The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-23
WILL ATTEND INTERNATIONAL SESSION SEPT. 29 B. D. Pierce and Kingsbury of Chamber of Com
 merce. WILL BE SECOND PEACE CONFERENCE Members of Foreign Mis- sions to Visit Industrial
 Centers.

Bridgeport will be interested to learn that Bradford D. Pierce. Jr.. President of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, and F. J. Kingsbury, Vice President Of the Bridgeport Chamber, have been appointed mem bers of the General Committee which will have charge of the arrangement for the International Trade Confer ence which will be held under the auspices of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States, at Allan tic City, the week of September 29th, and also to look after details for a trip which the members of the For eign Mission will take to a number of commercial and Industrial centers.
 Beside the appointees' names, the general committee includes such men as Homer l.. Ferguson, President of the National Chamber of Commerce; Harry A. Wheeler, of Chicago; Thomas w LaMott of New York; Ed ward A. Filene of Boston and A. c. Bedford of New York, Chairman of the Standard Oil Company.
 It will be recalled that a week or so ago, the Bridgeport Chamber of Com merce announced that it had invited the members of these Foreign Mis-
 
 countries, to visit Bridgeport, and see ! it's industries which have played such an important part in winning the ! World War.
 The International Trade Conference will be an epoch-malSing event. The 1 best minds in the country are unani- nous in the belief that something must be done to restore trade pro- cesses throughout the world, or the effect of the European conditions will react upon the United States. The International Trade Conference will undertake to set the wheels of merce in motion in the hope and belief that depression will be prevent ed thereby. It will be a second Peace Conference.
 The one at Paris fixed political boundary lines; the one at Atlantic City will try to re-esta.blish confidence and make universal trading possible again.
 upon the solution of the trade prob Ilem;---the United States being neither in peace nor in war, every industry is disturbed by the uncertainty. All ele- ments of society are ready to turn 10 a program that will make the world function industrially again; that will find supply for demand, and demand for supply. America, which can pro- duce vastly more than it needs for it's own use, must have a market for the surplus. The Conference will con- sider how the market may be made stable when world bankruptcy is threatened.
 Everybody in America, capitalists or laborer, farmer or merchant, manu- lecturers or bankers, will have diffi- culty in adjusting his affairs for the future until this question is settled. The International Trade Conference
 will tackle it.
 Many questions of unfair advan- | tages in foreign trade, which in the 1 past have brought commercial ralI-
 ure, will be given attention, such as | bunker coal, spies in custom houses,
 priority shipping, and other things
 which have in the past greatly hamp- | cred American manufacturers in ex- | port trade.
 1 The Chamber of Commerce of the | United States laid the foundation for
 the International Trade Conference
 by inviting England, France, Italy | and Belgium to send to the United { States their best men to meet Ameri
 can business men in an effort to ] start up the trade machinery, and | construct a program for the future so | that trade can flow without interrup- | tion.
 The visiting missions will have five
 members, each, including cabinet of- | ficers and others famed for t-lerr abil- l ity and experience in handling trade l problems.
 The personnel of the Commission i will be announced shortly by cable
 to the United States. The American
 delegates will be selected by the corn~ l nittee on arrangements.