The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-04
DEPARTMENTAL REORCANIzINC
 IS UNDER WAY
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES

NAoh1hANHA oAN, way f~\OpeCldI Correspondence).- because the Unit ed States has become a real world power, in fact the world power, it has 1 become necessary, in the judgment of President Harding and congressional 1 leaders, to reorganize our foreign service. The foreign relations of the
 United States, international, political, and commercial have become of the greatest importance to the welfare of the republic.
 | The need for reorganization of our foreign service is evident. Also it is of paramount and pressing import tance
 1 First in the plans for reorganiza. tion of the foreign service is the state department, in charge of all in ternational political affairs of the country. Secretary Hughes is under stood to be at work with a large num- Der of assistants, on a scheme for reorganization of his department It 1 is expected that this plan will be soon admitted to the special ses. sion of congress. The department of state at present consists of the diplo- matic bureau, division of western Flu ropean affairs, division of Far East ern affairs, division of Near Eastern affairs, divisions of Latin-American affairs, and Mexican affairs, the con- sular bureau, foreign intelligence, of l flee of foreign trade advisor, passport control, Russian affairs, and a bureau l of archives. In addition there is a press bureau which hands out daily | to the newspaper correspondents any thing that the secretary deems it is not harmful for the public to know. for the real news of the state de- partment is "dug up" by the cores pondents without assistance of the handouts"
 The state department, adding bu- reau to bureau, and division to divi- sion, as the need arose for the past hundred years, is a sort of patchwork without head or tail. It needs an eff | ficiency expert who can coordinate l ties. This, it is said, MT. Hughes plans to do.
 Representative Rogers, of Massa- chusetts, introduced a bill for this purpose in the last congress but nothing came of it. It will be rein troduced in the special session, and it is said will have excellent chances of enactment, particularly as the state department and the White House desire it's passage. The Rog- CTS bill would reorganize and CO., ordinate all the activities of the state department.
 In the department of commerce Secretary Hoover has been promis- ing great things. It is reported MT Hoover plans to completely reorgan-
 ize the department, as the first step
 in great movement to extend the foreign commerce of the United
 States into every port and every
 country in the world. This reorgan-
 ization plan, too, it is said, will soon i be submitted to congress.
 Both the state department and the
 department of commerce collect all sorts of foreign information and sta tistics. Both departments are now collecting trade information all over the globe. This had led to a conflict
 between the two departments, and of course is in great measure a duplica- tion of effort, and consequently causes lot of expensive lost motion. Duplication of this sort will be elimi- hated when the two departments are reOrganized. The state department, particularly, has lately been very active in collecting foreign conner cial information, and has turned in, | it is said, more than 30,000 reports ! during the last year. The depart ment of commerce, and with some show of justice, believes this in- formation should be collected by it's own trade agents who are now scat | tered over the world
 Congress is already taking hand in the general reorganization of the federal government A joint con- gressional committee, of which Sen ator Reed Shoot of Utah is chair man, is working on a reorganization plan The congressional committee, under joint resolution, has authori- ty of congress to make a complete survey of all departments, and recom- mend legislation necessary for re-