Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
.7,7OO DOCTORS AND
AMBULANCES WILL
Be SENT To FRONT
Council of National Defense
Announces Additional War
Aid-SeC, McAdoo Presents.
Italy With S1OO,OOO,OOO

|
! of the individual states to sustain their
| common armies-their common allies
| and their common country, was threshed
out again today by their representatives
in war council here.
Sitting with the council or national
| DEFENSE, representatives of forty-eight
/ American sovereignties were told sue
cess of arms depends on their aid
At the same time, the council told
how the federal government is clothing
| for war.
Creation of ministry OF munitions"!
with cabinet portfolio was declared to
De certain lin embryo-at Ieast''-by
| Walter S. Clifford, director of the coun-
| ell.
| How the government will shortly
| send 1000 doctors to England and "a
| stream of ambulances and surgeons to
| France-until 5000 lambulances and
/ probably 1900 doctors are repairing
/ Frances man wastage; and how the
health of the country's civil armies" is
/ to be guarded as well as the military
armies. were presented as forward steps
I of the federal government.
for order.
But in the greater field of food and
| industrial production and wartime or
! ganizatlon, the states themselves, they
/ were told, must bear the greater burden
1 And, it is not so much to increase pro-
duction as to organize all existing ener-
| gies for the common purpose, the coun-
| Gil said.
Each state was urged to organize on
| these lines:
A state council of defense, for 1irect
| cooperation with the national cornell,
and for interstate cooperation.
MANY COMMITTEES NAMED.
State committees on finance, publIri-
/ ty, medicine and sanitation, food supply
!
sound out industrial capacity and re-
sources, man power survey to find men
for armies. labor military affairs to Co
! operate with the war department in
raising the great draft army, state pro-
lection. transportation and local coun-
ellis of defense in municipalities to Co
! operate with the state councils.
In other words, organization down to
| the smallest polite unit to throw the
full force of the nation into the bal
| ance was outlined.
At the same time, the council had
/ assurances from the Southern Pine as
| ISOLATION that it would supply materials
/ for three ships to every southern pine
4 ship sunk''-will supply yellow pine
| lumber. of which the supply is "inex-
/ haustible" faster than the shipyards
! can wright new ships
| Americas war as a gigantic problem
| OF big business" was the subject or a
! long talk by Howard E. Coffin. chair
man of the munitions board of the ma
/ tional council.
I'VE are undertaking the biggest bust
ness and industrial organization job
ever attempted In the history of the
/ world" said Coffin. ''The duty of this
! council is to serve as the vehicle
/ through which the business brains and
! organizing ability Of the country can
/ do their work. We are in a real war
! so real that few of US realize its reality.
We must make haste slowly in organic
| ing.
Right now we are occupied in strik-
/ ing our balance sheet between the
|. known and estimated needs of our
/ army and navy and the known and esti-
! mated producing ability of the country
/ to supply them. For example, we know
| that in Ohio there are 1909 plants which
! can supply the government with war
essentials of which 154 have filled gov
eminent contracts in the past year. or
these plants. twenty-six employ more
/ than fifty expert took workers. This
list could be expanded Indefinitely for
every state with information which the
council of national defense has filed.
THREE TRADE PROBLEMS.
I'VE have before us three great trade
problems:
ITO facilitate the flow of raw ma
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| our allies.
ITO supply the needs of our own great
/ building program.
ITO supply these needs with the least
possible disturbance of the Industrial
| and commercial activities of our coun-
/ try.
I'm regard to this last l say that it
is of the very first Importance that
/ the country continue its ordinary bust
ness undisturbed Practically every con-
| Germ could turn over to the government
| from % per cent to so per cent of its
output and still run it's independent
| business successfully. Moreover, the
needs of war must be met from profits
and not from diminishment of capital
Another essential is that we stand
ardize all our offensive equipment. 1t
must be interchangeable with that of
our allies if our men are to be OF any
use at all on the western front. We
! can't build our own factories in France
so we must be able to utilize the sur
plus ammunition of France and England
| if necessary.
Practically all our foreign munitions
contracts will expire within three
months, leaving us with tens of thou
sands of workers skilled in producing
arms and ammunition standardized 10
European demands"
The great medical force mentioned
ABOVE Is III duulllOH 10 the SAA HeuICdA
units which will be sent at once to
Great Britain
The French commission here has re-
quested that 200 american medical men
| be sent over each month for an indefi-
| mite period. The French and British
/ medical and hospital organizations, it
! was said, are greatly depleted, owing
| to the fact that this service suffers the ,
| heaviest mortality of any branch.
In
A treasury warrant for s100,0 900 to
Italian Ambassador di Cellere, Italy's
share in the war loan.
Means of getting vast numbers of
sturdy ships soon swept aside practi-
cally all other governmental war topics
today.
! Face to face with the grim realizsaa,