The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-05
Federal Building Superin-
tendent to Get Pre-
paredness Data
CAPABILITIES OF
FACTORIES WANTED
VIII Furnish Confidential Reports on
Brattleboro and Wilmington Estab-
hshments = Would Be Valuable TO
Government in Case of Need.

Charles r. Marsh, superintendent of
construction of United States pub,ic
bulidIngs, who Is in charge Of the CON
structlon of the federal buiIdinp bara
Is one OF seven members of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers who
nave been appointed field aides Of tbe
committee on industrial preparedness
or the naval consulting board of the
mted states. OF which Thomas a Fd
lson Is the head. He IS to make reports
on local and Wilmington manufactur-
ing establishments and the work i to
be done as soon as possible
The committee on industrial ore
Paredness IS undertaking a patriotic
du1E through nationwide engineering
organization Of the entire membership,
OF the American Society of Civil En-
glneers, the American Institute of Min.
ing Engineers, the American Society
OF Mechanical Engineers. the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers ana
the American Chemical society. TO pro-
vide the basic information needed in
the task Of preparing industry for the
support Of the army and navy in any
possible emergency.
ms complete, tabulated inventOrv
of the country manufacturing and
producing resources constitutes the fun
damental step in any and everv 7Ian
of preparedness for national defense
1t will be the first definite aecompIisb-
ment in true preparedness. The infor
nation gathered will be used in plan-
ming for the education of American In
dustries in time of peace in the REQUIRE
ments Of the army and navy in time of
war.
The inventory blanks furnished the
held AIDES when filled out will furnish
ut glance everything necessary to BE
known as TO the nature Of the business
conducted, capacity of plant, location.
transportation facilities, duh seasons
products that might be manufactured
with equipment, labor, accommodations
for employees. number. size and charac-
ter of principal buildings, fire protec-
ton, approximate value of physical
plant, principal materials used, Drin-
/ elpal articles manufactured power, post
( office address, name of plant. names of
officers, owners and directors. represen-
4 tatives abroad, and q score of other
| questions. All combined they will pro
4 vide At almost 4 glance every necessary
4 essential TO be known about a manu-
featuring establishment Of whatever
nature.
The business of field aide is to call
upon the industrial plants in his par
tticular field and have the blanks filed
out. The inventory is strictly cOnffden-
tial, non-partisan and non-poIitieal and
is purely a patriotic investigation. The
form does not cal! for intimate 1nforma-
tion such is is commonly considered
confidential. The aides are instructed
Ito use every precautiOn to insure
against leaks of the information OBJ
ltained. The manufacturers will be as
Isured that the reports will be so han
ldled as to prevent the disclosures of
any information hurtful to the business
. involved.
, The state boards in each state will
+. receive the reports from the field aides
except where the manufacturer prefers
to mail direct to the Office of the com.
mittne on industrial preparedness of the
naval consulting board. Frank O. Sin,
clair, consulting engineer of the Yer
mont public service commission, is
chairman of the Vermont state board
: The work is being done without ex
pense TO the government and viii be a
inestimable value in the future.
!, The local industries which Mr.. Marsi
: has been instructed to report on are
! Holden & Martin Fort Dummer mill
White River Chair c., Twin State Ca
& Electric Co. Hooker, Corser & Mitch
ell Co and, in Wilmington, the Liiding
TON Woodenware Co.