VALUE OF TRADE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23442, 5 March 1938, Page 21

VALUE OF TRADE

MEANS TO GOODWILL INTERNATIONAL FAMILY Trade agreements were a wonderful approach to the problem of bringing the peoples of the world closer together, said Mr E. T. McDonough, representative of the foreign department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, when speaking at a men's luncheon given in his honour by the Wellington branch of the Englishspeaking Union. Mr McDonough urged that the fullest use should oe made of the means which science and invention had provided to bring the various nations nearer to one another in time and distance. How could they think of isolating themselves? he asked. In recent years more attention had been given to the value of trade agreements in improving international understanding. The countries of the world were, after,all, members of an international family, and surely they would all individually benefit if they helped with one another's problems in that spirit. What all peoples wanted was average enjoyment of life, and enough of the world's goods to supply their wants The churches and such movements as the Oxford Group and the Englishspeaking Union had much in common, and the need for recognition of the golden rule was more apparent than ever Mr McDonough empnasised that his organisation had sent him out to New Zealand with the underlying idea that the basis of trade should be good business allied with neighbourliness and Christian principles.