Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-09-18

Rouse and the departments, who's
human endeavor.
Business knows its interdependence
on the discoveries and edicts of gov
eminent. 1t realizes that it must keep
in close touch with the findings of
government experts, and must not
only keep posted on the decisions of
the judicial branch and the executive
branches, but must maintain in the
Capital a force of experts from its
own school to interpret and dssem-
mate news Of happenings all over
the world, which a-st find their way
to the government of this nation and
are then spread broadcast all over
the country.
400 Organizations Here.
So il is that in Washington today
there are nearly 400 national organ
ilations maintaining headquarters at
the Capital of the nation, quick to
seize upon any new fact pertaining to a
particular business. eager to grasp
a new and interesting decision, or
equally quick to seek notification of
a measure which business thinks
might be detrimental to it's own in
terest. From the Washington head
quarters of these national bodies, rep
resenting divergent interests in every
field Of human activity, there go out
daily thousands of letters to business
firms all over the nation and in prac-
tically ever business country of the
world telling of the days business
of government and its effect on the
worlds business.
The great center of the business
firms of the nation, where trade in
formation, the business outlook and
business information affecting practi-
cally every industry is broadcast
daily, is the Office of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, now
located in the Mills Building, but
soon to be located in its new per-
manent home, at the corner of Con-
necticut avenue and H street, a paIa-
tial marble structure erected in con-
formity with the Washington plan at
a cost of more than $4,000 900.
Means Much to Members.
Probably the National Chamber,
with its membership of more than
200 trade and business organiza-
tions, means more to the average bus
mess man throughout the nation than
do any of the other agencies with
headquarters in Washington, for from
the time governmental news is issued
its import and it's interpretations in
terms Of business are thoroughly
digested by experts of the National
Chamber, translated into business
terms and made Immediately avail
able to the business man.
The government itself, primarily
interested in the commercial and po-
litical welfare of the United States,
goes far out of it's way to help the
business man in arriving al a conclu-
SION. So that for this purpose-to
help American business-there have
been established in many of the de-
partments bureaus whose job it is to
sift the grist of government news
and dig out from day to day items OF
interest and profit to the American
business man. Foremost of these
from the point of view of export bus
mess and possibly of domestic bust
ness is the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, which, under the
admin istration of DR.. Julius Klein, its
director, has become considerably en-
larged, as have all the business and
trade activities of the Department of
Commerce, under Secretary Herbert
Hoover.
Opportunities Tested.
From this busy center of world trade
go out daily scores Of items of interest
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Los Angeles, Eastport, Me-: Savannah,
and to his brothers scattered in every
nation of the globe telling of oppor-
tunities for American business. To
this great trade promotion agency
come hundreds of letters daily askin &
for trade opportunities and illustrat-
ing in major degree the interde-
pendence of government and business.
But the Department of Commerce
is not the only Government agency
whose activities help business to help
itself. The Department of Agricul-
ture, with its wheat, corn and other
crop estimates and figures, it's facts
on farm production and trend of pro-
its human aspect dealing directly with
the problems of the millions of Amer
lean laborerS in their relation to
business: the Interior Departm ent,
dealing in the abstract and in detail
with problems of the great mining in
dustry, reclamation and new discov-
cries in oil and minerals: the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, govern
mental functionary overseeing the
railroads, barge and telephone lines
of the Nation; the several independ-
ent establishments, including the
powerful Federal Trade Commission.
cies to which business goes through
it's Washington headquarters for news
concerning itself and it's activities of
the future. But to these, the exec
utive branches of the Government,
not excepting the White House,
business does not look alone.
1t looks also to the powerful Su-
preme Court of the United States,
representing the best minds of the
judicial branch, where decisions of
great interest to business are handed
down every week during the sitting
of the court.
Congress Holds Attention.
And to Congress comes American
business with it's look of interest and
its gesture of affirmation or dissent,
for what Congress does or does not
do means vastly more to American
business than any other one activity
of government. Here is where the
great majority OF the national agen-
cies of business represented in Wash
ington center their interest. Here is
where the business man looks for his,
future outlook and representation
of what he may expect year or two
hence, for the legislative branch of
the Government means more to him
than any other. Take tax reduction,
for example. 1t is an issue, and one
of the strongest, for American bust
ness is today more interested in tax
reduction than in the tariff, prohibit
tion or any other issue. And it comes
purely up to Congress, for the Presi-
dent and the Secretary of the Treas
ury can only recommend. This is but
one of the issues which the Washing
ton headquarters of the business
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