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Show Republican Committees Make Recommendations to Put Into Platform NEW YORK, June 1. The neca or making agricultural wages competitive with cjty wages and the necessity of tho government to find a means of importing. fertilizer at a price that American farmers will pay for It, was emphasised today in reports made public by sub-committees of the Republican Re-publican national committee's advisory advis-ory committee on politics and platform. plat-form. It Is planned to submit the suggestions sugges-tions to the, platform committee of tho Republican national convention at Chicago. The sub-commltlee on agriculture, of which United States Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas was chairman, urg-J od th.-U a national commission bo ap-' pointed to co-ordinate all rail, water' and motor transport with adequate ,' facilities for receiving, handling and transporting food between cities. This commission, it was. said, would render a great national good at this time. The International trade and credit committee headed by F. A. Vanderlip as chairman, urged the inauguration of an effective co-operation at homo and abroad between governmental officials of-ficials who exercise authority In American Ame-rican foreign trade relations. This po-opcratlon, po-opcratlon, it was stated. Was ncecrea to replace what was- described as a loose and overlapping foreign trade service, rife with inconsistencies and interdepartmental controversies. j In describing the shift of the United' States international position from n debtor nation to a creditor nation. t:ie committee report stated that tho ultimate ulti-mate outcome of this shift will mean an excess of imports over, exports. |