Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-05
"Must Pool Interests" He
Tells Business
Men.
ASKS THEIR All
Predicts Food Shortage OF
the World VIII Grow
Greater.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.--Co-opera-
tion between business and the govern
ment i'm framing laws for the benefit
OF all the people was urged by Presi-
dent Wilson tonight in an address be-
fore several hundred representative
business men here attending the an
nual convention of the chamber Of
commerce of the United States.
He declared that 1--WE must all pool
our interests i'm order to discover the
best means for handling public prob
lens.
The creation i'm the United States in
time of peace OF the same kind of
united spirit which moves nations dur
ing wars was advocated by the presi
dent, who remarked that when peace
is as handsome as war there will be
no wars and when men engage in
the pursuits of peace in the same spirit
of self-sacrifice as they engage in
wars, wars will disappear"
Food Shortage Greater.
The president predicted that while
there is a shortage Of food in the world
now, the shortage will be much
greater later. He pointed out that
under the guidance of the department
of agriculture efforts must be made
by farmers in the United States to
grow more and more grain in order
that the world may be fed.
Speaking of the foreign trade of the
United States the president asked that
business men devise some way of al
lowing exporters in the United States
to combine to obtain common selling
agencies and to give long time credits
in such a way that these cooperative
devices may be open to the use Of
all.
Would Favor Change.
He declared that apparently the
antitrust laws prohibited such com
binations now, but that he would favor
a change if method fair to all could
be found
He spoke of the work being done
by the bureau Of foreign and domestic
commerce in Surveying the world"
for the benefit of all business men.
Business men themselves are to
blame If intelligent laws affecting
them are not framed, the president
asserted He added that they should
come out into the open and use their
knowledge OF conditions to bring about
fair laws to prevent business evils.
The Mexican question was mem
toned by Mr.. Wilson as an example
of the difficulty he had in getting
accurate information.
81 would prefer that you receive
me as If for the time being ! were
one Of your number" said the pres
ident, because the longer | occupy
the office that | now occupy the
more I regret any lines Of separation; /;
the more ! deplore any feeling that
one set Of men has one set Of inter-
ests, and another set of men has an
other set of interests; the more feel
the solidarity of the nation; the i'm
possibility Of separating one interest
from another without misconceiving
it; the necessity that we should all
understand one another In order that
we may understand ourselves.
Gives an Illustration.
There is an illustration which l
have used a great many times. /
Will use II again, because 1t is the
most serviceable to my mind. We
often speak Of a man who cannot
find his way in some jungle or some
desert as having lost himself. Did
you ever reflect that that is the only
thing he has not lost? He is there.
He has lost the rest of the world. He
has no fixed point by which to steer.
He does not know which way is
north, which is south, which Is east,
is so confused that he would not know
in which of those directions his goal
lay; and therefore following his
heart he walks in a great circle from
right to left and comes back to where
he started, to himself again.
"To my mind it Is picture of the
world. II you have lost other inter-
ests and do not know the relation
Of your own interests to those other
interests, then you do not understand