Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-01
SHOW j. s. GOODS
ON SHIPS Of WAR
Representative Goodwin Has
Plan for Practical Use of
Naval Vessels.
WANTS PORTS OF WORLD
TO KNOW OUR WARES
Will Introduce Bill in House Making
Provision for Carrying Out
His Idea.

American products housed and dis
PLAYED OH American warships and carried
To the worlds ports for the education of
foreign peoples in what America has to
offer in trade is the plan proposed in a
bill which will be introduced in the
House OF REPRESENTATIVE tomorrow by
Representative W. s Goodwin of Ar
kansas.
Representative Goodwin is peace adj
vocate of the whitest stripe. He is for
disarmament first last and all the time
An assignment on the House committee
on foreign affairs. which he held in the
last Congress. it is certain, will he con-
tinued in the present Congress when the
designations to committees are an
nounced.
Space for exhibition purposes war
ships. according 10 his plan. is to he
leased to American producers and eX
porters under direction of the Secretary
of Commerce. The Secretaries of the
Navy and Commerce are to devise regu-
1ations governing the installation and
exhibition of these commercial and
manufacturing products
Provisions of the Bill.
The bill. entitled "a bill to encourage
American commerce with foreign ma.
tions." provides:
THAT the Secretary of the Navy is
hereby directed within sixty days from
the passage of this act to report to
the Secretary of Commerce the extent
and character of all space upon all clips
of the United States Navy which might
reasonably be temporarily used for the
purpose of exhibiting American manufac-
tured products and other articles of COM
MERGE
That upon the receipt of the infor-
nation required in section 1 hereof the
Secretary of Commerce shall allot such
space to such American manufa cturers
merchants. exporters or associations
thereof or other trade bodies who may
apply for the same, ratably and equitahly,
with the idea of affording the widest
exhibitions of various commercial and
manufacturing industries of the United
States.
That, on such space having been allotted.
the person. firm, corporation, board of
trade association other trade organi-
zation shall be allowed to install and
maintain exhibits of manufactured prod
ucts and articues of commerce therein.
subject to such rules and regulations
as may be promulgated jointly by the
Secretary of the Navy and the Secre-
tary of Commerce by and with the APP
prevail of the President Of the United
| States.
For a Practical Use.
II am opposed to senseless multiple
cation of useless battleships, yet
see no reason why those we have built
at so great expense should not he
| used in advancing American trade be-
fore they rot and become junk. Our
strength and security lie not in bat
| tleships and dreadnoughts so much as
| In our isolation, the absence of en-
| tangling alliances and our peaceful
pursuits: All peoples are looking to
the United States to take the first step
toward disarmament.
This moment. when Europe is an
armed camp and England equips even
merchantmen with compliments of
guns, would. to my mind. be proper
converting costly and menacing en-
gines for war to the peaceful mission
of displaying American haRdicraft in
. the worlds eager markets.
From latest available reports on
movements of our navy it appears that
much time is spent by battleships.
cruisers and gunboats in foreign ports.
Yet trade reports show how compare
lively unknown are American goods in
these same ports frequented by Ameri-
can warships.
Leaves Details to Experts.
ITO work out details is a task left
gineers of our Navy Department. They
are familiar with every cubic inch of
space of every vessel and know to
what extent and for what purposes
employed. The practical business
sense of our Commerce Department
will coordinate in this work.
The regulations formulated would
set out the nature of exhibits and
conditions upon which such exhibits
would be received SO those who would
avail of the service could obtain full
instructions. schedules of the itinerary
Of vessels and detailed information as
to how. when and where to make ap-
plication for allotments of exhibition
space. The consular service would CO.
operate to bring to the attention of
foreign merchants this innovation and
arrange for proper publicity.
THE commercial organizations
throughout the country will, / am posi-
tive, appreciate readily the possibili-
ties of the proposition. Friends Of
big navy would do well to analyZe this
plan carefully II they would take
seriously the recent remarks Of Secre
tary Daniels on the Importance of
making the navy popular institu-
ton.