It requires a definite co-operation with business. An advisory board of
practical men of commercial affairs would be of more constructive
benefit to the country than all the lawmakers combined.

Here, then, is the protection against organised European economic
aggression, the armour for the inevitable trade conflict. Unless we gird
it on, we shall be onlookers instead of participants.




III--_American Business in France_


Two Americans met by chance one day last summer at a little table in
front of the Café de la Paix in Paris. One had arrived only a month
before; the other was an old resident in France. After the fashion of
their kind they became acquainted and began to talk. Before them passed
a picturesque parade, brilliant with the uniforms of half a dozen
nations, and streaked with the symbols of mourning that attested to the
ravage of war.

"There is something wrong with these Frenchmen," said the first
American.

"How is that?" asked his companion.

"It's like this," was the reply. "I have sold goods from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and yet I can get nowhere over here. I give these fellows
the swiftest line of selling talk in the world and it makes no