THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
facilities for the people of states and municipalities lies with the 
states and municipalities themselves. (Resolution, Fourteenth 
Annual Meeting, 1926.) 
NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR SECRETARIES 
The National School for Commercial and Trade Organization 
Executives has for three years successfully demonstrated the value 
of the training which it offers. Each year, building upon experi- 
ence, its managers have improved its course of study. 
The delegates to the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Chamber 
of Commerce of the United States take this occasion to express their 
gratification at the increasing usefulness of the school and to urge 
the Board of Directors of all member organizations to make possible 
attendance of members of their administrative staffs at the fourth 
session of the school to be held at Northwestern University, July 
14 to 26, 1924. (Resolution, Twelfth Annual Meeting, 1924.) 
PASSPORTS AND VISAS 
High fees for passports and the visaing of passports are a burden 
upon the international travel necessary to commerce. However 
appropriate in war time, the formalities incident to visas and to 
police control of passports are now an interference with commerce. 
Our government should reduce its fees for passports and visas to a 
reasonable charge for the service it performs. As promptly as 
possible, our government should enter into agreements with foreign 
governments for reciprocal discontinuance of visa requirements and, 
when conditions warrant, the complete discontinuance of passport 
requirements. - (Resolution, Tenth Annual Meeting, 1922.) 
POSTAL SERVICE* 
Postal, RATES 
Changes in rates of postage without determination of the results 
for business enterprises which use the mails in large volume may 
have very inequitable effects. Any further changes in rates should 
* See also: Aviation. Civil Service. 
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