The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-28
n. s. PREPARING TO
GET FOREIGN TRADE
Prominent Men Named to Aid
in Training Agents for
Export Business.
FACE COMMERCIAL WAR
Bureau Of Education Aims to
Put Army Of Goods Sales
men in World Markets.
FACE COMMERCIAL WAR

Announcement was made yesterday
that twelve OF the most prominent edu-
Gators and business men In the United
States have consented to serve on the
Advisory Council of the Committee q,
Fifteen on Education Preparation for
Foreign Service so that men may be
trained to aid in the fight for foreign
trade after the war. The members ~
this committee will cooperate with T. r.
.Claxton and Glen Levin Swiggett under
the auspices OF the United States Bureau
of Education in creating a system Of ed
ucation for foreign business intended to
At the present development in the export
business.
Those who signifled their intention
yesterday Of serving on the council are
Cyrus II. Mccormick president Interna-
tional Harvester Company. Chicago; H.
X. Milford, vice president II. X Null
ford Company, Philadelphia: Arthur T.
Hadley. president Yale University. New
Haven, Conn: ]. A. McGregore. Pacific
coast representative Bethlehem Ship
building Corporation. San Francisco;
John Hays Hammond, former president
American Institute of Mining Engineers
and chairman of the World Court Com
gress. New York; Charles NJ. Schwab,
chairman board Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration and Director-General Finer
gency Fleet Corporation, United States
Shipping Board, Philadelphia; John II.
Rosseter, vice-president and manager
Pacific Mail Steamship Company. san
Francisco: Edward X. Graham. presi-
dent University Of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill: F. W. Taussig. chairman
United States Tariff Commission, Wash
ington; Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president
University of California. Berkeley;
al II into .
City Schools. Boston: Joseph French
Johnson. dean School of Commerce. Ac-
counts and Finance. New York Unver-
sity, New York.
The men on the committee have had
to do with all varities Of foreign bus-
ness and their experiences will be used
as the basis for a plan of instruction
for men desiring this course of train
ing.
the National City Bank in charge Of
the South American branches, in COM
menting on this work yesterday said
THE need and the demand for prac-
teal training Is now supreme. We
face a great contest of the interna-
tional markets, and we ought to have
bigger army of trained men ready
for 1t. The current movement for en-
tending American business methods.
nOOlneO 10 suit foreign COnultlOHs 70
cover foreign markets. means that
| there will be a call for many statesmen
and others who have put on top u
successful experience here a certain
amount OF necessary knowledge Of
| foreign business handling. also knowl-
edge of a foreign language, so that we
can cover foreign markets for foreign
products in a new way. 1t is not un-
likely that some practical way OF sn-
ablng individual statesmen. on their own
| initiative, to get this training. or OF
| helping business concerns to put fo'-
eign-trade training into their own or
ganizations. will result. AT any rate
| the problem of having great training
system for foreign commerce in this
| country is now going to be taken NJ
| by n committee of the kind of men who
can solve it and carry out a hig plan.
| X anybody can. and with the Co-opcra-
ton of the Government. and so this IS
one of the big. important things hcng
done. like the building of the merchant
marine. in the preparation of cihc ent
machinery for winning foreign business
in the future"