The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-24

htilt tldiN bi war, III Nuues ol tultl- gency would send a telegram to the plants. whereupon the superintendent would don a uniform and assume the authority of the captain of an Army and the men under them would be- come soldiers as fully as though they were recruited in barracks. They would become soldiers of a new kind, and win wars by supplying munitions which modern warfare demands.
 This work is to be carried on by the newly appointed council of Nat ional Defenses which is composed of six cabinet members and seven civil ians This committee held its first important meeting in Washington ten days ago. The civilian personnel k most interesting. Mr Hollis Godfrey, head of the DreNel Institute al Phila- delphia, is president. The otn 1T nem- bers are: Howard E. Coffin, the eI- gineering genius of the Hud3)A Auto mobile Company, Daniel Willard, pres ident of the Baltimore X Ohio Rail. road Company, Julius Rosenwald, pres ident of the Sears-ROebuck Company of Chicago, Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor Dr. Frank II. Martin, of Chicago, and Bernard Baruch, a Wall Street banker 1t will be seen that these gentlemen are distinguished men, representing widely varied field of interests, and it would be extremely difficult to find seven men more thoroughly com potent for the great task which lies
 before them. They are convinced that the immediate safety of America lies in the mobilization gf her indus trial forces. In fact industrial pre- rarcdncss to meet any emergency which may arise will go a long way toward preventing that emergency from arising.
 But the new movement now being so energetically fostered in Washing ton, il is believed will not content itself with providing for the United States an adequate system of de lenses. The new world conditions show plainly that we will need some thing more if we are to hold our place at the head of the procession of the nations We need unity. Ger many more than any other country, has deve loped national unity Ii is not questioned that this is the thing which has enabled her to hold her own so long It is unity of govern mcnt people which is quite new to cur own country but it is something which We must have in the trying times of reorganization which are to follow the close Of the world war The government, business and the in dustries must quit fighting each other and begin to pull together in a new way. Cooperation must be developed 10 an extent which only the most far seeing Americans have any conception of at this time. Mobilization of the country's industries for defense opens the way in that it brings the govern ment and the great plants into co- operation for the first time. The iNays and means of the development of this cooperation are yet to be work cd out by those interested, but doubt At00. III tlif Itdi lhluitt iHlA W Ill Dt- come the paramount thought in of ficial. business and industrial circles Of the country IL voices a new get. together" spirit in America The bills for universal military service now before Congress are but one eXpres- sion Of this new idea of cooperation. Every American must do his part, and cooperation must determine just where every man is, and just what every mans work is. Since the great lesson of the Euro can war is that it takes five men working actively at home to keep one man properly equip ped and supplied at the front. it is quite evident that not all of our soldiers are to be prepared 10 serve their country in the trenches, but a much larger number of men will be trained to render the most efficient service at home
 Among government officials at Washington. and in both houses Of Congress. the feeling is growing day by day that our future safety, per haps even our very existence, depends upon consolidation to an extent that is, as yet. only dreamed of. Hereafter it Is really and truly 10 be THE UNIFIED STATES"