The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-09
REDFIELDORGES
'EC0NQNf|N1H
PUBLIC SERl|CE
Secretary of Commerce Says
More Attention Should Be .
Given Wise Use of Funds.

= u CAV .AlnociATIn pRges1
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Economy
in the public service Is the keynote
Of the annual report OF Secretary
Redfeld, Of the department OF COM
merce. In summarizing the work of
the many bureaus of his department
he undertakes to suggest a wise use
Of government funds.
1T attention were directed not to
totals but to the wise use of funds"
| said Secretary Redfield, 80 that the
latter should be made to produce the
utmost possible service. much would
be accomplished that is now hardly
| suggested or attempted. Every indus
trial manager knows that economy re-.
Quires his plant to be kept up in the
best productive condition. II is NOT
economical, in order to gave a total
Expenditure, to allow the plant to run
down and then have to build it up
again. This does not save money,
but loses 1t. Economy OF this kind
lis not economy at all. 1t merely In
wolves a cycle of expensive changes.
costly in themselves and more costly
in their results.
III, instead of arguing upon totals,
without regard to whether. the money
which comprises these totals has
been spent wisely or unwisely, care
were conferred on the need for expen-
futures and for the wisdom with
which that need is met, money could
be saved that will otherwise continue
to be lost"
Summarizing the work Of the last
year in promoting foreign trade, Mr..
Redield says:
1.-THE United States is one Of the
three foremost commercial nations.
It is essential to its prosperity that
|it should be inferior to no other.
country in its governmental system
for the fostering and protection of It's
trade. both domestic and foreign.
Such a system is now firmly estab-
lished. In foreign countries the adj
|mirable trade-development work
which the consular officers of the de-
partment of state carry on Is now to
be supplemented through the service
of corps of commercial attaches,
which will fill q gap heretofore ex-
isting in our organization as compar-
ed with that of other nations. These,
with the group of special travelling
investigators or commercial agents
who continue the valuable technical
studies Of markets abroad, constitute
for the first time in the foreign field
IA complete and we'll balanced system
of federal aid to trade in foreign
lands.
THE special fund for promoting.
comerce in Central and South Ameri-
ca, of which eighty per cent. is al
loted to field investig cation and the re-
mainder in Washington. should be
continued and supplemented, as a
permanent occupation of Latin-Ameri-
can markets Is the only wise policy
for our government to support"
Various phases Of the. work of In
vestigating commercial conditions in
the United States are revived at
length.
THE important work which Con-
production of articles subject to. I'M
port duty has been actively carried on
in two branches OF industry. A sur
vey of the earthenware pottery in
dustry in the United States and En-
rope has just been completed, and
most practical and valuable results
have been obtained. Over ninety
per cent. OF the American potteries
were investigated, and no more COM
plete study of an industry. 1t is be-
lieved, was ever made. A similar
study Of the great clothing industry
lis now in progress The commit
tees of Congress will find In such re-
ports the essential facts in regard to
an industry necessary to intelligent
Legislation on tariff matters. Such
facts have heretofore usually been
available not from a disinterested
governmental source but from those
whose interests might lie either in
increasing or. lowering tariff rates.
The value of such detached and disin-
terested investigations of our indus
tries is no longer in question, and
this service is not alone useful in re-
lation to tariff legislation but Is I'M
doubleday of very marked promotiye
value to any industry that may be
studied by competent agents.
Several investig commenced
by the bureau of corporations in prior
years remained uncomp1eted at the
beginning OF the fiscal year covered
by this report. namely. lumber. to-