The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-23

This country has never seen more phenomenal commercial developInent than the vast aggr regauon CT enter- prise which is rallying from every quarter of the compass, TOT me pur- @r5ose of expanding our South zAfIie ierl7 can trade and extending the opera tfons to the dimensions of national crusade to capture foreign markets wherever they can be reached.
 The Chambers of Commerce of our big cities. our industrial organizations. large and little, civic bodies of ev- erv kind, and chief of all. the United states government, has put it's shout fls1. to Che wheel in the work of en- largement of our cemmerce abroad. increasing our export trade, and mak- ing America the first great salesman of the globe.
 At first this movement, Hs it found expression in the actions of business enterprises ana organfzah tons, nanny directed it's eyes toward south A ALner- ica, and the other Latin nations or the New World
 But latterIy, the undertakfng has assumed a broader scope swing than fffe majority of Americans ever dreamed of at the outset
 The conclusion had been Jurnped sf: by many people. that the world war would ineyitas1le close the ,.Worio as : TIA ar1xetss that the principal hope or sssIargins our business, as eonse- ouence of the way, lay in South Amer ira in Central Am erica in the " est Indies. and in Mexico, in event or the pacif1cafioh which now seems near ar hand. notwithstandingt the clashes n separable from the last furry of such A conflict as war in that southern re- Fs1t it is now seen that the world s markets have not been blocSaded in such degree as was imagined Many countries of Europe and colonles oI those countries, all over the world, are coming to us, for steel chenaica copper, drugs, hospital supplies. con crete, munitions of war; and raw ma terials which are to be worked up, all ter they are expor ted, by ma nufacture fn the countries to which they are sent. In he last week 0f September es4ports Of the Port of NeW York were reported at y9d 900. .Qo O. record ereater by much than that of the cor responding period before, and this was all the more startling Because of the slump in exports which mac 1Inrhe@al- @ nfeIv preceded this amazing revival.
 About the same time, indications kept coming thick and fast, that we were entering upon an era of unPre- cedented prosperity. Tn ere was a lump in the output of many nanufac- turing plants.
 Many took on new help, many are working overtime, and predictions are freely made by authorities es whose competence and conservatism cannot be doubted, that this already pow erfu1 tendency Is destined steadily to increase.
 we have been doinga big trade with Canada in the past few years, and under the changed 5nditions, it IS bound to grow greater. Not long ago an order for seventeen thousand tons ok American steel was pla cedsby Aus fra1ia Ship owners Ire ayaihng themselves Of the oppor tun nfty created by the law allowing Ioreign-built ghaps to procure American registra- ffon. and short as has been the. time since the President signed the Act of Congress which brought tllfs about We have an addition of sometnlne like sixty ships to the American ocean going marine. and preparations are under way to add many more
 AS to the food question, in it's rela- lions to the expansion of our foreign commerce. the subject resolves itself Into q plain prop osftfon- without the New world the Old World will starve. Therein is the demands demand vast and inperious as any the planet ever saw. and we are equipped to meet It The United States has garnered and, is still centinufng to garner, the most stupendous harvest which ever gladdened the eyes of tho farmers o1 this favored nation
 Only the other day it was an nounced that the corn crop would be 7s GOO, 900. bushels greater than what had been predicted, and that 8,O00,- 900 bushels alone means an expansion by $60.0O0s0e0 of the wealth of this country
 Add to that the fact that the lone stretch of perfect weather whicE has signalized the late summer and early fall months of practically every section of the United States, has beer as kind to other crops as it has te the corn crop, that the tale of the corn harvest's enlargement is alse tEe story of the increase beyond al well known to be phenomenal, and WI have the truth of splendid promiss and glowing encouragement.
 1The hitherto estimated money total Of what the crops taken in the az gregate, will yield, must now be in creased by not less than 100. 0O0 c, ,O0t money which comes under the cat egory of the absolutely unanticipated money which even the stoutest opti mist never imagined we would find money won in way which when it i gained in small sums by the individ ual, he refers to as money picked III out of the ditcf,r but which we hay, gained in gigantic sums, and hav' not picked out of the ditch, but hay, wrested from the soil and seasons O country deyot1ng its attention t' agriculture with an earnestness neve before seen among us, except during the period Whent he Unitde State was almost wholly an agrfcultura commonwealth, but with a science un heard of then, and which is resound ing to our advantage now.
 Of course, there Is some shade, t, set off the light of this picture. w must in candor admit, that after tn outbreak of the war, the knowIedg of the number of articles of necessity convenience and luxury, this natiol had been depending on Europe for was an astounding, not to say, a stag gerfng revelation
 With amazement mingled with nu utilization. the people of the Unite States had to acknowledge, that this the most ingenious country on tn