THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 
Resolved, By the Chamber of Commerce of the United States 
at its annual meeting assembled at Washington on this second day 
of February, 1917, that the Congress of the United States be urged 
to create, for a period of not less than five years, a salaried commis- 
sion, to be appointed by the President of the United States, and to 
consist of from three to five trained economists and statisticians, 
with a sufficient appropriation to enable it to employ an adequate 
staff of experts for the purpose of making a comprehensive survey 
of the federal statistical service, with a view to making recommenda- 
tions to the President for such correlation of the statistical work 
of the various federal bureaus, divisions and commissions, and for 
such changes in the organization, personnel and scope of their work 
as it may find necessary in order to put such federal statistical 
service on a basis capable of meeting the urgent and growing 
requirements of the country, and the said commission to be empow- 
ered to create an unsalaried advisory council to consist of repre- 
sentatives of the various government departments, bureaus and 
commissions interested in statistical work, and other persons having 
expert knowledge of statistical work or in practical touch with the 
statistical requirements of the country’s labor, agricultural, commer- 
cial and industrial activities, and be it further 
Resolved, That the President of the Chamber of Commerce of 
the United States, be and hereby is, authorized to cooperate with 
other organizations interested in this matter with a view to formu- 
lating the details of the plan, enlisting the interest of the President 
of the United States and making joint presentations to the proper 
committees of Congress; and that the President of the Chamber be 
authorized to incur such expenses as he may find necessary in con- 
nection with the steps authorized by this resolution. (Resolution, 
Fifth Annual Meeting, 1917.) 
GOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION 
The government frequently has means at its command to facili- 
tate and increase the supplies of materials available for production. 
It is urged, in all proper cases, to use such means. A situation now 
exists in which its functions might be exercised toward the increase 
of supplies of paper from Canada, at a time when all branches of 
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