The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-31
FOR COMMERCIAL EXPANSION
Burwell S. Cutler Makes Appeal to Meet
New Demands.

An urgent appeal for an expansion 81
Che department OF commerce TO meet the
demands that will be made upon ii az
soon as the war is over was made by
Burwell s. Cutler, chief Of the bureau Of
foreign and domestic commerce Of that
department. in an address before the con.
vention Of the American Manufacturers
Export association at New York
There are only II American CONNER.
cial attaches" said Mr.. Cutler, because
funds for more do not exist Our new
estimates call for Is. We do not pur,
pose, it is true, to 60 as far as our Brit.
ish friends, for the United Kingdom pro.
poses TO have q and Canada 33, under
the name of resident trade commission.
ers; and other countries In proportionate
number. Nor would disparity betweer
their plans and ours be wholly removed
by our own establishment of resident
trade commissioners in about ten regions
Of minor political Importance.
Instead of being content with 80 trav.
cling agents covering the entire world, as
last year, we are asking now for 80 in
Europe alone when the war is over), and
as many more in the far East and South
America.
Our conception Of the future foreign
trade and of the use of our merchant ma.
rlne in connection with it is that Of serv,
ice We should think it i'll to alter the
high ideals of mutual service now pre-.
vailing during war into ideals of mutual
injury after the war Commerce Is not
in our thought more humane species oi
strife but in any vital understanding oil
| it il a matter OF mutual exchange fol
mutual benefit. Nor win 1t do TO forget
that among our associates in the war art
those who have been at once the source
of supply for many needed things ant
also our own largest customers
"But our foreign technical service must
! be reinforced and organized by force
at Washington that can test the work
for scientific accuracy, unity it, tabulat,
it for comparison with previous data, at
tach correct conclusions, and put it int
readable form for you merchants TIL,
| bureau should have for this purpose high
| ly competent statisticians, economists
commodity specialists, customs experts
shipping advisers, and so forth; without
them the authority and helpfulness o.
your department of commerce fails com
pletely. Men of such grades receiving
decent salaries of three 20 six Thousand
dollars are allowed TO the regular gov
eminent commissions and to some Of tn,
war boards, whereas we are restricted Il
salaries around eighteen hundred fol
some Of our best research men. As (
result the bulk of our work falls upor
overworked division administrators VIII,
1 ts.a I'D Inayn SIC -
Eventually, the convention was told
the department of commerce should havt
added to it a bureau Of industrial prac
tice that would aid in eliminating vast
in man-power, time, material and over
head cost; also a division Of materia
valuation, for studying the origina
sources, the handling and the grades o
foreign and domestic materials, di
vision of information on internal waite
and railways, division of distribution
economy, and division of cost finding
methods.
eve at Washington explained Mr.
Cutler, "are not so lost in the details o
our daily routine that we do not fire
quently lift our eyes to the commercial
horizon and see new developments il
prospect. The main purpose back of on
daily work and our plans for the futur,
is Just this: We want to give the com
mercial public steady flow of trade ant