The Washington herald., 1921-04-26
DEFINITE STEPS
TO REORGANIZ
BUREAUS TAKEN
Sec. Hoover Confers With
Business Men on Ben
eficial Changes.

Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover took definite steps yesterday
t. reorganize the department and
elaborate the functions in such a
way as to make it a vital factor IN
the domestic and foreign trade Of
the nation. -- =
Representatives of the depart
ment were In conference yesterday
with business men and experts as
to plans for the reorganization and
extension of the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce. The
conference considered means of
broadening the scope of the service
now furnished and some plan for
putting American products on. the
markets of the world on an equal
competitive basis with the trade of
other nations. Recommendations will
be made to Secretary Hoover.
At the Conference.
Those at yesterdays conference
were: c. Z. Herring, assistant di-
rector of the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce: o. P. Hopkins,
assistant director; A. w. Shaw. as
sistant to Secretary Hoover; c. A.
Herter, assistant to Secretary Hoo
yer; c. D. Snow. Chamber Of Com
merce of the United States; Walter
s. Tower. Consolidated Steel Corp;
Chester Lloyd Jones of c. Tenant
Sons and Company; Ralph Heilman,
Northwestern University; Julius
Klein, Graduate School of Business
Administration, Harvard; Horace
Harrison, Philadelphia Chamber Of
Commerce; Allen A. Young, Harvard
University: Wesley Clair Mitchell,
secretary, statistical committee, New
York: William G. Reid, Philadelphia.
A second conference is to be held
Friday to which forty leaders Of
American business have been in
yited. This conference will take up
the question of reorganizing the
whole department, so as to have
government agency which will meet
most closely the commercial and in
dustrial needs of the United states.
Aceeptanees Received.
The following acceptances have
been received: Geo. w. Sisson, Jr'
president, American Paper & Pulp
Association: James s. Hammett'
president, American Cotton Mfrs.
Association; Russell B. Lowe, presi-
dent, National Association Of Cot
ton Mfrs; Frederic S. Clark, presi-
dent, National Association Of Wool
Mfrs; Joh H. DeFrees, president,
Chamber Of Commerce. U. S. A.;
stephen c. Mason, president, Ma
tional Association of Mfrs; James
A. Farrell, president, National For
eign Trade Council: Sidney l.
Wright, president. Philadelphia
Commercial Museum: VIM. +. Nor
gan, President, New York Mer-
chants Association: F. c. Howard.
president. American Farm Bureau
Federation: Homer L. Ferguson,
president. Newport News Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock Company; Charles
Piez, president. Link Belt Company.
Clarence NJ. Wooley, president,
American Radiator Company; Alex
ander Legge. vice president and gen.
eral manager. International Har-
vester Company; Ernest T. Trigg,
vice president, John Lucas and Com
pany; John ]. Raskob, chairman.
finance committee. General Motors
Company: W. H. Nichols, chairman
of board. General Chemical Com
pany; Walter s. Dickey, president.
Walter s. Dickey Clay Products
Company: Julius H. Barnes presi-
dent. Barnes-Ames Company: c. F.
Kelly, president. Anaconda Copper
Mining Company; Hamilton Stewart.
vice president, Harbison-walkerR Re-
fractories Company: Charles A. Nc
Cormick, vice president. johnson
and Johnson; John w. Scott. Car
son. Pirie, Scott and Company; Irv-
ing T. Bush, president, Bush Ter
minal Company; Edwin F. Gay. New
York Evening Post; Prof, L. C. Mar
shall. University Of Chicago: Prof.
w. ]. Cunningham. Harvard Uni
versity; A. c. Bedford, Standard Oil
Company: NJ. A. Oudin. vice presi-
den. International General Electric
Company: Geo. e. Smith. Royal
Typewriter Company; T. F. Whit
march. Francis II. Leggett COM
pany; Charles H. MacDowell. Ma
|tionsl Fertilizer Association; W. H.
stockhouse. president. National Inn