The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-10

A correspondent in the Northwest has 360 acres of wheat. His income is derived from it's sale. Where can 1t be sold? Who fixes the price? Can my friend say-this is my wheat 1 will sell it in the home market at a prlce based upon my cost Of produc- ing it and so ensure a living for my self and family? Of course he caa say no such thing. He cannot fix the price of wheat. He cannot sell it all in the Cni.ed States. Our mar kets are not large enough to take all our wheat. Perhaps a little more than half is the utmost we can con sume. The rest must be sold abroad. We need hardly press the Ilustra- dons farther though it would be sim pie to S&ply them to the lumber in dustry of the far northwest, to the great petroleum industry, to the man ufac cturers of agricultural machinery and equipment, to locomotive and car builders, to the steel industry and many many others. aa Unless the United abroad, it's agriculture, its mines and many of its industries can never op- crate long successfully. Prosperity IS not something which is the product of local enterprise. It is the out come of international forces This being so, what shall we do about it? The problem, you see. is a practical one. It is not wholly political or wholly financial or wholly industrial. It partakes in some measure of all of these elements, but it is far more than these in the respect that it is human You, your children, your workInen, their families are linked up to the common fortunes of mankind by ties not the less strong that they are sometimes indirect or even in places invisible. When the Apostle said centuries ago that God had made of one blood all races for to dwell upon the face of the earth, he was speaking of spiritual conditions which in his vision might arise out of the solidarity of man arising from the controlling power of the Roman Empire Were an apostle today to grasp the spiritual and human fac tors in economies, he would preach that this same doctrine in it's essence was being forced upon mankind by the ineXorable necessities of trade arising from the demands of the life of every family.
 Every one of us know what hap pens to the 1eader-the commercial house that selfishly over-reaches. We say they do not play the game or they overtrade. A feeling grows up of caution. Men go around them in their transactions. Even in the paths of business sometimes called sordid and supposedly material, men de- mand fair share of give and take, value for value, not the least for the most but a fair reward for good ser vice. This principle and no other known to us all in our daily lives and 1OllOWeu DF lis ana taught Dy us 10 our children, is the rule of interna-
 ional trade we all depend. We may be in more or less intimate touch with it's daily operations. but some relation to 1t, whether as consumer or producer. we cannot escape. Ev- cry so-called foreign order must in the necessities of the case be trans lated into many dom estic ones, and they in their turn sent out among the factories of America are repeat ted into other domestic orders until the wave thus started may spread all over the country, and those who are supplying foreign lands with needed articles may never know the ultimate desti- nation of the goods which they pro- duce.
 Yet to make such sales possible we need new tools. Such a tool is found in the Foreign Trade Financing Cor poration of whose active entrance in to service we hope soon to hear. Ap- proved by all great financial and commerc bodies and supported by powerful banking and industrial in stitutions, it furnishes a means of maintaining our business abroad and therefore our prosperity at home " hfch we greatly need and for lack of which we are suffering todav