Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-03
Commercial Secretaries Of
Large Cities Meet Secretary
RedfieId Tomorrow.
ELABORATE PLANS MADE
FOR THEIR entertainment
Two Day Conference Will End Sat.
urday Night With Smoker
at University Club.

Secretaries of commercial organfza-
tions in cities of more than 100000
population will gather here tomorrow
morning for a two-day conference with
Secretary Redfield and other officials of
the Department OF Commerce regard
ing commercial matters in general and
foreign trade expansion in particular.
$. The Secretaries will be the guests Of
the Department of Commerce head and
the officials of the department, and an
elaborate program of entertainment
and instruction has been arranged for
these men.
Only an hour and a half has been as
signed for conferences. From 10
o'clock until 1880 tomorrow morning
the secretaries will assemble in the
office of Secretary Redfeld in the Com
merce building, where Secretary Red
field will have some important an
nouncements to make to them regard
ing the work of the Department Of
Commerce and trade expansion work
of this branch of the government.
Then the delegates will begin a tour
of inspection and instruction. punctu-
ated with entertainment features, and
ending Saturday night with smoker
and supper at the University Club as
the guests of Secretary Redfield and
his corps of bureau chiefs.
Will Study the Department.
The department will be thrown open
to these secretaries to whom the va
rious associations look as their execu-
tive representatives in trade promotion
work. Every opportunity will be given
them to learn how the department
works, SO that when they go back to
their home cities they will know just
how to approach the department on any
trade problem in which they are in
terested.
The conference, so far as can be re-
called. is the first of it's kind where
the secretaries are the personal guests
of the officials Of the department who
themselves are financing the affair
Much good is expected to result to
the department and to the commercial
orga nizations in the way of creating
better understanding as to how they
can corporate in developing the com
mercial preparedness propa sanda
which is to be the big subject before
business men of the United States from
now on, In view of the fact that the
present large export trade is only tenn
porary and brought about by big war
demands. The idea which WIN De up,
permost in the minds Of all will be to
develop plans for maintaining trade
abroad and increasing 1t after the in
fated war demands cease.
The Committees in Charge.
The committees which have charge of
the entertainment and tours of the
department follow:
Reception committee - Edwin F.
Sweet. assistant secretary. chairman;
A. l.. Thurman, solicitor of the depart
ment: Dr. f. E. Pratt. chief of the bu-
reau of foreign and domestic com
merce; Sam l.. Rogers. director of the
census; DIR. S. W. Stratton. director OF
| the bureau of standards; DIR. Hugh NJ.
smith. commissioner of fisheries;
George n. Putnam. commissioner of
| lighthouses: DR.. e. Lester Jones. su-
perintendent of the coast and geode!ic
| survey: =. r. Chamberlain, commits
sioner Of navigation. and George uhIer.