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Show SIMPLER PASSPORT REGULATIONS ARE DEMANDED - Commercial Organizations of Europe and America Open Campaigns BKUUW Jan. There is a spon taneous demand from commercial or-gunizatinns or-gunizatinns of Kurope and the American Ameri-can cont lnent for simpler passport regulations, says Fred V. King, acting act-ing presideri! of the American chamber cham-ber of iniiimiTt i' of ibis city. The matter mat-ter already has be.-n brought lo the attention of a number of Kernri.ents and protest a have li.tn nuii- lo Washington Wash-ington against the America! s stem of issuing short-time pAMS,iortf. It Is stated stat-ed .The protest ts based on the ground that there im much dlay and difficulty difficul-ty in ha v i St thepe short period passport pass-port a renewed when they have expired. , TO IIOI.l) MKKTIG, I Itr presents) vea of chambers of com - merep of many nations are to hold a i conference, the time and place of v htch has not yet ben determined, for the purpose of developing; a pAssport plan that will he at once sNtisfactory to the governments and meet the needs of commercial and other travelers. Those advocating changes want paas- forts to t.e issoed for. perhaps, a num-er num-er of years, instead of for a few months and to eliminate the custom of v inelng inspect ion and long examlna-t examlna-t ions at every front ler. It Is claimed that the delays reuniting front present regulations have been carried to a most aggravating extent h- some of the smaller nations of central Kurope. KT.ll.ft I ... "ftuatnean men have told me of 1ns-Ina; 1ns-Ina; hindreda of thousands ot dollars by being unable to keep appointments and do- contracts because of Sela vein ve-in recrivtng credentials to cross the f ron t iers " raid l r. King. "The present pres-ent syfttetn is ubsohitrlv hopeleas from a bus ine!i v lew iMiint. What is seeded is a simple method which will do awav with all ttie red tape and permit people peo-ple to move sbout as uulck.lv as af fairs reouire. This is entirely "osslhle." The movement towrad greater simplicity sim-plicity is understood to hve originated wit h t he cham ler of commerce of lte unos Aires. A rgenttna. and Hout h A merit, an countries sre particularly anxious to simplify passport customs in view of the inrreaitiir business they sre doing with the Kuropean nations. Their chambers of commerce are conducting con-ducting an active campaign to this end |