Evening star., 1921-12-18
Hoover Plan for Making and Keeping America Prosperous
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ness man. It has now been
changed to a weekly publication
and edited from a commodity view
point.
In addition to these forward
steps in a practical way, Secretary
Hoover has caused economic
studies to be made by experts. All
this time the old work has not
been neglected.: it is merely being
put in more usable form. And at
that, without any such thought in
mind, it happens that Uncle Sam Is
getting out Of it considerably
cheaper. So that there Is no added
expense to the government.
The Department of Commerce Is
now endeavoring to get this In, a.
formation-system by indus
tries and commodities, which Is OF
incalculable value to the American
business man-to those who are
interested through the co-opera-
tion of trade and daily newspapers.
Mr.. Hoover has no thought OF saw
ing back any Of this information
to make a government publication'
and so a program is being worked
out to give these carefully pre-
pared analyses of surveys to the
newspapers under release dates so
that they can have simultaneous
publicat tion all over the country
where they are of most value.
"Get it to every one who can use
it," is the policy. And the news
papers are already beginning to
co-operate. A number Of large pa
Spers are devoting special pages to
such reports from the Department
of Commerce. Through this CO.
operation Secretary Hoover has
made another big step toward get
ting all the people pulling together
for genefal prosperity.
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The work Of these contact men.
specialists and experts each In his
particular line. is proving very
helpful not only to that particular
industry and commodity. but to-
business as whole through IN
terpreting the dispatches and re-
ports from all over the world for
the newspapers.
Secretary Hoover has hired
twenty-five or thirty mon. chosen
for their special and expert knowl-
edge. 1t was a case Of the Job
hunting the man and not OF the
man hunting the job. and he used
the trade associations and tech
nical societies in canvassing for
men to meet the specifications. In
going after these men he faced two
problems-one the fact that gov
ernment salaries are entirely In
adequate to entice into the service
men of special fitness, and. second.
the general background Of feeling
that there Is nothing much OF IN
centive and opportunity. for inttia-
tive in the government service,
lust doing things in the same old
way and bound up in red tape.
But he also had two circumstances
in his fayor-first. this being
foreign trade proposition, there
were good men available willing
to make a. personal sacrifice to put
the foreign trade program across
in a big way, with future pros
pects; the other, that some OF the
hest experts in the country were
eager to be Hoover men" and
xealous to have a part in getting
a bie thing done, rather than con- -,
.idering what they could get out
Of II in a personal way. AS q re-
sult of this, there has been engen-
dared a wonderful esprit in the
danartment's working force. COM
narable to the morale that sent the
American soldiers singing In the
face of death to victory.
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It will be noticed that Hoover
whose particular forte il as an or
sanizer and in getting the best
talent working with him-has been
practicing psychology on the men
who after the war was over set
tied back in their . chairs and
thought they had done enough for
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