The Foreign Service Journal, July 1923 (American Consular Bulletin)
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Originators of the Monthly Statement System in Washington iiiiHliiimmmiiiimimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHmiiiiMimiiimimmmiimmmiiimimimiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiimiK: CONSUL' LLETIN PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AMERICAN CONSULAR ASSOCIATION VOL. V, No. 7 WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY, 1923 The Trade Conferences Two Spring Conferences Held in the Interests of Trade Promotion and Attended by State Depart¬ ment Officials and Consular Officers 1. NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL, NEW piledriver and related railway equipment, which ORLEANS had lost its equilibrium during a storm the night A FEATURE of the Tenth Annual Conven¬ before. Judging from the decidedly moderate cost tion of the National Foreign Trade Coun¬ of a good breakfast at a Gulfport restaurant, that cil at New Orleans from May 2 to 5, 1923, would be an ideal Consular station, where it was, as the daily press would announce, the at¬ would take even more nerve than is said now tendance of seven stalwart delegates from the sometimes to be exhibited to press for a post Department of State. allowance on account of living expenses. Our consular delegation was headed by Chief Notwithstanding the delay, we reached New Hengstler and included Consuls General Weddell Orleans in ample time for the Foreign Service and Norton and Consuls Southard, Munro and Training luncheon under the leadership of Prof. Huddle. Glen Swigett, at which Mr. Hengstler made a few Doctor A. N. Young, economic adviser in the extemporaneous remarks, and for the opening Department, was also actively in attendance. session of the Convention at half past two at the With the exception of Norton, who went down Flotel Grunewald. a few days ahead and fulfilled the requirements The Department was well represented at all of as advance agent, and of Weddell, who journeyed the interesting and instructive sessions, and the from St. Louis, the delegation shared the Wash¬ members of our group attended in a body the ington Pullman picked up by the New York spe¬ Trade Adviser meeting held Thursday evening cial over the Southern Railway on Monday even¬ under the leadership of Mr. E. A. Le Roy, Jr., ing, April 30, carrying most of the delegates from Secretary of the Trade Advisers Service for the New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh. purpose of bringing the several hundred delegates Next morning, at about the time we got into to the convention into contact with the various North Carolina, the Chief had made an inspec¬ foreign trade experts and representatives of the tion of the train in getting to and from the diner Departments of State and Commerce who had and announced his conviction that the trip would been designated as official Trade Advisers for the be a most regular and successful one, as he had session. A very lively interest was taken in this discovered old Joralemon, the said Joralemon hav¬ meeting by prominent manufacturers and ex¬ ing been among the Pullman cars present on every porters, and we were called upon to discuss and one of the various successful train journeys which aid in solving many problems. C. Lyon Chand¬ the Chief remembered having taken ! ler, a former consular officer known to many of We were held up at Gulfport, Miss., about four us and now of the Corn Exchange Bank, Phila¬ hours in the second morning out to wait until the delphia, was in his usual excellent form as official tracks beyond Pass Christian had been cleared of a introducer and he provided sufficient and continu- [193] AMERICAN CONSULAR LLETI1ST ous contacts to keep all consular officers fully The opening of this canal transforms into water¬ occupied throughout the evening. front property and facilities suitable for purposes Among the some hundreds of subjects which of commerce and industry great tracts of interior we seriously discussed and upon which we advised, lands and opens Pontchartrain to sea-going ves¬ the following few are mentioned as suggesting sels. It represents an epochal step in the develop¬ the variety and extensive geographical areas cov¬ ment of New Orleans as one of the great ports ered : Chilean market for American textiles and of the world and is, accordingly, of particular in¬ agricultural machinery, Mexican and Cuban credit terest to the Consular Service. conditions, French market for American paper, Expressions of satisfaction over our participa¬ German shipping and Hamburg port railway fa¬ tion in this convention were heard from many of cilities, the Palestine market for American plows, the delegates and officials of the Foreign Trade Egyptian cotton production, the probable demand Council, including President James A. Farrell in Abyssinia for worm medicine, Indian jute pro¬ and Secretary O. K. Davis. duction and the Indian market for American office We were ourselves much pleased with the re¬ equipment, Australian wool production and the sults of our participation and felt upon our return market there for sheep dip. the market in South to Washington on Monday, the 7th of May, that Africa for windmills, and upon credit insurance, a great deal can be accomplished in the closer training for foreign service, dissemination of con ¬ contacts between American manufacturers and sular trade information by the Bureau of Foreign exporters and the Consular Service through regu¬ and Domestic Commerce, etc., etc. lar Consular representation at these annual Con¬ Much was accomplished in making known the ventions of the Foreign Trade Council which functions and possibilities of the Consular Service bring together many of the more active leaders in in the further extension of American foreign the extension of our trade and commerce abroad. trade and the protection of that already extended. 2. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CONVENTION, NEW The Chief talked to the radio at Tulane Uni¬ YORK versity about the Consular Service, and the radio The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Chamber in turn broadcasted his message pretty well over of Commerce of the United States, held at New the United States. The Chief mighty infre¬ York, May 8 to 11, 1923, was attended by Her¬ quently talks for publication, but when he does he bert C. Hengstler, Chief of the Consular Bureau, says something. Weddell, from Calcutta, was in Dr. Arthur N. Young, Economic Adviser, Consul fine form and he delighted as well as instructed General Edward J. Norton, Consul Addison E. those who heard his speech at the luncheon of the Southard and Consul Lowell C. Pinkerton, as American Manufacturers’ Export Association. delegates of the Department of State. We didn’t forget to do a little propaganda work A highly interesting and varied program cover¬ in between times on behalf of the BULLETIN in ing such matters as Civic Development, Domestic general, and in particular of its value as an adver¬ Distribution, Fabricated Production, Finance, tising medium. Transportation and Communication, Foreign Incidentally, and necessarily as garnishment to Commerce and Insurance was discussed during our more serious work, we had pompano and the conference at the different group luncheon shrimp gumbo and similar epicurean delights at meetings held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and Antoine’s, Galatoire’s, the Louisiane and other other questions were considered at the general places of equal significance to those who know sessions which took place at the Hippodrome New Orleans and its gustatory delights. The Theater. Several prominent speakers of inter¬ lean and hungry of our delegation dominated in national reputation addressed the delegates. the ratio of four to three, but there were, of There was in attendance a large number of course, other diversions of appeal to the business men, representing all sections of the consular inclination and imagination. This United States, who not only had the satisfaction paragraph might be expanded by Consul Pepys, of meeting and hearing men of experience and who made so admirable a beginning in the May- ability from every field of industry, but also the issue of the BULLETIN. The writer is not so pleasure of receiving the lavish and unbounded qualified. hospitality of the New York General Reception On Saturday, the 5th of May, we were among Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. C. the guests of the Board of Commissioners of the Bedford, and the Ladies’ Entertainment Com¬ Port of New Orleans for a trip up the Mississippi mittee, headed by Mrs. William Fellowes Morgan. to witness the opening of the canal connecting The ladies and gentlemen attending the meeting the Mississippi River with Lake Pontchartrain. (Continued on page 208) [194] The Asphalt Lakes of Trinidad and Venezuela By Henry D. Baker, Consul at Trinidad (This is the first of two articles prepared by Consul Baker on the asphalt lakes. J he second will appear in an early issue of the BULLETIN.—Ed.) WHENEVER one drives or motors along appoint visitors who expect to see something ex¬ asphalt pavements and considers how citing or awe-inspiring. One visitor to the Trini¬ enormous must he their total mileage in dad lake remarked: “I can see nothing about it the United States alone, it is difficult to realize much different from the asphalt paved avenue in that the most important front of my own house sources of asphalt sup¬ at home.” ply are from two lakes The very fact, how¬ —one in T r i n i d a d, ever, that these lakes hardly a lake hut a with such limited areas pond of only 115 acres, can meet a world-wide and one in Venezuela demand for asphalt, of about 1,000 acres.