The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-05
TARIFF BOARD IS
NOT SHY OF funds
1T KEEPS ON WORKING EMERGE
TlcALLY. GATHERING FACTS
BY SCIENTIFIC ME-
THODS.

! Washington, oct. 5.-Thc alarmist
story sent out from Washington that
the tariff board Is short of funds" and
may require (and he refused an emer-
gency appropriation TO enable it To car
! ry on its work rather ovcrstates the
fact The board, like any other gov
lernment institution depending on annu-
al appropriations, will use up its funds
~ the course of a few months. but the
tariff board has been no more eXpen-
sive than it was expected To be- nor is
| it short of funds" to the extent of
being crippled i'm any work which it
might reasonably be expected to dc
between now and June 80, 1912
The members Of the board them
selves do not know how much money
they will have on hand the first Of next
January. Their appropriation for 1911
was $225,O00 and they were allowed
also the unexpended balance of the
previous year. Just what this is can
not be estimated now, as the expenses
of the agents sent abroad have been
paid from the 1910 appropriation and
the bills are not all i'm. 1t is presum-
able, however, that the board viii have
between $4,000 and 100000 with
which 10 carry on its work during the
six months beginning Jan. 1. II has
about li5 persons on its payroll. of
whom about sixty are in the field. \
report on wood pulp and paper has
been made and published. in response
To a hurry call by congress, which
forced a more rapid preparation of the
text than was desirable. Congress, In
fact, never has appreciated that the
comprehensive investigations of the
Office cannot be tabulatcd and analysed
at moments notice, and it often has
been I'm danger Of spelling the effective
ness Of the work by insisting that it
be rushed.
The report on wool and wooden will
be ready the opening day Of congress,
and probably the cotton report will be
presented when congress reassembles
after the Christmas holidays. The raw
wool inquiry at home and abroad is
completed, ana the agents have finished
also with the cotton mills in the South,
but are stih busy with the Northern
cotton and wooden mills.
Woolen and Worsted Costs.
a book might easily be written de-
scribing the work OF the tariff board,
as its details are already known i'm
Washington. This article proposes to
give the public an idea of the methods
used to ascertain manufacturing costs
in the wooden and worstcd industry.
Public interest in woolens no doubt
is greater than with respect to any
other Investigations made by the board
and the facts can be popularized more
easily. The world has been secured
for information, particularly regarding
wool and woolcns, and agents of the
board have visited not only almost
every state i'm the Union, but South
America, Europe, Australia and Japan.
The facts relative to growing
have been garncred by the ablest men
money could employ and the members
OF the tariff board. at least, believe that
no faircr or more thorough presenta-
ll'll Ol the ldtlS tpulu nc Itdhe ~ tue
of wool growers them
selves. In other words, the board have
personal confidence i'm the integrity of
their work and are convinced that al
though none of them are cotton or
wool growers or manufacturers, they
will be able to present to the country
a series of reports which will stand az
classics In the literature of the sub
jet.
Efficiency and Cost Of Plants.
Not only has the manufacture of
textile fabrics been investigated from
the bottom, but the auxiliary lines Of
bleaching, dyeing. printing, merceriz-
ing, etc. have been made the subject
Of exhaustive inquiry. A special study
has been made also of labor efficiency,
both at home and abroad. This line Of