THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
such necessaries as food and fuel, the trucks and other means of
transportation that can be called into use, and the men who are
willing to respond and serve from patriotic motives. In order that
the necessary supplies available may be put to their most beneficial
use upon behalf of the community that is affected or threatened,
data should be collected and kept current for the purpose of ration-
ing necessaries. Through such preparations a community can
utilize the resources it possesses in the event its economic independ-
ence is placed in jeopardy. (Resolution, Eighth Annual Meeting,
1920.)
AMERICAN IDEALS
Constructive Americanism will contribute toward our progress.
It emphasizes American ideals of liberty, representative government,
enlightened rule of the majority and supremacy of the law. Every
member organization can actively participate in intensifying Ameri-
can ideals and in the development of the nation in the direction our
traditions have marked out. (Resolution, Eighth Annual Meeting,
1920.)
PrvoTar INDUSTRIES
Conditions brought upon us by the European war and our
national necessities after we entered the war, made it of the highest
public importance that a number of industries should at once be
developed in the United States. Large investments of capital and
skill have been placed in such industries. Some of them are of
vital necessity to the national defense and the national welfare, and
at the same time are capable of adding to our national resources.
Such industries should be sustained. Since the armistice there has
now been opportunity to survey industries developed during the
war, and to ascertain those which convey the national benefits men-
tioned. Congress is asked to proceed with legislation which will
assure the continuance of these American industries. (Resolution,
Eighth Annual Meeting, 1920.)
STRENGTH OF ARMY AND Navy
The Chamber deprecates any tendency to reduce the authorized
personnel of the Army and of the Navy below the strength conserva-
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