Show Survey Shows Business Men Organize Organ ize in Troubled Tro Times I B By ALLARD l SMITH Executive Vice President Union Tru Trust Trusi t Company Cleveland While competition between individual indi vidual business units In i all al lines Ines was wm never keener than it i is today there is at the same time a growing meas measure measure neasure ure of trade cooperation which promises prom promises well wel for lor th the future of or all al Amen Ameri can con business A recent compilation of the te United States Stales department of commerce of ol the commercial and industrial organizations organizations organ o of the country shows that thai there are arc more than firms firns engaged en cn aged in some form for of cooperative business effort This compares with witha witla a n total o of but In let 1912 when the first listing was made by the depart men nen ment l I. Indicative of the disposition of mento men mento mento to get together when assailed with wih common troubles is the fact fae that th the listings of oC these tese associations have increased 45 per cent sice since 1929 Of 01 the tile present total o of 1900 more than tan 2600 are arc re national or interstate In scope are state and territorial and are local loca in m character Some of oC these associations like the American Bankers' Bankers association with members and the National Association As As- o of Credit Credi Men with wit members are arc professional In character character charac charac- ter and are concerned principally wih with the ethics of business and the advancement ad ad- of public thinking while others are arc more technical Some of I I I I I the best scientific research work of the country has been carried on under the auspices and at the te expense of trade associations I j The Te interesting thing about the great great increase in trade and commercial commercial commer commer- cial cia associations is the fact fie that thit Unworthy unworthy un Un- worthy ideas are seldom born bor or even discussed in public The Te tion ton of these associations has ha been a constant raising of the standards of ethics in i business and ond a noteworthy advance In technology Both are In the Int Interest rest of the public pubIc |