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Show COMMERCE BODY IS TO WAIT ACTION BY CONGRESS Secretary Hoover Says His Department Is to Be One of Service WASHINGTON. March llThe future fu-ture of the department of com mere. In If activate to meet tha needs of trad and Industry, must await the "thorough i reorganization of the whole executive : machinery," now being undertaken by I the Joint contrreaslonal reorganisation I committee,' Secretary Hoover aaid to day. The declaration wax made In a slate-mni slate-mni ly Mr, Hoover in --which-ha an-noiiiKed an-noiiiKed the policy of htm department to be one of ser Ice and not of "regulation "regula-tion of trade and Industry.' Out Hide of voluntary measure he said that the only Immediate extension of service would be In the obtaining of greater Internal In-ternal efficiency. In order to do aervice to the greatest great-est advantage, h said. "I wish to establish es-tablish a wider and better organized cooperation co-operation with the trade and commercial commer-cial organisations and will present some plan to this end. I want to are our effort to nush our foreign commerce mere fleetly relate to euf 4ndunrlea." TO EASE BURDENS. Huch enlarged activity, he declared, wa within the orialn.il purpose of hU department, further burdens on the I taxpayer for the undertaking of new work were discouraged by Mr. Hoover on the ground of economy, need of reorganisation re-organisation and "reduction of leas essentia.." es-sentia.." With the cooperation of the trades And Industries Mr. Hoover declared hi department could aid the Improve tnent of some husineaa practice aril extend standardised en and manuac-tured manuac-tured product In the Interest of wiv-ig wiv-ig to consumer and promotion of foreign commerce. (Spontaneous cooperation coop-eration he urged to "obviate an infinite infin-ite amount of rn leery in overcoming the economic difficulties arising out of the war. Government deportment, he irgued. could at leaat try to Inspire he cooperation needed o solve problems probl-ems of unemployment, shortage of lomes, lack of railway equipment and :ranflportatlnn needs, CREDIT BREAKS. With the former and manufacturers w . i 1 1. Kru wnii i uiw ana goeas. rte said, the country waa not facing overproduction, over-production, hut a breaking dnnrn of i credit ilnka through failure uf the f .r-elgn .r-elgn markets. As a remedy lie Indorsed the foreign trade flnsnr?lng corporations created under the Kie act. C'ombtnatlon. of commercial Interests for business outside the country were advocated by Mr. Hoover through the contingency arising from the tendency of Hurapean nations "to definitely mobilise their export trade for militant commercial invasion. Unless foreign combinations are combated they made dominate tils country's supply of various vari-ous commodities, he aatd "AM together.' he concluded, "more economic taxation, tariff, large eccm-riv i in government through Internnl ' reaus. reorganisation aad agrrem Ion disarmament and systematic gnv-, gnv-, ernment cooperation will all cooperate : ; to help us out of the ditch. We will s't i ; out yet when all is done the rapidity j with which ws get out will have depended de-pended on the degree, to whkh ws pull j together.' i |