life. Commerce means a body or
merchants, manufacturers and trad
ers, the trade of whom makes neces-
sary our great means of transporta-
ton, placing our people in close
community.
ION the one hand the great rail-
road systems represent the. largest
and most powerful single interest in
this country. Their power for good,
the development of our commerce
and the country as whole cannot
we'll be measured. On the other hand
we have the great mining, manufac-
turing and other commercial inter-
ssts building wisely and well. ex-
tending our commerce to all sections
OF the globe. Each employ in their
respective ranks millions of our popu-
lation, adding wealth to the country
by their thrift and toll. with other
millions dependent upon them.
Neither can exist alone-commeree
embraces all factions
Dependent on Transportation.
mo business can thrive or grow
to successful proportions without be-
coming something more than merely
local, therefore in branching out 1t
becomes dependent on transporta-
ton.
1T will be surprising the lack of
information possessed by the aver
age business man concerning traffic
problems, or the laws pertaining to
transportation. You should impress
upon your manufacturers and shippers
the specializing of transportation
matters, more thorough knowledge
of the cost of marketing their goods |
and the relation that transportation
charges bear thereto. You must aid
the manufacturer and shipper in |
specializing the problems attached to
their particular line of business and |
the true form of the nucleus upon
which successful Organization