The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-27
GOVERNMENT READY FOR WORLD
 BUSINESS AS SOON AS WAR ENDS
Plans Made Despite the Efforts of Republicans to Delay Peace Time Conditions By Holding
 Up Treaty and League Covenant.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 27.-while the business interest of the United States are necessarily in doubt as to the scope and detail of their future foreign policy because Of the delay of the Senate in ratifying the Peace Treaty. the Government is laying plans so that American commerce can plunge into active world compe- u,ion when the war is officially at an end. With ships to transport Ameri- can goods, statistical facts to guide the salesman in foreign fields and the industrial ability to supply the greater part of the world. the United States is in the best possible position, could prompt ratification of the Peace Treaty be obtained,
 The work of creating. or rather of building a foreign trade for the United States. will fall on the Depart mcnts of State and Commerce in con- junction with the work of the ship ping Board. The Bureau of F'oreigu and Domestic Commerce of the De- partment of Commerce will act through it's special agents and investI- gators throughout the world in ac- quainung the producers of this coun- try y~ith opportunities abroad, while at the same lime they will carry on the work of advertising American goods to the foreign markets. In the State Department the Foreign Trade Adviser and the Consular Service will form the HaisOn between the foreign consumer and the American produc- CT.
 The ConsuIs of the Consular Serv- ice are, of course, the active agents of the Commerce Department in many countries in matters involving foreign trade opportunities. To these two services will fall the lot of reopen ing such countries as Russia, Fur key, the Balkans, Germany and Aus tria and of "diEEiuE in in the hither- to little cultivated mouarChies and re publics of Africa and Asia. Besides there will be thousands of Opportuni- ties in south America, many of whose markets formerly patronized German producers. and most of whom are in recent years turning with marked degree of preference to goods from the United States.
 The Consular Service has been greatly expanded during the past few years to meet the demands of war conditions. There has been no in crease of personnel in the number
 
 called. but the vast amount of work to be done abroad during the war has nacessitated the taking on of num- erous assistants and large clerical forces. About fifty of the principal officers or consuls from posts within the Centra Powers during the war have been scattered elsewhere in the last two years, and this in Itself amounts to an expansion of personnel in the enlargement of the foreign field covered. In addition to this the State Department has secured the consent of the last Congress to the creation of the new posts of vice-cousuls. These are berths to be filled in out of the way places by younger men, who are willing to start at minimum salaries to learn the work of the dip lonatic and consular services as a career.
 It Is possible this new branch of the service will result in the appoint ment of probably a half-hundred ad-