Evening star., 1914-11-08

down to any one post, but are sent
wherever the information is to be OBJ
tanned.
Through our daily paper the daily
consular and trade reports, and
through confidential circulars and the
like the bureau transmits the informa
ton obtained to the points where it
will do the most good. Thus we have
in the bureau classified list of $4,000
producers of goods suitable for export.
Let US say, for example. that We OBJ
tain advance information of a proposed
public work in a foreign state, the erec-
tion of a bridge or the construction OF
a great building; or of "a foreign firm
being in the market for certain ma
chinery. Promptly we notify the peo-
pie who might want to bid for the
contract, and also we insert in the con,
sular and trade reports general
statement as to the prospect, without
giving details. Full public informa-
tion, you will realize, would benefit for
eign competitors just as much as it
would our own people: hence we make
much of this information confidential.
AS a further means of making all
of our information available to the
producers and manufacturers to whom
it will do the most good, there recently
has been established series of
agencies of the bureau at strategic
trade points in the United States. These
agencies are now in being at New York.
Boston. Chicago. Atlanta. San Fran
they supply information direct to those
who desire to engage in the export
business and also formulate inquiries
in behalf of local exporters for investi-
cation abroad.
Results have been admirable The
bureau has in it's files hundreds of let
ters from manufacturers and exporters
testifying to the fact that innumera BILE
large foreign orders have been obtained
directly as the result of the informa-
tion obtained by the consuls for the
bureau.
The service is growing. fast. The
consuis abroad, as they grow better
advised as to the needs, are furnishin g
better and more valuable information
every month. And the demand for tha s
information is growing splendidly.
efforts in the bureau have long been
directed to hitting the mark with that
information; in other words. getting
it to the place where it is needed.
rather than scattering it broadcast.
with resulting waste. The bureau is
sues a number of publications. To test
the value of one. it recently ceased
the free distribution and fixed price
of few cents on it. The circula ton
shortly dropped from 1900 to about
800. That indicates that that particu-
to warrant keeping it up. 1t will be
Suspended as soon as present sub
scriptions run out. and the expenditure
fer it's maintenance placed where il
will do more good.
I'm July last we put a subscription
price of $3.50 "a year on the Daily Con-
sular and Trade Reports, and limited
the free circulation to the points where
the matter contained therein would
be given still wider circulation. Re
suits have shown the real demand and
necessity and usefulness of the re-
ports. All of this has been in line with
the policy the bureau adopted that, as
it's work means dollars and cents to
some one, that some one should be
willing, if it is of value to him, to pay
a tiny sum for 1t. If 1t Is not worth
anything to him, it is not worth while
sending it to him. The people we want
to reach are the people who can be