Show HAS vocabulary OF A POET Willi william arn C redfield the secretary of commerce in president wilsons Wll Wil sons cabinet has the brain of a business man and the tha vocabulary of a poet lie he can take a table of statistics and evolve word pictures from it that barm and delight it la is suspected X that he can make a symphony out of a census report and sing it lie he la Is one of the few men who can make a tariff speech a human interest document and when it comes to mere figures he fairly eats em alive these are qualities that become a secretary of commerce his is a department part ment that gloats on figures it is saturated with them in keeping with the character of if the department its offices are tota totally y unlike the offices of older executive departments of the government about them Is an atmosphere of business there are no marble halls no stately high reception room room hung about with the portraits of a long line of past secretaries each in a heavy gold frame none a of those things that tell how bow heavily tradition hangs over the place the department of commerce Is shy on traditions very few have been secretary of the department precedent never has bothered it much the secre office might well be those of the head of a manufacturing concern they are plain almost severe with new modern office equipment rigidly up to date the rooms are small for the rented office building in which they are found was designed for ordinary commercial work and not with a view to official expansiveness and dignity all of which Is as it should be tor for this department does doer business with business people secretary redfield was one of the tariff experts in the sixty second congress ile he was the tha chief advocate of af the contention that american labor does not need the protection of the high tariff himself a manufacturer and a widely traveled and well informed business man possessing as has been said before the vocabulary of a poet he had much to say about the tariff |