Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-21
.HE United States put through

ME United states put through
one of the worlds biggest jobs
when it separated North Amer
lea from South America with a Pan
anna Canal. All the while the Canal
was being built a work just as great
and just as important was going on
with just the opposite purpose; the
welding of two continents
While the Northern and Southern
Hemispheres were being cut apart
physically, every effort was being
made to bring them together finan-
cially, commercially, and, so to speak,
is still going on, harder than ever.
1t is pretty generally realized that our
prosperity after the war is going to be,
to an important extent, dependent on
our Latin-American relations. The
latest federal body whose purpose is
to cement those relations bears the
imposing title of the International
High Commission.
The International High Commission
is an imposing organization. 1t con-
sists of a score of national sections,
one from each of the American re-
publics. The Secretary of the Treas
ury or the Minister of Finance of each
republic is chairman of his national
section by virtue of his office. The
rest of the section consists of not more
than nine members, drawn from the
leading financial and commercial eX-
perts of the country in question.
Thus the Commission represents an
impressive aggregation of talent and
special knowledge brought to bear on
the problem of trade and intercourse
between the American republics
The Commission as a whole includes
16O members. Secretary McAdoo is
general chairman. The American Sec
tion includes such men as John Bas-
sett Moore. of Columbia University.
Paul Warburg of the Federal Reserve
Board, Samuel Untermyer of the New
York Bar and e. II. Gary of the
United States Steel Corporation. The
recent trip of Secretary McAdoo's par
ty to South America was made to at
tend the first meeting in Buenos Ayres.
The matters taken up there are par
ticularly interesting, in that they show
what experts consider the leading pro-
blems to be solved in doing business
with South America.
In spite of the fact that the sec
tions of the Commission are sanctioned
and financed by the various govern
ments-an act of Congress appro-
PIRATES $4,000 to meet the expenses
of the American section, to be i'm
mediately available and to remain so
until eXpended-the Commission is
distinctly an advisory body It's ac-
tlVltles are limited to discussion and
recommendation, but the character of
its makeup gives It's recommended
tions great deal or force, and many
of them are likely to be enacted into
law in the various republics. Broad
ly stated, the underlying idea of the
Commission and its conferences is for
the experts of the different countries
to get together and decide on what
ought to be done in the way of legis-
lation and commercial agreement.
They are then ready to advise their
national businessmen and legislators; /;
and each section is supposed to work
in its own country for the adoption of
the recommendations of the whole
body.
A great variety of points came M
for consideration. One of the most
interesting was the renewal of the pro-
ject for trunk-line railway connect
ing North and South America The
terminals of such a line would be To-
Gated in New York and Buenos Ayres.
When the line is completed it will be