The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-01

me WOIh Ol Int ldIlll DudIut even
under the last years appropriation.
by no means ceased with the publi
cation of the wool report report
on che cotton industry, even more
exhaustive than the wool publica-
ton. will go from the board to the
White House and thence to Congress
about February 1.
The board began the investigation
Of the difference in cost of producing
cotton goods at home and abroad
simultaneously with the wool nves-
tigation. OF the scores of tariff board
experts who swarmed into foreign
countries as soon as the body got its
appropriation and began work, many
collected statistics from both cotton
and woolen Industries.
Japan and China, England. Ger
many, France and Belgium-these
are some OF the countries In which
the manufacture of COTTON fabrics has
been studied exhaustively by the tariff
board agents. The report will fill five
big volumes, against four for the wool
report. 1t is said that the cotton re-
portIs the most complete study of the
worlts costs of production of any
CONT aodity ever made, The final
work of tabulation is being rushed
by force of fifty expert statisti-
clans.
In way the tariff boards work
on the cotton schedule was simpler
than the task imposed by the wool
study, in that there was required no
study of the cost OF producing raw
cotton either at home or abroad. Raw
cotton is on the free list, and the
tariff board Is paying no attention to
free list commodities. The determi-
natoin Of the cost Of raw wool in va
rious countries was one of the most
difficult tasks the board ever at
tempted.
The cotton report will devote an
entire volume, the last In the set. TO
the discussion of labor employed in
domeatic and foreign mills. In its
wool studies the board found that
American wooden mill employees are
higher paid and less efficient than
any wooden operatives elsewhere In
the world. 1t is thought the cohoon
labor report will be almost reversed.
As far as wages go, II Is said that
the report will show American and
foreign labor in cotton mills TO be
almost on a parity, due TO the eXten-
sive employment of women and chill
dren in this country.
The Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives has expressed determina-
ton ito refuse further appropriations
to maintain the tariff board. IL this
threat be carried out, the board will
cease to exist, after June, and Its cot
ton and wool reports will be its last
works. The board viii. however,
during the present session, submit
what 1t calls glossaries OF the chemi-
cal and leather industries.
, These glossaries are the collection
and tabulation of all the published
facts in each industry. They will not,
of course, be backed by any field in
Vestigations, except some casual ones
made by the boards COTTON and wool
en- experts In foreign countries OF
chemicals used in these industries.
Glossaries of the cotton and wool in
dustries were also made while the
field investigations were In progress
The chemical glossary will be ready
for Congress about February 10,
while the leather glossary will not be
submitted until some time In the
spring.
"True as the magnetic needle to
the pole" Is a familiar but most un-
true adage, according to the Coast
and Geodetic survey Bureau.
on only a small part of the earth
does the compass point direct ITO the
North Pole. the government experts
declare. Wobbling of the compass Is
caused by variant magnetic attrac
ton tihey assert
Christopher Columbus, on his cele-
brated voyage in 1892, first discov-
cred teh infidelity of the needle. His
sailors were terror stricken to fad
their compass pointed a few points
west of the north star after reaching
the western hemisphere.
To record. exact declinations of the
compass, Congress appropriates
money for the Coast and Geodetle
Survey for magnetic observatorles, Of
which there are 800, and past and
pIesent and future variations OF the
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