Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
Some Phases Touched On.

the Council of National Defense. and
others are being developed through
agencies created primarily to meet the
emergencies of the war
Commissions and committees ap-
pointed in Great Britain since the war
began now at work under the recon-
suuctlon committee number eighty-seven.
and these are grouped in Consul General
SINNERS report as follows:
Trade development under which
grouping fail five committees dealing
with specific aspects of the situation.
Finance, with two committees
Raw materials, with six committees
Coai and power, with two committees
and four subcommittee
Intelligence, with two committees
Scientific and industrial research
with two research boards, FIVE stand
ing committees, seven research COM
n11ttees, four inquiry committees and
three provisional organization com
mittees
Rehabilitation and disposal of stores
with eight committees
Labor and employment, with two
committees.
Agriculture and forestry. with four
committees
Public administration, with six COM
mittees
Housing. with four committees
Eoucat1on. with eight committees and
a commission
Aliens, with two committees
- Legal, with three committees.
miscellaneous problems, with three
Primarily Wartime Service.
In an cases the work being done bv pov-
ernment agencies OF this country, which
corresponds to the future peace programs
on which the British committees are at
WORK IS performed here primarily as a
wartime service But in a number of
cases, it is pointed out, the work done nv
SDeClaiIV ci-
aove-ail into similar important work dur
ing the reconstruction period
As an example, take the work of the
National Research Council performed in
conjunction with the United States bureau
OF standards, the latter a peace-tine
agency, which will be all the better comm
ped to turn its attention again to peace
time research problems because of its ex-
pansion for wartime work The National
Research Council, through a COMMITTEES
established here to work IN Conjunction
with allied committees in Paris and in
London, Is in touch with the wartime
scientific research among allied nations,
ana 1t would be an easy step, with the
machinery set up. to maintain this work
and relation in peace time
Engiand's scientific and industrial re-
search committees under its recopstruc-
ton ministry already are delving into sub
Jects relating to fuel. cold storage min
ing, engineering. metallurgy, illumination.
foods, electricity and other subjects to
which the United States must turn its
attention II 1t is to keep pace with other
nations OF the world in the sharp cornpeti-
ton generally conceded to be inevitable
when peace comes
Represented by Virgin Fields.
Other lines Of wori, on which CON-
nfittees OF the English ministry arc
PORTING are represented by virgin
Heids In the Omitted States 50 far as e1-
perts are able to see. England is Civ
ing prolonged consideration to all prob
lens concerning aliens after the war
while there has been no official effort
reaching problems concerned with i'm
migration in years to come.
England is laying great stress on
problems Of education. especially those
concerned with trade, technical and
commercial training, and with the pro-
lection of women and children in i'm
dustry, and with the reabsorption of
heT vast army into the new industrial
and commercial scheme of things. but
Inc United states bureau of education
- Struggling along with fnadea
appropriations for the extremely linn
1ted work 1t has undertaken There is
a movement now on foot tn create n
Secretary of Education who shall have
place in the cabinet But this effort
so far is backed principally by lay ad-
VoStes.
Overlapping the problems of educa-
iron is that of labor. now being consid-
cred IN its wartime aspects by num-
DER Oh government agencies, but not vet
in the stage where there has been any
official preparation for the return of
our men from France, for the read
Justment of labor conditions to meet
radically changed industrial conditions
ana for general policy toward labor
such as that outlined recently hy the
British labor party, which has had the
close scrutiny of members of the cab
met here
Consider Future Trade.
Experts of the Department of Com
nerce here are considering future trade
development as a by-product of the acute
problems the war has forced upon them
and the War Trade Board may easily
md functions which will make it useful
IN carrying its work over to the recon-
Structon period. Finance at present is
considered principally as wartime
problem, though it is generally conceded
hy experts that the postwar era will
as those of financing the war. Coal and
power are being regulated on the basis
of wartime necessity. with little appar-
ent study of what will be needed in this
connection after the war
The Department of Agriculture in aim
ing to increase production during the
war, is considered to be doing a service
which will carry over naturally into
peace times. The housing problem OF
wartime has not yet been met though
legislation pending in Congress seeks to
provide 1T, and If the legislation is
passed the housing provided is expected
war.