Arizona republican., 1917-06-25
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
 ACCONPLLSHES MUCH
 FIRST THREE MONTHS
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l WASHINGTON, June 24.-Accom- | plishmentS of the Council of National 1 Defense it's advisory commission and 1 it's committees since the council was 1 finally organized last March are set 1 forth in comprehensive report made public tonight by Director Clifford l Only eighty persons, according to 1 Director Giffords report, are drawing | salaries and most of these are clerks and stenographers
 Moro than one hundred highly trained men, says the report. are giving their entire time to the council without re- muneration. Several hundred more. it says, are giving free q large part of i their time.
 The chief accomplishments of the l council are summed up by Mir Clifford as follows:
 Mobilization of the 262, 900 miles of l railroads of the country for the govern nent's defense.
 ! "Close-kn organization of the tele- 1 phone and telegraph companies of
 America to insure to the government | the most rapid and efficient wire com munications
 Settlement of the recent threatened ! national railroad strikes. General acceptance by labor and capital of the suggestion Of the council i that existing labor standards should not i be changed until the need for such ac- 1 tion had been determined by the coun- l cil with the steadying influence on in- 1 dustry growing out of such action l Procurement of 45,000 900 pounds of copper for the uses of the army and
 navy at less than one-half of the then current market price-a saving to the 1 government of approximately $1000G.- 1 000
 Similar accomplishments as to steel, zinc and aluminium.
 l 'Completion of an inventory, for mili- i tary purposes. of 27.000 American man | ufacturing plants
 1 Money saving to the government
 through appointment over the country 1 of committees of business men to assist
 the qGartermasters' department of the army in the economical and efficient
 purchase of supplies.
 Saving to the government of millions
 of dollars by the coordination of pur-
 chases through the agency of the Gen neral Munitions board.
 Creation, under the medical section
 of the council. of a general medical board, of many of the most highly qualified surgeons and physicians of the
 country.
 fotlCCliDI ny tne SdUlt StcllOH ol
 thousands of doctors specifically quail { fled for membership in the medical of lficers reserve corps, and the standard
 ization, far on its way to completion ! of surgical instruments and supplies ! Creation by the council of the air craft, production board, which is setting
 out to make $500 airplanes and to train | 5000 aviators this year.
 Definite results obtained by the
 councils committee on coal production
 in the procurement and expeditions shipment of coal both in the civilian
 and federal interests.
 Successful initiation or a movement 1 to coordinate activities on the part of i the states of the union for the national
 defense, brought to a clear and work able focus by the conference of states held recently in Washington at the call and under the auspices of the council. Organization of a railroad committee
 to send to Russia and enlistment of re-
 serve engineer regiments to aid in re- habilitating the railroads Of France"
 Besides the manythings done by the council. MT Clifford enumerates in de-
 tail the work of the boards and com
 mittees. He begins with the general munitions board. of which Frank 4. Scott is chairman, which, according to 1 the report, has the following accom- plishments to it's credit:
 Development of the capacity of small
 arms factories to supply one million men with arms; contracts signed for small arms ammunition to meet the , requirements; artillery ammunition supply developed; sources or machine gun supplies developed; raw materiai obtained for gun carriages and cals-
 sons; standardization of motor trans ports; supply of material TOT ambulance bodies obtained and satisfactory pro- duction of armored cars assured; re Continued on Page Two)