Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-20
RENDERS GREAT SERVICE
TO NATION DURING WAR
W. S. Clifford Director of the Council of National Defense
and It's Advisory Commission, Outlines Some of Or
CARNATIONS Splendid Activities for Two Months

| through the organization Of tho wire
service.
FOR GREAT EXTENSION
OF MILITARY AIR SERVICE
The work OF the aircraft produc-
ton board has already been so fully
presented to the public through the
press that 1t 10 only necessary to men,
ton here the program for q great ex-
tension of tho military air service,
which has been worked out by tho
board in cooperation with tho signal
corps OF the army and with the navy
airplane experts. A bill providing for
the increased service hns been passed
In record tiine by Congress and signed
by the President, making provision for
the manufacture OF thousands Of mill
tary atrplancs and training thousands
CT men for service at the front. No
table progress on the accomplishment
OF the plan has already been made
The program has been worked out In
great detail. including personnel, the
Standardization of machines for guam
tity production equipment of all kinds,
including machine guns and scientific
apparatus.
Three of system of twenty-four
big training fields have already been
completed in record time, training ma
chimes are now being shipped to them,
and instruction in flying has already
begun. Reciprocal arrangements have
been made for training American ca
diets ia Canada in return for the train
Ing OF Canadians in the South in the
winter. Cadets are being supplied to
them by a system OF ground schools
established several weeks ago in Amer
lean universities. and within a few
months stream of avistors will be
on It's way 10 France. increasing in
size as the work progresses.
The women's committee has as it's
function n
operation OF the women Of tho country
in the most effective forms OF war SER
vice Through a countrywide organi-
cation of local committees. aided by
an Informal national registration Of
women. the committee has been OF
great assistance in informing women In
tho ways In which they can be Of most
material assistance in the work of the
war. The committee has rendered par
ttcular assistance to such organizations
as the food administration and the
commercial economy board in getting
women thoroughly behind these ma
ttonal movements in a manner best fit
ted TO promote the national interest
In large measure the committee has
tried to assume the general function
of war advisory board to tho women
OF the country.
The cooperative committee on au-
tomottve transport has had most i'm
nortant work to perform in adjusting
commercial and industrial conditions to
the needs of the government in its re-
quiremcnts for motor trucks. tractors,
airplane engines. motor boats and other
forms of machinery driven by internal
combustion engines.
The section on State councils of
defense has served as a clearing house
for all State councils of defense, and
has acted as connecting link between
the national council and these CO.
operating bodies. 1t has carried on a
roluminous correspondence with the
State organizations, and has assisted in
disseminating locally. not only the
recommendations of the national coun-
ell but many other government bodies