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Show etary of Commerce i Establish Aggressive icy for Extension Foreign Business. ding and Mainte-lce Mainte-lce of an Adequate rchant Marine Is "Vd by Alexander. ' ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. ::a?o Tribune Special Service.) HINGTON, Dec 14. A new and ive policy for the extension of in foreign trade is to be cstab-y cstab-y J. V. Alexander, President Wil-secretary Wil-secretary of commerce. yisMr. Alexander' predecessor, Mr. - 1, who threw cold water on the ,; foreign trade expansion by as-tfcat as-tfcat it would be unseemly to en- ) a scramble with our allies for tare of markets abroad. Mexander has lost no time- in y' it clear that -a different policy ' 'vail under his administration. f 'der to bo on an even keel with, t 'npetitors," said the new secre-;me secre-;me today, "we ought to have a , Vit marine adequate to carry 60 ""it of our commerce in foreign ! nd it should be our fixed purpose! ermination to buikl and maintain j ant marine capable of doing that. e come out of a great world war is over our enemies, but we are great world contest for euprem- " -'i ocean carrying trade. j HANT MARINE j LOPMENT VITAL. j Britain has had that monopoly in ; and while she has lost a great I ' '.'.tps during the war, she still has a j Merchant marine and will continue : .r prime factor in the water-borne :e of the world. Developments of j ' it merchant marine we built up w war emergency is vital to oh-t oh-t 'our fair share of foreign trade "uld be regarded as one of the , VU ijolicies of our government. 'ivelopment should be under pri-T'nersliip, pri-T'nersliip, as was provided in a J-ed by the house at the last ses- LA ie contest for world trade, we -.''ice the competition with other na--:' hother allies or former enemies, ' Mrit of fair, but aggressive, com- as one honorable business rival ; other. I do not believe in look-j look-j his from an altruistic standpoint. that other nations are prepar-"p prepar-"p press whatever advantages they rto the full, and we should pro-he pro-he same way. Our power of pro-Jtvas pro-Jtvas greatly increased during the , 3 wo must find foreign markets j growing output or suffer the j inces. More and more in the fu-I shall find that national pros- I usy factories, active commerce, n3 agriculture, steady employment les is connected with the extent Keign trade. 'ROCAL ADVANTAGE PLANNED FOR. j ssure this requires the solution of j an one problem. We cannot ex- I 'r foreign trade simply by s'lip-ods s'lip-ods out. M'e must buy aa well j and that means a thorough studv i rT'1" In wljleh we ran trade with .untries. on the basis of reciprocal I f!:: 1 lnnk this ofters enlarged I mice of service to the bureau ; I ,n an-1 domestic commerce of the! 'lent of commerce. L'Titil the lvar 0r domestic trade so doml-r doml-r Jr wimmercial life that wo were - attention than the other ijreat rt:'e upbuilding of foreian trade. I now that they were clnselv . tonriltn markets. In order to I':, "cinands of the buver to a 'Jl only as to the kind of goods i ;ilsi as to manner of rack-' rack-' me time of payment. While nons were eoncenlratin? effort ne.e. we know that the poli,:y of w.r manufacturers was to 'put p.ick.iue according to their own no. J? tb "rein. huyer ac- i "o as he saw fit. The war has I 1 in.: viewpoint of our manufac-' of the department of com- I tin?"""1? I'-'Oader ouUook iH win"! c"strib"tin'- informa-I'-'i will bring increasing concrete; 0rUr,,h,in!f th,a' "'ill mean a rtif--"-t policy,' Mr. Alexander was ,u(''1uCSr,UC"Si0,, that will ;V Air best consideration, fro,,, everc ' ""ke our "We have ,,- , 1,1 , '"nditions. In the future I ' " tr.,n, the stand: oi,"ht T 1 U'", '"'"'"facturer "V M 1 ',lVu' ''u'' limn -j. ' am no, fr...j,.,. a,, 'inued on page y, column)"- U, S, TO CONTEST 111 Til (Continued From Page One.) think the real needs of our manufacturers manufac-turers in the face of danmslnt; forea-l competition rausi he taken into duo coi-sioeration. coi-sioeration. I think decisions should In made only after a careful study of thii costs ami a consideration of all plias-sl of llie prubloni in connection with o.ri expeeted expansion of foreign coiumero . The liigii prulertiontsLs. liave asserted tlut there was only one side to this question. ques-tion. In our new situation in the woi dl we arc going to have it fureibly brought! home to us that there are two sides ;o the question. We must take these problems prob-lems out of mere controversy and put them on the foundation of riots. That is why 1 have always favored a tariff commission that we may have impartial impar-tial investigation of the facts." |