Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-05

Make GOOu CONDITIONS.
The advantage about chamber
OF commerce OF the United states
is that there is only one way to boost
the United states and that is by see
ing to II that the conditions under
which business is done throughout
| the country are the best possible CON
ditions. There cannot be any dis
proportion about that. II You draw
| your sap and your vitality from all
quarters, then the more sap and VIZ
tality there is in you, the more there
| Is In the commonwealth as a whole,
and every time you lift Ut all. YOU
lift the whole level OF manufacturing
and mercantile enterprise
Moreover, the advantage Of it is
that you cannot boost the United
States in that way without under
standing the United States. You learn
great deal | agreed with a col
league Of mine in the cabinet the
other day that we had never attended
| I'm our lives before Il school to COM
| pare with that we were now attend
! ing for the purpose OF gaining a llb-
eral education.
"Of course learn great many
things that are not so, but the inter-
estng thing about it is this: Things
that are not so do not match. II
| you hear enough Of them you see
there is no pattern whatever; it is a
crazy quilt Whereas the truth al
ways matches piece for piece with
other parts of the truth
mo man can lie consistently and
he cannot lie about everything If he
talks to you long. So, that | would
guarantee that If enough liars talked
to you, you would get the truth
II had somewhat that experience
about Mexico and that was about the
only way in which l learned any
thing that was so, for there have
been vivid imaginations and many
| special interests which have de
| picted things as they wished me to
believe them to be.
Now, seriously, the task Of this
! body is to match all the facts Of
business throughout the country ana
see the vast and consistent pattern
| of them. That is the reason-and |
think you are to be congratulated
upon the fact-that YOU can not do
this thing without common counsel
Agriculturalists To Assist.
Il have asked myself before |
came here tonight what relation you
could bear to the government OF the
| United States and what relation the
| government could bear TO you. There
are two aspects and activities OF the
government with which you viii nat
urally come into most direct contact
THE first is the governments
| power of inquiry-system and dis
! interested inquiry-and It's power Of
scientific assistance. You get an IL
lustration of the latter, for example,
in the department Of agriculture, Has
Itt occurred TO you, | wonder, that
we are Just upon the eve of a time
when our department OF agriculture
will be Of infinite importance to the
whole world?
There is a shortage OF food I'm the
world now. That shortage will be
more serious a few months from
now than 1t is now. II Is necessary
that we should plant a great deal
more. II is necessary that our land
should yield more per acre than It
does now. 1t is necessary that there
should not be a plow or a spade idle
| in this country If the world is to be
| fed; and the methods OF our farmers
must feed upon the scientific infOrma-
tion to be derived from the state de
partments of agriculture and from the
tap root Of all, the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
THE object and use Of that depart
ment is TO inform men of the latest
/
ence, with regard to all the processes
! by which soils can be put to their
proper use and their fertility made
the greatest possible.
Similarly with the bureau Of
standards. 1t is ready to supply those
things by which you can state bases
for all the scientific processes Of
business
Is Information Bureau.
The government Of the United
States is very properly a great In
strumentality OF inquiry and infor-
nation. One thing We are just be-
! ginning to do that we ought TO have
done long ago. We ought long ago
to have had our bureau OF foreign
and domestic commerce, we ought
long ago to have sent the best eyes
Of the government out into the world
where the opportunities and openings
| of American commerce and American
genius were to be found Men who
were not sent out as the particular
agents of any set of commercial In
dustries in the United States but who
were eyes for the whole community.
but there are other ways OF using
the government of the United states;
ways that have long been tried
/ though not always with conspicuous
success or fortunate results on can
use the government OF the United
States by influencing lts legislation
That has been a very active industry
but 1t has not always been managed
| in the interest OF the whole people
It is very instructive and useful for
the government Of the United States
| to have such means as YOU are ready
TO supply for getting a consensus OF
opinion which proceeds from no par
| ticular quarter and originates with
no particular interest, because knowl-
edge is the foundation Of all right
action In legislation.
Men on the inside OF business
know how business Is conducted and
! they cannot complain II men on the
outside make mistakes about busl-
ness IL they do not come from the in
side and give the kind of advice
which is necessary. The trouble in
the pastor | think the thing Is
changing very rapidly-has generally
been that they came with all their
bristles out. They came on the de-
| fensve. They came to see. not what
they could accomplish but what they
could prevent. They did not come TO
guide but they came TO block and
| that Is of no use whatever TO the gem
eral body polite.
Urges Cooperation.
What has got TO pervade us like