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Show SEEK REMEDY FOR " PROBLEMS OF DAY I FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL LEADERS OF WORLD TO MEET IN NEW YORK. I Appeal to People to Return to I Standards of Reason and to Gov. I ernmcnU to Increase Revenue I Rather Than Debts. New York. A cull for one of the I greatest International conferences of I otnmcrcinl anil llminclul llgurcs cur I assembled, In au cITort to llml a reme- ily for the fluiinvlnl mid comiuurclal I !muN In which I lie world tins heeu I eft by the war, was Issued here on I .liinuury 14, following the meeting of I at coterie of nationally known Ilium-BJ Ilium-BJ clers. '11icniiieul was Issued .slmultuucous- l.r with Hlnilliir proclamations put forth BJ lu Grout Britain, France, Holland, BJ .Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden mid BJ Norway. In each ease the documents BJ Mere jJgned liy huslness, lluauclul, po- lltlcul, educatloniil leaders In their I respective countries. In the case of BJ the Kuropeun countries, the appeal wns m addressed to the rospeethe govern- menu. lu Uio United States the Wiomber of commerce of the United States wus naked to iirruugo the pre- Umlnorles of the conference, while the I ppul wits' addressed Jointly to that I body, the American government and I the reparation comiulHslon In I'urls. I May Include Teutons. I While Germany and Austria were I nut Included In the original call, It was I jnuouueed thut delegates from theso I countries would bo Invited to attend I the conference. "To sum up the docu- I meat," says tho official announcement I uf Uie conference, "It Is a call to tho I people to return to pro-war standards I f reasou an appeal to tho ropara- I tlons commission, for wUo moderation I at to Ui best busluess policy for all I concerned un appeal to governments I lo urrest Inllutlou and moot luovlt- I ublo burden by Increasing their rev ' I 4nu raUier than by Increasing their 1 Uiisv' appeal 10e-peoetorrOrtr I mid save, an appeal to leaders ot com merce nod fluanco to get together In order to study the problems dispassionately dispas-sionately und take It up us a business proposition, relying on Independent action ac-tion ruthcr than government Intervention. Interven-tion. Governments cau be relied upon, however, to removu as rapidly us possible pos-sible the obstacles thut impede sucn u course." |