The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-13
HURLEY PLANS FOR
 TRADE AFTER WAR
By HOLLAND

New York october 12.-(Speeial.) )-Sev- eral years before the late William Wins became the republican candidate for mayor of New York city. he undertook to establish a steamship line between the United States and South America, for he was persuaded that if well organ ized corporation with adequate capital and excellent steamers could be es.. abolished, then the United States would gain some part of the South Americas trade which was then and until the war began chiefly possessed by Great Britain and by Germany.
 MT. Wins enthusiasm was better than his judgment. He could not get cargoes for his vessels and he was compelled to see Great Britain and Germany still dominating international trade, espe- cially with Brazil and Argentina Now Edward N. Hurley, who is chairman of the United States shipping board, and who is a man of extreme caution, so far as making predictions is concerned. announces that with the construction ot great merchant marine and with the loss of4South American trade which Ger many has completely met with and Great Britain partially, there is no reason why the United States should not command much the greater part of that trade and hold it after the war is over. MT. Hurley comments upon the fact that the United States buys and consumes more coffee than any other nation in the world. Much the greater part of our cof- fee comes from Brazil and we have been for years paying Brazil about $l00, 900 ,O0U a year for the coffee we have bought of her. Nevertheless, for lack of ship ping and other facilities, especially banking, we have not been able to pay Brazil in goods manufactured in the United States for the coffee we bought of them.
 MT. Hurley says that European ships have controlled substantially the entire shipment of coffee from Rio de Janeiro and Santaz to New York and New Or leans. As many as three ships a month brought to New Orleans the coffee which was marketed in the south and the mid dle west. These ships, however, did not take return cargoes to Brazil, as they should have done under normal interna- tional trade conditions, when Cincinnati, St. Louis and all the middle west would have been in position to send return cargoes to Brazil. But they had no ships. The German and English vessels which brought the cargoes of coffee to VI manufactured goods which were made largely of raw materials and took these cargoes to Europe
 Hereafter such an abnormal and ex- pensive method will in all probability be abandoned because the United States is building a real merchant marine. In ad- dition to that, American banks are es- tablishing foreign branches so that the American ship and the American dollar, MT. Hurley says, are going to work to- sether How this can be done Is illus trated by MT. Hurley, who takes Brazil as the object lesson. He says when American ships go to Rio and Santaz for coffee they will carry American of-
 fcers and seamen. In his opinion there are no better salesmen or creators of good will in the world than the men who man merchant ships which run or regular lines from the United States te other countries. With our coffee brought to US in American ships and paid fol in American manufactured commodities these officers and sailors will exer' themselves to get freight.
 We should be able to ship to Brazil, In