. Electric railway journal . department of the Alabama PowerCompany at Birmingham. Mr. Cole-man is a practical street railway man,having served mostly in the operatingdepartment of the system in Mont-gomery, where he has had long andvaried experience in the business. Mr. Feiker in Washington Hoover Selects McGraw-Hill Executiveas Assistant to Develop Aidsto Business F. M. Feiker, vice-president of theMcGraw-Hill Company and chairman ofthat companys editorial board, has beenappointed assistant to the Secretary ofCommerce. An indefinite leave of ab-sence from the McGraw-Hill Companyhas been gran
. Electric railway journal . department of the Alabama PowerCompany at Birmingham. Mr. Cole-man is a practical street railway man,having served mostly in the operatingdepartment of the system in Mont-gomery, where he has had long andvaried experience in the business. Mr. Feiker in Washington Hoover Selects McGraw-Hill Executiveas Assistant to Develop Aidsto Business F. M. Feiker, vice-president of theMcGraw-Hill Company and chairman ofthat companys editorial board, has beenappointed assistant to the Secretary ofCommerce. An indefinite leave of ab-sence from the McGraw-Hill Companyhas been granted to Mr. Feiker, so thatin accepting the appointment he willlose only temporarily his active con-nection as an official of the company. Briefly Mr. Hoover has divided thebureaus of the Department of Com-merce into two parts. Assistant Secre-tary Huston will supervise the bureausrelating to navigation and fisheries,while Mr. Hoover will give his personalattention to the Bureaus of Foreign andDomestic Commerce, Standards and. F, M. FEIKER Census. Mr. Feiker will directly assistMr. Hoover in the expansion of thesebureaus as aids to business. The immediate problem is to find outby means of a series of conferenceswith the representative men of industrywhat kind of facts and figures industryneeds from the Government. Havingorganized the department to functionaccording to requirements, the nextproblem is to devise an adequate sys-tem of clearing the collected data backto business. It will be apparent at oncethat with Mr. Feikers background ofengineering training, viewpoint on theneeds of industry and sense of public-ity, he will be in a position to renderunusual service in the furtherance ofMr. Hoovers plans. It is Mr. Hooverspurpose to develop the Department ofCommerce so that it will have the samerelation to business that the Depart-ment of Agriculture now has to farm-ing. In other words, he feels that itsfunction is to aid industry, not to regu-late or control it. Considering his
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