The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
BETTER SERVICE
With LESS COST

Washington, Sept. 28.-(Special
Correspondence The department of
commerce no longer publishes the
daily commerce reports. In, their
stead weekly publication is issued
beginning September 5th) entitled
Commerce Reports, a Weekly Sur
vey of Foreign. Trade" It is a COM
pendious work, about magazine size,
and IS taking well with business.
Of particular interest is the man.
ner in which articles have been classi-
! field under appropriate heads. The
daily reports were arranged haphaz-
ardly and the frequency of their re-
ceipt by subscribers often resulted
! In an accumulation which found its
way to the waste basket unscanned.
But the weekly edition properly sub
headed, makes interesting reading and
one who is interested IN any partic
ular subject may readily locate it
without scrutinizing the entire issue.
The change from a daily to a week
ly issue is in line with both economy
and efficiency.
In the issue for September 18th. the
second, will be found live news under
such headings as there: Iorn and
Steel Electrical Equipment. Food
Products, Textiles, Coal and Petro-
leum, Paints and Varnishes. Automo-
bile products, Paper and Paper Ma
terials, Agricultural Machinery. Rub
Der and Rubber Products, and Lunl-
ber. There is also a department de-
voted to the commercial law of var
lous countries, one on Eastern Fu-
rope, another on the Far East and an
other on Latin America. The issue
begins with a number of cable dis
patches on the condition of business
abroad, and ends with a digest Of the
foreign customs tariffs, the British
Safeguarding of industries" bill be-
NC quoted in full.
/ This weekly edition. which win
keep the subscriber pretty well in
touch with the foreign trade of the
world, particularly with reference to
the United States, can be secured for
thre dollars a year from the bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce at
Washington. Heretofore" says Sec
retary Hoover, "a vast amount of ma
terlal which comes in from a staff Of
600 foreign agents, including CONNER
cial attches, consular officers, trade
commissioners and special agents, has
been presented in a daily mass of re-
ports, unsystematized excepting for
arrangement to some extent on 2
purely geographical basis" Then he
makes the interesting statement that
the bureau Of foreign and domestic
commerce is being reorganized on
commodity basis-the men in charge
these divisions have been chosen from
the industries themselves and in most
instances have been selected in CO.
operation with their trade associations
so that they may bring to the depart
ment not only specialized knowledge
and systematic understanding of the
problems Of these particular indus
trial groups, but in turn may inter
pret to the foreign staff the needs
OF these industries and develop the
material received in such form as
may be of greatest use in the indus
try to which it is related"
1t would be well if this government
publication could attain a very wide
circulation throughout the country.
1t would create a much greater appre-
citation of the problems which this
government has to meet in matters
relating to foreign trade and the ne
cessity for maintaining our merchant
marine.