Grand Forks Daily Herald

RECOMMENDS BETTER SERVICE
Increase in Staff and Appropriations at Washington Will be Asked

Washington, Jan. 4. Recommendations for extension and improvement in the federal government's foreign commercial service, outlined in a recent report of a committee of the chamber of commerce of the United States have been approved almost unanimously by the commercial organizations holding membership in the chamber. As a result, the chamber announced last night it felt committed to work for the following changes in the foreign commercial service:

"An increase in staff and appropriations for the Washington headquarters of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce; appointment of a director of the field service and separate appropriations for collection and exploitation of samples, and literature and more liberal traveling expenses; appointment of five new commercial attaches to cover Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Austria, Japan and Turkey; creation of the new position of foreign trade commissioner and the appointment of commissioners to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, British India, Greece, the Balkan states, East Indies and Central America;

renewed efforts toward promoting commerce in Latin-America;

Americanization of the consular service; elevation of eleven consular agencies to consulates; establishment of fifteen consulates where there are now no American consular representatives; and more adequate and frequent inspection of consular offices."