Evening star., 1925-03-21
HOOVER WINNING
|NEFF|C|ENCY DRIVE
Transfer of Patent Office I'm.
portant Step in Effort to
Cut Red Tape.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Herbert Hoover has gradually de-
veloped role in the Coolidge admin
istration which began with the Hard
Ing administration and means even
greater latitude than before in recon-
mending and suggesting changes in
governmental machinery that make
for efficiency.
The transfer of the Patent Office
from the Department Of Interior
to the Department of Commerce was
under authority of a law already on
the statute books, but it was no in
cidental transfer. 1t was the culni-
nation of a series of DEVELOPMENTS
principal among which is that Ameri-
can business has begun TO coon
crate with Secretary Hoover, and the
latter, in turn, has left no stone un-
turned to satisfy American business
that, so far as he is concerned, red
tape will be severed and a short GU;
to getting things done quickly will
always be sought
The Patent Office has been under q
department which has relatively lit.
tie contact with the business men o,
the Nation. The Department of Com
merce, however. is in close touch
with the business men. 1t works in
harmony with the United States
Chamber of Commerce In fact, II
Herbert Hoover were to serve in a
cabinet ofice another few years he
would have all bureaus which direct
ly or indirectly affect the expansion
OF American business here and abroad
co-ordinated
Gets Things Done.
Mr.. Hoover is a sort of rfRht-hand
man to Presidents. Mr.. Harding
leaned on him heavily So does Mr..
Coolidge. For Secretary Hoover,
without beating the tom-toms, simply
goes ahead and plans and plans and
then gets things done. It's the mind
OF the engineer applied to govern
ment
1t is whispered that Secretary
Hoover had a great deal to do with
the appointment of the new Secretary
of Agriculture, Mr.. Jardine. That
means cooperation between the De-
partment of Agriculture and the De-
partment of Commerce, which has
not obtained heretofore. Mr.. Hoover
feels that the biggest problem in
agriculture is marketing at home and
abroad. Mr.. Jardine thinks along the
same lines as Mr.. Hoover. They will
work together.
men have not in the past been able
TO organize themselves so as to CO.
operate with the Department of Com
merce. Under the presidency of
julius H. Barnes, an intimate friend
OF Mr.. Hoover, a large policy of CO.
operation was begun by the United
States Chamber of Commerce, which
has been continued ever since, and is
being carried forward by Richard f.
Grant. the present head of the
chamber
In the Navy Department is a Cali
fornian, Secretary Wilbur, another
man close to Secretary Hoover. The
heads of the other departments have
begun to understand Secretary Hoover
For time his ways were a puzzle
1t looked to some of them as II he
wanted to take over all sorts of
activities including the United States
Shipping Board Now thew know,
that II Mr.. Hoover suggests some
thing to the President ii is not be-
cause he wants more work to do in
supervision but because he thinks
efficiency demands consolidation of
bureaus and cooperation of all es-
adjustments that may help American
business. Under Mr.. Hoover, the
Department of Commerce has become
the largest department of its kind
anywhere In the world and beside II
the Food Administration, Belgian
Relief and some of the other things
Mr.. Hoover has done are relatively
insignificant in size and intensity of
organization.
(Copyrixht 1905