Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-10
ANNUAL REPORT
0fstC.REDf|ELD
Secretary Of Department of Com
merce Strikes Keynote of
Economy.

Washington, Dec. ECONOMY ir
the public service is the keynote OF
the annual report Of Secretary Red
fielG of the department Of commerce
In summarizing the work OF the many
bureaus of his department ne under
takes to suggest a wise use OF gov
eminent funds. ,,
"If attention we're directed not I'd
totals but to the wise use of funds"
said Secretary Redfield, $50 that the
latter should be made to produce the
utmost possible service, much would
be accomplished hat is now hardly
suggested or attempted. Every IN
dustrial manager knows that econ.
omy requires his plant to be kept up
in the best productive condition 1t
is not economical, in order to save a
total expenditure, to allow the plant
TO run down and then have to build
ii I'D again. This Is not economy at
all. 1t merely involves a cycle OF eX.
pensive changes, costly in them.
selves and more costly in their re.
suits.
III, instead OF arguing upon totals,
without regard to whether the money
which comprises these totals has
been spent wisely or unwisely, care
were centered on the need for ex.
penditure. and for the wisdom with
which that need is met, money could
be saved that will otherwise continue
10 be lost
Summary Of Work. q
Summarizing the work OF the last
year in promoting foreign trade, Mr..
llcdficld says:
THE United States is one Of the
IT is essential to it's prosperity that
it should be Inferior 10 no other cOun.
Try In It's governmental system for
the fostering and protection OF its
trade, both domestic and foreign.
Such . system is now firmly estab-
lishei. In foreign countries the ad.
mlrable Acknowledgement work
which the consular officers OF the de-.
partment of state carry on is now to
be. supplemented through the service
OF q corps of commercial attaches,
which will fill a gap heretofore exist
ing III our organization as compared
with that of other nations. These,
with the group Of special travelling in
vestigators or commercial agents who
continue the valuable technical stud
les of markets abroad, constitute for
the first time in the foreign field a
complete and well-balanced system Of
federal aid to trade in foreign lands.
THE special fund for promoting:
AAnvVnneon In Ttnufrol nrI "a. CDrf1,
America, of which eighty per cent is
allotted to field investigation and the
remainder in Washington, should be
continued and supplemented, as 4
permanent occupation OF Latin-Amer.
lean 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 reviewed at
length.
Industries Studied. ...s4.
The important work which con-
gress assigned in collecting costs Of
production Of articles subject to i'm.
port duty has been actively carried
on in two branches Of industry. "A
survey OF the eavtlIenware pottery in
<lustry in the United States and Fur.
ope has just been completed, and
most practical aud valuable results
have been obtained. Over ninety per
cent Of the American potteries were
Investigated. and no more complete
study Of an industry, 1t is believed,
was ever made. A similar study Of
the greet clothing industry is now in
progress. The committees of con.
gress will find In such reports the
essential facts In regard to an indus.
try necessary to intelligent legisla.
ton on tariff matters. Such facts
have heretofore usually been avail.
able not from a disinterested govern.
mental source but from those whose
interest might lie either in increasing