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PLACES READJUSTMENT DATA AT COMMAND OF. BUSINESS WORLD • , ... II of the dmiricif of National tiefefi^e Offers Ml Us Facilities to Aid in Reorganization of Industry and of Trade--Burden of Reconstru£ fV'"'-:4 tion Must Fall on Industry. ',w •M :&p-' V . . - r" ----•" I**?'-- ' ' . v WMhlngtoa--Hie cmmetl of aatlooal iefense announces its readiness to lace at the command of the business rtSYif"world the Information contained in the voluminous collection of data %* v ' brought together, classified, indexed, ?r : and partly digested by its reconstruction research division. It also offers •the services of this division in the procurement of such further special Information as may be desired and which may aid in the reorganisation of Industry and the resumption of trade, or which may in any other • : manner promote progress in the reconstruction. Just what the informatiop here offered consists of may be indicated be*ft ; by reference to some of Its sources and by mention of a few subjects under •which the material 1* subclassifled: Official Information--The division . lias undertaken to chart all the federal official bodies that have a point of contact with demobilization or reconstruction, and to possess first-hand, •up-to-date information as to accomplishments and plans of each such body or bureau. Furthermore, through its •'field service," branching out into 184,- ©00 state, county, and community organizations, including some 1,000 women's units, the division is enabled to maintain direct contact with every Hsort of state and local reconstruction f activity in the land. A digest is kept of state reconstruction news. Foreign Reconstruction--The division has access to every important report of foreign reconstruction activity, proposed or accomplished, that reaches this country. Domestic Business Background--The division has official contact with all the war administration boards, bureaus, and investigation commission, as well as with the federal departments themselves. Thus It has access to a great deal of statistical and other unpublished information, ranging all the way from domestic prices data and production estimates, wage data, labor supply problems; to notes on foreign production, the foreign labor and emigration situation, foreign market conditions, and finance. Tfye division has advices as to which industries and which sections of our country are picking up and making their reconstruction readjustments the more promisingly. Of course such a range of Information, covering physical resources apd available goods, the money and credit outlook, relative price and price tendencies, foreign prospects, and the trend of actual business development as represented by reports of current projects and undertaking^ throughout the United States--such a survey must tend to yield more reliable impressions as to what the future may be expected to bring than can be derived from the more restricted basis of judgment of the average business group. Devices of Clipping Bureaus. Public Opinion and General Infor- ' mation--The division has its own clipping bureau, supplemented by the service of the chief commercial clipping bureaus. Thus it is enabled to sift practically everything in public print thajt has a bearing upon any phase of reconstruction. All this material is classified. Indexed, and made ready for reference. The industrial or financial organization or trade paper that chooses to tap this resource will no rionht finri nn^Tppcted StOPSa of information. From the sittings of its incoming Information the division Issues a dally digest of reconstruction news, intended primarily for the use of the council and government bureaus, but available also to other institutions whose relations to reconstruction problems are such as to entitle them to the service. In thus proposing to extend its service, the council opens to the business public probably the largest and most "complete assembly of up-to-the-minute reconstruction Information In existence. The undertaking also implies the proffer to industry and commerce LIFT OFF CORNS! FROM QUICKSAND §r * --1 ^ Jbrop Freezone on t touchy HjCtt-Gtrts Dug Out by AtMet|| \ JC*n,then lift that PArwinAri+inn CMMM fin i>ra ofthe services of an organisation that for many months has been establishing connections and perfecting facilities for the securing of every sort Ot vital information at the earliest possible moment it is available. Through the fact that the council of national defense itself consists of six secretaries of administrative departments of the government, and by virtue of the further fact that for more than two years the council* has been engaged In the closest co-operation with national, state, and local agencies of private as well as public bodies, the reconstruction research division has been from Its inception possessed ot invaluable contacts in all directions. The material and staff now placed at the service of business was origiaally Intended primarily for governmental use, and they will, of course, continue to function as the governmental clearing house of reconstruction information. The beginning of the council's researches into reconstruction and readjustment matters in this and foreign countries followed upon a memorandum addressed to the six cabinet members forming the council by Grosvenor B. Clarkson, Its director, on May 0, 1918. The president of the United States received a copy of this memorandum, and shortly afterward authorised the council to begin its studies. In the memorandum in question Mr. Clarkson, after defining the prime problem as being that of industrial reconstruction--in broad terms, the reconversion of industry from the war basis back to the peace-time basis and the reabsorption into Industry of the labor employed in the service Of the United States--said: "It Is elementary that after the war America will not be the same America. Already she has In many directions broken with her past and she is being hourly transformed. The metamorphosis Is going on as much in the thought of the country as it Is In the structure; the same thing will be true in the period after the war. New conditions and relationships create new problems for nations as well as for individuals; and, let me add, the change will be as great In the thought and ideals of the nation as it will be In Its strictly material problems, whether these be military, commercial, or those having to do with labor. "Let us grant that we shall gain military success. Let us then not fall into the danger-trap of allowing the material effects of such success to overshadow consideration of the higher values which give a nation its life. The civilized world tpday, as we know that world, may be said to be one great altar of sacrifice. If that Is not true now. It certainly will be true if the war continues for another year. It Is our duty in any adequate intellectual conception of the task to see to it that the gains to the moral as well as the material well-being of the nation shall square with the sacrifice. A little reflection will convince one that this aspect of reconstruction is the fundamental aspect and that upon It must be predicated all successful plans in this direction. "A year ago we were a great, lazy democracy. Lincoln said, 'A fat hound won't hunt.' That sentence illumined our national disease. The transformation from that condition is already Soon thv spi?*it of ths ns~ tion will be a burning flame. There will be sloughed off the scales fostered by a love of luxury and the loose and boastful thinking that have been our curse in the last generation. Out of the turmoil and the sacrifice will come discipline and orderly living and thinking; and, therefore, with sequential and Irresistible logic will come demands for new conditions of living commensurate to the new ideals. Again I repeat, here is the fundamental reconstruction to which the American government should address itself, and only herein can be found the policy which shall b© th* groundwork of any itIUN MAIL CAR IS USED BY THE A. E. F. Western Union This mall car, a trophy of war, surrendered by the Germans to the Americans, 1b now in the service between Paris and Coblenz, carrying correspondence for the Tanks of the American army Of occupation In Germaay.. enlightened organization for reconstruction. "History records but few fruitful governmental agencies that did not have a firm and penetrating quality at the base. RaisiDg the framework for the task is merely a matter of mechanics In organization. * * * In the meantime the council and advisory commission should accumulate all of the literature bearing upon this question and form it into a working library. "It may be that as the war nears Its ends and as the issue between autocracy and democracy becomes ever sharper and more terrible, the civilized world will demand that Immediately at the war's close all reconstruction of the world's affairs be based upon the dictum of Lincoln that no man Is good enough to govern any other man without that other man's consent, to the end of approaching thfe proper readjustment of national, international, and racial relationships. I offer this, though, not for the purpose of injecting Idealism in a discussion where undue accent of it does not belong, but to emphasize anew that none of us can see the end of the road and that therefore all plans for reconstruction should be builded so as to permit of flexibility of action and even • of minor policy at any given time. The main thing now is to come to concrete thinking and study of the entire problem." Director Clarkson immediately began the organization of a staff of experts, including O. M. W. Sprague, professor of finance and banking at Harvard, and Herbert N. Shenton of Columbia. Out of this staff work grew the reconstruction research division, which was organized on Fehruary 8, 1010, with Mr. Shenton as Its chief. "The reconstruction research dlvt sion," said Charles H. Chase, a member, "has come to feel more and more, as the reconstruction has progressed, that its information service should be made available to the leaders of prl vate enterprise, just as It is made re* sponsive to the needs of governmental agencies. The problems and responsibilities of reconstruction tend, afl time goes on, to fall more and mora heavily upon the shoulders of bust ness and relatively less upon governmental machinery. Of the two grand divisions of reconstruction, demobilize tion and reorganization, the former belongs chiefly to the government and the latter devolves mainly upon pri vate enterprise. The former tends steadily toward its conclusion; the latter broadens into the foundation of an Indefinitely expanding future. And though the government has, and will continue to have Important responsibilities in connection with the economic reorganisation of the nation, It must be acknowledged that those who are to deal with these problems hand-to-hand are the directors of business undertakings. "It must be recognized, alao, that we have come out upon a new world, in a sense, in emerging from the world war. Our industrial and com' raerclal reorganization must be effect' ed under conditions that have undergone considerable alteration during the struggle. Not only price levels, but price ratios also, have been changed, and in many cases permanently so. New industries have arisen; markets have been altered; international economic relations are modified; means of transportation and communication have been partially revolutionized ; but nothing has utadergone greater change than our social viewpoint, and especially the viewpoint of labor. There are new opportunities and n-ew onij rifAmjalng OUtlOOk®, hyf tjlPV l^l not quite like those of pre-war times. The chessboard has been shaken ; some of the chessmen have disappeared, while several others have been moved forward or backward a little. "Not only have purely business.tectors altered, but new duties have arisen--the social responsibility of the business enterprise has become a much more serious matter than it used to be. In the light of world develop ments it is obvious that our business system must prove Its resourcefulness; it must demonstrate hitherto unrevealed capacity for readjustment; It must show a disposition to meet and satisfy certain species of expectation which have gained recognition during the war and can no longer be unceremoniously Ignored Or suppressed. As Secretary Redfleld says: We cannot be a law unto ourselves any more.' General and continuous prosperity must he underwritten and guaranteed, if our Institutions are to avoid the risk of a trial at the bar of public discontent. Rules of thumb are liable to prove Inadequate in this period of readjustment. Nothing short of alert open-mindedness, reinforced by possession of the fullest available information, will serve. In view of these facts the business world is entitled to the fullest measure of assistance that governmental agencies are prepared to render It. It is In the spirit of that principle that the files of the council's reconstruction research division are now thrown open to the business public." Inquiries may be made by written communication, by telephone, or by personal representative. Requests should be addressed to the Reconstruction Research Division, Council of National Defense, 18th and D streets, 3#. W„ Washington, D. C. " ' COFFEE PRICE NOt DECUNING western Pennsylvania, Indiana and 1 southern Michigan. Coffee has ad- Will Go to 50 Cents or Higher, i Roasters' Head Says at Cleveland Convention. Cleveland, O.--The price of coffee I* not going to be cheaper for a while according to a statement by Carl W. i ^jjrand of Cleveland, president of the ^ .National Coffee Roasters' association, jvho presided at A sectional meeting of 75 coffee roasters from Ohio, vanced In price on account of a severe frost In Brazil, Mr. Brand said, and he would not be surprised to see good coffee retail at 50 cents a pound aqd perhaps higher in the near future. Ml Boy Kills Wolf. Toronto, Kan.--Lloyd Jamison, fourteen, killedoa wolf with a stone and a club, while hunting rabbits. The carcass was too heavy to carry hoqae. but he succeeded In dragging it. * Profit From Cane. . Athol, Kan.--From his 23-acre farm, Len Phetteplace, near here, makes as much as the average man on 160 acres. He plants a diversity of crops, though the acreage of each is necessarily small. Last year his best money maker was four acres of cane. From it he has made 400 gallons of sorghum that sold readily at his home at 75 cents a gallon, or $300. The seed he had thrashed, and the last of Recuperating From Influenza. Chicago.--Three pretty nurses at, the North Shore Health resort at Winnetka are deeply grateful for the fact that Harold Rubin, University of Chicago athlete, had the "flu" recently. * If he hadn't he in all probability would not have been at the resort, convalescing from his recent illness, and the three young nurses might have perished In quicksand. Misses Grace Williams, Helen Conrad and Clara Babroth went out along the lake shore to the bluff at Willow street. Dangerous quicksands abound there. Rubin and his cousin. Miss Fal Rubin, walking near by, heard the off with fingers Sinking In Quicksand. girls scream. The athlete started on a sprint when he saw the girls sinking in quicksand. One of the young women was up to her waist. Efforts to\extricate the nurses were unsuccessful. Rubin sprinted back td the health resort. Despite his weakened condition, he probably never did the distance In better time. With the help of a ivsort attache and a couple of shovels, the girls were dug out. As soon as he ascertained they were wfe, Rubin dashed off blushing furiously. GLASS EGG FATAL TO SNAKE Pennsylvania Farmer's Wife Puts Decoy in Nest and Ends Reptile's Thefts. Mew Bloomfiehl, Pa.--Shermandale furnishes a snake story as the aftermath of the theft of eggs from the nest of a turkey hen of Mrs. Thomas Ford last summer. The hen made a nest along Sherman's creek, and then the eggs began to disappear almost as fast as they were laid. Finally Mrs. Ford placed a glass egg In the nest and removed the genuine product daily. One day the glass egg disappeared and a large black snake that had been seen several times and had been blamed for the theft of the eggs was seen no more. Several days ago a neighbor of Mrs. Ford's, Louis Smiley, while walking along the banks of the creek, noticed the skeleton of a large snake and a large glass egg iir~the~Teglon where the stomach would be. And so it Is believed that when the snake was neither able to digest nor disgorge the fruits of his marauding tour he died. 1 SAVED BY RUBBER HEELS Boy Touches Live Electric Wire, Brother to Rescue With Parts of Shoes. Chicago.--Lawrence Ramm's study of electricity was not for naught. The young Ben Franklin, who is twelve, and his brother John, two years his senior, went out with the "gang." They encountered the end of a broken electric wire, still charged with a strong current. With boyish curiosity John touched the wire. He could not let go. The other boys became frightened and ran. But Lawrence remained. Tearing off his rubber heels, he jammed them -against the wire and his brother's hand was released. Vl-~ ' Risky Celebration. v SStflvOuIs. Mo.--A two-foot Iedgrwvtending around the tenth floor of Hotel Jefferson here \\as selected by Ralph M. Harrison, of Higginsvljle, Ark., a discharged soldier, as the place to celebrate his return to civilian life. H took the house detective, the services of several volunteers and the coaxing of anxious spectators to persuade the former soldier that he'd better come down to earth for his celebration. Tabby W^nt Along. Kansas City, Mo.--With an ejr» Mi a $50 Persian cat, a "light company employee" gained entrance to Mrs. N. E. Jones' basement to Inspect wires., When he went Tabby went with him. Shot in Head. Chico. Cal.--Claude B. Jewett, Who accidentally shot himself in the face on a ranch near here and probably lost the sight of his right eye, walked to the hospital here and lay conscious on the operating table while the surgeons extracted the breech block of a rifle, which was Imbedded three inches in his head. When the operation was completed he commented. "Gee, that hurt." Jewett was shooting hogs when Doesn't hurt a Wit-Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn. Instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift It right out Yes, magic I Nb humbug I A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a few cents at any drug store, but is sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or Irritation. Freezone is the sensational discovery at a Cincinnati genius. It Is wonderful. Discolored Ceilings. It is frequently found that the ceilings immediately above Incandescent mantles become blackened. If whitewashed, it can 'be cleaned by being rubbed over with a mixture of starch and water of the consistency of cream. A soft flannel cloth should be used. When dry gently rub off the The blapk stain will come with jit. GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER has been a household remedy all over the civilized world for more than half a century for constipation, Intestinal troubles, torpid liver and the generally depressed feeling that accompanies such disorders. It is a most valuable remedy for indigestion or nervous dy» pepsla and liver trouble, bringing on headache, coming up of food, palpitation of heart, and many other symptoms. A few doses of August Flower will relieve you. It is a gentle laxative. Ask your druggist. Sold in all Civilised countries.--Adv. An Old One 8!lghtly Musaed. People who# live In glass houses should not throw a fit If the neighbors think they are a little queer in the head., ""."."7" BACK LIKE A BOARD? IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS There's no use suffering from the awful agony of lame back. Don't wait till it "passes off." It only com«* back. 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