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Show solve those of an international character. char-acter. The reason for the decline in foreign for-eign trade, divorced of argument and confusing details, is simple enough foreign nations cannot buy from us unless we buy from them. We must look beyond state and national boun-" daries toward the world horizon, in the knowledge that foreign trade is one of the keys to domestic prosperity prosper-ity and industrial stimulation. WHERE COOPERATION I WILL PAY. j Declining foreign trade is one of the factors most responsible for pro-j longing the business depression exactly ex-actly as it was a factor in bringing it on. Few of us sufficiently understand how vital international commerce is to domestic prosperity. A decrease of a "mere" five or six per cent in employment em-ployment and purchasing power means all the difference between good j times and bad. And a decline of ton i or fifteen per cent might mean the difference between stability and chaos. The doctrine of economic and social soc-ial isolation may have been workab'e in 1831 -but it is suicidal in 1931. No nation can, figuratively, remove itself to a high peak and look down on the rest of the world, depending on itself alone for sustenance. Cooperation Co-operation between businesses and individuals in-dividuals has solved many of the industrial in-dustrial problems of the age and cooperation co-operation between nations, both :n commerce and in diplomacy, must |