The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-23
WILL ATTEND INTERNATIONAu SESSION SEPT. 2S 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 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- sions, which will represent the Allied lcountries, 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-making event. The 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 l ,rri11 react upon the United States. l The International Trade Conference will undertake to set the wheels of | merce in motion in the hope and belief that depression will be prevent e5 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-establish confidence land make universal trading possible again.
 The future of the world depends upon the solution of the trade prob , lem 1.-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 uo
 a program that will make the world | function industrially again; that will | find supply for demand, and demand | Il duce vastly more than it needs for it's l own use, must have a market for the | surplus. The Conference will con-
 slider how the market may be made II stable when world bankruptcy is
 threatened.
 Il r Everybody in America, capitalists or | laborer, farmer or merchant, manu-
 facturers 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 | past have brought commercial raII- l 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.
 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-
 ton.
 The visiting missions will have five r members, each, including cabinet of ficers and others famed for r-lerr abil- : ity and experience in handling trade ? problems.
 9 The personnel of the Commission 2 will be announced shortly by cable
 to the United States. The American T delegates will be selected by the cor7- ? nrittee on arrangements.