Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-24
BRIDGE OF SHIPS TO THE SUTHFFTY YEARS Ago IN The STAR

Second only to the wartime neces-
sity Of bridging the seal TO France
with men. mu-
Carriers for South nitions and
American Trade. t,,s .r.ss.sr 49,
necessity OF supplying cargo carriers
for the comnherce with South Amer
lea. in which the United States DUR
ing the last two years has Jumped
from third to first place. This duty
is recognized by the United States
Shipping Board Secretary McAdoo.
as chairman of the United States Sec
ton of the International high COM
mission. after q personal exaniina-
ton Of the situation. has urged upon
the shipping board the necessity Of
providing adequate transportation
facilities between Latin America and
the United States.
Edward Nash Hurley, chairman Of
that greatest shipbuilding organi-
cation in the history of the world,
has authorized the statement that
more than 100000 tons of the
% OGO.UU0 tons Of ocean-eoing ships
which are to be completed by 1920
Will be turned to South American
service.
This is no haphaxard guess, for the
United States is not going after COM
merce con; uest Of the or1d In any
unscientiffc. failure-inviting fashion.
The collapse of the German govern
ment. which gambled the destiny of
a great nation on a chance of world
dominion, without taking accurate
account of the character and re-
sources of her opponents, is q mental
poster for all business prospectors.
\
THE old-fashioned method of do
ing business on 'hunch' will not do
for the future"
No More Business Burwell s. Cut
on q ssHunch." ITn,.sa a.. ~
reau Of foreign and domestic COM
merce, told an association of manu-
facturers In Cleveland on Thursday,
in discussing scientific commercial
accuracy. That is the catch line that
emphasizes In all governm. Mt or pri-
vate business Offices, planning for
commercial expansion. the need for
tory he plans to invade just as care
fully as the allied generals mapped
out the ground before they advanced
against the Huns.
That 100000 to 100000 dead
weight tons of United States ships
ing the staple commodities from
South America is the estimate made
by Walter s. Tewner. chief of the
commodities section Of the division
Of planning and statistics of the ship
ping board, who is recognized as an
authority on South American trade
The estimate is built on these funda-
mental requirements:
Argentina ~ 2,250.0O0 lightweight
tons for grain exports. which will
total not less than 100000 long tons.
BRAZIL. 500 900 to 100000 dead
coffee 100000 to 100000 long tons
of iron ore and 100000 tons of man.
ganese and ehromite.
Chile, 900, 600 lightweight tons for
1000 900 long tons of nitrate and L.
100000 to 100000 long tons of iron
ore
For other great staples which the
world looks to South America to sup
ply-such as copper from Peru and
Chile, wool and beef from Argentina
and Uruguay, lthseed from Argen-
tina, tin from Bolivia. cacao from
Ecuador. platinum and pharmaceuti-
cal products from Brazil and hides
from all these countries-2,eOo,0 900
to 100000 lightweight tons.
It needs but slight business thrift
to recognize that the ships that come
so heavy laden from
Chime IN Rufrrn the South American
sister republics will
Nor is there any question of Allan
tic coast as against Pacific coast. nor
seaboard monopolizing the profits to
the exclusion of the great interior Of
either North or South America.
The development of commerce and
world demands is already stimulating
mining and power projects in South
America These call for machinery
from the United States and the build
ing of railroads from the coast in
land, which in turn call for Made in
u. s. A." rails, cars and locomotives
Each shipload that goes from port
in the United States will mean in
creased production of the raw mate
rails inland. the steadier and faster
hum of wheels Of industry, increased
railroad and inland waterway trans
pc~+otion
There is demand for shoes and
land. fuel oil from the great Cali
fornia and mid-continent reservoirs,
steel from the Pittsburgh and Biz
mingham districts tractors and mo-
tor cars from Detroit-and practically
everything that the enterprise Of
each individual state IN the Union
sends in barter to the markets of the
world
People Of the east are apt to think
OF New York ana Boston as the ports
from which the American merchant
marine will carry the goods that will
build up dsnser p 20 sntS ana
ca. but the gulf ports are already
mapping out trade routes through
the Panama canal and establishing
exchange friendships. and
trade organizations on the Pacific
coast for months have been organic
ing a concerted trade attack on CO.
lombia Ecuador. Peru and Chile.
It is pan-American trade that the
American merchant marine will car
ry-in which all business interests OF
both hemispheres. directly or tndt-
rectly. will share increased prosper.
ity.
Development Of trade between the
United States and South American
countries 10 essen
Development to italy scientific At (. ana
Be Scientific. = north ana .outh
basis rather than east and west-lt IL
an exchange between countries In
different zones. which yield different
products, between a country with
manufacturing highly developed and
q group of republics whore manufao-
turing is in its infancy ana the re-
sources have scarcely been tapped.