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Show INVESTIGATION ill A. statewide investigation of the income and expenses of the grocery stores of Utah is about to be conducted conduct-ed by a newly created department of, buisness research at the University of; Utah. It is the purpose of the University Un-iversity to make such investigations of buisness conditions of the state as an aid to the small-town merchants as well as manufacturers, wholesalers tanks, public utilities, railroads, etc. The research work is being carried ' out by most of the States of the union ' and a compiled report wras issued for 'the Nation last year by the Harvard University. This showed, for instance, in-stance, that 11.2 percent of the in come of the grocery stores was spent for salaries, whereas the same report for Colorado shows a percentage of 1C.8. Information of this sort for the state of Utah will be of the greatest great-est value to buisness men of the state. The burea.u of buisness research at the University will conduct industrial indus-trial surveys of communities and industries. in-dustries. It will make . Individual studios of the cost of doing buisness in selected lines and of the problems of management in those lines. Business, Busi-ness, institutes will be held in various communities of th state for he he-rif?;i he-rif?;i of employes and the public. In addition to this, other special servers snd statistical analyses will be carried out. i Mirrtin Hopfenbee-k of the Univor-, Univor-, sity Extf nsion Division has just bee placed in charge of the new dopart- ment for Business research at the state institution. |