Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-09-07
BUSINESS LEAGUE
BEGINS To WORK
MACHINERY OF INTERNATIONAL
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
is BEING SET UP.
FIELD 1T MEANS TO COVER
Clearing House for Data Concerning
Economic and Social conditions-It
Will Seek to Remove Friction Be-
tween Nations.
BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY.

BY JAMES p. HoRNADAY.
Washington.-The work of setting
up the machinery of the newly organ
lied international chamber of COM
merce is now under way in the tenn
porary headquarters at SO Rue JEAN
Donjon, Paris. The permanent head
quarters, which will be determined by
the board of directors, will probably
be located at the seat of the League
of Nations.
Dr. Edward Doileans, professor of
political economy at the University of
DiJon, who is the temporary secre-
tary-general OF the international cham
Der, is directing the work of putting
the machinery in motion. He is be-
ing assisted just now by David A.
Skinner, secretary of the chamber of
commerce of the United States.
Ti2e< outlook for the business league
of nations is very promising, accord
ing to American delegates who have
returned to the United States from the
Paris conference where the interna-
tional chamber was formed. They re-
port that no more earnest group of
men ever met for a greater cause
than the 500 delegates from France
Italy. Belgium, Great Britain and the
United States-the five foundation
countries-who gathered for the pur-
pose of building the machine which
would be set in operation to deal with
commercial problems.
Work That Will Be Covered.
At the headquarters of the interna-
tional chamber will be centralized data
concerning economic and social condi-
lions, the facts of production and re-
quirements and the possibilities of ful-
ture production ano requirements. 1t
will act as co-Ordinating instru-
ment for suggesting regulations and
Legislative measures to facilitate and
encourage economic intercourse. It
will also place at the disposal Of men,
bers and Of official agencies reports
and conclusions which may be issued
in accordance with it's articles or con-
Fstitution, and will form public opinion
ing business and economic conditions.
An idea of the extent of the work
which the international chamber
means to cover may be cleaned by
mentioning some of the points which
were included in the program of the
conference, as follows:
To make import and export trade
easier.
Safeguard International trade
against unnecessary waste and fraud.
Standardize international docu-
ments, practices and laws affecting
commercial intercourse
Remove international friction, much
of which begins with commercial diff
ferenceS.
Increase the total production of the
world, and make the product availa-
bic to the people of the world
Increase the mutual profit in inter
national transactions thereby pro-
noting international friendship which
is the basis Of peace.
Cultivate personal friendship be-
tween business men and bankers Of
different nations, thus reducing preju-
dice and misunderstanding
The constitution of the new Organi-
cation provides for a hoard of three
directors and three alternates selected
by each of the countries represented
The American directors are John Fl.
Fahey of Boston. formerly president
of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States; Willis H. Booth of
New York. and Edward A. Filehe of
Boston. The alternates are: Harry
A. Wheeler Of Chicago. formerly pres
ident Of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States; William Butter
worth of Moline, H., and Owen D.
Young of New York
NeWsprint Situation Bad.
That forest service of the depart
ment Of agriculture asserts that the
fundamental cause asserts that the
shortage of newsprint paper is the
serious depletion of the forests of
the northeastern and Lake states, |
where there is an Overdevelopment
of the pulp and paper industries. Since |
the requirement" of paper making re-
strict the kinds of wood than can be !
advantageously used in, making news
print. four species-spruce. hemIock |
balsam and poplar-supplied "a per |
cent of the total amount manufac- |
tured in 1917, according. to the report |
The occurrence of these species chiefly |
in the Lake states and New England |
has led to the oyercentraliZation Of |
the paper-making industry there. it is |
stated.
Until recently, when abnormal de- |
mands. short supplies and resulting |
high prices led to increased newsprint |
production through the utilization of |
plants designed for and formerly used |
in milking other kinds of paper there |
has been no expansion in the news !
print industry in the United States /
since 1909. and we have had TO i'm |
port large quantities of pulp wood and |
paper. the report points out. |
Supply Inadequate, Prices High.
Even with the imports the supply |
has been far short of the needs of the |
newspapers of the country in the last |