Show i 1 t 4 IS HONORED 1 1 LESTER T I ESTER D. D FREED president J-J J JJ dent of the Commercial club who has been named on general committee of International International International Trade Conference i I I I i I Leading Business Men l of ol V World orld to Confer at Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic City N. N J. J J Lester uster D. D Freed president of the tho Salt Lake Commercial club was yesterday I appointed to the general committee of 01 I the International trade conference to te tobe tobe be held In Atlantic Cit City tho the week of ot September 29 9 This Is considered one ont of ot the highest honors e cr paid to a business s man of or this state The con- con will be held under the auspIces auspices aus aus- of oC the tho chambers of oC commerce of ot the United States Growing out or of or the unsettled conditions conditions conditions condi condi- after tho the war the conference will bring to this country tho the lead leading In business men of the world At that time general plans as to the tho future of ot the thc worlds world's commerce will bo discussed discussed dis dis- cussed by experts in iii international trade Itinerary One Ono of Mr tr Freed's special duties will willbe willbe be to assist In arranging the inspection inspection tion trip of or the United States which the national chamber is considering to show the tho foreign missions the Industrial industrial indus Indus- industrial trial and commercial centers of oC the United States o D oThe The notice of or Mr r. r Freed's appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment b by Homer I I. 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L Ferguson president of the national chamber was as received from Merle erle Thorpe editor of oC tho the Nations Nation's Business the biggest business Journal in the country and the of official tidal organ org of the chambers of ot commerce of the United States In explaining the work ork of the foreign for tor- cl eign n mission Mr l Freed reed said that the European I countries Intend to send five men men In including cabinet officers and other experts of oC international trade and well versed In the future of the commercial world The American delegates dele delo- gates ates are to be selected by the committee commIttee com corn on arrangements arrangements' E Economic Warfare Destructive War Var Is over o but peace Is not yet vet here said Mr r. r Freed Men Ion no longer kill kin one another in the trenches but economic warfare always alwa'S destructive to Indu industrial life lire often Is destructive e to I- I liV no i t IT i. i i. i n v i o i J winy i in n course of recuperation Men are arc out of oC work because factories have not yet vet been reconstructed or there is no raw raw material or or there is no plan In operation for Cor or financing the purchase of ot raw material Th The best minds In the country are rc unanimous in the belief beller that J something must he be done to re restore re- re store trade processes throughout the world or the tho effect of or the tho European conditions will ill react on the thc United States The Thc international trado trade conference will undertake to set the wheels of commerce in motion In hi tho the hope and belief that depression will bo prevented prevent pre ed pd thereby It jt will bo be a second peace conference The rhe ono one at Paris fixed po political political po- po boundary lines lines- Tho The one at At Atlantic At- At lantic City will tr try to establish confidence confidence con con- and rind mat make universal trading possible again Problem Affect It N Future The Tho future of the world worM depends on the solution of ot the trade problem The United States being neither In peace nor in war er c every Industry try is disturbed by the uncertainty of or the sItuation situation All All elements of ot society are ready to turn to a program that will make the world function unction a again aln that will find supply for demand and demand for or supply America which can produce e astl vastly more than it needs for Its wn use must have a market for tor the thc surplus ug How can the market be bo made stable when world bankruptcy is threatened In America AmerIcaS whether he be he capitalist or laborer farmer or merchant mer mer- chant manufacturer or banker will wil have difficulty adjusting his affairs for the future until this question is an an an- an The International trado trade conference Con con ference terence will taci tactic le ft it l n I 01 u nr n Frank A A. Now New York Tonic financier lately latch on a tour of ot inesti In gation in Europe where hundreds of ot thousands of men women and anti children have starved to death In n the last year says the breakdown of transportation is one ono of ot the causes causes' of or the thc failure to obtain food tood where It is most needed At one time he he- declares declare there were hundreds of unloaded cargoes of ot food tood in tho the harbor of Marseilles f held there because preceding cargoes were sero blockIng blockIng blockIng block- block Ing the line of transportation In this thlu r instance plenty of ot food and dire want were not distantly separated yet et death stalked talked tho the country because nobody ap ap- ap- ap wa was ablo able to deviso a wa way to tc I brin bring them together How to make a a recurrence of or so tra tragic le a situation impossible Im im- im possible writ will bo diScussed at nt Atlantic City Many any questions of unfair arl advani tn es in forel foreign n trade trado which in the u past l have spelled commercial grief will be given Iver attention hunker attention bunker coal oal spes In the custom houses and antI prior priority t shipping ppl ng Ii IT U. S. S Conceived Conference Tho The chambers of ot commerce of ot th the United States Mr h l Freed reed concluded se seeing the great groat roa t world need for action ac ac- tion now laid the foundation for tor the thc C international trade conference by Inviting In In- In Eu England France Italy and Bel- Bel glum Ium to send to the tho United States Hates their r beet beat men to meet American business S men in an n effort to unclog unclog- trade ma ma- chinery and to build such H R program Ii for tor the future that trade will flow fio S without Interruption to the end that tha t all peoples shall Hhall share Bhare In the general genera 1 prosperity t Others ers who have been appointed to servo serve on the general committee Include In In- In clude elude some Horne of ot tho the bl biggest Kest business s and financial men of the country amon among them being Harry A. A Wheeler h ler of ot Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago vice president of ot tho the Union Trust I I company compan Thomas A. A Lament Lamont New I York connected with J 1 J. J P. P Morgan I I Co r. r A. A Filene Boston of ford chairman Sons ins comPany compan of or the and Standard A. A C C. C D Bedford Bed Bed- cl- cl company Mr F Ferguson r president Oil the tho national chamber br of ot nf or spoke In Salt Lake Lalee about a n. mon comm commerce On the months month aro ao nationS nation's need for tor Q a merchant marine |