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Show SECRETARY OP STATE COLBY'S JUNKET Secretary of State Colby Is back' from South America whero he trav-jelod trav-jelod In regal splendor, with a bnttle-jehlp bnttle-jehlp to house his party. For successful suc-cessful posing the camera men have never had better subjects than the Colby party. Tho commercial interests inter-ests of North and South America havo been reaching toward one another an-other In efforts to "got together' for m,any years. Mr. Colby doubtless felt that during his brier tunuro In jolilco ho could be spared from Washington Wash-ington to help promote better fool lng between the peoples of the western west-ern hemlsplier, and ho tharefare organized or-ganized a Junkot that traveled fast enough to got him homo beforo any positive announcement was made as to.who would bo his successor. Tho best minds In Washington are agreed that tho development of an American merchant marlno furnishes the only solution that can. be brought to bear In solving this great problem pro-blem of our foreign trade. A big start was made during the war, but tho emergencies that came with fighting left tho same trail of waste in tho story of shipping that Is found In every phase of war activities. Tho result Is that tha shipping board has became a sort of football and everyone every-one that has wanted to start something, some-thing, takes a kick at it; whereas thoro Is doubtless no peace tlmo agency that could absorb moro permanent per-manent benefits If given constructive holp, than tho shipping board. Just what tho fato of this government burcnu will bo hard to determine. But given proper support our merchant mer-chant marino doubtless solves all of our problems of foreign trade. |