Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-30
Linkino tho Americas.

LINKING hho fNIle''SoSs
One Of the first real moves (and
actually the first of it's kind toward
what the Kenebec Journal has long
advocated-linking the Americas-is
going forward in businesslike way. 1t
is plan to introduce and familiarize
the people OF North and South Ameri-
ca one with another. 1t is getting
acquainted trip that we hope VIII be
repeated until the people of this coun-
try are as familiar with the peoples of
the several republics of South America,
as are the people of the northern
states of the Union with the people
of the southern states.
The details of the plan have been
worked out and funded by Baltimore
enterprise The Fidelity Trust Co.
has completed arrangements for a
tour, which will circumnavigate South
America, starting from New York,
Jonuary %, and Baltimore January 2,
covering a distance of 1870 miles,
end a period of LOG days, of which 81
days will be actual steaming time and
54 days in the principal ports of the
West Indies and South America.
This tour is arranged for the speci-
fic purpose of enabling bankers, mer-
chants, manufacturers, exporters and
importers to personally meet the bust
ness men of the countries south of the
United States, and to make deter
mined effort to capture the trade of
these countries.
It is the idea of those responsible
for the plan that satisfactory business
dealings cannot be carried on between
people who are aliens and strangers.
who 10 not understand each others
needs and methods, and who are not
in that sympathy which grows from
knowledge of each other. They be-
lieve in making haste slowly in the
matter of trying to establish a COM
mereial union,s American bust
ness alliance which shall divert large
ly to the Western Hemisphere the ex-
change of commodities and manufac-
lures SC painstaiSingly built up
through many years by the European
nations now involved in war.
The United States has never culti-
waited close commercial relations with
her South American neighbors. 1t is
the belief of those initiating the pres
ent movement that the North Ameri-
can is probably more in need of edu-
cation as to the countries and peoples
to the south than the South American
is regarding the United States. 1t is,
therefore, with view to interesting
and educating the business mel. of
this country that the present project
is entered upon. There will be no
neglect to exhibit and popularize
wares bearing the stamp Made iii
L. s. A." but the primary motive is
to teach the Northerner what the
Southerner likes and will buy.
The effort is in line with the broad
ening opportunity given to American
hanks under the new Federal Re-
serve Law, which has already been
taken advantage of by the National
City Bank of New York in opening
branches in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos
Aires The object of the trust COM
pany, however. is more Immediately
educational, and for that purpose the
company has chartered for three and
one-half months cruise the American
built, observation-disclosures twin
screw steamship Finland, of the Red
Star Line. The Finland is vessel of
% 600 tons displacement. She viii af-
ford accommodations for several hun
dred passengers and for exhibits of all
kinds of made in the u. S. A" wares.