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Show MUST KEEP UP FOREIGN TRADE NEW YORK, April 25. "Unless we I continue to develop our foreign trade latter tho war, we can have no enduring endur-ing prosperity," was the warning given giv-en last night by Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, in discussing at a testimonial dinner to Isaac F. Marcos-son, Marcos-son, magazine writer, the future of the vast merchant marine which America is building. Mr. Hurlev paid tribute to the services serv-ices of writing men in the war, who, he said, have been "tremendous factors fac-tors in the conflict " "If these are any men among you who doubt that we are going to have a -vast fleet." Mr. Hurley said, "I will! pimply ask you whether you have heard of a well known man In our or- 1 ganlzatlon whose name is Charles M. Schwab. "We are building ships not alone for the war. but for the future of world trade," the chairman continued. "The immediate problem is first to transport men and supplies to Europe, Eur-ope, but it must not be forgotten that tho lines of supply do not originate 1 wholly in the United States but are I fed by streams of imports df raw ma-j terial derived chiefly from the markets I of Latin-America and Asia " |