The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-16
Cooperation Necessary.

1t Is recommended that tho consuls
shall, on purely commercial matters,
report directly to the department OF
commerce. and that they shall CO.
operate with the commercial attaches
In presenting between them COM
plete and unified knowledge Of the
competitors. These two forces should
normally supplement each other-the
attache has the general field, the con-
sui the particular field. The one COL
lscts; the ,9u ether r.! eo.ordinates; Each
without him we could not have. Each
is at once a corrective and an in
centiye to the other,
It is intended to enlarge the force
OF commercial agents. which IS com
posed OF special Investigators trained
In their separate lines of study, each
pursuing some special theme and for
that purpose travelling from country
to country wherever Information on
that subject can be had For this
purpose a special appropriation OF
100000 is asked for the study OF
commercial conditions In South Amer
lea.
Possibly I may have erred In not
this great work Certainly 1t Is not
consistent with our national self-re-
spect TO ask for less. It should be
noted. finally. that now is the ap-
pointed time. We have spent several
hundred millions preparing the Pana-
ma canal and the nations or the
It's use, while we have done almost
nothing actively to promote the COM
merce which should repay the nation.
In part at least. for this vast outlay,
Inquiry Suggested.
1t remains to state but one further
point Of important policy that the de-
partment desires TO carry out. II
wishes to supplement. the inquiry now
drawing to a close into the cost OF
production In the pottery industry by
undertaking. an inquiry into the cost
OF production OF clothing OF all kinds
and Of different materials, including
hosiery, knit goods and their fellows.
II Is recalled that not only is this a
woman In the country. but that 1t Is
subject which has been approached
several times. but which has never
received thoughtful study as a whole.
The late tariff board inquired into the
cost Of cotton and woolen and worsted
cloth. and. to some extent, into the
costs OF making knit goods and hos
iery. II did not. however, pursue its
Inquiries fully into the cost of making
all clothing OF various kinds. Differ
ent states and municipalities have
given study to the important question
OF wages and labor In the clothing
tions in them. No one. to my knowl-
edge, has ever correlated the work of
the various public and private organ
zations-national state and munich
pal-and has added TO them an in
Quiry into the fundamental elements
OF cost In these industries.
Such a study should have important
social results. II should develop the
question as to whether the sweat
shop is economically efficient or
whether by properly orga nized and
more scientific method Of manufac-
ture II would not be eliminated by
the natural operation OF economic law.
For all the work OF his great depart
ment Secretary Reddeld asks conGres
TO appropriate S15S00.270, an increase
a little more than 100000 over III
present year. The remainder OF his re
port is devoted to a review of the wor
Of the bureau of fisheries, the steamboa
service the bureau of naviga
ton and its efforts for the promotion {
safety at sea. the census. tho bureau
standards. and important work il Is cor
Quoting for municipalities. and the nc
tivities Of the bureau Of lighthouses an
the coast and geodetic survey.